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Tracking changes between preprint posting and journal publication during a pandemic.
Brierley, Liam; Nanni, Federico; Polka, Jessica K; Dey, Gautam; Pálfy, Máté; Fraser, Nicholas; Coates, Jonathon Alexis.
  • Brierley L; Department of Health Data Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
  • Nanni F; The Alan Turing Institute, London, United Kingdom.
  • Polka JK; ASAPbio, San Francisco, California, United States of America.
  • Dey G; Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Pálfy M; The Company of Biologists, Histon, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  • Fraser N; Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Leibniz, Germany.
  • Coates JA; William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.
PLoS Biol ; 20(2): e3001285, 2022 02.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1662437
ABSTRACT
Amid the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, preprints in the biomedical sciences are being posted and accessed at unprecedented rates, drawing widespread attention from the general public, press, and policymakers for the first time. This phenomenon has sharpened long-standing questions about the reliability of information shared prior to journal peer review. Does the information shared in preprints typically withstand the scrutiny of peer review, or are conclusions likely to change in the version of record? We assessed preprints from bioRxiv and medRxiv that had been posted and subsequently published in a journal through April 30, 2020, representing the initial phase of the pandemic response. We utilised a combination of automatic and manual annotations to quantify how an article changed between the preprinted and published version. We found that the total number of figure panels and tables changed little between preprint and published articles. Moreover, the conclusions of 7.2% of non-COVID-19-related and 17.2% of COVID-19-related abstracts undergo a discrete change by the time of publication, but the majority of these changes do not qualitatively change the conclusions of the paper.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Periodicals as Topic / Publications / Peer Review, Research / Information Dissemination / COVID-19 Type of study: Observational study / Qualitative research Limits: Humans Language: English Journal: PLoS Biol Journal subject: Biology Year: 2022 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: Journal.pbio.3001285

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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Periodicals as Topic / Publications / Peer Review, Research / Information Dissemination / COVID-19 Type of study: Observational study / Qualitative research Limits: Humans Language: English Journal: PLoS Biol Journal subject: Biology Year: 2022 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: Journal.pbio.3001285