| June 24, 2026

eLife Pathways is now stewarding Kotahi, the open-source publishing platform designed to support innovative publishing workflows, from submission to publication.

Today, Kotahi supports the review-and-assessment publication component of eLife’s Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) workflow and a variety of research groups that rely on the platform to share and curate knowledge. These include MetaRoR, Lifecycle Journal, and NASA’s Astromaterials Data System (Astromat). Through its flexibility, Kotahi has proven its versatility, with different communities successfully customising individual instances to meet their scholarly publishing needs.

| June 24, 2026

JMIR Publications, a leading publisher of academic journals dedicated to digital health and open science, today announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a three-year partnership with MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review). The collaboration will focus on integrating MetaROR’s publish-review-curate platform with JMIR’s innovative publishing ecosystem—specifically its JMIRx overlay journal series, including JMIRx Med and JMIRx Bio.

| March 23, 2026

The STI-ENID 2026 conference organizers are pleased to announce its collaboration with MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review), a publish-review-curate platform dedicated to metaresearch. Following a successful partnership during STI-ENID 2025 in Bristol, we are once again offering authors the opportunity to further develop their work after the conference and engage in an open peer review process.

| March 16, 2026

MetaROR launches a special collection on geopolitics and the resilience of Open Science. We invite short, discussion oriented contributions reflecting on risks to open infrastructures, data, and academic freedom, and on strategies to strengthen resilience. The collection builds on a Leiden workshop and aims to advance urgent international dialogue on safeguarding Open Science.

| February 4, 2026

In this post, Ludo and André [...] discuss the approach to DOI registration that the MetaROR publish-review-curate platform is going to take.

| November 21, 2025

An exciting year of open, community-driven evaluation of metaresearch One [...]

| September 25, 2025

Ludo Waltman and André Brasil, with Ginny Hendricks, outline how emerging models like Publish Review Curate complicate what counts as a version of record and invite community input on adapting DOI metadata and workflows.

| September 9, 2025

Hans de Jonge, Jeroen Sondervan and Bianca Kramer report on using MetaROR’s Publish Review Curate model, noting faster timelines, greater transparency, and the practical reuse of review reports in later journal submissions.

| August 30, 2025

REACH launches as a digital magazine on research integrity and open science, featuring MetaROR on page 40 in an article by André Brasil that explains how transparent peer review can reshape scholarly communication.

| August 14, 2025

PLOS Biology becomes a MetaROR partner journal, formally accepting meta research articles reviewed on MetaROR, which can streamline submission paths and strengthen openness and accountability in publishing.