Pandemic puts preprints first - As scientists attempt to speed up COVID-19 research, attention by the public and media has changed the way preprint servers and journals handle those papers

Title:
Pandemic puts preprints first

Author:
Andrea Widener

Published:
c&en, 7 June 2020
https://cen.acs.org/policy/publishing/Pandemic-puts-preprints-first/98/i22

From the article:
Preprint servers in almost all disciplines are seeing an influx of papers surrounding COVID-19, pushed by a need for speed during a global pandemic. Simultaneously, they are dealing with an immense increase in views from the public and nonscience media, who aren’t always familiar with what a preprint server is or how it is different from a research journal.