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A peeriodical is a lightweight virtual journal with you as the Editor-in-chief, giving you complete freedom in setting editorial policy to select the most interesting and useful manuscripts for your readers.

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Updated Jan 26, 2021 Can Myelin act as a coil inductor?

Theoretical neuroscience

Editor

Hao Wang

Neuroscience (miscellaneous) Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Neurology
Updated Jan 22, 2021 High-Throughput Automation In R and D

This journal wants to be a repository of peer-reviewed articles on the use of HTE for small molecules and related topics in R&D laboratories.

Editors

Luigi Da Vià Nessa Carson

Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) Catalysis Process Chemistry and Technology
Updated Jan 15, 2021 Nano-Chemistry!

A journey through the land of the Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials! If it is small, it fits!

Editor

Adrián Fernández-Lodeiro

Chemistry (all) Chemistry (miscellaneous) Analytical Chemistry
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Updated Jan 14, 2021 Myopia Updates

Up to date information on myopia control research that includes epidemiology, public health and clinical interventions.

Editor

Nabin Paudel

Epidemiology Ophthalmology Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Updated Jan 12, 2021 OrthoBiologics

Advanced therapies with biological materials for augmented healing of injured musculoskeletal tissues.

Editor

Liang Gao

Aging Biotechnology Cell Biology
Updated Jan 4, 2021 Curiosity and exploratory behavior (animals)

Animal curiosity remains one of the spectacular aspects of the evolution of cognitive systems. Let's read what people have written on the subject. 

Editor

Wojciech Pisula

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Updated Dec 30, 2020 Machine Learning and Data Science in Ecology: Classics, Applications & the Cutting Edge

A compilation of class and cutting edge papers applying machine learning and data science in ecology.

Editor

Nathan L. Brouwer

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Computer Science Applications Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Updated Dec 25, 2020 Reproducibility in Neuroscience

Editor

Plinio C. Casarotto

Neuroscience (all) Neuroscience (miscellaneous) Behavioral Neuroscience
Updated Dec 23, 2020 Olfaction: from neurons to circuits and computations

This journal explores the anatomy, the circuit formation, and the computations performed by olfactory organs amongst multiple animal models.

Editor

Marta Pallotto

Neuroscience (miscellaneous) Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Sensory Systems
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Updated Dec 17, 2020 Statistics, ecology, and more

Editor

LM Montilla

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Statistics and Probability
Updated Dec 9, 2020 PhenomUK - The UK Plant Phenotyping Community 

A community repository and forum for discussion of published works on tools and techniques for plant phenotyping – the objective measurement of structural and functional properties of plants

Editor

Tony P. Pridmore

Multidisciplinary Plant Science Agronomy and Crop Science
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Updated Dec 8, 2020 Overuse in Internal Medicine

A quarterly peeriodical of the most important publications on overuse in Internal Medicine. Curated and commented by the Young Internists of the German Society of Internal Medicine.

Editor

Thomas Gamstätter

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Emergency Medicine
Updated Dec 5, 2020 Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1

Editor

Gavin P. McStay

Aging Biochemistry Cell Biology
Updated Dec 4, 2020 Cellular Structural Biology

Advances and applications using in situ structural biology approaches

Editor

Benjamin A Barad

Biophysics Cell Biology Structural Biology
Updated Dec 4, 2020 Leadership Letters

The Leadership Letters is a business and social-science Journal dedicated to advancing multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary understanding of leadership.

Editor

Robert M. Yawson

Multidisciplinary Business, Management and Accounting (all) Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)

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A peeriodical is a lightweight virtual journal with you as the Editor-in-chief, giving you complete freedom in setting editorial policy to select the most interesting and useful manuscripts for your readers. The manuscripts you will evaluate and select are existing publications—preprints and papers. Thus, a peeriodical replicates all the functions of a traditional journal, including discovery, selection and certification, except publication itself.

Why set up a peeriodical? The traditional journal has changed remarkably little in centuries and many people feel that scientific publishing is stuck in a rut, subject to a corporatist drift, and is not serving science optimally. The advent of preprints in many fields beyond those served by the ArXiv is liberating the dissemination of research, but most other journal functions have not been replaced effectively. Now you—all researchers—have the opportunity to select and certify research according to your own criteria. We expect peeriodical subject matters and editorial policies to be extremely varied. Some peeriodicals may wish to target narrow domains, while others will adopt a generalist approach. Some peeriodicals will be inclusive, focusing on discovery, whereas others may aim to enforce stringent quality criteria, prioritising certification. The point is that all approaches are permitted and supported—we hope you will innovate! You can create multiple peeriodicals. It will be users and readers who decide which peeriodicals they find useful and interesting. Users can sign up to receive alerts from any peeriodical they wish.

A peeriodical has one or more editors. Anybody can set-up a peeriodical and either operate it alone or invite colleagues to form an editorial board or community. The editors can select "manuscripts"—existing papers or preprints—to consider, either spontaneously or through suggestions from other researchers, including of course the authors. Note that there is no obligation that the manuscript be recent; for instance, we expect that some peeriodicals could focus on underappreciated classics. After all, predictions about scientific impact are generally more accurate for the past than the future. If the editors wish, they can solicit reviews for the manuscript via the Peeriodicals interface. Reviews will be published and the referees will have the option of posting anonymously or signing their review. Editors may decide at any time to accept, reject or comment on the manuscript, taking into account the comments received. They may of course suggest improvements to the manuscript or underlying study. If they justify their decision, their editorial decision will also be published.

How will Peeriodicals fit into the publishing landscape? We see them as a space without entry barriers in which researchers can innovate and explore new approaches to scientific dissemination, in parallel to the traditional publishing industry. There are related and complementary initiatives, notably the overlay journals promoted by Tim Gowers, exemplified by Discrete Analysis, but also Science Open Collections, PLoS Channels, the APPRAISE initiative and Peer Community in... Each of these projects has their own specificities and goals. Nobody yet knows exactly what the future will look like, but we strongly believe that we are about to experience a period of rapid evolution in the dissemination of science and we hope that Peeriodicals will inspire and help you to share your imagination and expertise with the whole research community.

For those starting a peeriodical, you will discover that the hardest part is building up an audience. Unfortunately, we can't yet guarantee you the exposure you would get from a paper in a glamour journal. Reviews with scientific content will be mirrored on PubPeer, offering an audience through the PubPeer browser and Zotero extensions. However, it will be largely up to you to run your publicity, most likely through social media. We are on Twitter (@PEERIODICALS) and will of course help out as we can.

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