There has been a revolution in how scientific discoveries are being reported. More and more scientists and researchers are now uploading early drafts of their research papers to online repositories ...

A new study that surveyed 415 people who were presented with the results from a preprint study on COVID-19 found that 75 percent of them did not really understand what a preprint is. This research, ...

A group of scientists, journal editors, and funders of research met recently to talk about a once-heretical idea: preprint publishing for biologists. The practice, of publishing manuscripts online ...

COVID-19 changed the way public policy experts, the healthcare industry and journalists covering the pandemic weighed the value of clinical studies that had not yet been peer-reviewed, a new analysis ...

Academic research moves at a famously sluggish pace. It can often take well over a year between the time a paper is submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, and when that article is published. And then, ...

New research from the University of Georgia suggests most people don’t understand the difference between a preprint and a published academic journal article. Preprints are research papers that haven’t ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Research findings posted online as preprints—studies made public before undergoing the review and approval of a panel of peer scientists required by most scholarly journals—often hold up quite well to ...

A story on gender inequity in scientific research industries. A deep dive into the daily rhythms of the immune system. A look at vaccine effectiveness for Covid-19 variants. These are a few examples ...

Jonathan Read admits to being something of a dinosaur when it comes to publishing his work. An epidemiologist at Lancaster University in the UK, Read had always followed the old ways—submit to a ...