PREreview

Latest preprint reviews

1. Secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor protects against severe urinary tract infection in mice

   This article has 11 authors:

   1. Anne L. Rosen
   2. Michael A. Lint
   3. Dayne H. Voelker
   4. Nicole M. Gilbert
   5. Christopher P. Tomera
   6. Jesús Santiago-Borges
   7. Meghan A. Wallace
   8. Thomas J. Hannan
   9. Carey-Ann D. Burnham
   10. Scott J. Hultgren
   11. Andrew L. Kau

   Reviewed by PREreview, Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

2. Caveolin-1 mediates neuroinflammation and cognitive impairment in SARS-CoV-2 infection

   This article has 5 authors:

   1. Troy N. Trevino
   2. Avital B. Fogel
   3. Richard Minshall
   4. Justin M. Richner
   5. Sarah E. Lutz

   Reviewed by Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases, PREreview

3. A bioactive peptide from the pearl has dual roles in resisting SARS-CoV-2 infection and its complications

   This article has 9 authors:

   1. Xiaojun Liu
   2. Yayu Wang
   3. Zehui Yin
   4. Qin Wang
   5. Xinjiani Chen
   6. Bailei Li
   7. Liping Yao
   8. Zhen Zhang
   9. Rongqing Zhang

   Reviewed by PREreview

4. Brain-targeted autoimmunity is strongly associated with Long COVID and its chronic fatigue syndrome as well as its affective symptoms

   This article has 5 authors:

   1. Abbas F. Almulla
   2. Michael Maes
   3. Bo Zhou
   4. Hussein K. Al-Hakeim
   5. Aristo Vojdani

   Reviewed by PREreview, Rapid Reviews Infectious Diseases

5. Evolutionary dynamics in non-Markovian models of microbial populations

   This article has 3 authors:

   1. Farshid Jafarpour
   2. Ethan Levien
   3. Ariel Amir

   Reviewed by PREreview

6. A Ralstonia solanacearum type III effector alters the actin and microtubule cytoskeleton to promote bacterial virulence in plants

   This article has 12 authors:

   1. Rachel Hiles
   2. Abigail Rogers
   3. Namrata Jaiswal
   4. Weiwei Zhang
   5. Jules Butchacas
   6. Marcus V. Merfa
   7. Taylor Klass
   8. Erica Kaser
   9. Jonathan M. Jacobs
   10. Christopher J. Staiger
   11. Matthew Helm
   12. Anjali S. Iyer-Pascuzzi

   Reviewed by PREreview

7. The title and authors for this article are not available from our external data provider yet:
   10.5281/zenodo.8203351

8. Describing the landscape of medical education preprints on medRxiv

   This article has 3 authors:

   1. Lauren A. Maggio
   2. Joseph A. Costello
   3. Anthony R. Artino

   Reviewed by PREreview

9. Preprint review services: Disrupting the scholarly communication landscape?

   This article has 4 authors:

   1. Susana Oliveira Henriques
   2. Narmin Rzayeva
   3. Stephen Pinfield
   4. Ludo Waltman

   This article has been curated by 1 group:

   • Curated by MetaROR

     The authors present a descriptive analysis of preprint review services. The analysis focuses on the services’ relative characteristics and differences in preprint review management. The authors conclude that such services have the potential to improve the traditional peer review process. Two metaresearchers reviewed the article. They note that the background section and literature review are current and appropriate, the methods used to search for preprint servers are generally sound and sufficiently detailed to allow for reproduction, and the discussion related to anonymizing articles and reviews during the review process is useful. The reviewers also offered suggestions for improvement. They point to terminology that could be clarified. They suggest adding URLs for each of the 23 services included in the study. Other suggestions include explaining why overlay journals were excluded, clarifying the limitation related to including only English-language platforms, archiving rawer input data to improve reproducibility, adding details related to the qualitative text analysis, discussing any existing empirical evidence about misconduct as it relates to different models of peer review, and improving field inclusiveness by avoiding conflation of “research” and “scientific research.”

     The reviewers and I agree that the article is a valuable contribution to the metaresearch literature related to peer review processes.

   Reviewed by MetaROR, PREreview

10. Comprehensive analysis of gene regulatory dynamics, fitness landscape, and population evolution during sexual reproduction

    This article has 2 authors:

    1. Kenji Okubo
    2. Kunihiko Kaneko

    Reviewed by PREreview