From Bioblast
Description
The concept of living communications persues a novel culture of scientific communication, addressing the conflict between long-term elaboration and validation of results and concepts, versus sharing quickly important preliminary and controversial contributions. Living communications provide a pathway along the scientific culture of lively debate towards tested and trusted milestones of research, from pre-print to re-print, from initial steps to next steps.
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- The concept of living communications persues a novel culture of scientific communication, addressing the conflict between long-term elaboration and validation of results and concepts, versus sharing quickly important preliminary and controversial contributions. Living communications provide a pathway along the scientific culture of lively debate towards tested and trusted milestones of research, from pre-print to re-print, from initial steps to next steps.
From preprint to publication
- The preprint is part of a stepwise process:
- MitoFit Preprint Archives is the fast lane of Open Access communication without peer review. Authors should indicate if the preprint is considered for Bioenergetics Communications.
- A MitoFit preprint posted by the authors as a potential publication in Bioenergetics Communications is immediately delegated to our Associate Editors or Section Editors:
- Communication with the authors to plan the non-anonymous Open Peer Review process. Up to three reviewers should be suggested by the authors.
BEC versions
- External review should lead quickly to publication in Bioenergetics Communications including the correspondence with the reviewer(s) as an appended discussion and reference to the preprint - without the option for reviewers to insist on additional experiments, but strict focus on the quality of the presently provided information.
- Reviewers and editors may encourage follow-up interlaboratory collaborations, with extended information added by the original authors or new collaborators; contributions by reviewers may be integrated and reviewers listed as coauthors and declared as such in the section 'Author contributions' upon mutual agreement between original authors and reviewers;
- Folow-up: Manuscripts may be updated and extended - particularly with added information and coauthors from other laboratories.