Questions tagged [preprint]
Questions regarding making manuscripts available prior to their publication in a peer-reviewed source.
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Why upload to academic preprint sites like arXiv?
The recent question about the legality of uploading to arXiv made me realize that I don't have any understanding of why one would upload to a preprint site. (I don't work in a field where they seem ...
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Preprint services other than arXiv (for other fields)
While arXiv is great, it covers only topics in physics, mathematics and computer science.
Are there any good preprint storage places for other scientific disciplines?
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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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What are the differences between viXra.org and arXiv.org?
What are the differences between viXra.org and arXiv.org?
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What procedures should I follow if my preprint is stolen and published in a journal?
I am surprised by the fact that a journal published an article that I have had in arXiv for a few months. The date of publication is after the date that I posted on arXiv. The submission date in the ...
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Is it legal to upload a paper to arXiv when it is under double blind review for one of the IEEE journals?
Is it legal to upload a paper to arXiv when it is under double blind review for one of the IEEE journals? I am suspicious that it may violate the double blind review requirements and I couldn't find ...
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IEEE conference chair asked to take down the arXiv version of the paper within 24 hours
Recently, an article by one of my colleagues had been accepted at an IEEE conference, and about a week ago, he presented it on the main track. He published a preprint of this paper (without final ...
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Are there any examples for an ArXiv publication nurturing or preventing plagiarism?
First of all, this is about plagiarism in the sense of stealing ideas. Copy-and-paste plagiarism is included but not likely to happen in the cases relevant for this question.
Considering the ...
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Why might a paper published in a good journal no longer be available anywhere?
I came across a paper with an interesting title/abstract which was published in a rank-A journal. However, the article is missing from all online listings (Project Euclid, ScienceDirect, etc.) and is ...
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Is the arXiv a good way to get feedback on one's work?
I have developed a method to process images I use for my research. It's nothing revolutionary but I think it might be useful to others than me, and why not, be worthy of being published somewhere (at ...
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Should I worry that a graduate student somewhere gave a talk using my abstract?
I was looking for mentions of my work on the internet and I came across a seminar series in which a graduate student had given a talk using an abstract of mine. It is unpublished work which I posted ...
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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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Do all preprint servers have the non-updating issue in google scholar
It has been identified on stackexchange that Google Scholar has a bug where ArXiv publications are not updated to match the final journal publication information in google scholar (for several months)...
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Should I ask my co-author before I upload an article (that he already told me is okay to publish) to arXiv?
At our institute it is not common to upload a pre-print of your submission to arXiv. I got told by a friend that it is basically a no-brainer and there are virtually no downsides in doing so. I ...
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Uploading a preprint with wrong proofs
Summary: A senior faculty member insisted on uploading a draft of our math paper with incomplete proofs and intermediate results that turned out to be wrong to the arXiv. This was completely ...
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Immature papers on arXiv
I am from computer science and we typically submit to conferences and less often to journals. Publishing pre-prints to arXiv becomes more and more popular in my field. From the discussion here on AS I ...
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What happens to rejected papers?
I am a Masters student in math and thus new to academia and publishing in general. I am a coauthor on a number of recently submitted papers and had the (somewhat intrusive) thought, what happens to ...
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Is the rise of pre-prints lowering the quality and credibility of researcher and increasing the pressure to publish?
From what I understand pre-prints have been common in some fields for many years because of some practical obvious reasons, for example very long lag time from submission to publication.
However, it ...
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Will uploading a copy of my paper to Academia.edu harm the journal it’s published in?
A paper that I have just had published in a journal is already starting to generate interest. I am allowed to upload a copy to Academia.edu as long as it is not the copy-edited version (peer review ...
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How to cite earlier work, discovered only at the end, that claims similar results to a recently completed project?
At the end of writing up our manuscript, we discover that there has been another earlier study in a very different context (but using a physical model very similar to ours) that claims a similar ...
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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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How to not publish in peer-reviewed journals and still be taken seriously?
If someone has a paper which could be published in a peer-reviewed journal, but they choose to not publish it in a peer-reviewed journal, what can they do to help the research to be taken seriously? ...
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Arxiv equivalent for medical research article
I'm looking for a suggestion, for a medical journal counter part to the arxiv. A minimal frill, open access online repository
to time stamp articles with some visibility.
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What are pre-print repositories for math and physics alternative to ArXiv?
Are there other widely used academic pre-print repositories other than ArXiv? My interest is especially towards mathematics and physics.
