Embracing preprints in rheumatology: accelerating knowledge dissemination, career development, and collaborative opportunities - Sawalha - ACR Open Rheumatology - Wiley Online Library

"Our analysis reveals significant variability in using preprint publishing among different medical specialties. The specialty with the apparent highest ratio of preprint to PubMed publication is critical care, with a ratio of 0.976, indicating a nearly equal number of preprints and peer-reviewed articles. This high ratio suggests that researchers in critical care science and medicine are particularly proactive in disseminating their findings early through preprint platforms. In contrast, cardiology and rheumatology have the lowest ratios at 0.0715 and 0.0736, respectively. This indicates a much lower proportion of preprints relative to peer-reviewed articles, suggesting that these fields are more conservative in their use of preprint servers. Allergy (0.2504) and pulmonary medicine (0.1907) also have relatively high ratios, followed by nephrology (0.1820). There is less preprint use in infectious diseases (0.1267), endocrinology (0.1264), gastroenterology (0.1076), and geriatrics (0.1000), followed by oncology (0.0935), where the use of preprints is less prevalent (Figure 1)...."