Increasing transparency and trust in preprints: Steps journals can take
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In recent years, posting research to preprint servers has become an increasingly popular practice across academic disciplines. Preprints enable scholars to stake their claim to research findings and more rapidly generate feedback and impacts. But with the benefits of preprints come challenges, mainly around determining the trustworthiness of unpublished works. How can scholars and the general public (especially the mainstream media) more easily distinguish quality preprints from questionable ones?
In this panel-style webinar, speakers discuss ways journals are bringing preprints into the publishing process to help distinguish unvetted papers from peer-reviewed ones, including:
- Making preprints part of the peer-review process to increase review transparency
- Publishing overlay journals that encompass peer-reviewed preprints
- Using preprints as a venue to make final research data and methods more visible
This webinar features the following panelists:
Pippa Smart
President and founder
PSP Consulting
Peter Coles
Editor in Chief
The Open Journal of Astrophysics
Michele Avissar-Whiting
Editor in Chief
Research Square
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