Reliability of citations of medRxiv preprints in articles published on COVID-19 in the world leading medical journals.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Preprints have been widely cited during the COVID-19 pandemics, even in the major medical journals. However, since subsequent publication of preprint is not always mentioned in preprint repositories, some may be inappropriately cited or quoted. Our objectives were to assess the reliability of preprint citations in articles on COVID-19, to the rate of publication of preprints cited in these articles and to compare, if relevant, the content of the preprints to their published version.

Methods

Articles published on COVID in 2020 in the BMJ, The Lancet, the JAMA and the NEJM were manually screened to identify all articles citing at least one preprint from medRxiv. We searched PubMed, Google and Google Scholar to assess if the preprint had been published in a peer-re

SUBMITTER: Gehanno JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9365132 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature