TY - JOUR TI - Lessons from the influx of preprints during the early COVID-19 pandemic AU - Brierley, Liam T2 - The Lancet Planetary Health DA - 2021/03/01/ PY - 2021 DO - 10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00011-5 DP - www.thelancet.com VL - 5 IS - 3 SP - e115 EP - e117 J2 - The Lancet Planetary Health LA - English SN - 2542-5196 UR - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00011-5/fulltext Y2 - 2021/10/05/18:37:41 ER - TY - BOOK TI - The role of research preprints in the academic response to the COVID-19 epidemic AU - Brierley, Liam AB - The current outbreak of COVID-19 has escalated into a global health crisis. Investigations into the epidemic have taken place upon an unprecedented stage of rapid, open-platform science, including vastly improved access to unreviewed preprint research. I quantified preprint responses to COVID-19 by examining 785 preprints posted to English-language preprint servers (bioRxiv, n = 140; medRxiv, n = 561; arXiv, n = 84). Preprint research during the current outbreak has been enormously accelerated, with an average of 11.9 preprints posted per day-over a hundred-fold higher than that during 2014's West African ebolavirus outbreak. While this boom in preprints has enabled valuable knowledge sharing of scientific developments, novel challenges have become apparent. Unfounded conclusions from unreviewed research have played a clear role in public misinformation about the epidemic. I provide recommendations to improve accountability and transparency surrounding preprints, a vital step for future outbreaks as open-platform epidemiology continues to advance. DA - 2020/03/25/ PY - 2020 DP - ResearchGate ER - TY - JOUR TI - The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape AU - Fraser, Nicholas AU - Brierley, Liam AU - Dey, Gautam AU - Polka, Jessica K. AU - Pálfy, Máté AU - Nanni, Federico AU - Coates, Jonathon Alexis T2 - PLOS Biology AB - 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 (SARS-CoV-2), has caused over 98 million confirmed cases and 2.2 million deaths since January 2020. Although the most recent respiratory viral pandemic swept the globe only a decade ago, the way science operates and responds to current events has experienced a cultural shift in the interim. The scientific community has responded rapidly to the COVID-19 pandemic, releasing over 125,000 COVID-19–related scientific articles within 10 months of the first confirmed case, of which more than 30,000 were hosted by preprint servers. We focused our analysis on bioRxiv and medRxiv, 2 growing preprint servers for biomedical research, investigating the attributes of COVID-19 preprints, their access and usage rates, as well as characteristics of their propagation on online platforms. Our data provide evidence for increased scientific and public engagement with preprints related to COVID-19 (COVID-19 preprints are accessed more, cited more, and shared more on various online platforms than non-COVID-19 preprints), as well as changes in the use of preprints by journalists and policymakers. We also find evidence for changes in preprinting and publishing behaviour: COVID-19 preprints are shorter and reviewed faster. Our results highlight the unprecedented role of preprints and preprint servers in the dissemination of COVID-19 science and the impact of the pandemic on the scientific communication landscape. DA - 2021/04/02/undefined PY - 2021 DO - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000959 DP - PLoS Journals VL - 19 IS - 4 SP - e3000959 J2 - PLOS Biology LA - en SN - 1545-7885 UR - https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000959 Y2 - 2021/10/05/18:35:35 KW - Altmetrics KW - COVID 19 KW - Metadata KW - Pandemics KW - Peer review KW - SARS CoV 2 KW - Scientific publishing KW - Twitter ER - TY - JOUR TI - Preprinting the COVID-19 pandemic AU - Fraser, Nicholas AU - Brierley, Liam AU - Dey, Gautam AU - Polka, Jessica K. AU - Pálfy, Máté AU - Nanni, Federico AU - Coates, Jonathon Alexis T2 - bioRxiv AB - The world continues to face a life-threatening viral pandemic. The virus underlying the COVID-19 disease, SARS-CoV-2, has caused over 98 million confirmed cases and 2.2 million deaths since January 2020. Although the most recent respiratory viral pandemic swept the globe only a decade ago, the way science operates and responds to current events has experienced a paradigm shift in the interim. The scientific community has responded rapidly to the COVID-19 pandemic, releasing over 125,000 COVID-19 related scientific articles within 10 months of the first confirmed case, of which more than 30,000 were hosted by preprint servers. We focused our analysis on bioRxiv and medRxiv, two growing preprint servers for biomedical research, investigating the attributes of COVID-19 preprints, their access and usage rates, as well as characteristics of their propagation on online platforms. Our data provides evidence for increased scientific and public engagement with preprints related to COVID-19 (COVID-19 preprints are accessed more, cited more, and shared more on various online platforms than non-COVID-19 preprints), as well as changes in the use of preprints by journalists and policymakers. We also find evidence for changes in preprinting and publishing behaviour: COVID-19 preprints are shorter and reviewed faster. Our results highlight the unprecedented role of preprints and preprint servers in the dissemination of COVID-19 science, and the impact of the pandemic on the scientific communication landscape. DA - 2021/02/05/ PY - 2021 DO - 10.1101/2020.05.22.111294 DP - www.biorxiv.org SP - 2020.05.22.111294 LA - en UR - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.22.111294v3 Y2 - 2021/04/25/15:19:42 KW - _genre:PR-primary_research ER -