A new study that surveyed 415 people who were presented with the results from a preprint study on COVID-19 found that 75 percent of them did not really understand what a preprint is. This research, ...
There has been a revolution in how scientific discoveries are being reported. More and more scientists and researchers are now uploading early drafts of their research papers to online repositories ...
Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...
A story on gender inequity in scientific research industries. A deep dive into the daily rhythms of the immune system. A look at vaccine effectiveness for Covid-19 variants. These are a few examples ...
A group of scientists, journal editors, and funders of research met recently to talk about a once-heretical idea: preprint publishing for biologists. The practice, of publishing manuscripts online ...
Academic research moves at a famously sluggish pace. It can often take well over a year between the time a paper is submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, and when that article is published. And then, ...
New research from the University of Georgia suggests most people don’t understand the difference between a preprint and a published academic journal article. Preprints are research papers that haven’t ...
The American Chemical Society’s (ACS’s) 2017 launch of ChemRxiv—a free, online preprint server designed specifically for the global chemical sciences community—has sparked renewed debate about the ...
The American Chemical Society announced earlier this month that it will create a chemistry preprint server to promote sharing of early scientific results. Preprint servers allow researchers to ...