eLife won’t reject papers under review

The non-profit open-access journal eLife has introduced a raft of changes to the way it publishes research. It will publish all papers that it sends for peer review, along with the reviewers’ reports. The move has had a mixed reception. “This is a significant development for publishing as a whole,” says open-science analyst Bianca Kramer. “It changes the focus of peer review from a gatekeeping exercise to an open assessment of the quality of research.” Others have expressed frustration, saying that eLife’s reputation will suffer if it stops rejecting papers on the basis of peer-review reports.

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