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Celebrate Peer Review Week by reviewing together!

Mikala Narlock

28 Jul 2026 — 1 min read

To celebrate 2026 Peer Review Week (September 14-18), PREreview is organizing a Review-a-thon: a global event where newly-formed and existing PREreview Clubs synchronously carry out collaborative reviews of preprints and datasets. Our goal is to showcase how human, community-driven peer review can help drive change in the research evaluation culture.

Participating Clubs that organize and carry out at least one collaborative review during Peer Review Week, and publish the resulting PREreview(s)—co-authored by two or more people—within the following two weeks will be entered into a raffle for a 500 USD fund to support further collaborative review activities.

Registration for the Review-a-thon is now open through August 31st. We especially want to encourage participation from communities that review in languages other than English, groups reviewing datasets and data papers, as well as clubs specializing in social sciences and humanities. Gather your lab, classroom, journal club, department, or scholarly community to give constructive feedback on a research output as a team!

There are three ways you can get involved:

Register your existing PREreview Club. If you’ve all decided to jump in, go ahead and fill out the registration form! One sign-up per club, please.
Join a PREreview Club. Check out the list of Clubs open to new members, request to join one, and get them onboard for the celebration.
Start a new PREreview Club. Create a club from scratch together with your colleagues and show up for the game.
1. If you'd be interested in joining a DRP PREreview club, send us a note: datarescueproject@protonmail.com.

All Club members participating in the Review-a-thon are asked to follow PREreview’s Code of Conduct. To enter the raffle, Club leads will have to report the publication of at least one collaborative review by October 9, 2026. We’ll also encourage sharing post-event short reflections and photos of the experience (optional). For more details, please visit the Review-a-thon site. If you have any questions, drop us an email at community@prereview.org.

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