In times of public crises, including the current COVID-19 pandemic, rapid dissemination of
relevant scientific knowledge is of paramount importance. The duration of scholarly journals' …

Populist protests against Coronavirus-related restrictions in the US appear paradoxical in
three respects. Populism is generally hostile to expertise, yet it has flourished at a moment …

Esforços de síntese de evidências vêm apontando para o avanço das formas organizadas
de desinformação e negação do conhecimento científico sobre a mudança climática global …

Covid-19, the greatest global health crisis for a century, brought a new immediacy and
urgency to international bio-medical research. The pandemic generated intense competition …

Many scientists share preprints on social media platforms to gain attention from academic
peers, policy-makers, and journalists. In this study we shed light on an unintended but highly …

The goal of the open access (OA) movement is to help everyone access scholarly research,
not just those who can afford to. However, most studies looking at whether OA has met this …

A wide array of existing metrics quantifies a scientific paper's prominence or the author's
prestige. Many who use these metrics make assumptions that higher citation counts or more …

Purpose It is unclear whether regional rather than global or discipline-focussed preprint
platforms as an innovation in the communication of science are removing any of the barriers …