Internal medicine

Disease

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

World Wide Web

Outbreak

Virology

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Computer science

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Preprint

Medicine

Nature Medicine

Medical discoveries have been shared at an unprecedented pace during the COVID-19 pandemic, but so have fraudulent studies, which has led to worries about scientific integrity.

Rise of the preprint: how rapid data sharing during COVID-19 has changed science forever