@article{fraser_evolving_2021,
	title = {The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of {COVID}-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape},
	volume = {19},
	issn = {1545-7885},
	url = {https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000959},
	doi = {10.1371/journal.pbio.3000959},
	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.},
	language = {en},
	number = {4},
	urldate = {2022-09-08},
	journal = {PLOS Biology},
	author = {Fraser, Nicholas and Brierley, Liam and Dey, Gautam and Polka, Jessica K. and Pálfy, Máté and Nanni, Federico and Coates, Jonathon Alexis},
	month = apr,
	year = {2021},
	note = {Publisher: Public Library of Science},
	keywords = {Altmetrics, COVID 19, Metadata, Pandemics, Peer review, SARS CoV 2, Scientific publishing, Twitter},
	pages = {e3000959},
}

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