If you are to release the preprint of your manuscript (reviewed, accepted for publication but still for copyediting, proofreading and pagination) will the referencing of the preprint and the final print be consolidated into just one stat, or they will be counted as two in your indexing? Thank you in advance to those who will reply.
Do you mean indexing in ResearchGate? The system does not recognize the relation between a preprint and the final published version automatically. There is a possibility to add a link between the two entries manually, but I think that anyway both entries will go into the indexing independently. - See "How do I link my preprint to the publication page for the final version?" in https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/Preprints. See, e.g., https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331546436 how this looks like.
Hi,
Firstly, it is strange that a paper that needs editing was already accepted for publication. It could be a matter of the journal's policy, but I did not encounter this kind of situation before .As to the two types of publications, , they are not connected for indexing purposes. The preprint is usually indexed in a preprint database, and the edited paper is indexed, after publication, in a journals' database.
Dear honorable researchers,
Preprints are defined as an author’s version of a research manuscript prior to formal peer review at a journal, which is deposited on a public server. ResearchGate (RG) said about "Preprints" an early-stage research.
Before answering this valuable question of Prof. Roland Joseph Tan, please let me give my own opinion about preprint:
- Why you let others know about your insights and methodologies before publication? You should avoid telling the other researchers about the details of anyone of your papers until it has been published and seeing your name by yourself. You may say that I am somewhat old-fashioned, but I have a different perspective for uploading any preprint anywhere before it has been published by your name. My advice is not to put your research anywhere until it is published.
- Your manuscript may be copied and then published by others before you can do that. This stealing of your paper might be happening. So, you must wait until the paper is accepted and then published by that journal. Then, upload that research item on any platform you wish.
- A journal may have automated plagiarism software to check the paper before admitting it to the reviewing process. There are chances that your paper can get a rejection at any point. Thus, to avoid this problem. Publish the preprint after you got the paper as "ACCEPTED".
Finally, for the coming future, do not upload any paper anywhere until it is published with your name. Even if it is a "preprint"! For the time being, If you had done something like that as a "preprint", for instance, I advise you to delete the preprint from any elsewhere and wait for two months before sending the paper to any journal.
Unfortunately, once the paper is online by the preprint activity, it is hardly difficult to delete it, and you may be plagiarized for having two copies!!
So, it is a pity to hear about this amazing research misconduct and the bad research practice as happened in the following case:
One of my friends was accused of plagiarism; do you know why?
After about three months, his research paper was rejected because of plagiarism. When he checked the journal report, he found that his paper was accused of plagiarism with a 61% percentage. The reason is that his manuscript was previously uploaded as a preprint. It took him another two months to solve the problem and remove the manuscript from the database of the preprint.
So, in order to solve this type of issue, it may take several months of following up to remove the manuscript from the database of the preprint. Anyhow, If there were accusations of plagiarism, it is not well for any researcher's reputation, in any meaning.
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