# eLife

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## TL;DR

A non-profit open-access life-science journal backed by HHMI, Wellcome and the Max Planck Society, known for its reviewed-preprint publishing model.

## Summary

Fully open access. Since 2023 eLife publishes 'Reviewed Preprints' with public peer reviews and an editorial assessment instead of accept/reject decisions, a model that has been both praised and contested. Publishes cancer biology, evolution and computational studies, including reproducibility work on high-profile cancer papers.

## Fields

- Kind: Journal
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: eLife
- Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
- Scope: basic cancer biology
- Access: open-access

## Sources

- eLife publishing model: https://elifesciences.org/about/peer-review

## Connected records

- collections: [PubMed & Europe PMC](https://onco.cc/collections/pubmed-europepmc/)
- institutions: [Howard Hughes Medical Institute](https://onco.cc/institutions/hhmi/)
- people: [Richard Van Etten](https://onco.cc/people/richard-van-etten/)
- key papers: [Evolutionary dynamics of cancer in response to targeted combination therapy](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-bozic-elife/), [Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology found that landmark preclinical results mostly shrank or vanished on replication](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-reproducibility-project-cancer-biology-elife-2021/)

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