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Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 open-access overlay journal der UC Berkeley

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USA - 07.10.2020 - von RR:C19

Schnell überprüft: COVID-19 (Rapid Review R:C19) ist eine frei zugängliche amerikanische Online-Zeitschrift, die die Begutachtung von COVID-19-bezogenen Forschungsvorabdrucken durch Fachkollegen beschleunigt, um neue und wichtige Erkenntnisse voranzubringen und die Verbreitung falscher oder irreführender wissenschaftlicher Nachrichten zu verhindern. Die Herausgeber unter der Leitung von Professor Stefano Bertozzi mit Sitz an der UC Berkeley betrachten COVID-19 und seine weitreichenden Auswirkungen aus einer multidisziplinären und globalen Perspektive und begutachten Arbeiten aus den Bereichen Medizin, öffentliche Gesundheit, physikalische, biologische und chemische Wissenschaften, Ingenieurwesen, Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften.

Eine der Aufgaben von RR:C19 besteht darin, die Begutachtung der COVID-19-bezogenen Forschung in einem breiten Spektrum von Disziplinen zu beschleunigen und nahezu in Echtzeit verlässliche wissenschaftliche Informationen zu liefern, die von politischen Entscheidungsträgern, Wissenschaftlern und Führungskräften im Gesundheitswesen genutzt werden können. Dazu wird um schnelle Peer-Reviews zeitkritischer und interessanter Vorabdrucke gebeten, die dann online veröffentlicht und mit den Preprint-Servern verbunden werden, auf denen die Manuskripte gehostet werden. Neben der Veröffentlichung von Rezensionen werden wir auch einige Artikel in der Zeitschrift veröffentlichen. einladen.


Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 (RR:C19) is an open-access overlay journal that accelerates peer review of COVID-19-related research preprints to advance new and important findings, and prevent the dissemination of false or misleading scientific news. The editors, led by Professor Stefano Bertozzi and based at UC Berkeley, approach COVID-19 and its wide-ranging effects from a multidisciplinary and global perspective, reviewing papers from the fields of medicine; public health; the physical, biological, and chemical sciences; engineering; social sciences and the humanities.

One of the missions of RR:C19 is to accelerate peer review of COVID-19-related research across a wide range of disciplines and deliver almost-real-time, dependable scientific information that policymakers, scholars, and health leaders can use. We do this by soliciting rapid peer reviews of time-sensitive and interesting preprints, which are then published online and linked to the preprint servers that host the manuscripts. In addition to publishing reviews, we will invite some articles to be published in the journal. 

The general question we are asking reviewers is whether a preprint is reliable and trustworthy. Should the preprint be taken seriously or not? Are the findings strong and reliable? If not, and if the preprint is not informative or even misleading, what are implications? How might the range of evidence and ideas presented or asserted by the main claims of each preprint—whether good, bad, or neither—be used to further our knowledge in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic?

This is not traditional peer review. RR:C19 is trying to balance the need for rigor with the need for rapid responses. Of reviewers, we ask for 30 minutes of review time but this will vary based on the preprint and the reviewer. We do expect that each manuscript is read carefully and critiqued on it`s strength of evidence. By participating, reviewers will support an innovative research review model created in response to the dire need within the research community to accelerate peer review for the daily influx of COVID-19-related preprints from around the world, across many disciplines. RR:C19 uses machine learning and a network of scholars to identify important preprints that are posted across pre-print servers such as medRxiv, bioRxiv, SSRN, and other repositories of articles that have yet to be peer-reviewed. 

An underlying value of RR:C19 is transparency and reliability. Each review will be published and assigned a DOI, making the work fully citable and claimable on reviewers’ ORCID and Publons accounts. Our standard practice is to publish the reviewers’ full names and affiliations, although we will allow reviewers to publish their review anonymously, upon request.

Given our desire to rapidly turn-around preprints, especially those that are already being referenced in the media or by the scientific community, we hope to have reviewers let us know if they`re available to review as soon as possible. We would like for the rapid review to be completed within seven days, and for reviews to be published within the following two weeks, ideally when there are at least two peer reviews. We encourage reviewers to work with a colleague, graduate student, or post doc (with appropriate credit) to help prepare the review, if desired. We do our best to avoid inviting reviewers with likely conflicts of interest with the authors but also ask all reviewers to notify us of any potential conflicts of interest.

We are working actively with our editorial board, our reviewers, peer-review academic experts and the MIT Press in improving the rigor, speed and reviewer experience of our peer-review process.  We are exploring how we can provide information from our screeners to the reviewers; how we might link reviewers to journalists writing about new findings; and how we might incorporate audio and video into the peer review process and any subsequent scientific debates about the reported findings.  

Whether contributing to this effort as a screener, peer-reviewer, or adviser, we aim to help build solid, peer-reviewed scientific knowledge about the coronavirus and stem the proliferation of unverified research, which can be misused, misinterpreted, and acted upon in ways that could be (and have been) dangerous for our global community. 

Editor-in-Chief, RR:C19 | Dean Emeritus and Professor of Health Policy and Management, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

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Quelle: UC Berkley School of Public Health