How peer review and publication can make a good protocol even better

A guiding principle of STAR Protocols is that we make researchers' lives easier by publishing robust and usable protocols. We leverage the strength of peer review to help authors improve their protocol. This Backstory details the transformation of a bench protocol to a published protocol, highlighting the improvements to the article through the drafting, review, and revision stages. This underscores the value of the peer review process in general and the collaborative peer review philosophy at STAR Protocols specifically. For complete details, please refer to Chhoy et al. (2021).

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The guiding principle of STAR Protocols is to make researchers' lives easier by publishing robust and usable protocols, leveraging peer review to help authors improve their protocol. This process highlights the value of peer review and the collaborative peer review philosophy at STAR Protocols specifically.