Background The quality of COVID-19 preprints should be considered with great care, as
their contents can influence public policy. Surprisingly little has been done to calibrate the …

Preprints occupied the spotlight early in the pandemic, as scientists, the media and the
public sought information on the evolving pandemic. While some in the scientific community …

Many publications on COVID-19 were released on preprint servers such as medRxiv and
bioRxiv. It is unknown how reliable these preprints are, and which ones will eventually be …

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share manuscripts that are not yet peer-reviewed.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 …

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 …

Preprints have played an unprecedented role in disseminating COVID-19-related science
results to the public. The study aims to elucidate the role of preprints during the COVID-19 …

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the potential significance of preprints
in a public health emergency, and now with their continued use, preprints are considered …

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a rise in preprinting, apparently triggered by the need for
open and rapid dissemination of research outputs. We surveyed authors of COVID-19 …

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 …

Methods The authors queried three biomedical databases (MEDLINE, Web of Science, and
Google Scholar) and two preprint servers (MedRxiv and SSRN) to identify literature …