Media coverage

The following are a collection of links to various media outlets covering or mentioning our work investigating the role of preprints in the COVID-19 pandemic, Preprinting the COVID-19 pandemic and Preprints in motion:

‘Preliminary research’ on COVID has been surprisingly solid Popular Science

Preprints on the coronavirus have been impressively reliable The Economist

Discussion of how pandemic preprints change upon publication Science in Action, BBC World Service

A Surge in Pandemic Research Shines a Spotlight on Preprints The Scientist

How Science Moved Beyond Peer Review During The Pandemic FiveThirtyEight

Opinion: The Rise of Preprints Is No Cause for Alarm The Scientist

Preprints: how draft academic papers have become essential in the fight against COVID The Conversation

Rise of the preprint: how rapid data sharing during COVID-19 has changed science forever Nature Medicine

Preprints ‘largely unchanged’ by peer review, even during Covid Times Higher Education

Corona-Preprint-Studien: Wie gut sind wissenschaftliche Vorab-Veröffentlichungen? Forschungsergebnisse

Preprints halten Überprüfung meist stand ORF

How different are preprints from their published versions? Two studies have some answers The Journalists Resource

Covid-19 changes the face of preprints Research Professional

How pandemic-driven preprints are driving open scrutiny of research Horizon

How preprints accelerated science communication during the pandemic QMUL

Rush to Publish Risks Undermining COVID-19 Research Inside Higher Ed

Problems with Preprints: Covering Rough-Draft Manuscripts Responsibly The Open Notebook

Fast Science: Vetting Rapid Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic Innovative Genomics Blog

For Better or Worse, COVID-19 Put Science Research in Front of More People Than Ever Science Alert

Science publishing has opened up during the coronavirus pandemic. It won’t be easy to keep it that way The Conversation

In the rush for coronavirus information, unreviewed scientific papers are being publicized The Conversation

The Wild World Of Preprinted Science Forbes

Will the pandemic permanently alter scientific publishing? Nature News Feature

Coronavirus crowds out other research papers Nature Index

A shot in the arm Research Professional

Covidpreprints.com website eurekalert

Why You Need to Know About Preprints Psychology Today

Other media appearances & writing

Lab leaders wrestle with paucity of postdocs Nature

How Different Are Preprints from their Published Versions? Research Square