Questions tagged [preprint]
Questions regarding making manuscripts available prior to their publication in a peer-reviewed source.
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Is there any risk of having my research scooped after posting my manuscript on bioRxiv?
I want to post my manuscript to bioRxiv before submitting to formal journals. I have several concerns:
Can I claim I am the first for the discovery by posting my findings on bioRxiv?
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Can I add a preprint directly to OSF even though it is already published on OSF?
So basically, I have this paper my team and I wrote for a data challenge. It's published, and available as a project on Open Science Framework (OSF). However, it doesn't show up on Google Scholar, and ...
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Can you submit for journal publication an institutional working paper?
Journals are nowadays fairly open to preprints before submission (e.g. Nature policies here https://www.nature.com/nature-portfolio/editorial-policies/preprints-and-conference-proceedings). However, ...
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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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Does the license for arXiv uploads apply to TeX source or the PDF?
I am wondering to which of the content that I publish on arXiv the license I chose during publication applies.
Let's assume that I uploaded just a single TeX-source file and filled out the form with ...
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Under review paper appearing on SSRN
I recently submitted an article to an Elsevier journal X. The article was consider out-of-scope, so I re-submitted it to another Elsevier journal Y (via article transfer). Thus, the article is ...
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Choosing the content of the preprint
A paper was submitted to a journal, and now I am thinking of submitting a preprint on ArXiv. However, I wouldn't want to release publicly one of the examples in the paper yet, and would submit the ...
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What are the most reasonable side margins for a (math) preprint?
When disseminating your research with a preprint, is there ever a disadvantage to using (almost) the full printable page area? I see overwhelming advantages to using the entire page:
The page count ...
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Does a journal manuscript simultaneously deposited in preprint have more chances to be published after peer-review?
As simple question as this: does a preprint have a better chance of being published after peer-review, than a journal article that is not or was not a preprint?
Note that the manuscript was submitted ...
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Does Pre-Print compromise anonymity for a later peer-review?
I'm from a social scientific field, so pre-prints are just becoming more and more "normal." Therefore, I'm a little in the dark regarding certain things. I'm planning to publish a pre-print ...
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I couldn't find my preprint anywhere... How should I do？ [closed]
I remembered that I ticked to share my manuscript with preprint by mistake three months ago, during the submission process
Journal of Hazardous Materials
Some days after, my manuscript was immediate ...
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Endorsement for arXiv when shifting field of research [duplicate]
I have worked for many years in data analysis in molecular biology / medicine / medical physics and also worked in such research institutions publishing a large number of papers. Therefore I have ...
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Why is my arXiv paper not generating an arXiv watermark?
The paper I submitted was automatically processed by arXiv without a watermark. All other normal papers have the arXiv watermark on the left side of the first page.
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Should I upload a preprint in multiple repositories?
Recently we submitted a paper to the Springer Telecommunication Systems journal, and we would like to upload the preprint to a repository, such as arXiv or TechRxiv. Is it wise to upload the preprint ...
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Storing scientific content on github [duplicate]
I have a scientific paper that I would like to protect from theft or other proprietary data, is it possible to store the data and the manuscript in a private github repository as a pre-print in order ...
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Refereeing an arXiv preprint
I accepted a request to referee a mathematics paper (available as an arXiv preprint long before it was submitted), but haven't started to write a report yet. Before receiving the referee request I'd ...
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Is there a "blind" e-print service?
Motivated by questions such as Double blind review allowing arXiv submissions :
is there a respectable e-print website (ideally Arxiv itself) that allows me to submit a "blind preprint", i.e....
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Would reviewers verify the articles that my manuscript is based on?
I have written a manuscript which is based on some results of a preprint. I have submitted it to a journal and it is under review. Will the reviewers also verify the results of the preprint?
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Can I submit a paper to arXiv when it is still pending on Hal, and waiting to be transferred from HAL to arXiv?
I submitted my first paper to HAL over eight days ago. It is still on awaiting moderation status.
When I deposed it on Hal, I checked the box indicating that I wanted it transferred to arXiv. But ...
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Which preprint repositories assign DOIs for free?
ArXiv.org does not assign DOIs to its preprints, but ResearchGate does. Are there other preprint repositories that assign DOIs for free?
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Preprint to arXiv before submission to an AIP journal, how exactly to modify it after 1) submission, 2) acceptance?
From AIP's Web Posting Guidelines for Journal Authors:
For noncommercial free-access preprint servers (e.g., arXiv)
You may post the preprint prior to submission and/or acceptance, using the credit ...
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Is the HAL-id shown on a paper awaiting moderation definitive?
I deposited a paper on HAL-archive yesterday, and it's now "awaiting moderation", so it's not online yet. It has an assigned HAL-id. I am writing an application that will expire before the ...
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How long it will take to see a preprint after submitting it to EarthArXiv
Does anyone know how long it will take to see a preprint after submitting it to EarthArXiv? I cannot locate any relevant information on the website.
