Preprints in Medicine: Useful or Harmful?

Frontiers in Medicine

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Bruno Bonnechère¹ 

[1] Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom;Public Health School, Université Libre de Bruxelles

关键词: preprint;    publications;    data repository;    public;    publication science;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fmed.2020.579100

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Research and its associated publications have had a considerable impact on the care and monitoring of the patients since evidence-based medicine became standard for modern medicine during the 1990s (1). Peer-reviewing is a fundamental component of scientific publication. The peer-review process first includes an evaluation of the quality and interest in the paper for the reader of the journal by the editor who, if he or she considers the article to be of interest, sends it to the external reviewers (2). If the paper is found to be interesting and of sufficient quality, the reviewers ask questions and make comments to which the researcher must respond in a rebuttal letter. If the answers are satisfactory, the article can be published. This is a time-consuming process, typically lasting months, and authors complain about the review time, which has been relatively stable since the 1980s (3).

【 授权许可】

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