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Use when targeting eLife or deciding whether a life-sciences manuscript fits this open-access life-sciences journal. Encodes eLife's unique Reviewed-Preprint model, fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

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# eLife (elife)

## Journal positioning

eLife is a non-profit open-access journal covering all of life sciences and biomedicine, operated by an independent board and funded by major research foundations. Its defining structural feature is the **Reviewed-Preprint model**: most submissions are posted as preprints on bioRxiv and receive a public eLife assessment plus full peer-review reports — the journal does not issue a binary accept/reject decision in the traditional sense. The eLife assessment uses a controlled vocabulary (landmark, fundamental, important, valuable, useful, incomplete, inadequate) to characterize significance and evidential strength. The readership is the global life-sciences research community, and the ethos strongly favors rigor, reproducibility, transparency, and open science over prestige signaling. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on elifesciences.org.

## When to trigger

- The author names eLife as the target venue or is considering an open-access life-sciences outlet with public peer review.
- A manuscript is strong on rigor and reproducibility but may not carry the single-advance framing required by Nature/Cell flagship journals.
- The author wants the manuscript posted as a preprint and reviewed publicly, with transparent reviewer reports and eLife assessments visible to readers.
- The author needs guidance on eLife's Reviewed-Preprint workflow, assessment vocabulary, and what determines a "featured" eLife paper.

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