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  organization: ASAPbio, Cambridge, United Kingdom
article:
  elocation-id: preprints-a-tool
  volume: 2
author:
- Iratxe Puebla
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  link: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
  text: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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date:
  day: 30
  month: 12
  year: 2020
journal:
  eissn: 2670-3815
  publisher-name: Publishers of Trial and Error
  title: Journal for Reproducibility in Neuroscience
link-citations: true
title: "Preprints: a tool and a vehicle towards greater reproducibility
  in the life sciences"
uri: "https://jrn.trialanderror.org/pub/preprints-a-tool"
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# **Abstract**

We have seen a number of initiatives arise in recent years aiming to
tackle concerns around the reproducibility of published findings.
Researchers in the life sciences now have a number of tools at their
disposal to boost the reproducibility of their science and preprints
have emerged as an instrumental element within this toolkit. Preprints
broaden the when, by whom and how of the review and feedback on research
compared to the journal publication process, help address publication
bias, and can play an important role as a vehicle towards open science
practices. Preprints hold further untapped potential to close the gap
between discovery and dissemination, and to accelerate the path to a
more reproducible research ecosystem.

**Keywords: ***preprints, reproducibility, open science, publication
bias, peer review*

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