The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape

• Nicholas Fraser ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas Fraser, Liam Brierley

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Kiel, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7582-6339

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• Liam Brierley ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas Fraser, Liam Brierley

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Data Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3026-4723

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• Gautam Dey,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations MRC Lab for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL, London, United Kingdom, Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1416-6223

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• Jessica K. Polka,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ASAPbio, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6610-9293

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• Máté Pálfy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Company of Biologists, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2532-9438

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• Federico Nanni,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Alan Turing Institute, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2484-4331

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• Jonathon Alexis Coates

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jonathon.coates@qmul.ac.uk

  Affiliations Hughes Hall College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, William Harvey Research Institute, Charterhouse Square Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9039-9219

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