PREreview Blog

Next design sprints: Making PREreview more useful for educational settings

Join us later this month to help optimize our platform for instructional use. If you’re engaged with open science and regularly support colleagues, undergrads, early career researchers, journal club members, or other review practitioners, these co-design sessions are for you!

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An interview with PREreview Champion Carlos Herold Junior

For this feature article, Carlos shared his main takeaways from the 2026 Champions Program and his understanding of open peer review as a means for community-building and mutual learning.

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PREreview platform news, 17 April 2026

Help the Product team continue to improve its experimental matchmaking feature and learn about a new way to track your requests for reviews.

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An interview with PREreview Champion Alan Colin-Arce

For this feature article, we spoke with Alan about his experience with the 2026 Champions Program and his reflections on open peer review practices.

PREreview April 2026 Newsletter

Read about PREreview’s part in shaping a PRC Alliance, recap on Collaborative Peer Review community call, test our matchmaking feature, and check out upcoming events & opportunities!

2026 Q1 PREreview Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes

Welcome to new AC members, goodbye and gratitude to Kristen Ratan. Overview of PREreview governance and the role of the Advisory Committee. Review of strategic plan activities and finance overview.

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PREreview platform news, 27 March 2026

Try out our experimental matchmaking feature and get preprint suggestions to read and review. Upcoming improvements in review-request display and tracking, translation of dataset workflow underway, new design sprints soon to be announced, and more!

Strategic Plan Community Call: What we learned

For PREreview, community input is the most reliable compass. In February, we shared our strategic goals with you in a community call designed to listen deeply, learn together, and imagine what’s possible.

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PREreview platform news, 6 March 2026

This week, we’re continuing user research and early prototyping of our matchmaking feature. We’re also improving review requests so that you can keep track of them through your profile.

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Engaging communities with preprint review

In this guest blog piece Jennifer Miller, former FORCE11 Board VP and co-lead of their PREreview Club, regards the collaborative review club as a catalyst for connections throughout a global community with shared interest in metascience.

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Announcing our 2026 PREreview Champions!

The PREreview Champions Program is designed to equip community members with the resources, skills, and support to facilitate the adaptation and adoption of open and equitable peer review practices within their local communities.

2025 Q4 PREreview Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the 2025 Quarter 3 Meeting of the PREreview Advisory Committee.

Change is in the air for our Advisory Committee: Welcomes, goodbyes, and deep gratitude to all

PREreview is excited to welcome three new fantastic members to our Advisory Committee. Please join us in welcoming Drs. Kirstie Whitaker, Lamis Yahia Mohamed Elkheir, and Malvika Sharan! We are also grateful to have been working for six years alongside Kristen Ratan who is now leaving the Committee.

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Peer review in a team: How ASAPbio leverages PREreview to build a community of open preprint reviewers

In this special guest blog piece, Katie Corker, Executive Director at ASAPbio, outlines ASAPbio Crowd Review Program’s innovative approach to research assessment and how it makes the most of PREreview.org to foster community-driven preprint review.

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PREreview platform news, 13 February 2026

This week on the Product team, we continued gathering feedback about matchmaking on PREreview.org. We’re working with especially active PREreviewers to develop a feature that will make recommendations based on preprints you have read or reviewed.

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Construir revisión abierta en comunidad: una experiencia situada desde el PREreview Club CIbCA (ES/EN)

En esta publicación especial de nuestro blog, invitamos a Rosario Rogel-Salazar y Francisco Silva-Garcés a compartir su experiencia de revisión por pares abierta de resúmenes de congreso a través de PREreview.org.

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New year, new connections: PREreview February 2026 Newsletter

The fresh start of a new year is a great time to nourish our social networks, weigh on the things left on the to-do list from last year, and dream big for the future.

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PREreview platform news, 30 January 2026

Welcome to a new year of weeknotes from the Product team at PREreview.org! Thanks for taking the time to catch up with us.

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Welcome Sol!

The PREreview Team is thrilled to welcome our newest team member - María Sol Ruiz as Champions Fellow! This is a new, part-time position to provide support to the wider team, and the

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PREreview 2026-2029 Strategic Plan

This special edition of the PREreview newsletter offers a look at our strategic goals for the next three years and invites you to a community call designed to listen deeply, learn together, and imagine what’s possible.

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2025: A year of collective resolve and growing momentum

Today, we published our 2025 Annual Report, sharing our achievements from last year and renewing our commitment to work in collaboration with you to shape an equitable, open, and transparent scholarly evaluation landscape.

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Welcome to our December 2025 PREreview newsletter!

As the year draws to a close, December offers a natural moment to pause, reflect, and reconnect. It’s a time to take stock of the months behind, look ahead to new possibilities,

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Welcome Pía!

This month, the PREreview Team is very excited to welcome María Pía Tavella as the new Communications and Engagement Officer! In this role, Pía will play a crucial part in clearly and effectively

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2026 PREreview Champions - Apply NOW

Applications are now open to join the 2026 PREreview Champions Program! As we wrap up another amazing year of reflections, actions, and collaborations spearheaded by a fantastic cohort of 2025 Champions (read the

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The PREreview Champions Program - 2025 wrap-up

Please join us in congratulating the 23 PREreview Champions of 2025 and learn more about their accomplishments! Throughout the program, we journeyed together to learn and practice socially conscious, open, and constructive peer