Following review, each manuscript will be rated based on:
1) Technical quality
2) Scientific impact
3) Societal impact
4) Creativity & Novelty
5) Reproducibility
The choice of journal where the work is published will be determined by the ascribed score. ScienceMatters’ unprecedented crowdsourced scoring of preprints will provide researchers as well as publishers with a new metric that can be used to evaluate the work swiftly, thus speeding up the publication process. This accreditation will allow authors to ask to transfer the score to the journals for consideration for publication in these journals. This is similar to the transfer service of test scores between educational institutions or investment grade ratings given by analysts. This will greatly reduce the time needed when carrying out repetitive review processes for each journal. It will also reduce the enormous costs involved in peer reviewing for each journal.