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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Jan 9
There are now 19 thematic PCIs but many disciplines remain to be covered! We are therefore making a call for the creation of new thematic PCIs and giving some information on how to start:
Call for the creation of new PCIs - Peer Community In
Here is the list of the different Peer Communities In already created, hosting recommendations and peer-reviews of preprints and ready to receive your submissions
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We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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📣 Save the date for the 13th PCI webinar on December 1st, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Simine Vazire (University of Melbourne, Australia) will present "Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis: Lessons from Psychology". For more details and registration, visit: buff.ly/wZNoD2v
PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
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November 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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We sincerely thank Erasmus University Rotterdam for their support in 2025 via the Erasmus Diamond Open Access Fund 🙏
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November 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) has released “A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations”, designed to help research performing organizations.
ℹ️ Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gSzFA6

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A person holding a publication titled "A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations" by DORA, in front of a bookshelf.
October 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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We posted a short #OAWeek blog post yesterday, highlighting ways in which @uoylibrary.bsky.social supports external, community-led open research initiatives, including @openbookcollective.bsky.social, @peercommunityin.bsky.social , @oapenbooks.bsky.social and @proghist.bsky.social 👇
Open Access Week 2025: Supporting a community-aligned open research ecosystem – The Library, Learning, Archives and Wellbeing Blog
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October 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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On November 4th, PCI will participate in the Open Access Week hosted by the Institut Polytechnique de Paris! For more information, visit www.ip-paris.fr/en/news/open...
Open Access Week 2025
From November 4 to 12, 2025, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris will host its second Open Access Week. This international event promotes open science practices and raises awareness among the…
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October 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Great news for #replication #research. We have our own journal now! www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/in... #openscience @flavioazevedo.bsky.social
A Community Model for Rigorous and Inclusive Scholarship: Inaugural Editorial of Replication Research (R2) | Replication Research
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October 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Curious about becoming a PCI Psych recommender, but not sure if you should? Here's a short video with some reasons why it might be time to sign up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BDr... #PsychSciSky #SciPub
Why be a recommender for a PCI?
The project "Peer Community in (PCI)" (https://peercommunityin.org/) has been launched in January 2017 and now counts 11 communities: PCI Evolutionary Biology (https://evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/),…
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October 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Well done Historical Biology! 🥳
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October 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Next week, PCI will be at the Open Access week organised by Johns Hopkins University:
hub.jhu.edu/events/2025/... and the ACROSS Open Access week organised by the University of Perpignan: bu.univ-perp.fr/bibliotheque...
October 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Many thanks to the University of Graz for joining the PCI supporters in 2025!✨
www.uni-graz.at/en/
Universität Graz – We work for tomorrow - Universität Graz
Lösungen für die Welt von morgen entwickeln – das ist unsere Mission. Erfahre mehr über die Universität Graz, unsere Forschungsprofil und Studienangebot
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October 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Last Friday, we published the 500th article of Peer Community Journal! 🥳
September 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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We are delighted to have Durham University as one of our supporters this year. Thank you!💐
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September 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Yesterday, we had the pleasure of listening to Dorothy Bishop emphasize the responsibility of editors during the 12th PCI Webinar! If you weren't able to join, you can catch her talk and the following Q&A session at this link: youtu.be/0NJ87tYE8_s
PCI Webinar-Dorothy Bishop-How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing
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September 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Register now for #SORTEE2025 conference!

We thank our sponsors (@asn-amnat.bsky.social, @cdnsciencepub.com, @datadryad.bsky.social, @peercommunityin.bsky.social, @royalsociety.org, @sse-evolution.bsky.social, @biologists.bsky.social) who are eligible for free registration.
sortee.bsky.social SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · Aug 1
📷 The 2025 SORTEE conference program is now online!

Visit sortee.org/upcoming/ to register and explore the exciting lineup of various sessions.

#SORTEE2025

If you know a great open science project, now is the time to nominate it for a SORTEE Award www.sortee.org/awards/
September 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Hot off the heels of our what is a preprint video is our what is preprint peer review video!

Featuring @prelights.bsky.social @prereview.bsky.social @reviewcommons.org, @elife.bsky.social & @peercommunityin.bsky.social

#peerreview #preprint #scipub
September 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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PCI is featured in this Nature News post, which presents some ideas to help fix the peer-review system: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system
Journals and funders are trying to boost the speed and effectiveness of review processes that are under strain.
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September 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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It is next week! Have you registered yet?
peercommunityin.bsky.social Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Aug 22
📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:
PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
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September 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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💡 PCI recently took part in a CSE webinar focusing on the publish-review-curate model. Read about the discussions and discover innovative strategies for decentralized publishing at:
www.csescienceeditor.org/article/new-...
September 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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ICYM ASAPbio seeks new board members to support our mission of driving positive change in science communication!🚀

🤝 Board members are involved in strategic planning, participate in decision-making, and engage the community to help connect ASAPbio to contacts who can help us achieve our mission.✍️ 🔬
August 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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We are thrilled to announce that PCI is now supported by the University of Bern (www.unibe.ch/index_eng.html)! 💫
August 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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PCI Ecology and PCI Evolutionary Biology have recently launched a team of data editors who are implementing the SORTEE guidelines for new submissions. Other PCIs may join soon. Expressions of interest from potential new data editors are welcome!
joelpick.bsky.social Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · Aug 15
🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵
The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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August 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:
PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
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August 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Many thanks to Karlstad University for becoming a supporter of PCI this year (www.kau.se/en)%F0%9F%98...!
August 22, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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The Association for Psychological Science and its journal AMPPS recently spotlighted PCI in two news articles💫!! You can find them here: www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... and here: www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Community Peer Review Initiative in Psychological Science Has Launched
PCI Psychology, an emerging community within the broader Peer Community In framework that aims to transform peer review in academic publishing, is open for submissions.
www.psychologicalscience.org
August 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM