Q&A John Ioannidis: Biomedicine warms to preprints | Nature Index
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Summary:
"In January, epidemiologist John Ioannidis and PhD student, Stylianos Serghiou, both at Stanford University, published an analysis of the biology preprint repository bioRxiv in JAMA. They looked at the online discussion, citations and subsequent formal publication of preprints posted on the server between 2013 and 2017. Smriti Mallapaty spoke with Ioannidis about the slow adoption of preprint archives in the biomedical community, the importance of openness and transparency for reproducibility, and what’s next for the science of science...."