Welcome to our May PREreview newsletter! Inside, we have some exciting announcements regarding our 2025 Champions and opportunities for community collaboration.
AMAZING ANNOUNCEMENTS
Our 2025 Champions Cohort
We're incredibly excited to officially welcome our 2025 Champions cohort!
We've been working with these incredible people for the past month, and we're so honored by the community they've been building, as well as the knowledge and insight that they bring and share. To learn more about each of our Champions, check out our blog post here. And to learn more about our Champions program, check out our feature in UNESCO’s Open and Inclusive Science Hub!
COMMUNITY COLLABORATIONS
Help Translate PREreview
Help translate PREreview into Brazilian Portuguese and Latin American Spanish!
We are working to ensure PREreview.org is contextualized for our global community members, starting with those in Latin America. If you’d like to help us with this effort, please join our brand new volunteer localization and translation campaign on Crowdin to help review existing translations and suggest new ones that best fit the language communities we serve!
We will also be hosting two demo calls of the Crowdin platform, where you can learn more about how it all works. Sign up to one of the two calls below:
- Call 1: Portuguese & English - Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 8 AM PT / 9 AM CST / 10 AM COT / 11 AM ET / 12 PM BRT / 3 PM UTC: https://bit.ly/PREreview-CrowdIn-EN-PT
- Call 2: Spanish & English - Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 8 AM PT / 9 AM CST / 10 AM COT / 11 AM ET / 12 PM BRT / 3 PM UTC: https://bit.ly/PREreview-CrowdIn-EN-ES
June Live Review
PREreview and JMIR Publications will be facilitating our next Live Review event on June 26, 2025 at 15:00 UTC (check your local time here), where we will be reviewing: ‘Novel Fatigue Profiling Approach Highlights Temporal Dynamics of Human Sperm Motility’
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.27.650828
Authors: Athanasia Sergounioti, Efstathios Alonaris, Dimitrios Rigas.
Read the preprint in advance, and register to join us here. We look forward to seeing you there!
PREreview x Preprints.org
PREreview and Preprints.org are now connected via COAR Notify, enabling preprint authors submitting to the server to request feedback from the global PREreview community with one simple click. Since launching this feature, we have received a record number of 248 requests!!! Read more about this collaboration here, as well as in a feature by Research Information here, and browse through the review requests and find one that matches your expertise here.
Community Spotlight: Amber x HEC Pakistan
One of our incredible Champions, Amber Osman, recently served as a Resource Person at the HEC Pakistan Editors' Orientation Capacity Building Workshop, held at the NED University of Engineering and Technology. Amber shared about a wide breadth and depth of ways to strengthen editorial workflows and align journals with global standards, including the importance of strengthening peer review systems, introducing PREreview and our work in fostering open and collaborative peer review, building equity in reviewing and capacity for underrepresented researchers. A huge thank you to Amber, and to learn more about what else Amber shared during their session, check out their LinkedIn post here.
Highlights from the Slack Community
- Vanessa and PREreview Champion Ayomikun Kade had the opportunity to meet in-person at the Minoritised Life Scientists Future Forum
- We also announced and introduced our Champions, sharing their profiles and a little more about what we’ve been building together.
- Edilson shared an article he co-authored in the scientific magazine ‘Pesquisa Fapesp’ of Brazil about PREreview.
- Roseline posted that The Review and Curate Network (RCN), in collaboration with RR/Infectious Diseases, is hosting a webinar on how to conduct rapid reviews in infectious diseases on May 21.
- Chris shared how Socarxiv has won the Kohli prize for infrastructure in sociology.
- UNESCO launched their Open and Inclusive Science Hub, featuring the PREreview Champions Program!
- New article by Ludo Waltman, Narmin Rzayeva, and Stephen Pinfield on the ‘Adoption of Preprinting Across Scientific Disciplines and Geographical Regions’
- The Scholcommlab is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow to join their team in Vancouver for a multi-year research initiative examining the evolving role of preprints and open peer review in scholarly publishing.
- Don’t forget to vote for this year’s Peer Review Week theme!
- And as always, please introduce yourself in the introductions channel, check out the various jobs-and-opportunities available, and take a look at where you can lend your expertise in our request-a-review channel
Events
Upcoming events
- May 21-22 - Vanessa and Daniela will be holding a workshop at the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) conference - online
- Jun 26 - PREreview x JMIR Publications Live Review at 15:00 UTC (check your local time here); we will be reviewing ‘Novel Fatigue Profiling Approach Highlights Temporal Dynamics of Human Sperm Motility’ by Athanasia Sergounioti, Efstathios Alonaris, Dimitrios Rigas - register
Recent events
- May 15 - PREreview with JMIR Publications Live Review
- May 3-6 - Daniela participated in a session on Diversification and Decentralization of Peer Review at the Council of Science Editors 2025 Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN - in-person - slides
- Apr 10 - Live Review with JMIR Publications - published review
- Apr 2 - PREreview Community Dataset Design Sprints
- Mar 31-Apr 2 - Minoritised Life Scientists Future Forum - in-person - poster available here
- Mar 21 - Live Review with JMIR Publications - published review
- Mar 19 - Live Review: Innovating Peer Review Through Open Collaboration - webinar
Image Credits: Canva, JMIR Publications, and pedrosimoes7
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