Frontiers | Open Peer Review by a Selected-Papers Network | Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

“A selected-papers (SP) network is a network in which researchers who read, write, and review articles subscribe to each other based on common interests... Instead of reviewing a manuscript in secret for the Editor of a journal, each reviewer simply publishes his review (typically of a paper he wishes to recommend) to his SP network subscribers. Once the SP network reviewers complete their review decisions, the authors can invite any journal editor they want to consider these reviews and initial audience size, and make a publication decision. Since all impact assessment, reviews, and revisions are complete, this decision process should be short...”