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. 2020 Nov 10;324(18):1903-1905.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.17529.

Submissions and Downloads of Preprints in the First Year of medRxiv

Harlan M Krumholz  1 , Theodora Bloom  2 , Richard Sever  3 , Claire Rawlinson  2 , John R Inglis  3 , Joseph S Ross  4
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Submissions and Downloads of Preprints in the First Year of medRxiv

Harlan M Krumholz et al. JAMA. .

Abstract

This study describes submissions, postings, abstract views, downloads, comments, and withdrawals on the medRxiv preprint server from June 2019 to June 2020 and compares submissions and postings before and after COVID-19.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: All authors reported being cofounders of medRxiv. Dr Krumholz reported that he has contracts through Yale New Haven Hospital with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to support quality measurement programs and through Yale with UnitedHealth Group to engage in collaborative research. He was a recipient of a research grant, through Yale, from Medtronic for data sharing, from the US Food and Drug Administration to develop methods for postmarket surveillance of medical devices, from Johnson & Johnson to support data sharing, and from the Shenzhen Center for Health Information for work to advance intelligent disease prevention and health promotion. He is an advisor to the National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases in Beijing, was an expert witness the Arnold & Porter Law Firm for work related to the Sanofi clopidogrel litigation, and is an expert witness for the Martin/Baughman Law Firm for work related to the Cook Celect IVC filter litigation and related to C. R. Bard Recovery IVC filter litigation and for the Siegfried and Jensen Law Firm for work related to Vioxx litigation. He chairs a cardiac scientific advisory board for UnitedHealth; was a member of the IBM Watson Health Life Sciences Board; is a member of the advisory board for Element Science, the healthcare advisory board for Facebook, and the physician advisory board for Aetna. He is the cofounder of HugoHealth, a personal health information platform, and cofounder of Refactor Health, an enterprise health care artificial intelligence–augmented data management company. He is a venture partner at F-Prime. Dr Bloom reported chairing the scientific advisory board of EMBL-EBI Literature Services, being on the Board of Managers of AIP Publishing, and being European coordinator for the Peer Review Congress. Dr Bloom and Ms Rawlinson are employed full time by BMJ. Dr Sever reported being the assistant director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press and a director of Life Science Alliance LLC. Dr Inglis reported being the executive director and publisher of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, a director of Life Science Alliance LLC, and a member of the advisory board of MIT Press. Dr Ross reported receiving research support through Yale University from Johnson & Johnson and from the US Food and Drug Administration, Medical Devices Innovation Consortium/National Evaluation System for Health Technology, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and Laura and John Arnold Foundation.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. medRxiv Submissions From Launch Through June 30, 2020
Unposted manuscripts are those that were screened and not posted on the preprint server. Posted plus unposted manuscripts together represent total submissions.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. medRxiv Use, as Measured by Abstract Views and Downloads, From Launch Through June 30, 2020
Source: medRxiv.
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