Forecasting the Growth of Preprints in Biology - Science Editor
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Summary:
"Preprints, or complete scientific manuscripts posted online before journal-organized peer review, have been common in subfields of biology for a long time: the quantitative biology section of arXiv.org has been steadily growing for over a decade. But since the emergence of new services that specifically cater to the life sciences community (notably PeerJ Preprints and especially BioRxiv), the growth in new preprints posted per month has been marked (Figure 1).
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Still, 900 preprints posted per month represent just 1% of the approximately 100,000 articles that appear on PubMed during the same time frame. So, does this recent growth represent a bubble, or is this the start of new way for biologists to communicate? The answer will depend on four factors."