Abstract
Tom Sheldon’s article published in July 2018 entitled ‘Preprints could promote confusion and distortion’ generated some heated debate and responses in both social media and the scientific literature. Here we present some thoughts and views from the Microbiology Society, a not for-profit membership charity for scientists interested in microbes and the publisher of a number of international peer-reviewed journals.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1841-1843 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| Early online date | 02 Apr 2019 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jul 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Citable preprints allow authors to establish priority for the work they have done by providing a public record. This is so well accepted that most funding bodies, including UKRI [19], Wellcome [20] and the US National Institutes of Health [21], allow researchers to cite preprints in their grant applications.
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Keywords
- Editorial policy
- Peer review
- Preprints
- Social media
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Microbiology
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics