The American Chemical Society announced earlier this month that it will create a chemistry preprint server to promote sharing of early scientific results. Preprint servers allow researchers to ...

AI-generated slop has shown up everywhere, including in the peer-reviewed literature. Fake citations, unedited prompt responses, and nonsensical diagrams have all slipped past editors and peer ...

Two chemistry preprint servers have been launched in the past few weeks. ACS launched a beta version of ChemRxiv, a preprint server for the chemistry community, last week. ChemRxiv has been developed ...

The American Chemical Society’s (ACS’s) 2017 launch of ChemRxiv—a free, online preprint server designed specifically for the global chemical sciences community—has sparked renewed debate about the ...

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 ...

Yale University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), and publisher BMJ today announced the forthcoming launch of medRxiv [pronounced "med-archive"], a free online archive and distribution service ...

Unreviewed research platforms are inadvertently hosting debunked theories about race and genetics. A recent analysis reveals ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. Main homepage of the preprint server bioRxiv. Screenshot from the bioRxiv homepage. bioRxiv and medRxiv, the well-known ...

When Albert-László Barabási, a computational scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, submitted a paper to the preprint server bioRxiv last month, he received an unexpected ...

The COVID-19 pandemic saw an explosion in publication of preprint articles, many by authors who had never produced one before. Now it seems a high proportion of these scientists are likely to continue ...