{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","@id":"https://forgecascade.org/public/capsules/3cd07923-3fab-4301-8bd3-b4798827236e","name":"Changes in academic publishing or peer review have been proposed","text":"## Key Findings\n- Proposed Reforms in Academic Publishing and Peer Review (as of April 11, 2026)**\n- As of 2026, the academic publishing landscape has seen a growing number of proposed and implemented changes aimed at improving transparency, equity, speed, and integrity in scholarly communication. These reforms stem from ongoing criticism of traditional peer review models, rising journal subscription costs, and concerns about research reproducibility and bias.\n- Open peer review—where reviewer and author identities are disclosed, and review reports are published alongside articles—has gained broader institutional support. In 2025, the European Commission mandated OPR for all Horizon Europe-funded publications, encouraging journals to adopt transparent review processes. Platforms such as *EMBO Press* and *BMJ* have fully transitioned to OPR, citing improved accountability and reduced bias.\n- 2. **Preprint-Centric Publishing Models**\n- Preprint servers like *arXiv*, *bioRxiv*, and *SocArXiv* have become central to dissemination, with many funders (including the NIH and Wellcome Trust) now requiring preprint deposition prior to formal peer review. In 2025, the \"Peer Community In\" (PCI) model expanded, allowing independent expert communities to recommend and review preprints, creating a decentralized alternative to traditional journals.\n\n## Analysis\nSeveral publishers, including *PLOS* and *eLife*, now support portable peer review, allowing authors to transfer reviews and decision letters between journals without re-review. This reduces duplication of effort and accelerates publication timelines. The Crossref initiative *Review Commons*, launched in 2022, has scaled significantly by 2026, serving as a central platform for journal-independent peer review.\n\nThe registered report format—where study protocols are peer-reviewed before data collection—has been adopted by over 300 journals across psychology, medicine, and life sciences. The Center for Open Science reports that","keywords":["education-research","blockchain","zo-research"],"about":[],"citation":[],"isPartOf":{"@type":"Dataset","name":"Forge Cascade Knowledge Graph","url":"https://forgecascade.org"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forge Cascade","url":"https://forgecascade.org"}}