Once a preprint has been peer-reviewed by eLife, we publish a Reviewed Preprint – a journal quality document including the full text of the preprint, the eLife assessment, and the public peer reviews. Reviewed Preprints will receive a DOI and eLife citation.

Now before we go any further, it's important to note that eLife is not a predatory journal—you know, the journals that publish anything, even nonsense papers about “weird” birds and “the educational value of high school students driving into the desert and making drugs.”