I encountered a situation where I submitted an article to BMC, but unexpectedly, my preprint was published on ResearchSquare instead. However, I have since withdrawn my article from BMC, and now I need to remove the preprint from ResearchSquare as well, as requested by the new journal. I would appreciate any guidance or advice from individuals who have faced a similar issue on how to handle this situation
To remove a preprint from Research Square, you should contact their customer support team and request the removal of your preprint. You can email their support team at [email protected], provide them with the necessary information regarding your preprint (such as its DOI or URL), and explain the reason why you need it removed. They will review your request and take appropriate action based on their policies. It is important to note that Research Square may have specific rules and regulations regarding preprint removal, so it is best to review their terms and conditions before submitting your request.
I had submitted a manuscript to a journal (I am keeping it anonymous). I opted to make the preprint available online by mistake and the manuscript preprint appeared in the research square from the date of submission. The manuscript was rejected from the journal after the review process. The review process itself took more than one year. By the time, we (authors) switched to another institution and our affiliations, and our contact mail ids mentioned on the research square preprint became invalid. We noticed that the content of our preprint was copied from the research square to other repositories without any consent from us (authors). We got continuous rejections from other journals due to serious plagiarism when we tried to submit an extended version of our rejected manuscript. We regret to say that the preprint posted on the research square really became a trap that haunted us and spoiled our freedom to extend our research in the same direction and revise the manuscript. From our experience, other journals reject the manuscripts with preprints of previous journal submissions posted on the research square at editorial level itself. The name of the previous journal is clearly written on the research square preprint. As the journals get sufficiently large number of submissions, editors reject such papers at editorial level itself, to avoid further conflicts. A lot of hard work is involved in writing a research paper. It is so painful that authors are not able to submit their research work to a journal of own choice because of the issues caused by the preprint posted on the research square by mistake. We honestly request you to think twice before opting to publish preprints on research square during the manuscript submissions. Research square never removes the preprint content. They just keep the preprint content with a "Withdrawal Notification". The content will still cause problems during plagiarism checks.
I am sorry to hear that. I am going through the similar situation. I agree preprint is a trap
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