Editorials

Editorials are written by eLife editors or staff.

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  1. Scientific Publishing: How and why eLife selects papers for peer review

    eLife Editorial Leadership, eLife Senior Editors, eLife Early Career Advisory Group
    When deciding which submissions should be peer reviewed, eLife editors consider whether they will be able to find high-quality reviewers, and whether the reviews will be valuable to the scientific community.
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Special Issue: Allosteric regulation of kinase activity

    Amy H Andreotti, Volker Dötsch
    The articles in this special issue highlight how modern cellular, biochemical, biophysical and computational techniques are allowing deeper and more detailed studies of allosteric kinase regulation.
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  2. Scientific Publishing: The first year of a new era

    Timothy E Behrens, Yamini Dalal ... Detlef Weigel
    What happened when eLife decided to eliminate accept/reject decisions after peer review?
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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    COVID-19 and Cancer: Acting on past lessons and learning new ones

    Eduardo L Franco, Diane M Harper
    eLife has published a special issue containing articles that examine how cancer prevention, control, care and survivorship were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  3. Scientific Publishing: Peer review without gatekeeping

    Michael B Eisen, Anna Akhmanova ... Mone Zaidi
    eLife is changing its editorial process to emphasize public reviews and assessments of preprints by eliminating accept/reject decisions after peer review.
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    1. Cancer Biology

    Reproducibility in Cancer Biology: What have we learned?

    Peter Rodgers, Andy Collings
    As the final outputs of the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology are published, it is clear that preclinical research in cancer biology is not as reproducible as it should be.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Research: Evolutionary medicine

    George H Perry
    In recognition that evolutionary theory is critical for understanding modern human health, eLife is publishing a special issue on evolutionary medicine to showcase recent research in this growing and increasingly interdisciplinary field.
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    1. Medicine

    eLife and Medicine: Rigorous review and editorial oversight of clinical preprints

    Mone Zaidi, Diane M Harper ... Michael B Eisen
    Research in many different areas of medicine will benefit from new approaches to peer review and publishing.
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Medicine

    Research: A new era for research into aging

    Matt Kaeberlein, Jessica K Tyler
    eLife is publishing a special issue on aging, geroscience and longevity to mark the rapid progress made in this field over the past decade, both in terms of mechanistic understanding and translational approaches that are poised to have clinical impact on age-related diseases.
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  4. Peer Review: Implementing a "publish, then review" model of publishing

    Michael B Eisen, Anna Akhmanova ... Mone Zaidi
    From July 2021 eLife will only review manuscripts already published as preprints, and will focus its editorial process on producing public reviews to be posted alongside the preprints.
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