Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools.

743 ChemRN 1,067 ChemRxiv Total number of preprints posted to these servers in their first 17 months. For comparison, bioRxiv had 1,385 preprints within its first 17 months. 59% ...

Preprints by authors in high-income nations, by comparison, were published as papers roughly 61% of the time. “We don’t know why this is,” says Bandrowski.

This study presents a valuable comparison of the efficiency and precision of two prime editing methods to introduce single-nucleotide variants and longer exogenous DNA sequences into the zebrafish ...

The efficiencies with which activated B lymphocytes proliferate and develop into antibody (Ab)- secreting plasma cells are critical determinants of adaptive humoral immunity and central to sustaining ...

COVID-19 preprints were viewed 18.2 times and downloaded 27.1 times more than non-COVID preprints posted during that same ten-month period, which shows that they’ve been highly useful during the ...

By manually comparing the preprints to their peer reviewed, published, versions we show that over 83% of COVID-19 and 93% of non-COVID preprints are reliable and trustworthy.” ##### ...

Preprints were originally developed so individuals in the physical sciences could share their work before peer review. The first such server was established in 1991 at the Los Alamos National ...

There is value in making preprints available alongside versions of record, Polka said. “There are good reasons to cite preprints even when a VOR is available. Information can be removed from a ...

My colleagues and I reported this month that researchers shared more than 35 percent of the early COVID-19 literature as preprints. But scientists aren’t the only people who have turned to preprints; ...