Fast news or fake news? The advantages and the pitfalls of rapid publication through pre‐print servers during a pandemic

A King - EMBO reports, 2020 - embopress.org
Since the start of the COVID-19 pan-demic, hundreds of scientific papers that are related to
the disease in one way or another have been uploaded to preprint servers for anyone to …

Between fast science and fake news: Preprint servers are political

M Heimstädt - Impact of Social Sciences Blog, 2020 - eprints.lse.ac.uk
Preprints servers have become a vital medium for the rapid sharing of scientific findings.
This has been made clear by the speed with which researchers have developed new …

[HTML][HTML] Adjusting the use of preprints to accommodate the 'quality'factor in response to COVID-19

JAT da Silva - Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Preprints are typically crude precursors of peer-reviewed papers that are placed almost
immediately, save for some superficial screening, on an open-access repository to allow the …

COVID-19 preprints and their publishing rate: an improved method

F Lachapelle - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Context As the COVID-19 pandemic persists around the world, the scientific community
continues to produce and circulate knowledge on the deadly disease at an unprecedented …

Preprinting the COVID-19 pandemic

N Fraser, L Brierley, G Dey, JK Polka, M Pálfy, F Nanni… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
The world continues to face an ongoing viral pandemic that presents a serious threat to
human health. The virus underlying the COVID-19 disease, SARS-CoV-2, has caused over …

Silently withdrawn or retracted preprints related to Covid-19 are a scholarly threat and a potential public health risk: theoretical arguments and suggested …

JA Teixeira da Silva - Online Information Review, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose Thousands of preprints related to Covid-19 have effused into the academic
literature. Even though these are not peer-reviewed documents and have not been vetted by …

Preprint manuscripts and servers in the era of coronavirus disease 2019

S Nabavi Nouri, YA Cohen… - Journal of Evaluation …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Rationale, Aims, and Objectives To both examine the impact of preprint publishing
on health sciences research and survey popular preprint servers amidst the current …

The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape

N Fraser, L Brierley, G Dey, JK Polka, M Pálfy… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The world continues to face a life-threatening viral pandemic. The virus underlying the
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 …

Preprints in times of COVID19: the time is ripe for agreeing on terminology and good practices

R Ravinetto, C Caillet, MH Zaman, JA Singh… - BMC Medical …, 2021 - Springer
Over recent years, the research community has been increasingly using preprint servers to
share manuscripts that are not yet peer-reviewed. Even if it enables quick dissemination of …

Publication rate and citation counts for preprints released during the COVID-19 pandemic: the good, the bad and the ugly

D Añazco, B Nicolalde, I Espinosa, J Camacho… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Background Preprints are preliminary reports that have not been peer-reviewed. In
December 2019, a novel coronavirus appeared in China, and since then, scientific …