The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape.
The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape.
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10.1371/journal.pbio.3000959
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发表时间：
2021-04
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影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Coates JA
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作者：
Fraser N;Brierley L;Dey G;Polka JK;Pálfy M;Nanni F;Coates JA
世界继续面临威胁生命的病毒大流行。自 2020 年 1 月以来，2019 冠状病毒病 (COVID-19) 的病毒——严重急性呼吸系统综合症冠状病毒 2 (SARS-CoV-2) 已导致超过 9800 万确诊病例和 220 万人死亡。尽管最近的呼吸道病毒大流行仅在十年前席卷全球，但科学运作和应对当前事件的方式在此期间经历了文化转变。科学界对 COVID-19 大流行做出了迅速反应，在首例确诊病例后 10 个月内发布了超过 125,000 篇与 COVID-19 相关的科学文章，其中 30,000 多篇由预印本服务器托管。我们将分析重点放在 bioRxiv 和 medRxiv 这两个不断增长的生物医学研究预印本服务器上，调查了 COVID-19 预印本的属性、它们的访问和使用率，以及它们在在线平台上传播的特征。我们的数据提供了科学和公众对与 COVID-19 相关的预印本的更多参与的证据（与非 COVID-19 预印本相比，COVID-19 预印本在各种在线平台上被访问、引用和分享的次数更多），以及记者和政策制定者使用预印本的变化。我们还发现了预印本和出版行为发生变化的证据：COVID-19 预印本更短，审核速度更快。我们的研究结果凸显了预印本和预印本服务器在传播 COVID-19 科学方面发挥的前所未有的作用以及该流行病对科学传播格局的影响。对 COVID-19 大流行前 10 个月内的 bioRxiv 和 medRxiv 的分析表明，大流行导致了使用预印本传播大流行相关科学的文化转变。
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. An analysis of bioRxiv and medRxiv during the first 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic reveals that the pandemic has resulted in a cultural shift in the use of preprints for disseminating pandemic-related science.
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