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The evolution, benefits, and challenges of preprints and their interaction with journals [PDF]

Science Editing, 2022
This article presents the growth and development of preprints to help authors, editors, and publishers understand and adopt appropriate strategies for incorporating preprints within their scholarly communication strategies.
Pippa Smart
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The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape.

PLoS Biology, 2021
The world continues to face a life-threatening viral pandemic. The virus underlying the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has caused over 98 million confirmed cases and 2.2 million deaths ...
Nicholas Fraser, Liam Brierley, Gautam Dey, Jessica K Polka, Máté Pálfy, Federico Nanni, Jonathon Alexis Coates   +6 more
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Consistency of covid-19 trial preprints with published reports and impact for decision making: retrospective review

BMJ Medicine, 2022
Objective To assess the trustworthiness (ie, complete and consistent reporting of key methods and results between preprint and published trial reports) and impact (ie, effects of preprints on meta-analytic estimates and the certainty of evidence) of ...
Gordon Guyatt, Arnav Agarwal, Ying Wang, Dena Zeraatkar, Anila Qasim, Chirag Patel, Gabriel Rada, Romina Brignardello-Petersen, Elena Kum, Maryam Ghadimi, Reed Alexander Cunningham Siemieniuk, Ellen Cusano, Tyler Pitre, Jessica Julia Bartoszko, Matthew Adam Cooper, Gareth Leung, Faran Khalid, Zaira Escamilla, Francisca Verdugo-Paiva   +18 more
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Publication rate and citation counts for preprints released during the COVID-19 pandemic: the good, the bad and the ugly [PDF]

PeerJ, 2021
Background Preprints are preliminary reports that have not been peer-reviewed. In December 2019, a novel coronavirus appeared in China, and since then, scientific production, including preprints, has drastically increased.
Diego Añazco, Bryan Nicolalde, Isabel Espinosa, Jose Camacho, Mariam Mushtaq, Jimena Gimenez, Enrique Teran   +6 more
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Changes in health communication in the age of COVID-19: A study on the dissemination of preprints to the public

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionPreprints have become an important tool for meeting the challenges of health communication in the context of COVID-19. They allow scientists to disseminate their results more quickly due to the absence of a peer review process. Preprints have
Li Zeng
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The use and acceptability of preprints in health and social care settings: A scoping review.

PLoS ONE, 2023
BackgroundPreprints are open and accessible scientific manuscript or report that is shared publicly, through a preprint server, before being submitted to a journal.
Amanda Jane Blatch-Jones, Alejandra Recio Saucedo, Beth Giddins   +2 more
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Science in motion: A qualitative analysis of journalists' use and perception of preprints.

PLoS ONE, 2022
This qualitative study explores how and why journalists use preprints-unreviewed research papers-in their reporting. Through thematic analysis of interviews conducted with 19 health and science journalists in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, it ...
Alice Fleerackers, Laura L Moorhead, Lauren A Maggio, Kaylee Fagan, Juan Pablo Alperin   +4 more
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The promise of community-driven preprints in ecology and evolution. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci
Publishing preprints is quickly becoming commonplace in ecology and evolutionary biology. Preprints can facilitate the rapid sharing of scientific knowledge establishing precedence and enabling feedback from the research community before peer review. Yet,
Noble DWA, Xirocostas ZA, Wu NC, Martinig AR, Almeida RA, Bairos-Novak KR, Balti H, Bertram MG, Bliard L, Brand JA, Byrne I, Chan YC, Clink DJ, Corbel Q, Correia RA, Crawford-Ash J, Culina A, D'Bastiani E, Deme GG, de Souza Leite M, Dhellemmes F, Dimri S, Drobniak SM, Elsy AD, Everingham SE, Gascoigne SJL, Grainger MJ, Hossack GC, Hovstad KA, Ivimey-Cook ER, Jones ML, Kačergytė I, Küstner G, Leibold DC, Mair MM, Martin J, Mizuno A, Moodie IR, Moreau D, O'Dea RE, Orr JA, Paquet M, Parajuli R, Pick JL, Pottier P, Purgar M, Recio P, Roche DG, Royauté R, Shafiei Sabet S, Segovia JMG, Silva I, Sánchez-Tójar A, Soares BE, Szabo B, Takola E, Thoré ESJ, Timilsina B, van Dis NE, Verberk WCEP, Vriend SJG, Wild KH, Williams C, Yang Y, Nakagawa S, Lagisz M.   +65 more
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Motivations, concerns and selection biases when posting preprints: A survey of bioRxiv authors.

PLoS ONE, 2022
Since 2013, the usage of preprints as a means of sharing research in biology has rapidly grown, in particular via the preprint server bioRxiv. Recent studies have found that journal articles that were previously posted to bioRxiv received a higher number
Nicholas Fraser, Philipp Mayr, Isabella Peters   +2 more
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Stark Decline in Journalists' Use of Preprints Postpandemic. [PDF]

Sci Commun
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of preprints, aiding rapid research dissemination but also facilitating the spread of misinformation. This study analyzes media coverage of preprints from 2014 to 2023, revealing a significant postpandemic ...
Alperin JP, Shores K, Fleerackers A, Chtena N.   +3 more
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