Peer review is an important part of the scientific process, but traditional peer review at
journals is coming under increased scrutiny for its inefficiency and lack of transparency. As …

The rising rate of preprints and publications, combined with persistent inadequate reporting
practices and problems with study design and execution, have strained the traditional peer …

Background: There are currently numerous innovations in peer review and quality
assurance in scholarly publishing. The Research on Research Institute conducted a …

This study explores the use of PubPeer by the scholarly community, to understand the
issues discussed in an online journal club, the disciplines most commented on, and the …

Open science is receiving widespread attention globally, and preprinting offers an important
way to implement open science practices in scholarly publishing. To develop a systematic …

Importance Preprints have been increasingly used in biomedical science, and a key feature
of many platforms is public commenting. The content of these comments, however, has not …

A preprint is a version of a research manuscript posted by its authors to a preprint server
before peer review. Preprints are associated with a variety of benefits, including the ability to …

Introduction Preprints have been widely cited during the COVID-19 pandemics, even in the
major medical journals. However, since subsequent publication of preprint is not always …

In the COVID-19 pandemic, it was much more critical for many life science researchers to
rapidly disseminate research results—so they used preprints as upstream publication …

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