Preprints as a Hub for Early-Stage Research Outputs

Rittman, Martyn

doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0243.v1

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“…Going forward, on the landscape of preprints and metrics, perhaps overlay systems could be implemented, based on repositories using new metrics as overlay journals emerge. Preprint repositories have emerged as movement and they are implemented in different ways; approached in heterogeneous forms and seeing them along with conventional journals may be a possibility or whether they will change the scholarly communication landscape fundamentally, as hubs of early-research output have important caveats for open science [6,37]. However, the trade-offs, such as the questions of conflict of interests, risks, and research ethics with which preprints are published, need to be addressed for the public in the public domain and in understanding science [87,88].…”

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“…Rittman explains preprints as "a piece of research made publicly available before it has been validated by the research community. That is to say, some output that follows the scientific process but has not yet been peer-reviewed for journal publication [37]". However, Tennant et al [8] propounded a definition of what is a preprint that is based around its peer review status, which is in line with the Sherpa/Romeo description:…”

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Preprints in Scholarly Communication: Re-Imagining Metrics and Infrastructures

Balaji

Dhanamjaya

2019

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Digital scholarship and electronic publishing within scholarly communities change when metrics and open infrastructures take center stage for measuring research impact. In scholarly communication, the growth of preprint repositories as a new model of scholarly publishing over the last three decades has been one of the major developments. As it unfolds, the landscape of scholarly communication is transitioning—with much being privatized as it is made open—and turning towards alternative metrics, such as social media attention, author-level, and article-level metrics. Moreover, the granularity of evaluating research impact through new metrics and social media changes the objective standards of evaluating research performance. Using preprint repositories as a case study, this article situates them in a scholarly web, examining their salient features, benefits, and futures. Moves towards scholarly web development and publishing on the semantic and social web with open infrastructures, citations, and alternative metrics—how preprints advance building the web as data—is discussed. We determine that this will viably demonstrate new metrics and, by enhancing research publishing tools in the scholarly commons, facilitate various communities of practice. However, for preprint repositories to be sustainable, scholarly communities and funding agencies should support continued investment in open knowledge, alternative metrics development, and open infrastructures in scholarly publishing.

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Preprints in Scholarly Communication: Re-Imagining Metrics and Infrastructures

Balaji

Dhanamjaya

2019

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“…The resulting hybrid model is also added to Figure 1, Panel 3 and Table 1, Column 6. In practice, authors submitting manuscripts to Sci are offered the possibility of posting the submitted version at Preprints during the period the manuscript is sent for hybrid singleblind peer review, so P4R is possible then in theory [62]. Preprints itself is a multidisciplinary, open access, non-profit, cost-free online platform on which authors may indeed place their publication as open to and reusable by the community before peer review and publication in a peer-reviewed journal.…”

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The Pioneering Role of Sci in Post Publication Public Peer Review (P4R)

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Scientists observe, discover, justify and eventually share their findings with the scientific community. Dissemination is an integral aspect of scientific discovery, since discoveries which go unnoticed have no or little impact on science. Today, peer review is part of this process of scientific dissemination as it contributes proactively to the quality of a scientific article. As the numbers of scientific journals and scientific articles published therein are increasing steadily, processes such as the single-blind or double-blind peer review are facing a near collapse situation. In fact, these traditional forms of reviewing have reached their limits and, because of this, are also increasingly considered as unfair, sloppy, superficial and even biased. In this manuscript, we propose forms of post-publication public peer review (P4R) as valuable alternatives to the traditional blind peer review system. We describe how the journal Sci has explored such an approach and provide first empirical evidence of the benefits and also challenges, such a P4R approach faces.

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“…The preprint platforms were widely explored as hubs for disseminating scientific findings [6], especially for early-stage researchers [7], which revealed a number of social and technical issues associated with their adoption [8]. The top four concerns with preprint servers included scooping of scientific results [9], poor data quality [10], spread of misinformation [11], and varied and non-transparent deposition policies [6].…”

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“…Streamlines the journal submission process [20]; 6. Allows sharing studies that are difficult to publish in traditional journals (works-inprogress, negative results, replications, contradictions) [16]; 7. Provides an open-access publication record [16].…”

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Publication practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: Biomedical preprints and peer-reviewed literature

Sevryugina

Dicks

2021

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The coronavirus pandemic introduced many changes to our society, and deeply affected the established in biomedical sciences publication practices. In this article, we present a comprehensive study of the changes in scholarly publication landscape for biomedical sciences during the COVID-19 pandemic, with special emphasis on preprints posted on bioRxiv and medRxiv servers. We observe the emergence of a new category of preprint authors working in the fields of immunology, microbiology, infectious diseases, and epidemiology, who extensively used preprint platforms during the pandemic for sharing their immediate findings. The majority of these findings were works-in-progress unfitting for a prompt acceptance by refereed journals. The COVID-19 preprints that became peer-reviewed journal articles were often submitted to journals concurrently with the posting on a preprint server, and the entire publication cycle, from preprint to the online journal article, took on average 63 days. This included an expedited peer-review process of 43 days and journal’s production stage of 15 days, however there was a wide variation in publication delays between journals. Only one third of COVID-19 preprints posted during the first nine months of the pandemic appeared as peer-reviewed journal articles. These journal articles display high Altmetric Attention Scores further emphasizing a significance of COVID-19 research during 2020. This article will be relevant to editors, publishers, open science enthusiasts, and anyone interested in changes that the 2020 crisis transpired to publication practices and a culture of preprints in life sciences.

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Preprints as a Hub for Early-Stage Research Outputs

Cited by 7 publications

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Preprints in Scholarly Communication: Re-Imagining Metrics and Infrastructures

Preprints in Scholarly Communication: Re-Imagining Metrics and Infrastructures

The Pioneering Role of Sci in Post Publication Public Peer Review (P4R)

Publication practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: Biomedical preprints and peer-reviewed literature

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