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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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Advice on choosing a pre-print server (Social Sciences)
I have submitted an article to a journal for peer review. The journal allows the manuscript to be submitted to a non-commercial pre-print server at any time. I am new to publishing, and am wondering ...
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Using a copyrighted figure for an article posted to a non-commercial preprint server
I need to use a figure from a published paper that is non open access, and copyrighted. What is the general advice for going about this? Do people tend to pay the fee for access to reproduce it? Or do ...
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Does the link to an arxiv article change if I update the article?
As the title says, I am submitting a preprint to arxive. If I have a copy of the link to the article, does the link change when I upload an updated version of the same article?
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Preprint got published on Authorea without sending it to review (desk rejection). Is this how it is supposed to happen?
I just submitted a manuscript to a journal that uses the ScholarOne Submission system. There was the option to agree that the manuscript will be published as a preprint on Authorea. It says:
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My paper was rejected but was posted as a preprint with a DOI on Research Square. Can I now publish it in another journal?
My paper has been rejected recently but its content could be seen in the Research Square website. Why has this happened, and why did it also get a DOI link?
I asked and they answered:
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When to submit to viXra (rather than arXiv or not at all)?
arxiv has the description:
arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 2,146,943 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative ...
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Circulating manuscript without explicit consent
I am a mathematics PhD student in the Western world.
I have a (single author) preprint in mathematics that I think will help my postdoc applications a lot. I wrote up the preprint about a month back, ...
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Should I merge a preprint with the peer-reviewed version of this article on Google Scholar if the preprint has already been cited?
I have uploaded a preprint to PsyArXiv in 2021. The preprint is now published in a peer-reviewed journal. Normally, I merge the two so that only my published articles show up. However, this time my ...
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Merging Altmetrics of pre-print and published version
My pre-print obtained a high Altmetric Attention Score as it was reported in multiple news outlets and blogs, and widely discussed on Twitter.
One-and-a-half-year later, the paper was finally ...
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How does one keep hammering on another study in preprints so forcefully that one gets temporarily banned from posting to arXiv?
The September 26, 2022 news item in Science ‘Something is seriously wrong’: Room-temperature superconductivity study retracted discusses one individual who levied substantial criticism of the study, ...
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Sending your potential advisors your preprint that you have not posted on arXiv
I have written up a preprint that I have not posted on arXiv yet, as I keep modifying it. It is advisable to send that preprint to my potential postdoctoral advisors before I have posted it on arXiv, ...
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Research motivated by referee assignment
I was recently asked to review a paper. I liked the paper a lot and eventually recommended it for publication after minor revisions. The paper inspired me to do further research on some questions ...
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Is it safe to publish a number theory formula in OSF or preprints.org?
I have a new number theory formula. I am a software engineer, but I am interested in number theory. I do not have an endorsement on arXiv, so I am left with two popular choices, OSF and preprints.org. ...
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Uploading a preliminary version of a book/monograph to arXiv
Suppose you're working on a lengthy text that you would like to publish as a book or a "research monograph". For example in mathematics stuff like Springer Lecture Notes, Memoirs of the AMS, ...
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How to find the published version of a preprint
When reading through a preprint article (which are often the most accessible versions of articles), I for various reasons want to determine whether there has been an officially published version of ...
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How to cite a paper with two titles: preprint title different from published version
How do you cite a paper whose preprint title differs from the published version?
It's not so uncommon that publishers ask the authors to change the name of paper in the publication process. This is ...
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Policies regarding to "extended preprint" versions of papers
I want to publish a paper I wrote as a preprint. Anyhow, the paper in its original form has 12 pages (let's call that "version A"). Version A anyhow was rejected, so I compiled a reviewed ...
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Why is it that sometimes in bibliography, DOI information is added?
When I'm casually browsing through bibliography section of preprints, sometimes I find that an author will also include the DOI information in the citation.
For example, I just picked a random Arxiv ...
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Which journals accept articles already out as preprints?
I want to send our preprint, that we put online around three months ago, to a journal. How can I know which journals accept articles previously put online as a preprint? Many of them do not mention ...
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Does the font matter when putting a manuscript on arXiv?
I have a research paper that I want to upload on arXiv. Almost all the papers I have seen on arXiv are written in Times New Roman. I understand scientific papers are written in that font mostly. But I ...
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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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IEEE submission vs ArXiv Version with missing IEEE-statement
I've just got and corrected my revised paper. I submitted the revision to IEEE and I uploaded a newer version to ArXiv. BUT I made a mistake and the IEEE-disclaimer statement was regretfully missing ...
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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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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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Yet another google scholar preprint bug question [duplicate]
I published a paper two months ago in JPR (publisher is ACS). Before the submission, I put the paper on biorvix with the same title. Now I am stuck with the preprint on google scholar and even ...
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Upload preprint on ArXiv AND ReseachGate?
Since I recently published my first ever paper, I was creating some accounts for various social networks and preprint servers. I have to say, I am a little bit confused by ReseachGate: If I have ...
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