Fw: Ref.: (LML) Preprints with open peer review

 

Leprosy Mailing List – December 14,  2022

 

Ref.:  (LML) Preprints with open peer review

 

From:  Joel Almeida, Mumbai, India

 

Dear Pieter and colleagues,

Major funding organizations including Gates Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Wellcome have emphasized their support for rapid online preprints with open peer review. Reviewers are not anonymous, nor are their comments private.

https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/e5423e39/funders-support-use-of-reviewed-preprints-in-research-assessment

This approach makes scientific publishing more like a conversation between knowledgeable people. It helps boosts science because it reduces delays while reviewers are automatically encouraged to maintain reasonable standards of analysis and accuracy, while avoiding questionable conduct. Such improved approaches help separate fact from fiction. Facts are useful for improved outcomes among patients, persons affected, and populations affected.

The approach is not only being practised, but also it is gaining ground with the backing of major funders.

 

In HD (leprosy) there has been widespread epidemiological stagnation but with a few exemplary districts achieving rapid decline in transmission. Facts matter if we are to break out of stagnation and match the achievements of the exemplary districts. LML has a wide and knowledgeable readership. It has played, and can continue to play, an important role in separating facts from fiction.

Best,

Joel Almeida

LML - S Deepak, B Naafs, S Noto and P Schreuder

LML blog link: http://leprosymailinglist.blogspot.it/

Contact: Dr Pieter Schreuder << editorlml@gmail.com

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