Ninth international congress on peer review and scientific publication—call for abstracts

In 2019, before the covid-19 pandemic, we highlighted the unprecedented promise and peril surrounding the quantity, quality, and integrity of scientific research. 1 The pandemic has been a crash test for scientific publishing, emphasising the great successes and failures, and the promise and perils of current systems.In 2020 because of the pandemic, we announced a postponement of the ninth international congress on peer review and scientific publication.We now confirm plans to hold the meeting on 8-10 September 2022 and announce the official call for abstracts.The aim of the congress is to encourage research into the quality and credibility of peer review and scientific publication and to further the evidence base on which scientists can improve the conduct, reporting, and dissemination of scientific research.As with the previous eight congresses, 2 the ninth will feature three days of presentations of original research about processes, policies, problems, and innovations related to peer review, scientific publication, and research dissemination.Participants will include editors and publishers of scientific peer reviewed journals, researchers, funders, bibliometric and informatics experts, information innovators, librarians, journalists, policy makers, ethicists, scientific information producers and disseminators, and anyone interested in the progress of the scientific information enterprise and the quality of scientific evidence.The congress embraces a wide range of disciplines, including (but not limited to) biomedicine, health and life sciences, applied sciences, basic sciences, physical and chemical sciences,