Peer review and preprint policies are unclear at most major journals

• Thomas Klebel,

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

  Affiliation Know-Center GmbH, Graz, Austria

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7331-4751

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• Stefan Reichmann,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1544-5064

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• Jessica Polka,

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

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

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

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• Gary McDowell,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lightoller LLC, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9470-3799

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• Naomi Penfold,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation eLife Sciences Publications Ltd, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0568-1194

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• Samantha Hindle,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3708-3546

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• Tony Ross-Hellauer

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tross@know-center.at

  Affiliation Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4470-7027

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