The bioRxiv Wall of Shame – Jordan Anaya – Medium

"If bioRxiv’s relationship with their policies was on Facebook, it would be “It’s Complicated”. Sometimes bioRxiv allows reviews, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes bioRxiv allows scientific criticism, sometimes they don’t. They aren’t supposed to allow protocols, but this looks like a protocol. They didn’t allow opinion pieces, but after some prominent authors posted one they changed their policies to allow “white papers”. If a Nobel Laureate clearly violates policies it’s swept under the rug, but if a grad student tries to get credit for their work they are given a week’s notice before their preprint is taken down....

bioRxiv has a policy that preprints must be submitted before acceptance to a journal, although there is some debate about whether that has always been the policy. I happened to serendipitously come across an article in violation of this policy, and notified bioRxiv about it. Not only did they not do anything about the article, but they wouldn’t approve my comment on the article alerting readers that the preprint had violated bioRxiv policies. It’s quite a system they’ve got there: not only do they not enforce their policies, they prevent people from pointing out policies are being ignored...."