Frontiers | Preprints in Medicine: Useful or Harmful? | Medicine

peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-10-26

Summary:

"Research and its associated publications have had a considerable impact on the care and monitoring of the patients since evidence-based medicine became standard for modern medicine during the 1990s (1). Peer-reviewing is a fundamental component of scientific publication. The peer-review process first includes an evaluation of the quality and interest in the paper for the reader of the journal by the editor who, if he or she considers the article to be of interest, sends it to the external reviewers (2). If the paper is found to be interesting and of sufficient quality, the reviewers ask questions and make comments to which the researcher must respond in a rebuttal letter. If the answers are satisfactory, the article can be published. This is a time-consuming process, typically lasting months, and authors complain about the review time, which has been relatively stable since the 1980s (3)...."

Link:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2020.579100/full

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oa.new oa.preprints oa.medicine oa.benefits oa.speed oa.quality oa.peer_review oa.versions

Date tagged:

10/26/2020, 12:36

Date published:

10/26/2020, 08:36