Questions tagged [preprint]
Questions regarding making manuscripts available prior to their publication in a peer-reviewed source.
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Plagarsim check [duplicate]
Could your own preprints of the same paper on arXiv and other sites be considered as plagiarism when the journal checks this paper using, for example, Turnitin plagiarism program?
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Question about arXiv replacement restriction and contacting moderators
Background: I submitted an article (denoted by A) on arXiv half a year ago and have replaced it several times later. Due to frequent replacements, one of my further replacements is removed, and I'm ...
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Posting commentary papers to preprint repositories
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We noticed a problematic but influential preprint, wrote a commentary paper to criticize and rebut it, but were not able to post the comment to any public preprint repository. In this ...
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How to add ResearchGate preprints manually to google scholar?
Is there any way of adding my ResearchGate preprints manually on Google Scholar? If no, will Google Scholar automatically add it to my scholar profile? Can other authors cite my ResearchGate preprints?...
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Does posting a preprint to the arXiv reduce the chances to acceptance? [duplicate]
Depending on the submission journal, there may be some explicit rules allowing or forbidding the posting of a preprint before the peer review process is complete. However, for those journals that don'...
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What happens to preprints after the information contained in them gets published in a peer-reviewed journal?
My question is whether preprints continue to exist after the information contained in them gets published in a journal. It would be confusing to have two sources for the same information (the preprint ...
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Can I post on Arxiv a final paper published on PLOS ONE?
Can I post on Arxiv a final paper published on PLOS ONE? I would like to put on Arxiv the final edited paper, replacing the old pre-print. Can I do that?
I am wondering if this violates any rule of ...
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What is the “initial screen” for displaying a journal's copyright?
I submitted my first journal paper to IEEE today, and when I considered posting it on ArXiv just to be safe from scooping, I noticed that IEEE has a policy for submitted content, which does not ...
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Uploading acepted ACL paper to arXiv
I have written an accepted paper for the 2020 Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). While uploading the final version, I agreed to this copyright statement:
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What's the difference between a preprint and a working paper?
I'd always thought they were completely the same, but I saw a twitter thread in which this was questioned.
I mean here "working paper" only in its scholarly sense - I'm aware that the term has other ...
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Simultaneously submitting, one paper got rejected, other didn’t - what to do?
There is a result R and teams T and U.
Team T submitted into a journal result R, but not on Arxiv. Team U then submitted result R to Arxiv, without knowing about the submission of Team T. Team U also ...
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Why do some researchers publish preprints? [duplicate]
Why do some researchers publish preprints? I am not a scientist but asked this on a medicine professor. He said that it would be bad for a scientist's career if he or she publishes a preprint and ...
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What are the implications of submitting a paper to be graded and to arxiv preprint on the same day?
I submitted my paper to be graded in a university class and to the arvix preprint on the same day. Are there any implications for the grading professor and myself if the arxiv preprint is announced ...
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Are 'please cite my paper' emails socially accepted?
I am a PhD student in physics. A few months ago, I submitted a paper (which has meanwhile been accepted, but not yet published). The preprint is on arXiv.
Now, I saw that a few days ago, another ...
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Are arXiv papers more read than the journal versions? [closed]
I have a conference paper which is published at IEEE with some errors unfortunately. But I have submitted a version on ArXiv without the errors.
As a researcher, I honestly prefer reading versions on ...
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Repository or university working paper series
I am from the field of economics and preprints are ok with econ journals. I just cannot understand what is the difference between repository (like ArXiv) and publishing results in some working paper ...
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What's Normal Distribution Time for SSRN?
I've submitted two papers to the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). One paper was approved within a week and the other has been In Process for two weeks. This isn't problematic, but I'm curious ...
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Google Scholar preprint bug. What if preprint is posted after the journal paper?
Most of you probably know the Google Scholar preprint bug: if you upload a preprint and then you publish your work on a journal, GS won't find it.
Let's suppose that I already published my journal ...
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Asking a colleague for his submitted paper
A colleague just told me about a paper he submitted to a conference, I'd love to have a look at his work out of curiosity.
How can I ask without him thinking I'm off to steal his ideas or something?
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Will submitting to viXra before being accepted by arXiv cause me to be blacklisted by arXiv?
I'm in a position where I will have fairly inconsequential work to publish soon. I'm working in the blockchain space, where it is common for whitepapers to be posted on individual websites or github.
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Can a first author of a pre-print be demoted in the version sent to a journal?
Can a PI decide to submit to a journal a previously agreed manuscript, uploaded to a pre-print server, and swap the first author with someone else after introducing some changes in the writing? Would ...
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Impact factors of preprint repositories
I'm wondering if the growing catalogue of preprint repositories have known 'impact factors' similar to those of popular print journals. If so, can anyone highlight them?
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Working on the arXiv version of a published paper, how should I cite?
As part of a research project, I use results from this paper. It seems to have been published at least 3 times:
as an arXiv preprint from January 2012
in a Springer book from 2012
in another Springer ...
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Where to draw the line between preprint and author-submitted paper?
I read on https://conferences.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/get-published/post-your-paper/ (mirror):
Preprint: a form of e-print where an author posts a draft paper on the author’s or another ...
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Asking an academic for a cursory look at a paper
Suppose that Alice has a PhD but then left academia more than a decade ago. Alice has written a short paper on a topic unrelated to her thesis. Suppose moreover that :
the paper has been submitted a ...
