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Together scientists and journalists can spot poor preprints

  1. James Fraser

    1. University of California, San Francisco, USA.

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  2. Jessica Polka

    1. ASAPbio, San Francisco, California, USA.

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Tom Sheldon’s concern that preprints might lead to poor research being overblown in the media is more likely to apply to the press releases circulated to journalists under embargo than to the preprints themselves (Nature 559, 445; 2018). Wherever they hear about a story, journalists are under the same obligation as scientists to critically review the work they intend to communicate to readers.

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Nature 560, 553 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06053-5

Competing Interests

Jessica Polka is employed by an organization (ASAPbio) promoting the productive use of preprints in the life sciences.

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