Assessment of Preprint Policies of Top-Ranked Clinical Journals

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Jul 1;3(7):e2011127. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.11127.

Dorothy S Massey¹, Michelle A Opare¹, Joshua D Wallach², Joseph S Ross^{1

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4}, Harlan M Krumholz^{1

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¹ Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.
² Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
³ Section of General Medicine and the National Clinician Scholars Program, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁴ Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁵ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examines the preprint publication policies of 100 clinical journals with the highest impact factor.