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Cannot submit revision of preprint in bioRxiv (Current Version Status Closed)
I went to the 'Author Area', and the first sign of problem was that the 'Submit a Revision' link had 0 papers. After that, I went to 'Author history', found the specific preprint. I noticed that the ...
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ArXIV's Different Licenses [closed]
I am considering submitting a working paper to the ArXIV archive and was wondering what the different licenses entailed, and whether choosing one might have some future ramifications.
Thank you!
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of Preprints.org compared with arXiv?
Preprints.org is a new site for sharing preprints of papers.
arXiv is one of the longest standing, stable and mature places for many people.
I'm wondering where to upload a paper (which is already ...
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Is a preprint considered as dual publication?
I am about to submit a paper to Nature but I made public the technical report supporting an important share of the results via BioRXiv a few weeks ago.
In the Nature submission system, they asked if ...
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How should I interpret a promising preprint that was never published in a peer-reviewed journal?
There have been a couple of occasions in my research in which I've come across a preprint that is several years old and is very relevant to the work that I'm doing.
Often these preprints have very ...
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Can i post my article in arxiv for comments from other mathematicians? [duplicate]
I have recently written a paper on Quantum Polynomial Algebra. But I am not studying anywhere, so I havenot got anyone to comment. Even I have mailed a few math professors but they may be to busy to ...
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Preprints conflicts between Research Gate and Journal
I uploaded a preprint paper to Research Gate. Then I realized that it is not allowed for the Journal I submitted my paper. I removed the paper from RG, but it was around two days available. Will I ...
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Allowing preprints boosts the impact factor – was this argument ever (prominently) made?
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The impact factor is a journal metric that rewards citations in the first two years after publication (or five in some flavours).
For better or worse, this metric has some importance and ...
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A specific term was first coined in a preprint but publication took many years. What to cite?
In my literature research for a paper I am writing I want to state that a specific term was first coined in a preprint from let's say 2000, but the paper was not published until 2005.
Unfortunately ...
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Why bioRxiv instead of arXiv.bio?
In view of the need of a preprint repository for biology science, why was it necessary to start bioRxiv, instead of a biology section in arXiv? Is there any fundamental difference between the two? ...
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Can I upload a pre-print during peer review that includes changes suggested by reviewers? [duplicate]
My paper is in the late stage of peer-review and probably will be accepted once I complete the last minor revisions, but it is not formally accepted yet.
During peer-review the manuscript changed ...
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Does posting paper online anonymously prevent me from publishing it in journal?
I am a high school student and I am trying to publish my first research paper in mathematics.
However, I have already had my full paper posted without author information on the website of another ...
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Rapid publishing experiment
In 2015 or 2016, there was an experiment by a group of post-docs and graduate students to ideate, research, and publish a scientific article (on a pre-print site like arxiv.org) in 24 hours. The topic ...
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Manuscript was “unsubmitted” because the manuscript was deposited in Arxiv Preprints
One of my manuscripts was "unsubmitted" and potentially rejected by the journal for the reason that it was submitted to a preprint server. Is it normal for the journal to reject a paper that was ...
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Citing contemporaneous (interlaced?) preprints
In my area of research distributing preprints of results is very common. Consider the following seqence of events:
Group A finishes paper P, distributes it as a preprint and submits to a journal
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Preprint Best Practices in Computer Science
I truly believe in the benefits of pre-print distribution, however I'm not sure how to exactly proceed. Here are some questions I have in mind:
When should I make them available? Before peer-review? ...
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Updating the arXiv version of paper after it is published in ACM proceedings [duplicate]
Before submitting my paper to one of ACM's conferences, I uploaded the earlier version of the paper on arXiv. The paper has now been accepted and published in ACM proceedings. I plan to update the ...
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arXiv submission with PDF and data, preferred submission strategy?
arXiv does not allow PDF and other file types on the same submission. My (many)coauthors are not tex savvy, and want the paper describing the database to be in PDF format so that their (also not tex ...
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What can I do if my paper doesn't fit any arXiv category? [duplicate]
I have a paper (A) that has been submitted to a journal, but is as yet unreviewed, and another paper (B) that cites A.
(The citation is necessary because A includes details of the preparation of a ...
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How and from where to get feedback for my preprint?
I have worked upon a project that estimates the wind power generation potential in India using simulation techniques and polynomial regression. I have written the first draft. However, everyone in my ...
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Publishing a preprint while having another related work on review
Preliminaries
As coauthor, I sent a work X to a reputable journal. The work X deals with two problems A and B. The reviewers asked for some minor clarifications/corrections. I performed them, and ...
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Reputable Preprint Servers other than Arxiv [duplicate]
After one of my papers was put "on hold," every single one of my new papers is being put on "on hold," many of which are ultimately rejected from Arxiv. This makes no sense to me as the same papers ...
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How to modify a final draft to reflect that a conjecture in its preprint was refuted?
I am currently in the process of trying to publish a mathematics paper. A draft of this paper had been posted on arxiv, which contained an interesting conjecture.
In the intervening time, this ...
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Editorial perception/bias regarding preprints in bioinformatics
The quality of a journal manuscript submission being equal, does posting a preprint on arXiv or bioRxiv hurt your chances of publication in a journal? I'm asking about bioinformatics, for journals ...
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How to think about journal-hosted preprints, or “Just-IN” manuscripts?
The NRC Research Press (or Canadian Science Publishing) offers a, at least to me, peculiar option they call "Just-IN" manuscripts. This seems to be an extreme version of an online-first article. Note: ...
