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Authors are encouraged to respond openly to the peer review reports, which are published with the article, and can publish revised versions of their article, if they wish. Read more about Open Research Europe's peer review model.
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Before you submit an article, please ensure that:
The work is original. The article (or substantial parts of it) must not have been published previously, or be under consideration or review by another journal. Articles previously posted on a preprint server, such as arXiv, SSRN, BioRxiv, MedRxiv can be submitted for publication in Open Research Europe.
At least one author must have or previously had Horizon 2020 funding (for details, see our Publication criteria).
The reported study meets all applicable research and publication standards. We strongly recommend that you consult our editorial policies for more detail on reporting guidelines and ethical requirements.
Where applicable, all methodological details and relevant data are made available to allow others to replicate the study, and that the article adheres to appropriate reporting guidelines and community standards. For more detail, please see our policies and Data preparation guidelines.
All authors have understood Open Research Europe's policies for article publication and its author-led publishing model, which requires authors to actively suggest suitable peer reviewers for their article until at least 2 reviews have been received.
Your article includes full author and affiliation information, and a conflict of interest statement.
ORCID
Open Research Europe supports the use of ORCID IDs where possible. For this reason, it is mandatory that the submitting author completes their submission using an ORCID iD. The process of getting an ORCID iD is quick, easy and incurs no cost. This can be set up during the article submission process, or via your details section on the My pages at any time. Additionally, co-authors are given the opportunity to connect their ORCID iDs via a link we send on the publication of the article.
What is ORCID?
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. It provides a persistent identifier for humans, similar to that created for content-related entities on digital networks by digital object identifiers (DOIs).
Why is ORCID good for you?
ORCID allows identification beyond names. Globally, names can be very common, they can change, they can be transliterated into other alphabets and so reliably linking researchers with their research and organizations can be difficult – this is solved through a unique ORCID iD.
An ORCID iD also allows you to keep a constantly updated digital curriculum vitae. Individuals decide to register, which research activities to connect to their ID, which organizations to allow access, what information to make publicly available, what to share with trusted parties, and what to keep private. Individuals can control their profiles and can change these settings and permissions at any time.
What happens after you connect your iD to Open Research Europe
Once you have connected your ORCID iD to Open Research Europe, wherever your name appears as an author or reviewer, we will link out to your ORCID account via an ORCID badge ensuring maximum exposure of all your research activities to other users of the platform (or those you choose to make public). Once published, please add this work to your ORCID account.