Tracking changes between preprint posting and journal publication during a pandemic.
Tracking changes between preprint posting and journal publication during a pandemic.
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285
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发表时间：
2022-03
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影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Coates JA
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作者：
Brierley L;Nanni F;Polka JK;Dey G;Pálfy M;Fraser N;Coates JA
在 2019 年冠状病毒病 (COVID-19) 大流行期间，生物医学科学预印本的发布和访问速度前所未有，首次引起了公众、媒体和政策制定者的广泛关注。这种现象加剧了人们对期刊同行评审之前共享信息可靠性的长期疑问。预印本中共享的信息通常是否能经受住同行评审的审查，或者记录版本中的结论可能会发生变化吗？我们评估了 bioRxiv 和 medRxiv 的预印本，这些预印本已在 2020 年 4 月 30 日之前在期刊上发布并随后发表，代表了大流行应对的初始阶段。我们结合使用自动和手动注释来量化文章在预印本和发布版本之间的变化。我们发现预印本和已发表文章之间的图形面板和表格总数变化不大。此外，7.2% 的非 COVID-19 相关摘要和 17.2% 的 COVID-19 相关摘要的结论在发表时发生了离散的变化，但这些变化中的大多数并没有从质上改变论文的结论。在 COVID-19 大流行期间，生物医学科学的预印本以前所未有的速度发布和访问，但我们可以相信它们吗？这项研究表明，大流行前 4 个月内发表的大多数预印本与其已发表的版本具有可比性。
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. During the COVID-19 pandemic, preprints in the biomedical sciences are being posted and accessed at unprecedented rates, but can we trust them? This study reveals that the majority of preprints published within the first 4 months of the pandemic are comparable to their published version.
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