The survey was disseminated mostly via our social media and to our immediate circle of colleagues, and likely represents the opinions of scientists who have some knowledge about preprints.

Results

Our survey acquired data on the number of scientists that are willing to or are already hosting preprint JCs, and scientists’ opinions about preprint JCs, preprint commenting, and peer review training for early-career researchers (ECRs). We launched the survey during the Mozilla Global Sprint (1st - 2nd June, 2017) and broadened our reach through social media. We closed the survey with 102 respondents, mainly from Academia (Fig. 1).