Evaluation of Publication of COVID-19–Related Articles Initially Presented as Preprints

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Summary:

"Since the launch of the medRxiv preprint server in 2019, the dissemination of research as preprints has grown rapidly, largely facilitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.1 Notwithstanding, this unprecedented increase in preprints has been subject to criticism, mainly because of reliability concerns owing to their lack of peer review. In 2020, Abdill et al2 reported that 62.6% of bioRxiv preprints were later published in scientific journals, considering a time frame of at least 1 year. However, other studies3,4 have highlighted the low percentage of medRxiv preprints subsequently published in journals, with publication rates of 14.0% after 0 to 12 months3 and 10.6% after 6 to 19 months.4 In an analysis of COVID-19–related preprints posted on 3 servers, Añazco et al5 observed that 5.7% were published in a journal 3 to 8 months after their preprint posting. To our knowledge, no recent studies have analyzed whether journal publication rates of medRxiv preprints have changed. Therefore, we conducted this study to evaluate the subsequent journal publication of COVID-19–related preprint articles posted on medRxiv in 2020."

Link:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2799314

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oa.new oa.preprints oa.medrxiv oa.journals oa.covid19 oa.medicine

Date tagged:

12/08/2022, 14:47

Date published:

12/08/2022, 03:30