Increase the impact of your preprint
Increase the impact of your preprint by posting your peer review comments from PLOS Global Public Health
Preprints offer an easy way to share your research sooner, boost visibility, collaborate with others, and increase the impact of your work. Manuscripts associated with preprints also receive more citations on average.
Adding your peer review comments to your preprint increases transparency and can help increase trust in your research by revealing the expert assessment it has undergone.
Post your peer review comments from PLOS Global Public Health
We’ve partnered with the Gates Foundation to enable authors of papers submitted to PLOS Global Public Health who have deposited a preprint in bioRxiv or medRxiv the option to have PLOS post reviewer comments alongside their preprint using the Transparent Peer Review in Prints (TRiP) service.
How it works
Choose how you’d like to post your preprint to bioRxiv or medRxiv
We welcome preprints posted before, after or during the submission process to PLOS Global Public Health. You can submit directly to the journal from bioRxiv and medRxiv or opt-in during submission to have PLOS post your manuscript to either preprint server on your behalf. If you choose to post your preprint yourself, be sure to include this information in your submission.
Opt in to post your peer review comments at first revision
At the first revision stage of the peer review process, all submitting authors with an associated preprint will receive an email from PLOS Global Public Health asking if you would like us to post your peer review comments to your preprint. You can opt-in at this stage by replying to the email, or wait until your manuscript receives a final decision.
Or post your peer review comments after final decision
If you have not already opted in, you will receive a second email after your manuscript reaches the final decision stage, allowing you to opt-in to post your complete Peer Review History to your preprint. Please note, you can only opt-in once. If you have already chosen to post your peer review comments at first revision, you will not receive an email inviting you to post new reviewer comments from the final decision stage.
Give us your feedback
In each communication from PLOS you’ll receive a link to a survey to tell us about your decision. Please take a moment to fill this out and let us know why you chose to opt-in or why you declined.
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This trial will help us understand researchers’ appetite for public peer review comments on preprints and how we can best support this form of transparent review. This service is currently only available to authors submitting to PLOS Global Public Health from June 30th, 2025, through December 31, 2027. |
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We’ve been awarded a $3.3 million grant from the Gates Foundation to support publishing costs for authors and advance our work to catalyze change in publishing.
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