A new approach to peer review resulted in a moderately higher acceptance rate, with all the issues raised by reviewers addressed by the authors in the vast majority of revised submissions.
Over the past 12 months, more than 5,000 researchers participated in eLife’s consultative peer-review process, evaluating more than 2,600 full submissions.
Having joined eLife in 2011, recruited and lead the staff team, Mark Patterson is planning to retire and leave his role as Executive Director at the end of this year. Here, he offers some personal perspectives on his time at eLife.