Presubmittal peer review for high-impact research

How pre-submission peer review can benefit scholarly communication by increasing the quality of published research and reducing retractions and how the online platform LIBRE can help in this purpose.

LIBRE allows authors to “open” their research to the scientific community and invite expert colleagues to formally evaluate their articles. This “author-guided open peer review process” is transparent and can be implemented at any moment during an article’s lifetime: work in progress, during the peer review process and after publication.

It is now available for testing.