@nicolaromano

Spot on.

To further add: presently, scientific evaluation for grants, recruitment and career promotion is entangled with paper publishing: everybody claims not to have enough time to read the papers and instead use the journal name as proxy.

Now with #eLife there is a one-paragraph assessment that distils with some controlled vocabulary what the reviewers, reviewing editor and senior editor--4 or 5 experts in the field--thought of the work, on two axes: strength of evidence (accuracy) and significance of findings (impact).

What's not to like!

Disclosure: I'm a senior editor at eLife - @eLife
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Editors and reviewers praised this #preprint on calcium signalling in #Toxoplasma gondii as “important” and “convincing” 💡 https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/85654/reviews?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

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