Streamlined Review: An accelerated option for submissions

Collabra: Psychology is pleased to invite article submissions under a new, accelerated streamlined review process.

Authors whose articles have been rejected within the previous 365 days from other journals for reasons that are not due to lack of scientific, methodological, or ethical rigor are welcome to submit prior reviews and decision letters along with their submission, and request a streamlined review in their cover letter. (Common reasons for such rejections are due to perceived future impact, being out of scope, curation of topics, policies regarding numbers of studies, etc.)

Collabra: Psychology publishes open access psychology research across seven broad sections. Our focus is on scientific, methodological, and ethical rigor. Editors and reviewers do not attempt to predict a submission’s impact to the field, nor employ any topic bias in accepting articles — they will check for rigorously and transparently conducted, statistically sound, adequately powered, and fairly analyzed research worthy of inclusion in the scholarly record. The bar is set high.

Authors submitting via streamlined review should:

• Indicate clearly in their cover letter that they are requesting streamlined review. (This is in addition to the other standard items required in the cover letter, listed here.)
• Clearly state from which journal the article was rejected.
• Specifically describe the nature of any changes that were made, or not made, to the manuscript in response to the prior set of reviews, just as they would normally do when submitting a revised manuscript. (Although the author is not obligated to revise the manuscript in response to the prior set of reviews, the authors should carefully consider the content of the reviews and to make those changes with which they agree prior to requesting streamlined review.)
• Include a copy of the previous editor’s action letter along with copies of all of the written reviews from the prior submission. If the reviewers signed their reviews, this information should also be passed to Collabra: Psychology. These materials must be submitted in their original form; any alteration of these materials will cause the manuscript to be returned without review. These can be uploaded as supplementary files (after any article items) or attached. If they are not available in their original form but need to be copied/pasted, or otherwise provided, the editor or publisher will need to verify the information with the previous editor.
• Indicate whether the previous editors (and reviewers, if they signed their reviews and are known) may have given their permission for their comments to be openly available at Collabra: Psychology, if the submission is accepted.

For complete instructions regarding our streamlined review process, along with our Editorial Policies and our Focus and Scope, please click here.

We encourage you to submit your work to us, and to know that you will be supporting one of the first journals that shares actual value with all of the people who do the work and help create a journal’s brand. Any questions, please contact Dan Morgan.

— Dan Morgan, Publisher, Collabra: Psychology