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

   This article has 13 authors:

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

   Reviewed by PREreview

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Botany and Geogenomics: constraining geological hypotheses with large-scale genetic data derived from plants

   This article has 1 author:

   1. Ana Maria Bedoya

   Reviewed by PREreview

7. Complex waste stream valorisation through combined enzymatic hydrolysis and catabolic assimilation by Pseudomonas putida

   This article has 7 authors:

   1. Guadalupe Alvarez-Gonzalez
   2. Micaela Chacόn
   3. Adokiye Berepiki
   4. Karl Fisher
   5. Piya Gosalvitr
   6. Rosa Cuéllar-Franca
   7. Neil Dixon

   Reviewed by PREreview

8. Differing structures of galactoglucomannan in eudicots and non-eudicot angiosperms

   This article has 8 authors:

   1. Konan Ishida
   2. Yusuke Ohba
   3. Yoshihisa Yoshimi
   4. Louis F. L. Wilson
   5. Alberto Echevarría-Poza
   6. Li Yu
   7. Hiroaki Iwai
   8. Paul Dupree

   Reviewed by PREreview

9. Optimization of extraction, Structural characterization of immunomodulatory acidic polysaccharide from Euphorbia caducifolia

   This article has 2 authors:

   1. Kusuma Venumadhav
   2. Kottapalli Seshagirirao

   Reviewed by PREreview

10. Identification and categorization of iterative preprints in the life sciences

    This article has 11 authors:

    1. Lonni Besançon
    2. Sheiliza Carmali
    3. Ashley A. Castelloe
    4. Roseline Dzekem Dine
    5. Debraj Manna
    6. Sudeepa Nandi
    7. Jessica Polka
    8. Iratxe Puebla
    9. Rebecca Shelley
    10. Ioannis Tsagakis
    11. Jonathon A Coates

    Reviewed by PREreview