'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says

A study tracking diamond open-access journals has found an increase in titles switching to other publishing models — especially over the past few years.

A personal, idiosyncratic, unabashedly biased, time-constrained attempt to capture the depth and breadth of the new packages submitted to CRAN in a single month.

Read on for early results and what we’ll be looking at in the next phase.

Many key questions in epidemiology are fundamentally causal. Yet, we often have to rely on assumptions that cannot be directly verified to judge whether an observed association truly reflects causalit...

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Have you heard the claim: “Posting a preprint will prevent subsequent publication in a peer-reviewed journal.” 🤔 This widespread fear—among early-career researchers—has deep historical roots, but…

The study quantified micro- and nanoplastic (MNP) exposure in young adults by analyzing whole-blood samples using pyrolysis gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (1). Lung function—specifically forced ...

An important part of our mission at openRxiv is to collaborate with other organizations to improve science communication and promote interoperability. Preprints are just one part of the research workflow, and we want to ensure they are effectively integrated with other research outputs in scientists’ workflows. Public datasets are a good example, since these serve…

Simple math suggests that small groups of scientists can significantly bias peer review.

Deciding which concepts should be described in causal language and which should not Research questions fall into one of three categories: descriptive, predictive, or causal.1 The past decade has seen...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are calling for a more harmonious approach.

Binary reject/accept peer review has become conflated with validation. The authors outline three myths sustaining this confusion and how we might escape it.