In:
PLOS Biology, Public Library of Science (PLoS), Vol. 20, No. 2 ( 2022-2-1), p. e3001285-
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.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1545-7885
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.g001
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.g002
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.g003
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.g004
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.t001
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.t002
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.s001
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.s002
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.s003
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.s004
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.s005
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.s006
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.s007
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.s008
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.s009
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.s010
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.s011
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.s012
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.s013
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.s014
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.s015
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.s016
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.r001
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.r002
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.r003
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.r004
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.r005
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001285.r006
Language:
English
Publisher:
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Publication Date:
2022
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