PCI-friendly journals make two types of commitment concerning PCI assessments:
Category 1: Journals committed to accepting PCI-recommended articles without further peer review
Category 1 journals endorse the PCI review criteria and agree to accept, without further peer review, any manuscript obtaining a positive final recommendation from PCI which fall in the journal's scope. Category 1 journals may still require recommended preprints to meet additional procedural requirements that do not require further scientific evaluation by these journals.
These journals agree to accept PCI recommended articles for publication even if the reviews performed by PCI are anonymous. Similarly, these journals will not relitigate any scientific elements of the study that PCI has already approved. These journals agree to display clearly, on the homepage of the article, a note indicating that the evaluation process was carried out by PCI Psychology.
Example note:
Editor's note: This article has been reviewed and recommended by Peer Community in Psychology: Jane Smith (2025) Title of the recommendation. Peer Community in Psychology, 1070703. https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.psych.1070703
Category 2: Journals committed to providing authors with a fast response
Category 2 journals do not automatically accept PCI-recommended articles, but have agreed to the following commitment: once the article is submitted by the authors, the journal agrees to provide the authors with one of the following three responses, within a specified short turnaround time (e.g. 5 days):
- Acceptance with minor modifications and with no further peer-review,
- Need for further peer-review or other checks before decision,
- Not interested.
In case of acceptance, these journals agree to display clearly on the homepage of the article a note indicating that the evaluation process was carried out entirely or partly by PCI Psychology, of the following type:
Editors' note: A previous version of this article was reviewed and recommended by Peer Community in Psychology: Jane Smith (2025) Title of the recommendation. Peer Community in Psychology, 1070703. https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.psych.1070703
If you have any questions about the process of becoming a PCI-friendly journal, please email contact@psych.peercommunityin.org
