Data: Experience with Posting Preprints During the COVID-19 Pandemic
GESIS, Cologne. Data File Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/2552
Other Title (type): COVID-19 and the effect of preprints on scientific communication (Projekttitel)
Abstract: During the COVID-19 pandemic, it became much more important for many researchers in the life science to disseminate preliminary versions of their results from one day to the next. This kind of “saving the world” feeling led to a search for ways to circumvent the lengthy publication procedures for journal articles, and many researchers decided to post preprints as an upstream publication option. This was a new phenomenon in the life sciences, so it is interesting to study this development and find out whether this is a temporary phenomenon or the beginning of a cultural change in publishing beh ... more Availability: Free access (without registration)
License: CC BY 4.0: Namensnennung (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.de)
Subject area: [Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie [=] Informationswissenschaft]
Methodology
Date(s) of Data Collection: 2022-09-14; 2022-09-30
Universe: researcher who deposited preprints on COVID-19 on the preprint servers bioRxiv, medRxiv, Research Square
Mode of Data Collection: Self-administered questionnaire:CAWI(Computer-assisted web interviewing)
Bibliographic information
Primärforschende, Institution: Biesenbender, Kristin; ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
Publication year: 2023
DOI: 10.7802/2552
Study number: SDN-10.7802-2552
Contributor, Institution, Role: [Toepfer, Ralf; ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (Projektbeteiligte/r) [=] Peters, Isabella; ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (Projektleitung)]
Project funder: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Publisher: GESIS, Cologne
Versions
Current Version: 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/2552
