Abstract
Reviewers determined the preprint to be "potentially informative", highlighting the study's reliance on PCR testing without further confirmation of infection or inflammation and a lack of consideration of potential confounders.
Review 1: "Shining Light on the Dark Matter of Pertussis: Evidence for an Asymptomatic Carriage State from a Longitudinal Cohort of Mother/Infant Dyads"
2025
How this score is calculated
It is built from checkable properties of the record itself: whether the article has a DOI, how many independent sources confirmed its data, whether the required fields are filled in, and how recent the latest confirmation is. Disagreement between sources and a missing identifier lower it. A value of 80 or above means the record was published without further checking; 60 to 79 means it is published at reduced confidence, with a manual check advisable. A record verified by an editor by hand is never pushed below 90 by a recalculation. This scores our data about the article, not the article itself.