Join our Team

In order to keep providing the preprint review experience for our high school authors (young scientists), we rely entirely on the efforts of our volunteers. We are always looking for motivated and passionate volunteers to serve as volunteers with eiRxiv. We have volunteers from across the US and several that are located internationally. More information on eligibility, the application and onboarding process, and each position is found below.

Reviewers at eiRxiv are key to our scientific review process and provide the foundation for our student authors to really learn about formal written science communication. As a Reviewer you will:

• Provide scientific and presentation feedback to student authors
  • Your feedback will related to items such as the proper framing of their experimental question, presentation of results and data figures, appropriate data interpretation, and final conclusions from their work.
  • The novelty, overall contribution to a field of science, etc. are not areas eiRxiv is concerned with for our student manuscripts
• Ensure that your comments are positive, encouraging, and educational for our student authors.
• Complete your review within 2 weeks of accepting the assignment
  • Depending on your area of expertise, you may get anywhere from 10-20 invitations to review manuscripts per year. This is based on your time preferences and submission volume. As a new preprint server, we expect the volume to be less for the first 6-12 months. 

To apply to volunteer with eiRxiv, please complete the application here.

Once you fill out the application, you will receive an email containing links to all of our training quizzes along with access information to our editorial branch handbooks/resources. You must take and pass (>80%) the quiz for the eiRxiv reviewer role to be onboarded. These onboarding quizzes are meant to orient you to the JEI and eiRxiv review process and how to navigate the preprint server - we do not expect perfection when you first start and you will be provided feedback during your first couple of assignments as you learn your role(s).

After you pass the required training quiz, our team will set you up with a Reviewer profile on our eiRxiv platform. You will receive an automated email with your username and a link to set your password. Once you get this email you are eligible to start receiving assignments.

Note: It usually takes us 2-3 weeks after you pass your quiz to register you on our submission platform.