Once a preprint has been peer-reviewed by eLife, we publish a Reviewed Preprint – a journal quality document including the full text of the preprint, the eLife assessment, and the public peer reviews. Reviewed Preprints will receive a DOI and eLife citation.

On January 31 2023, we launched our new model for publishing, combining the speed and transparency of preprints with the expert scrutiny and evaluation of peer review. We committed to publish everything that we reviewed. We would publish preprints together with public reviews and assessments.

Now before we go any further, it's important to note that eLife is not a predatory journal—you know, the journals that publish anything, even nonsense papers about “weird” birds and “the educational value of high school students driving into the desert and making drugs.”

eLife assessments are summaries of the thoughts of the editors and reviewers who have assessed the preprint. They provide a richer and more nuanced response to an article than the binary decision of whether or not to publish the work.