Initiative
Description
It is a two-stage publication process. In the first stage, manuscripts that pass a streamlined access-review are immediately typeset and published in the discussion forum in our on-screen format optimized for online reading. They then undergo an interactive public discussion, during which the referees' comments (anonymous or attributed), additional short comments by other members of the scientific community (attributed), and the authors' replies are published.
In the second stage, the peer-review process is completed and, if accepted, the final revised papers are published in the journal. To ensure publication precedence for authors and to provide a lasting record of the scientific discussions, the discussion forum and the journal are both ISSN-registered, archived, and fully citable (incl. DOI).
Link
https://publications.copernicus.org/services/public_peer_review.html