If possible, one characteristic that I'd like to find in other ...
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How to react to flawed preprints?
Suppose you were to find what you think are serious flaws in a preprint (arXiv or something similar). What should you do? Now, after the obvious first step of contacting the authors and letting them ...
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Change title to arXiv paper
I have a preprint in arXiv, which I submitted at the same time I submitted to a journal. This was a couple of months ago. It was rejected by the journal, and after talking to some experts and getting ...
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What are the pros and cons of submitting same paper to more than one open repository?
What if I submit a same preprint to several open access repositories, e.g. arxiv, vixra, philica etc.?
I guess doing so would give to a paper more visibility. But would it be a bad practice? Would it ...
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Arxiv rejection of preprints
Following ArXiv rules I contacted with an well-known expert in thermodynamics (he is author of a known monograph) we discussed my work during several days and finally he endorsed me. When my work was ...
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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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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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What is the best repository for Engineering research work in pre-print format?
I'm a civil engineer myself and found no options for depositing engineering related pre-print papers in any online repositories. Is there any easy solution to this? For example, academia.edu lets one ...
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What are the reasons for journals to have a policy against publishing material available as a preprint?
As it can be appreciated from this list of journals with varying preprint policies, certain journals consider a preprint to be "prior publication". In other fields like Chemistry, there is a strong ...
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arXiv preprint and final paper differing by sections and appendices
Because of the style of a journal, and the space limit, I was asked to remove a section and all appendices.
While I have no problem with that, I want to preserve it in the arXiv preprint.
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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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Can someone else publish a paper based on independently achieving a result that is in a preprint of mine?
I have a paper that is currently in review but that has been available via bioRxiv for a while. While my paper was in review, a paper was published elsewhere which essentially scoops my paper. I am ...
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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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Does a preprint include revisions made in response to peer review?
This is related to but not answered in this question about the difference between various stages of a manuscript in the publication process.
After an author has submitted a manuscript to a journal ...
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Can I upload my preprint to arXiv using the identifiable formatting style of the journal I am submitting it to?
I'm currently preparing a manuscript for publication, and will likely upload it to the arXiv first. However, let's say I'm submitting to a journal with a very identifiable formatting style, like, let'...
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Updating a preprint when it is under review
I know that preprints deposited into a preprint server should be in a polished state. However, what should happen once it starts the review process? Should those copy-edits be updated on the preprint? ...
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How do you credit people who review your paper before submission?
How do you credit people for reviewing a manuscript prior to submission? I am referring to individuals with more knowledge and experience than myself, such as a professor. Where in the manuscript do ...
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When is it appropriate to add references to own papers on Wikipedia?
The Wikipedia rules about citing yourself state:
Using material you have written or published is allowed within reason, but only if it is relevant, conforms to the content policies, ... and is not ...
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Does arXiv prevent your work from getting scooped, or the opposite? [duplicate]
On the one hand, it seems like a preprint can discourage dishonest reviewers or editors (who get to see new work before anyone else) from running off with ideas since you have proof of originality ...
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Is it advisable to upload your PhD thesis on Biorxiv?
The university theses repository is not indexed in the main scientific literature search engines. This issue makes finding a thesis difficult, and it's a problem especially because after PhD many are ...
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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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Is it necessary to include and update the status of a paper on arXiv once it has been accepted for publication in a journal?
Let's suppose you write a paper and you post it on arXiv. If a paper is sent to a journal for peer-review, should you always include this information in the paper comments (including the name of the ...
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Have technical reports been subsumed by preprints?
As someone who has recently gotten into the research world, I read a lot of preprints and occasionally dig up some technical reports to access older publications.
To me, it seems like technical ...
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Does arXiv do peer review and can a high school student submit to arXiv?
Is it necessary to publish in a journal after writing paper in arXiv?
Is arXiv peer reviewed journal? If yes, then will the editor
consider and send to other experts in that field?
Can a high school ...
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Do published research papers cite preprints?
Do journals publish papers that cite preprints? I have an article where a good chunk of work is based on a preprint and I have cited it, accordingly. But that preprint was released on arXiv in 2021 ...
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How to find published article from arxiv preprint
I just came from here and have a related but different question. My question is, is there an online tool that will allow me to definitively check if a published version of a preprint exists and locate ...
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What to do if a co-author is delaying announcement of results?
I am finishing writing a joint paper with a collaborator and we are both extremely excited about the results. However, we cannot agree on when to announce the results.
In my opinion the paper is ...
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