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This cross-sectional study assesses how frequently research articles published in the clinical journals with high impact factors are preprinted and whether preprinting is associated with changes in media attention and citation counts.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Krumholz reported being a cofounder of medRxiv; receiving options for Element Science and Identifeye; receiving personal fees from F-Prime; being a cofounder of and holding equity in Hugo Health, Refactor Health, and ENSIGHT-AI; and being associated with research contracts through Yale University from Janssen, Kenvue, and Pfizer outside the submitted work. Dr Ross reported being a cofounder of medRxiv; receiving research support through Yale University from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Johnson & Johnson, Arnold Ventures, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH); being a Deputy Editor at JAMA; and being an expert witness at the request of Relator’s attorneys (the Greene Law Firm) in a qui tam suit alleging violations of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute against Biogen Inc that was settled in September 2022 outside the submitted work. Dr Wallach reported receiving research support from Arnold Ventures, FDA, Johnson & Johnson through the Yale Open Data Access project, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the NIH and serving as a consultant to Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP and Dugan Law Firm APLC outside the submitted work. No other disclosures were reported.
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