Who uses Kotahi

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Kotahi is in production with organisations running quite different publishing models. Two are documented here; more are in progress.

MetaROR

metaror.org — a project of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI), focused on meta-research and research evaluation.

MetaROR runs a Publish-Review-Curate model. eLife Pathways hosts and manages the full technical infrastructure.

Kotahi provides:

preprint metadata submission
review management
curation
publication
DOI registration

Live instances: submit.metaror.org for submission and review, with published output on the MetaROR site.

Novel Coronavirus Research Compendium

ncrc.jhsph.edu — a collaboration of scientists and public health experts at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, evaluating and summarising key COVID-19 research during the pandemic.

The NCRC team had been managing a high volume of pandemic preprints in spreadsheets. They moved to Kotahi for triage and review management.

Kotahi provided:

automated import of metadata from bioRxiv and PubMed
assisted preprint search
a triage workflow
review management
export to spreadsheets

At the time, NCRC still published to WordPress via those spreadsheets — this predated Kotahi having a CMS. The same group is now using Kotahi with the CMS layer for a further project.

Others

Kotahi is also used by eLife itself, as an extension to its existing platform for Publish-Review-Curate, and by a number of other groups across four service tiers. Individual entitlements vary, so nothing on this page should be read as a description of what any particular customer receives.