Why Publish in Premier Science

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Open Access

Open access makes your work more visible and discoverable, increasing readership and citations and it ensures your compliance with open access mandates, your funder and institutional requirements. All UKRI and Wellcome Trust funded authors may publish their articles with a CC-BY license to comply with funder open access policies.

Open access publishing enhances the visibility and discoverability of authors’ work and facilitates improved scholarly communication, thereby increasing its potential impact. Research has shown that open access articles typically attract 1.5x more citations, 3x more views, and over 85% more downloads*, compared to articles published behind a paywall (i.e. subscription content).
*sources include studies from the Research Information Network, the Wellcome Trust, and Springer Nature

Our Authors retain the full copyright of their published article. We publish all papers in our journals licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0).

A CC-BY license allows anyone to freely download, read, share, adapt, reuse, or quote the text without needing permission from the authors or Premier Science to do so, as long as the original published version is clearly cited. 

User Experience

“Everything was very smooth with a great interface for the journal.”

Matthew Abikenari, M.S.
Stanford University School of Medicine and University of Oxford  

International

A global audience can view your research for free, no more access barriers.

Peer-reviewed

We use artificial intelligence to match reviewers to papers following a thorough content analysis. This ensures better quality feedback from people who have knowledge of your field.

Rapid review
  • Rapid peer-review with submission to first decision in 13 days on average and submission to final decision in 24 days.
Rapid publication​
  • We publish all articles online in a developing dynamic issue, so there is no hold up.
  • Acceptance to online publication is 7 days on average.
Research Metrics (also known as altmetrics)

We have integrated PlumX Metrics which measures awareness and interest in articles. PlumX categorize metrics into 5 separate categories: Citations, Usage, Captures, Mentions, and Social Media. This helps us make sense of the huge amounts of data involved and to enable analysis by comparing like with like.

Manuscript Submission System

Our Eworkflow Manuscript submission system is state-of-the-art and makes it quick and easy to submit. It also makes it easy for us to find relevant reviewers using artificial intelligence.

Article formats

All papers are published in multiple formats including html, PDF, EPUB and XML. This enhances content readability, distribution and discoverability.

Indexing and discoverability
Archiving

Our journals are digitally preserved in Portico. This is essential for the long-term accessibility and integrity of scholarly content. Archives like Portico protect against potential data loss due to technological failures, publisher changes, or other unforeseen circumstances. By safeguarding all of our publications in a secure and trusted archive, we ensure that our author’s work will remain permanently available and accessible, maintaining the continuity of academic knowledge and the scholarly record.

Social Media

We are active on social media and your articles will get an even greater exposure through the following channels:

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Comprehensive Support

We ensure solid support for our authors through pre-submission, submission and peer-review, production and post-publication phases. Ensuring a smooth journey will make the process more enjoyable and hassle-free.

Our commitment to research integrity

All papers submitted to Premier Science go through the following series of checks as standard.

Plagiarism and AI generated detection

All articles submitted to PREMIER SCIENCE will have a plagiarism check performed via iThenticate from our partners at turnitin.
iThenticate helps to check high-stakes writing for potential misconduct through a series of processes and looks for:

Categorising and excluding similarity matches

Highlighting collusion between authors

Identifying AI-generated writing

Surfacing text manipulations

Paper mills

Papers mills are fraudulent organisations that sell fake or fabricated research papers to authors who wish to publish them for career advancement. At Premier Science we screen every submitted paper using Clear Skies Papermill alarm – the first service dedicated to detecting organised research fraud. The Papermill Alarm uses a broad range of innovative methods and unique data including; artificial intelligence (AI), large language models (LLMs), network analysis and more to find signals consistent with organised research fraud. This integration is seamless within the eWorkflow manuscript submission system that Premier Science uses.

Citation checking

We use Crossref’s Simple Text Query service to check DOIs for all references listed in manuscripts we go on to publish.

We use Veracity by Grounded AI to assess and fact check citations in every submitted manuscript. Veracity uses artificial intelligence to enhance our peer-review process:

Flagging common errors related to citations and interpretations:

  • Citations to retracted literature
  • References that are not readily findable
  • Metadata mismatches
  • Unclear citation relevance

Verifying claims and citations within academic content.

Ensuring claims are backed by credible sources.

We have partnered with Imagetwin, to integrate their powerful image integrity software into their workflow.

Imagetwin includes the following at speed and scale:

  • AI-generated image detection
  • duplication
  • manipulation
  • plagiarism detection