To address the feasibility and level of community support for preprint journal clubs (JCs), we launched a
community opinion survey. Our survey acquired data on the number of scientists that are willing to or are already hosting preprint JCs, and scientists’ opinions about preprint JCs, preprint commenting, and peer review training for early-career researchers (ECRs). We launched the survey during the
Mozilla Global Sprint (1st - 2nd June, 2017) and broadened our reach through social media. We closed the survey with 102 respondents, mainly from Academia (Fig. 1). Not surprisingly, the vast majority of our survey respondents had not yet hosted a preprint JC (Fig. 2a), but encouragingly nearly half were willing to, and 45% might be swayed in that direction with further support and incentives.