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Preprinting the COVID-19 pandemic
bioRxiv - Scientific Communication and Education Pub Date : 2021-02-05 , DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.22.111294
Nicholas Fraser , Liam Brierley , Gautam Dey , Jessica K Polka , Máté Pálfy , Federico Nanni , Jonathon Alexis Coates

The world continues to face a life-threatening viral pandemic. The virus underlying the COVID-19 disease, 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 paradigm 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, two 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 provides 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.

中文翻译:

预印COVID-19大流行

世界继续面临威胁生命的病毒大流行。自2020年1月以来,构成COVID-19疾病的病毒SARS-CoV-2已导致超过9,800万例确诊病例和220万例死亡。尽管最近的呼吸道病毒大流行仅在十年前才席卷全球,但科学的运作方式和对当前事件的响应在过渡期间经历了范式转变。科学界对COVID-19大流行作出了迅速反应,在首例确诊病例后的10个月内发布了125,000篇与COVID-19相关的科学文章,其中超过30,000篇由预印本服务器托管。我们将分析重点放在了bioRxiv和medRxiv(这两种用于生物医学研究的正在增长的预印服务器)上,研究了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的传播特征。我们的数据提供了证据,表明与COVID-19相关的预印本比其他COVID-19的预印本更具科学性和公众参与度(与非COVID-19的预印本相比,COVID-19的预印本在各种在线平台上的访问次数更多,引用次数更多,共享更多),以及记者和政策制定者使用预印本。我们还发现了预印和出版行为发生变化的证据:COVID-19的预印本更短,并且审核速度更快。我们的研究结果突显了预印本和预印本服务器在传播COVID-19科学中的空前作用,以及大流行对科学传播格局的影响。我们的数据提供了证据,表明与COVID-19相关的预印本比其他COVID-19的预印本更具科学性和公众参与度(与非COVID-19的预印本相比,COVID-19的预印本在各种在线平台上的访问次数更多,引用次数更多,共享更多),以及记者和政策制定者使用预印本。我们还发现了预印和出版行为发生变化的证据:COVID-19的预印本更短,并且审核速度更快。我们的研究结果突显了预印本和预印本服务器在传播COVID-19科学中的空前作用,以及大流行对科学传播格局的影响。我们的数据提供了证据,表明与COVID-19相关的预印本与非COVID-19相关的预印本相比,与COVID-19相关的预印本在科学和公众参与度方面的提高(与非COVID-19的预印本相比,COVID-19的预印本获得更多的访问,更多的引用和更多的共享),以及记者和政策制定者使用预印本。我们还发现了预印和出版行为发生变化的证据:COVID-19的预印本更短,并且审核速度更快。我们的研究结果突显了预印本和预印本服务器在传播COVID-19科学中的空前作用,以及大流行对科学传播格局的影响。我们还发现了预印和出版行为发生变化的证据:COVID-19的预印本更短,并且审核速度更快。我们的研究结果突显了预印本和预印本服务器在传播COVID-19科学中的空前作用,以及大流行对科学传播格局的影响。我们还发现了预印和出版行为发生变化的证据:COVID-19的预印本更短,并且审核速度更快。我们的研究结果突显了预印本和预印本服务器在传播COVID-19科学中的空前作用,以及大流行对科学传播格局的影响。
更新日期:2021-02-05
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