Open AccessTo Print or Not to Print?
Author(s) -
Pierandrea Lo Nostro
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
substantia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2532-3997
DOI - 10.36253/substantia-1570
Subject(s) - upload , covid-19 , computer science , library science , world wide web , history , medicine , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
An interesting paper recently published in Peer J. by Enrique Teran and coworkers casts light on a peculiar side effect of the Covid-19 pandemic that concerns the quality of articles that appeared as preprints in archives or as regular papers in peer-reviewed scholarly journals.
The authors report a detailed perusal of the scientific publications related to research on Covid-19 in a portion of the year 2020.
What emerges from the study is that over the total number of preprints uploaded in the archives' servers, that are not subjected to a formal peer-review process, only about 5.7% were later converted into regular articles and published in scholarly journals after a regular peer-review process. The statistics is based on a global sample of 5,061 preprints uploaded in three different archives.