This is a video of, "Preprints: Beneficial or harmful for research integrity and publication ethics? A debate", held at the World Conference on Research Integrity in Hong Kong in June 2019. Description
Preprints are now more and more common, and -- while small in overall numbers compared with journal articles – they are growing at a staggering rate. Preprint servers are also proliferating across research disciplines, and at the time of writing this abstract new preprint serves for medical and health sciences are about to be launched. It is unknown whether open discussions on early research is beneficial in terms of critiquing and improving ongoing research or whether there is potential harm in publishing unsubstantiated and non-peer-reviewed findings, especially in the health and medical fields. However, the arguments for speed and for putting control in the hands of research authors are compelling. This session will lay the groundwork about preprints for people who are less familiar with preprints, present COPE’s work on ethical standards for preprints, and then launch a pro-con debate to explore and discuss the integrity and ethics issues.
Convener Chris Graf, COPE; and Wiley
Speakers
John Inglis, bioRxiv; and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Heather Tierney, COPE; and American Chemical Society
Debbie Sweet, Cell Press, Elsevier
Howard Browman, COPE; and Institute of Marine Research, Austevoll Research Station
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