Over-promotion and caution in abstracts of preprints during the COVID-19 crisis
Authors : Frederique Bordignon, Liana Ermakova, Marianne Noel The abstract is known to be a promotional genre where researchers tend to exaggerate the benefit o...
Étiquette : COVID-19
Day-to-day discovery of preprint–publication links
Authors : Guillaume Cabanac, Theodora Oikonomidi, Isabelle Boutron Preprints promote the open and fast communication of non-peer reviewed work. Once a preprint ...
Publication by association: how the COVID-19 pandemic has shown relationships between authors and editorial board members in the field of infectious diseases
Authors : Clara Locher, David Moher, Ioana Alina Cristea, Florian Naudet During the COVID-19 pandemic, the rush to scientific and political judgements on the me...
The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape
Authors : Nicholas Fraser, Liam Brierley, Gautam Dey, Jessica K. Polka, Máté Pálfy, Federico Nann, Jonathon Alexis Coates The world continues to face a life-thr...
Requiem for impact factors and high publication charges
Authors : Chris R Triggle, Ross MacDonald, David J. Triggle, Donald Grierson Journal impact factors, publication charges and assessment of quality and accuracy ...
Preprint Abstracts in Times of Crisis: a Comparative Study with the Pre-pandemic Period
Authors : Frédérique Bordignon, Liana Ermakova, Marianne Noel The urgency to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak has driven an unprecedented surge in preprints tha...
A metaresearch study revealed susceptibility of Covid-19 treatment research to white hat bias: first, do no harm
Author : Ioannis Bellos Objective To investigate the presence of white hat bias in Covid-19 treatment research by evaluating the effects of citation and reporti...