Increased Role of Preprint Servers in COVID-19 Research
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, preprint servers have played a significantly larger role due to the urgent need for researchers to share their findings. Because traditional publication takes time, more researchers are utilizing preprint servers to achieve critical fast dissemination, often advertising their non-peer-reviewed papers on social media platforms like Twitter. However, this highlights pre-existing concerns regarding the lack of a formal peer-review process prior to publication. There is an inevitable risk that non-peer-reviewed papers may disseminate unsound science, which is exceptionally consequential in COVID-19 research because it directly affects life-and-death public health outcomes.
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Increased Role of Preprint Servers in COVID-19 Research
Difficult to efficiently inform the research community about inappropriate results/findings
Repetition and contradiction in collaborative research
Published papers are static and don't get updated dynamically
Difficulties of multidisciplinary research collaboration
Time-consuming to self-judge many rapidly released papers
Marketing and subscription fees of journals
Personal ambitions and carrier incentives
Flaws in the published journal papers
Difficulty Informing the Public
Challenges with current research tools
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Finding a Consensus (problems in interdisciplinary work) topic sprint findings
Scientists are drowning in COVID-19 papers (cognitive overload) topic sprint findings
tweets about literature or literature (Science COVID Info)
communicating with public and politicians (Science COVID Info)
tools and methods that are helping (Science COVID Info)
Difficulty Communicating Scientific Criticisms
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