As you know pre-print services (such as Research Square and etc) were newly developed and when a researcher submit a manuscript, journals encourage them to publish it as pre-print.
Imagine that your manuscript was rejected by the first journal, and your manuscript is published as pre-print with DOI. Now you want to submit to another journal. In first step of manuscript evaluation, your manuscript did not pass crossref check because of high similarity index (Plagiarism)!!!! and this will be with your manuscript.
The pre-print services also did not remove your manuscript even though on your request!!!
What is your opinion on this issue?
Dear Mohammad Saadati ,
I came across the same issue, as the journals themselves encouraged pre-print publication. I had the same concerns you expressed about whether that would compromise the originality of the paper, and the risk of not being accepted by other journals in case it doesn't pass with the first journal.
I recently asked this same questions and got some informative replies:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_are_your_views_on_pre-prints_for_original_research
Personally, it still confuses me and I haven't opted for the pre-print option yet, although I have noticed many of my seniors and professors have started to use pre-prints. I have to admit, it is particularly useful when you publish a subscription only article, and you have the option to make the full text available in the form of a pre-print.
Dear Zahra Khalaf
Thanks for your contribution. I have two pre-print original manuscripts which were rejected by the first journal. Now, when I submit it to other journals, they reject them because of high similarity index! while I explain that my manuscripts are pre-prints and are not published!!!
I emailed to the pre-print services and requested to remove the manuscripts and after nearly two months follow up, they accepted to remove but after that I have the same problem because the pre-print is shared in other online platforms, too.
Dear Mohammad Thank you for this valuable discussion.
I am completely disagree with pre-print services.
I had the experience of rejecting my paper due to similarity with the pre-print version.
Dear Edris Kakemam thanks for your contribution.
Unfortunately, this is getting a common problem, especially among Iranian researchers.
First of all, let us have a look at that category of articles for those who don't know the preprint.
A preprint is a full draft research paper that is shared publicly before it has been published or even peer-reviewed by a given journal or conference. It may have been given a digital object identifier (DOI), and, in turn, it can be cited in other research papers. But, academics usually prefer to read and cite final published versions of journal articles or conferences instead of preprint (e.i. pre-publication works).
I have a different perspective for uploading any preprint anywhere before it has been published. My advice is not put any research anywhere until it is published and tagged with your name.
Why you let others know about your insights and methodologies before publication?
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. So, my advice is to not 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. You must wait until the paper is accepted and then published by that journal. Then, upload that research item on any platform you wish.
- 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.
- 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, don't publish the preprint until you got ACCEPTED and see that it is tagged with your name.
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 and 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 removing the manuscript from the database of the preprint.
So, in order to solve such this type of issues, 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.
Dear Nidhal Kamel Taha El-Omari
Thanks for your kind contribution.
The problem is that after removing from pre-print services, you will face with plagiarism still. because some indexing databases had indexed your pre-print!!
Prof. Mohammad Saadati: I completely agree with you. I only prefer to cite the final version, not the draft one, as the most credible and authoritative source. In my opinion, a preprint is a shallow copy of the original article.
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