Digital Discovery Blog

We’re excited to announce that Dr Matthew Addicoat of Nottingham Trent University has won the first exclusive Digital Discovery mug in our data reviewer prize draw!

Dr Addicoat has this to say about open data: “Data is important for so many reasons: For me the most obvious reasons are that sharing data allows faster progression by reuse of data and broadening collaboration. It also allows for errors to be found and fixed, which is increasingly important as science increasingly turns to data-driven.”

Thanks to Dr Addicoat and all our other data reviewers for their support! Find out more about becoming a data reviewer in our earlier blog post.

New data reviewers for Digital Discovery will be entered in a prize draw for an exclusive mug featuring the journal’s logo. The first two mugs have been won, and further applicants will automatically be included in the next draw!

How to enter

Visit rsc.li/become-a-reviewer and follow the step-by-step instructions to sign up as reviewer.

Select Digital Discovery as the journal you would like to review for on the reviewer application form.

At the question:

Please let us know where you have found the reviewer application or recruitment information

Select “Other” and add:

Digital Discovery data reviewer

(If you are already a reviewer for the Royal Society of Chemistry, contact us and let us know you’d like to be highlighted as a data reviewer.)

Upon sending your submission, you will be entered into our next prize draw to win an exclusive Digital Discovery mug.

Digital Discovery data reviewers

The Royal Society of Chemistry believes that, where possible, all data associated with the research in a manuscript should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR), enabling other researchers to replicate and build on that research.

As such, Digital Discovery expect that authors submit both their code and data to community-recognized data repositories or a general repository if no community resource is available, and submit a Data Availability Statement upon their article submission. Referees have to be able to access code and data during the peer-review process, and public release should be coordinated with the publication of the manuscript.

During the peer review of Digital Discovery manuscripts, the Associate Editor solicits the expertise of at least two reviewers to assess the article and submit a report. A third data reviewer may also be consulted to assess and comment on the data provided. By becoming a data reviewer, you will be included in our data reviewer pool as a possible assessor of data and the submitted Data Availability Statements.

Find out more

Visit our Digital Discovery journal webpage

Learn about Digital Discovery’s data policies for submission

Find out more about being a reviewer for the Royal Society of Chemistry

Digital Discovery: bringing research communities together

Digital Discovery will bring together chemistry, biology, materials & biomedical sciences, and physics to harness the incredible advances that can be made when challenges are tackled from a range of perspectives.

Digital Discovery is a gold open access journal that will chart the discovery of new chemicals, processes and biological systems through new tech development. The journal will complement the broad scope work published in PCCP (Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics).

Open for submissions mid-August 2021

Article processing charges are waived until mid-2024

Alán Aspuru-Guzik is the journal’s editor-in-chief:

“I am excited to be editor-in-chief of Digital Discovery. In its pages, we aim to capture the top research at the intersection of chemistry, materials science and biotechnology with topics related to machine learning, high-throughput computational and experimental screening in order to accelerate the process of scientific discovery. The ‘digital transformation’ of the chemical industry is a huge driver for the twenty-first century and we want Digital Discovery to be the premier venue for papers related to this topic.”

To reach a future in which researchers make faster progress, knowledge is shared freely, and collaboration crosses boundaries, there must be more choice about where to publish open access.

Through consultation with active researchers in the community, the Royal Society of Chemistry is expanding our journal portfolio into rapidly growing areas to offer dedicated, open access homes for high quality, interdisciplinary research in these areas.

We hope you are as excited as we are about the launch of this new journal, and we invite you to sign up for the latest editorial board news, scope details and announcements, news and issue alerts.

With best wishes,

Royal Society of Chemistry