Timeline for How to find out if a preprint has been already published
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| Jan 11, 2021 at 12:29 | comment | added | Szabolcs | be a little more wary about blindly trusting the results I'd say be a lot more wary—I'm aware of preprints on arXiv which are fatally flawed, yet the only hint a casual reader would get is that they haven't been published in a peer-reviewed journal after many years. That said, I'm also aware of a non-trivial and useful result that only appears in a preprint, and has been excluded from the peer-reviewed version, even though it is perfectly correct. | |
| Jan 11, 2021 at 8:53 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | @Wolpertinger Done, thanks! | |
| Jan 11, 2021 at 8:53 | history | edited | Federico Poloni | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added "step zero" suggested by Wolpertinger
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| Jan 10, 2021 at 21:28 | comment | added | Wolpertinger | +1. Might be worth adding a step "zero", that is to check whether the preprint features a link to the published article. On arxiv, for example, authors can add such a link upon publication. | |
| Jan 10, 2021 at 12:29 | comment | added | lighthouse keeper | If it's in computer science, the go-to source in step 1 would be DBLP. | |
| Jan 10, 2021 at 12:16 | history | edited | Federico Poloni | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2021 at 11:57 | history | answered | Federico Poloni | CC BY-SA 4.0 |