Department of Cancer Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Department of Immunobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
mBio. 2021 Mar 2;12(2):e00117-21. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00117-21.
The peer-reviewed scientific literature is the bedrock of science. However, scientific publishing is undergoing dramatic changes, which include the expansion of open access, an increased number of for-profit publication houses, and ready availability of preprint manuscripts that have not been peer reviewed. In this opinion article, we discuss the inequities and concerns that these changes have wrought.
同行评议的科学文献是科学的基石。然而,科学出版正在经历巨大的变革,其中包括开放获取的扩展、营利性出版社数量的增加,以及未经同行评议的预印本手稿的广泛可获得性。在这篇观点文章中,我们讨论了这些变化带来的不平等和担忧。