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Posters, slides and documents

Posters and slides are published immediately on submission; they are fully citable and are assigned a permanent DOI after an editorial check. These content types are not peer reviewed.

Please see the Posters and Slides Guidelines for more details.

Documents can only be submitted via selectedGateways and Collections on Gates Open Research. Documents may be outputs of Gates Foundation grantees and contractors in the form of technical reports, presentations, posters, policies and guidelines and are usually included in a Gateway or Collection that is specific to a program strategy and of particular relevance to that program’s readership and community. Documents are published after an in-house check and then assigned a DOI. This content is not peer reviewed.

Please see the Document Guidelines for more details.

Submit a document to the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Gateway.

Submit a document to otherGateways or Collections.

Refer to our downloadable sample files to ensure that your submission meets our formatting requirements:

Articles

Articles are published rapidly as soon as they are accepted, after passing a series of prepublication checks to assess originality, readability, author eligibility, and compliance with Gates Open Research’s policies and ethical guidelines. Peer review by invited experts, suggested by the authors, takes place openly after publication. An article remains published regardless of the reviewers’ reports. Articles that pass peer review are indexed in Scopus, PubMed, Google Scholar and other bibliographic databases .

Authors are encouraged to respond openly to the peer review reports, which are published with the article, and can publish revised versions of their article, if they wish. Read more about Gates Open Research’s peer review model.

See the Article Guidelines for information about submitting different article types. Track your submissions via My Account.

Before you submit an article, please ensure that:

  • The work is original. The manuscript (or substantial parts of it) must not have been published previously, or be under consideration or review by another journal. Manuscripts that were previously posted on a preprint server such as ArXiv or BioRxiv are welcome.
  • At least one author must be formally affiliated with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (for details, see our Publication criteria ). On submission authors will be asked for the grant number *OPPID that funded the research.
  • The reported study meets all applicable research and publication standards . We strongly recommend that you consult our editorial policies for more detail on reporting guidelines and ethical requirements.
  • All methodological details and relevant data are made available to allow others to replicate the study, and that the manuscript adheres to appropriate reporting guidelines and community standards. For more detail, please see our policies and Data preparation guidelines.
  • All authors have understood Gates Open Research’s policies for article publication and its author-led publishing model , which requires authors to actively suggest suitable peer reviewers for their article until at least 2 reports have been received.
  • Your manuscript includes full author and affiliation information, and a conflict of interest statement.