NY Times Op-Ed calls for wider use of preprints
In their September 17 opinion piece, “Don’t Delay News of Medical Breakthroughs,” Eric Topol and Harlan Krumholz call for rapid publication of scientific results.
Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) announced
A group of NIH authors have released a new article-level metric called the RCR, which normalizes an article’s citations to those in its network. http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/10/22/029629
“Accelerating Publication in Biology” published in PNAS
Ron Vale’s article detailing changes in communicating biomedical science and the potential benefits of the widespread use of preprints is now available at PNAS. The article previously appeared as a preprint on BiorXiv.