- Published
- 2021-04-02
- Venue
- PLoS Biology, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. e3000959
- Cited by
- 556
- Open access
- Yes, gold
- DOI
- 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000959
- PubMed
- 33798194
Abstract
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.
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Fraser, N., Brierley, L., Dey, G., Polka, J., Pálfy, M., Nanni, F., & Coates, J. A. (2021). The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape. PLoS Biology, 19(4), e3000959. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000959
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Fraser, Nicholas, et al. "The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape." PLoS Biology, vol. 19, no. 4, 2021, pp. e3000959, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000959.
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Fraser, Nicholas, Liam Brierley, Gautam Dey, Jessica Polka, Máté Pálfy, Federico Nanni, and Jonathon Alexis Coates. "The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape." PLoS Biology 19, no. 4 (2021): e3000959. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000959.
- GOST
Fraser N., Brierley L., Dey G. [и др.] The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape // PLoS Biology. — 2021. — Vol. 19, № 4. — P. e3000959. — URL: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000959
- BibTeX
@article{fraser2021evolving, title = {{The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape}}, author = {Nicholas Fraser and Liam Brierley and Gautam Dey and Jessica Polka and Máté Pálfy and Federico Nanni and Jonathon Alexis Coates}, journal = {PLoS Biology}, year = {2021}, volume = {19}, number = {4}, pages = {e3000959}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pbio.3000959}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000959} }- RIS
TY - JOUR AU - Fraser, Nicholas AU - Brierley, Liam AU - Dey, Gautam AU - Polka, Jessica AU - Pálfy, Máté AU - Nanni, Federico AU - Coates, Jonathon Alexis TI - The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape JO - PLoS Biology VL - 19 IS - 4 SP - e3000959 PY - 2021 DA - 2021/04/02 DO - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000959 UR - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000959 ER -
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