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Finding preprints for Covid-19 and Sars-CoV-2

30. March 2020 | Martina Gosteli | Keine Kommentare |

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See also blogpost on published articles on Covid-19 / Sars-CoV-2

The quality of scientific work aims to be ensured by an external assessment, the so-called peer review. However, this procedure takes a lot of time. In the current situation, physicians and researchers want to gain potentially important insights as quickly as possible. Thus, already written, but not yet published works (preprints) become more important.

Attention: Preprints are not yet published articles and must always be critically evaluated, as they have not yet been peer reviewed.

Possible sources for preprints on Covid-19/Sars-CoV-2:

  • Preprints from medRxiv and bioRxiv (preprint servers for health science and biology) and from chemRxiv (chemistry)
  • Preprints from medicine, natural sciences and technology are listed on ResearchSquare.
  • Preprints.org: interdisciplinary platform for preprints. Unfortunately, it is not possible to sort by date (recent first).
  • OSF Preprints (Open Science Framework) aggregates the search results of its own preprint server with a variety of other preprint providers such as arXiv, bioRxiv, PeerJ, CogPrints and more.
  • Outbreak Science Rapid PREreview is a platform for open, rapid reviews of outbreak-related preprints.

Covid-19 topic lists:

medRxivResearchSquareother sources*
therapytherapytherapy
remdesivirremdesivirremdesivir
chloroquinechloroquinechloroquine
lopinavir/ritonavirlopinavir/ritonavirlopinavir/ritonavir
favipiravirfavipiravirfavipiravir

* *other sources: preprints.org, OSF Preprints, arXiv

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