This year's Peer Review Week theme moves beyond identifying challenges and toward shared understanding and practical approaches. At PREreview, we believe part of the solution to the pitfalls in current evaluation systems lies in creating spaces where people can learn together, exchange expertise, and improve research through open dialogue.

To sum up, 25 PREreview Clubs from at least 12 countries registered for the Review-a-thon 2026. Folks coordinating the collaborative review activities—Club leads—brought in diverse perspectives as graduate students, librarians, science editors, researchers at different career stages, instructors, and retired professionals from the scholarly ecosystem. The Clubs disciplinary interests range from health and life sciences to ethnography, education, AI agents evaluation, engineering, and multilingual metaresearch. 

We will continue to populate this section, as their activity reports keep coming through. Be sure to come back soon to meet the faces behind the reviews!

 PREreview Clubs Registered for the Review-a-thon

Reflections & Meaningful Impact

"I believe the Review-a-thon played a fundamental role in launching the activities of our Club, creating momentum for continued engagement with preprints, constructive feedback, and open science. As a PREreview Champion, I see this experience as an important step toward building a collaborative and inclusive community of reviewers, connecting undergraduate education, graduate training, and international academic cooperation."

—Carlos Herold Junior, Lead of the Physical Education Preprint & Review Club 

"We are a group of researchers based in different locations across two Asian countries. The Review-a-thon event brought us together to discuss and brainstorm ideas, critically evaluate research methods, and exchange perspectives on the papers we reviewed. It also provided an opportunity to explore several interesting research topics beyond the scope of individual papers.
I believe this kind of collaborative sprint can play an important role in advancing Open Science by encouraging researchers to actively engage in peer review, knowledge sharing, and scientific discussion[...]"

—Sonti Roy, Lead of the Microbiology Nexus PREreview Club 

"We really enjoyed working together on this review, and taking part in a review event like this was a great way to strengthen teamwork and exchange ideas. The selected preprint was a fascinating and well conducted study that allowed us to engage in discussions across different topics, and its overall quality made it easy to recognize the effort the authors put into the work.

Finally, we would like to highlight how this experience made our lab meeting more dynamic, engaging, and friendly. We are looking forward to taking part in the next ones!"

—Junior Nadaline, Co-lead of the DEVL Ecology & Evolution PREreview Club