PiePlate: Proposing a visual peer-review overlay service

Open Access in Geochemistry from Preprints to Data Sharing: Past, Present, and Future

“…However, there is insufficient but growing evidence of the increased value of sharing early outputs, both at the researcher and system level. Preprints can allow early feedback that could be considered as peer-review if a concept like PiePlate (multi-faceted open peer-review) became widely used [21]. There are also still serious barriers holding researchers back, like proposals to Australian Research Council funding being rejected because they have cited preprints [22].…”