Preprints raise possibility of rethinking the peer-review process as they become more widely used and accepted
New article encourages their growing momentum and provides recommendations to empower researchers to provide open and constructive peer review for preprints
2024-02-29
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Preprints raise possibility of rethinking the peer-review process as they become more widely used and accepted – new article encourages their growing momentum and provides recommendations to empower researchers to provide open and constructive peer review for preprints
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In your coverage, please use this URL to provide access to the freely available paper in PLOS Biology: http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002502
Article Title: Recommendations for accelerating open preprint peer review to improve the culture of science
Author Countries: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Hong Kong, Belgium, Brazil
Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.
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