Dear Mishra,

I hope you're happy about your final decision on your paper.

I have a question for you regardings the PeerJ journal.

Actually, I am about publishing an article paper.

I have got a suggestion to submit it to the PeerJ journal. Then, I found your question which made me skeptical about submitting my paper in this direction. For this reason, my questions are:

(1) Why have decided primarily to submit your paper there?

(2) Why you thought about resubmitting your paper to another journal when the paper was on the preprinting stage?

(3) What was your final decision?

With kinds and best regards,

Heba

Dear Elsalahy,

My article is not in the the pre-printing stage. I had submitted it to preprint of peerj which is not a peer reviewed online journal. Thr preprint version of journals do not carry any points and cannot be used for promotions. They are just a way to find out what view do our peer groups have about the article.

with Regards

Dr Mili

Dear Dr. Mishra,

Thank you very much for your quick answer.

Now I got it. Actually, I have never done that before. I am totally new to this concept. Therefore I mixed up the issue of submitting a paper for "PeerJ Preprints" and for "PeerJ journals".

This takes me now to some other questions:

(1) Have you got real benefits from submitting your paper to "PeerJ Preprints"? As fas as I understood by quick reading about the concept of "PeerJ Preprints", you will not get comments on your manuscript from any reviewers.

(2) What happens if the paper is accepted/rejected for publication in PeerJ or another journal? Does the PrePrint remain published?

(3) If the PrePrint is later published in a peer-reviewed journal do both versions remain published and accessible? which I think is confusing because some times the final published manuscript may differ immensely after the reviewers' comments.

(4) what was the final fate of your paper?

With kinds and best regards,

Heba

Dear Heba,

Even I was new to this concept of preprint. I didn't find it beneficial. I could not get my paper published anywhere because of the confusion that is it right to get it published in any other journal or not. Till date I my not sure whether I should send it to any other journal or not.

Best wishes,

Mili

Dear Mili.

According to the PeerJ journal policy, a ´preprint´ can be sent to any peer-reviewed journal to get published. There is no conflict!

Best

Sujay