See u @ Mastodon! Taking Registered Reports to the next level. A free, supra-journal platform that reviews & recommends @RegReports preprints across all fields
Peer Community in Registered Reports offers several INNOVATIONS in academic publishing:
1) One CENTRALISED REVIEW PROCESS opens the gateway to a growing list of PCI RR-friendly journals that will accept PCI RR recommendations without further review
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🚨NEW🚨 The @PCI_RegReports end-of-year closure will take place between 1st Dec 2025 - 12th Jan 2026. During this time, reviewers will be able to submit reviews & recommenders can issue decisions for ongoing submissions, but no new or revised submissions can be made by authors.
ALT Statement of commitment: Games: Research and Practice will automatically offer Stage 1 in-principle acceptance (IPA) to any Stage 1 RR within the journal’s disciplinary scope that receives IPA at PCI RR, and will accept without further peer review any Stage 2 RR that has been recommended by PCI RR, subject to the authors paying any applicable article processing charge.
Disciplinary scope: Empirical research on games and playable media spanning academic research and industry practice, including game and playful design (mechanics, narrative, aesthetics); development (programming, production); evaluation (playtesting, analytics); player experience and psychology; applied games and gamification; education; graphics, virtual/augmented reality and AI for games; esports and community; and cultural, social, and ethical issues.
NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @PeerCommunityIn / @PCI_RegReports
Read here➡️osf.io/tn8mh
ALT In 2024, Infant and Child Development (ICD) withdrew as a PCI RR-friendly journal and reneged on three Stage 1 recommendations issued by PCI RR. In addition, Wiley – the publisher of ICD – notified PCI RR and the PCI core team of its decision to withdraw all Wiley journals from PCI and PCI RR, including an additional 9 PCI-friendly journals. Finally, Wiley appears to have banned all of its ~1600 journals from considering submissions that have been previously reviewed by PCI or PCI RR. This statement explains the history of ICD joining PCI RR and developments that led to the current outcome. The PCI RR Managing Board believes that this shift in policy to become “PCI-hostile” renders Wiley journals incompatible not only with community-based preprint review but with preprint archiving in general.
📢NEW: To accommodate reviewer & recommender holiday schedules, @PCI_RegReports will be closed to ALL submissions from 1st Jul - 1st Sep. During this time, reviewers can submit reviews & recommenders can issue decisions, but no new or revised submissions can be made by authors.
The one exception to this rule is that authors using the scheduled track who submit their initial Stage 1 snapshot *prior* to 1st Jul CAN choose a date within the shutdown period to submit their full Stage 1 manuscript.
🚨REMINDER🚨 @PCI_RegReports will be closed to ALL submissions from 1st Dec 2024 - 12th Jan 2025. During this time, reviewers will be able to submit reviews & recommenders can issue decisions for ongoing submissions, but no new or revised submissions can be made by authors.
To date, @PCI_RegReports has recommended >200 submissions across a diversity of fields, including neuroscience, psychology, clinical sciences, public health, anthropology, law, criminology, drama studies, nanoscience, metascience & more using quantitative & qualitative methods
This range of methods & disciplines demonstrates not only the versatility & applicability of @RegReports across STEM, medicine, the soc sciences & humanities but the power of the community to self-organise & manage high-quality peer review, independently of academic publishers.
ALT Statement of commitment: Science and Medicine in Football will automatically offer Stage 1 in-principle acceptance (IPA) to any Stage 1 RR within the journal’s disciplinary scope that receives IPA at PCI RR, and will accept without further peer review any Stage 2 RR that has been recommended by PCI RR, subject to the manuscript meeting the applicable journal requirements concerning statistical thresholds, bias control, and formatting.
Disciplinary scope: Empirical research that advances theoretical knowledge, methodological approaches and the professional practice associated with the sport of football, including sports medicine, epidemiology, prevention, rehabilitation, physiology, biomechanics, nutrition, training and testing, performance analysis, sport psychology and coaching.
📢NEW: To accommodate reviewer & recommender holiday schedules, @PCI_RegReports will be closed to ALL submissions from 1st Jul - 1st Sep. During this time, reviewers can submit reviews & recommenders can issue decisions, but no new or revised submissions can be made by authors.
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📢NEW: To accommodate reviewer & recommender holiday schedules, @PCI_RegReports will be closed to ALL submissions from 1st Jul - 1st Sep. During this time, reviewers can submit reviews & recommenders can issue decisions, but no new or revised submissions can be made by authors.
If grants/pubs remain the currency of science, #registeredreports are the solution. Publishing null results in repositories is great, but if journals won’t, it won’t help careers. RRs solve both problems and @PCI_RegReports are leading the way. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
PB&R has joined the Peer Community in Registered Reports as a PCI RR-interested journal. PCI RR is a non-profit, non-commercial community dedicated to receiving, reviewing, and recommending Registered Reports. bit.ly/3U7cI1a#psynomPBR
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📢Announcing 2 new PCI RR-friendly journals!
The 1st is diamond-OA journal Personality Science, covering all areas in personality research rr.peercommunityin.org/about…
The 2nd is First Language, which covers research in children's language development rr.peercommunityin.org/about…
ALT Statement of commitment: Personality Science will automatically offer Stage 1 in-principle acceptance (IPA) to any Stage 1 RR within the journal’s disciplinary scope that receives IPA at PCI RR, and will accept without further peer review any Stage 2 RR that has been recommended by PCI RR, subject to the manuscript falling within the journal's annual publication quota.
Disciplinary scope: Research in all areas of personality research, including personality psychology as well as adjacent fields such as genetics, anthropology, sociology, computer science, economics, educational science, medicine, and political science. Scope includes studies examining differences between and within individuals or groups of individuals in biological, psychological, and social origins, expressions, structures, dynamics, processes, mechanisms, functioning, development, and consequences, as well as non-pathological and pathological individual differences between and within humans, animals, virtual avatars
ALT Statement of commitment: First Language will automatically offer Stage 1 in-principle acceptance (IPA) to any Stage 1 RR within the journal’s disciplinary scope that receives IPA at PCI RR, and will accept without further peer review any Stage 2 RR that has been recommended by PCI RR, subject to the manuscript meeting the applicable journal requirements concerning bias control and formatting.
Disciplinary scope: Research on children's language development from across a range of disciplinary perspectives, including psychology, linguistics, anthropology, cognitive science, neuroscience, communication, sociology and education. Note that studies on reading development where the focus is on children's development of code-based skills rather than language per se, and studies on language teaching, are not within the disciplinary scope.
PCI RR-friendly journals accept the recommendations of @PCI_RegReports w/o further peer review
This gives authors the power to choose which journal (if any) gets to publish their accepted RR
Check out the growing list of dozens of such journals at rr.peercommunityin.org/about…
ALT What is a PCI RR-friendly journal?
A PCI RR-friendly journal endorses the PCI RR review criteria and commits to accepting without further peer review any manuscript that achieves a positive final recommendation from PCI RR while also meeting any additional procedural requirements that do not require further scientific evaluation by the journal.