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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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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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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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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Pre-print service like arXiv but with private option, so I can correct my mistakes without publicly advertising my mistakes?
As a student, I make mistakes all the time, and stealing my idea will not face heavy retaliation. I don't mind if someone comes up with concurrent works, but I do mind if my key idea is leaked. Many ...
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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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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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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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Plagiarism from preprint of paper (from the Arxiv)
Recently we have written a research paper and posted a preprint on the Arxiv to obtain some non-official peer review and to increase the quality of our paper. Till now we have not submitted this paper ...
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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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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 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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When a journal requires that the work has not been published before except as a "preprint", is an arXiv publication considered a preprint?
In the copyright transfer agreement of a journal there is the following sentence:
"The Author warrants that the Work has not been published before in
any form except as a preprint."
Nowhere do ...
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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 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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Can I include my ArXiv pre-print as a part of the Thesis?
I have posted a paper on ArXiv and submitted it to a journal which is under review. Can I include a part of it or the whole article (pre-print) as a chapter in the thesis? Will it be counted as self-...
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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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Is it possible to submit a preprint to viXra and then submit my physics paper to PRA?
I really want to submit to viXra to stake my claim on the paper's idea.
I don't want to submit it to arXiv.
I searched PRA's policy on this without much success.
I have read the following documents, ...
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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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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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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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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 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.
So:
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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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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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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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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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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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Is there an archive like arxiv.org for agricultural papers?
Is there any internet archive like arxiv.org intended for publication of agriculture-related conference papers or similar?
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Preprint citations + Paper citations =?
Given that in many areas the peer-review process is quite lengthy (even a couple of years), it often happens that, by the time the journal version of a paper appears, the preprint version (e.g. arxiv) ...
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How should I prepare e-prints (pre-prints and post-prints) of already published papers?
I am about to embark on the publication of pre-prints or post-prints of about a dozen papers that have already been published in peer-reviewed journals. I plan to use the SHERPA/RoMEO database to ...
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Is it okay to leave a conference paper as a pre-print?
Background: I just got an acceptance for a conference paper. While the conference isn't half bad (Nothing top of the domain. It's a top 80 conference in my domain as per guide2research), they are ...
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What should you consider before upload a revision to your arXiv paper when you spot an error?
I am in process of uploading a paper for arXiv. I have looked over the paper for several weeks now and it seems that there are no major issues, however, the paper is 24 pages long so I have accepted ...
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Making latex sourcefiles publicly available by default
Question: where can I find (legal/pragmatic) information about having latex source files for scientific articles publicly available on github?
Or, how would you deal with it?
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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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What percentage of arXiv preprints fall under the CC BY or CC BY-SA licenses?
I am interested in exporting and redistributing arXiv papers and will need the source on them. It looks like this is allowed so long as they fall under CC BY or CC BY-SA licenses. However, I'm not ...
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Specifying a preprint is "submitted", *to a specific journal* [duplicate]
There are some mathematicians who are active online and who blog about their work at various stages, including when they upload a paper to the arXiv. I like this aspect as it gives a chance for the ...
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Does Google Scholar link to post-print PDFs lodged on academia.edu or ResearchGate?
I'm a big fan of how Google Scholar puts links to full text PDFs of journal articles that are indexed on the internet next to the link the publication page of academic publishers. This means that ...
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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.
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I forgot to add preprint submission (BioRxiv) before the actual journal submission, what can I do now?
I was entrusted to do the entire submission process on my own (previously done by the PI) as a learning process, so I am learning by trial and error.
I was supposed to initiate and complete all the ...
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How to cite a working paper, preprint, or manuscript?
How I can cite a submitted manuscript which I am not supposed to publicly archive (e.g. on arXiv) because the review process is double-blind (i.e. the manuscript is anonymized and should not be ...
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