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Latest preprint reviews

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. An Inception Cohort Study Quantifying How Many Registered Studies are Published

   This article has 2 authors:

   1. Eline Noëlle Fleur Ensinck
   2. Daniel Lakens

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9. The wheat powdery mildew resistance gene Pm4 also confers resistance to wheat blast

   This article has 19 authors:

   1. Tom O’Hara
   2. Andrew Steed
   3. Rachel Goddard
   4. Kumar Gaurav
   5. Sanu Arora
   6. Jesús Quiroz-Chávez
   7. Ricardo Ramírez-González
   8. Roshani Badgami
   9. David Gilbert
   10. Javier Sánchez-Martín
   11. Luzie Wingen
   12. Cong Feng
   13. Mei Jiang
   14. Shifeng Cheng
   15. Susanne Dreisigacker
   16. Beat Keller
   17. Brande B.H. Wulff
   18. Cristóbal Uauy
   19. Paul Nicholson

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10. A novel sustained release therapy of combined VEGF and TNF-α inhibitors leads to pan-ocular protection for months after severe ocular trauma

    This article has 8 authors:

    1. Chengxin Zhou
    2. Fengyang Lei
    3. Pui-Chuen Hui
    4. Natalie Wolkow
    5. Claes H. Dohlman
    6. Demetrios G. Vavvas
    7. James Chodosh
    8. Eleftherios I. Paschalis

    Reviewed by PREreview