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Preprints are scientific papers that have been made available for general scrutiny prior to or alongside formal peer review and publication. Although preprinting has been a common mechanism for scientific critique and debate in some disciplines for many years, broader use and acceptance has been held back by concerns about the potential for loss of scientific priority and perceived risks of propagating misinformation. However, preprints hold great promise for accelerating scientific progress and discovery, and this potential has been realized during the COVID-19 pandemic for preprints in health and medical research. In an Editorial, Marcel LaFlamme and Raffaella Bosurgi discuss PLOS Medicine's evolving policy on preprint deposition.
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Citation: (2022) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 19(6) July 2022. PLoS Med 19(6): ev19.i06. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v19.i06
Published: July 1, 2022
Copyright: © 2022 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Preprints are scientific papers that have been made available for general scrutiny prior to or alongside formal peer review and publication. Although preprinting has been a common mechanism for scientific critique and debate in some disciplines for many years, broader use and acceptance has been held back by concerns about the potential for loss of scientific priority and perceived risks of propagating misinformation. However, preprints hold great promise for accelerating scientific progress and discovery, and this potential has been realized during the COVID-19 pandemic for preprints in health and medical research. In an Editorial, Marcel LaFlamme and Raffaella Bosurgi discuss PLOS Medicine's evolving policy on preprint deposition.
Image Credit: Si Janko Ferlič, Unsplash