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Mission and vision

The purpose of the journals, and a letter from the publisher.

Publisher’s letter

The next generation of academic journals

Dear researcher,

Welcome to Accelerated Science.

Research output has risen steadily for two decades. The time taken to review it has not fallen. A paper waits months for reviewers to find a weekend for it, and the fastest-moving fields frequently have no journal to wait for at all.

We have been in publishing since 1998. We built a system that produced two hundred thousand books, then pointed it at technical and teaching material in local languages, for places across Africa, Latin America and Asia that no publisher was going to serve. The volume was a means. The purpose was reaching readers the industry had written off. Research is the last place we have not applied it.

AI will multiply how much research the world produces. Nothing has multiplied how much of it gets checked, and that gap is where weak work passes and good work goes unread.

What gets published becomes what gets taught, prescribed and legislated. The door to it is currently held by people with no time and no reason to hurry. Open it properly, judge a paper on what it says rather than on whose name is on it, and the next result that matters stops waiting two years to be found.

Mission

Accelerated Science assesses research against criteria published in advance of submission and applied consistently across disciplines. Manuscripts are judged on reasoning, evidence, methods, originality, transparency and contribution. The standing of the authors, their institution, and any use of AI tools are not considered.

The grounds on which manuscripts are accepted and declined are published, so that authors may assess the venue on the evidence. Each assessment records the checks performed and the tool that performed each. Acceptances are signed by a named editor.

Published articles are free to read on the day of publication and free to reuse under an open licence.

Vision

In time, Accelerated Science intends to publish a journal for every field of research, each opening once its field sustains enough rigorous work to warrant one. The taxonomy is deliberately wide. It extends to the specialised and emerging fields that established publishers have been slow to serve, not only to disciplines that are already well provided for.

The scholarly record should be comprehensive and current. Admission to it should turn on the quality of the work, not on the scarce time of a few gatekeepers. Our aim is a record assembled promptly, held to consistent standards, and open to any researcher whose work meets them.