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The focus for this year's Peer Review Week is 'Peer Review and the Future of Publishing'. In this blog post, Senior Publishing Editor, Andrew Dunn, reflects on some of the less traditional and more forward-looking models of publication and peer review that we support.

Authors and reviewers can now provide feedback on their experience with Registered Reports at different journals.

Royal Society Open Science Registered Reports’ Editor, Prof Chris Chambers, and Senior Publishing Editor, Andrew Dunn, review the rapid peer review initiative for Covid-19 Registered Reports set up in response to the pandemic.

Royal Society Open Science takes its next step in promoting Registered Reports by welcoming submissions that have been recommended by the Peer Community In (PCI) platform.

For Open Access Week 2020, Senior Publishing Editor, Andrew Dunn, reflects on a number of Royal Society Open Science initiatives over the course of the year.

A longitudinal study following life after lockdown in Wuhan, China, yields evidence of optimistic, albeit slow, improvement in well-being and mental health within the first 2 months after the 76-day lockdown restrictions were lifted.

“We were surprised to see that their loneliness, depression and anxiety did not increase under self-isolation.”

Royal Society Open Science published its first Registered Report last week. Here, the authors discuss their research and the Registered Report publishing experience.

Royal Society Open Science has published its first Registered Report, a format of empirical article where a study proposal is reviewed before the research is undertaken.