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

open access: yesScience 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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Consistency of covid-19 trial preprints with published reports and impact for decision making: retrospective review

open access: yesBMJ 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   +18 more
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The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape.

open access: yesPLoS 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   +6 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]

open access: yesPeerJ, 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Background Preprints are preliminary reports that have not been peer-reviewed.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   +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

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Science in motion: A qualitative analysis of journalists' use and perception of preprints.

open access: yesPLoS 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   +4 more
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The use and acceptability of preprints in health and social care settings: A scoping review.

open access: yesPLoS 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   +2 more
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An international, cross-sectional survey of preprint attitudes among biomedical researchers [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] [PDF]

open access: yesF1000Research
Background Preprints are scientific manuscripts that are made available on open-access servers but are not yet peer-reviewed. Although preprints are becoming more prevalent, uptake is not optimal.
Valerie Chow   +6 more
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Preprinting Microbiology

open access: yesmBio, 2017
The field of microbiology has experienced significant growth due to transformative advances in technology and the influx of scientists driven by a curiosity to understand how microbes sustain myriad biochemical processes that maintain Earth.
Patrick D. Schloss
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Publication and Impact of Preprints Included in the First 100 Editions of the CDC COVID-19 Science Update: Content Analysis

open access: yesJMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2022
BackgroundPreprints are publicly available manuscripts posted to various servers that have not been peer reviewed. Although preprints have existed since 1961, they have gained increased popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic due ...
Jeremy Otridge   +5 more
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