Research Square, a multidisciplinary publishing platform for preprints, has surpassed 50,000 submissions since its debut in October 2018.
Preprints, which are scholarly manuscripts published before they are formally peer-reviewed, exploded at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the science and publishing community began using preprint servers to share large volumes of research as quickly and broadly as possible.
Within the first 18 months of Research Square’s launch, the platform averaged about 1,100 preprint submissions per month. In the past six months alone, as COVID-19 research took off, that average swelled to nearly 5,000 preprint submissions per month.
The explosive growth is attributed to Research Square’s unique ‘In Review’ integration, whereby researchers can post preprints automatically while submitting to one of more than 300 participating Springer Nature journals.
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