Preprints and Open Peer Review
Exploring evolving models of research dissemination and review—and what they mean for science, scholarship, and society.
The use of preprints has grown rapidly, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic, but their uptake remains uneven, and many questions remain about their place in the research ecosystem and their implications. By combining qualitative and quantitative methods, our research traces how preprints move through different systems of validation, visibility, and interpretation—from submission and moderation to peer review, media coverage, and public understanding.
We examine how preprints are covered by journalists, how media attention to them has evolved over time, and how norms around reporting unreviewed research have shifted, especially during public health crises. We also explore how preprints are interpreted by the public, highlighting the challenges audiences face in making sense of research that has not undergone peer review.
Alongside this work on public engagement, we examine the infrastructures, practices, and values that shape the credibility of preprints both within scholarly communities. This includes research on moderation and certification, and how preprint servers apply quality control measures that intersect with, or diverge from, journal-based peer review. We also study how preprints are linked to journal publications and how these relationships shape perceptions of legitimacy. Finally, we investigate infrastructural issues such as metadata quality and versioning, and how inconsistencies in labelling or linking can affect transparency, discoverability, and trust.
Expanding on this work, we examine how peer review—particularly in open and transparent formats—shapes the trajectory and credibility of research shared in preprint form. We analyze what kinds of changes occur between preprints, submitted manuscripts, and final published versions; what happens to preprints that are not formally published; and how peer review reports, especially those made public, surface or miss key methodological, ethical, or interpretive issues. This work also explores how emerging peer review models are being implemented across journals and disciplines, and what they reveal about the shifting norms of scholarly publishing.
Our work contributes to a better understanding of how preprints and open peer review function in practice, and offers evidence to guide more thoughtful, responsible approaches to their use.
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