Dear All:

I am an academic novice. Recently, I have a working paper that I want to upload to SSRN. I have several questions that I wish to get answers to:

1. Will registering SSRN with a private email address impact credibility or other dimensions? I am a Ph.D. candidate and have an institutional mailbox. But considering that I am about to graduate, the institutional mailbox may expire in the future, so I used a private mailbox to register.

2. Does SSRN send confirmation emails to co-authors of our working papers?

3. SSRN was acquired by Elsevier a few years ago. Will this affect the submission of working papers uploaded to SSRN to journals not owned by Elsevier?

4. Uploading to SSRN will disclose your research to the public. If you submit to a journal next, the journal's editors cannot theoretically conduct a double-blind review (because the reviewer can find the authors of the paper). Will this affect the submission?

5. How to submit papers already uploaded to SSRN to journals?

6. Once the paper is accepted and published by a journal, will the citations obtained during the openness on SSRN be transferred to the officially-published version? Or will the citation count re-accumulate from zero?

Thank you so much!!

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