Aquino-Jarquin Guillermo, Valencia-Reyes Josefina de Monserrat, Silva-Carmona Abraham, Granados-Riverón Javier Tadeo
Laboratorio de Investigación en Genómica, Genética y Bioinformática, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez. Ciudad de México, México.
Servicio de Patología, Hospital General de México. Ciudad de México, México.
Gac Med Mex. 2018;154(1):87-91. doi: 10.24875/GMM.17002770.
The peer-review system has allowed the quality control of the manuscripts submitted for publication to scientific journals for over three centuries. However, due to its relative slowness and other drawbacks, some researchers, mainly in the areas of Physics and Mathematics, started some decades ago to propagate, by electronic means, manuscripts not yet submitted to a journal for formal publication. The dissemination of this practice led to the establishment of permanent repositories like ArXiv, to which preprints can be sent to be published whitou charge, allowing also the search and download of the works they contain with no payment required from the reader. In biomedical sciences, the adoption of the system has been slower than in the exact sciences and previous attempts like e-biomed, Netprints, and Nature Precedings did not prosper. A new generation of repositories like bioRXiv, inspired by ArXiv, seems to enjoy an increasing acceptance among biomedical researchers. Here, we discuss the potential role of this emerging system to establish discovery priority in biomedicine and to improve manuscripts before they are submitted to scientific journals besides other applications which could be implemented in the extent that the model becomes more popular.
同行评审系统已经对提交给科学期刊发表的稿件进行质量控制长达三个多世纪了。然而，由于其相对缓慢以及其他缺点，一些研究人员，主要是物理和数学领域的，几十年前就开始通过电子方式传播尚未提交给期刊进行正式发表的稿件。这种做法的传播导致了像ArXiv这样的永久知识库的建立，预印本可以免费发送到这里发表，读者也可以免费搜索和下载其中包含的作品。在生物医学领域，该系统的采用比精确科学领域要慢，之前像e-biomed、Netprints和Nature Precedings这样的尝试都没有成功。受ArXiv启发，像bioRXiv这样的新一代知识库似乎在生物医学研究人员中越来越受到认可。在此，我们讨论这个新兴系统在生物医学中确立发现优先权以及在稿件提交给科学期刊之前对其进行改进方面的潜在作用，此外还讨论了在该模式变得更流行的情况下可以实施的其他应用。
