Dear Kirsten,

I think you could charge a pre-print paper as a "working Document" or "project" on Research Gate. It's always interesting to get some feedback even at such a relatively late stage... Best, Volker

When a journal has accepted one of my papers, I report it on ResearchGate.  

As soon as the journal lists my paper on a pre-press page on their site, I link to the page from ResearchGate.

If the journal copyright rules allow me to distribute my own pre-press versions of the paper, I add the full text of the paper to ResearchGate.  

Hi dear

Thanks for clarification. I get the idea of preprint.

Liqaa 

Thanks a lot.

Emad

Preprints: opportunity or challenge?

Preprints present a great opportunity to enhance open scholarship. However, their potential can be delivered in practice, only if the stakeholders involved are actively engaged and collaborate toward a shared vision. As far back as 2003, the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities described the internet as an emerging medium for knowledge dissemination and stated that it would ‘significantly modify the nature of scientific publishing, as well as the existing system of quality assurance’. Although there is ample room for further transformation, the growing adoption of preprints represents a practical demonstration of this principle... The resource is attached.

I feel the comment given here are misleading. According to RG, a preprint is a document BEFORE peer review. It is not an "in press" version of an accepted journal article: see https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/Preprints

What is a preprint?

In general, a preprint is an author's own original or draft version of their paper before any peer review has taken place and before they publish it - sometimes in a peer-reviewed journal. 

Adding your preprints gives you a great opportunity to start gaining visibility for your work early on and lets you get valuable feedback from your peers. 

Many preprints are available, usually in the form of a .doc file with minimal formatting, before the published version is available. The published version is usually the final, formatted work that you find on a publisher's website. This is the version that most library databases link to. 

What types of research usually have preprint versions?

Articles and book chapters are the most common types, but authors sometimes also add preprints of conference papers and posters before they publish them in conference proceedings. 

I agree with Volker and Erik

Why you let others know about your insights and methodologies before publication? It is a security issue; the original content of your manuscript may be copied and published by others before you can do that. My advice is not to upload any research anywhere until it has been published with your name.

Academia’s open secret: preprints have enabled the breakneck speed of discovery we’ve witnessed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The urgency of the crisis inspired researchers to skip the rigamarole of the standard publishing process and release their findings as soon they were in hand – so that others could read and build on them. Without question, prepublication data and full manuscripts made available in preprint servers and other open data repositories shaved months off the development of Covid-19 vaccines and guided clinical management of the disease and public health recommendations to control its spread... pp22

http://email.europascience.com/files/amf_europa_science/project_26/RIapr21_Web.pdf

Posting as a preprint is good in several ways. It enables you to start getting feedback about your work as some people already said before, but also allows you to have a proof of authorship of your work, because you will have a time stamp of your upload.

Journals and conferences impose some overhead work from authors to have the proper formatting, phrasing and correctness of facts and concepts. While this is good to guarantee the building of scientific knowledge has no lose "stones" it also makes scientific steps slower. For other researchers to be able to access new works and ideas, with a grain of salt, at a faster pace unlocks a research process on steroids.

For those who don't know the preprint, let us have a look at that category of articles.

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.

My advice is not to put any research anywhere until it is published and 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.

In response to a call by a group of publishers and organisations to openly and rapidly share and review COVID-19 research, over 2,000 reviewers signed up last year to provide rapid reviews of COVID-19 papers. In their blog post, Daniela Saderi and Sarah Greaves discuss what they learnt about editors’ use of the reviews posted on COVID-19 preprints and explore what needs to change to help close the loop between crowdsourced preprint and journal-organized peer review...

https://asapbio.org/using-preprint-reviews-to-drive-journal-peer-review

Uttam Pal is right Preprints are published articles and copyright protected. it cannot be copied or plagiarized because store and the author is known

Growing preprint review

Create a culture of constructive public review and feedback on preprints...

"We are running a series of blog posts to summarize each of six breakout sessions, you can catch up on what was covered in five of the sessions via the posts below:

• Curation and review in the preprint landscape
• Considering campaigns to post journal reviews on preprints
• Public preprint review as a tool to empower the next generation of socially-conscious peer reviewers
• How to foster a positive preprint feedback culture: From FAST principles to implementation
• Developing a taxonomy to describe preprint review processes..."

https://asapbio.org/join-crowd-preprint-review

https://asapbio.org/curation-and-review-in-the-preprint-landscape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogNN1GYtRRk

https://asapbio.org/considering-campaigns-to-post-journal-reviews-on-preprints

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Preprints

Elmore SA. Preprints: What Role Do These Have in Communicating Scientific Results? Toxicologic Pathology. 2018;46(4):364-365.

The key to the definition of “preprint” is in the prefix “pre”. A preprint is the author’s original manuscript, before it has been formally published in a journal. One of the primary purposes of preprints is that they allow authors to collect feedback on their work and improve it before submitting it for formal peer review and publication...

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/09/15/revisiting-when-is-a-preprint-server-not-a-preprint-server/?informz=1

Preprints: Their Evolving Role in Science Communication

This briefing discusses the history and role of preprints—scholarly manuscripts posted by the author(s) to a repository or platform to facilitate open and broad sharing of early work without any limitations to access—in the biological sciences within the evolving open science landscape. The focus is on the explosive growth of preprints as a publishing model and the associated challenges of maintaining technical infrastructure and establishing sustainable business models. Currently there are more than 60 preprint servers representing different subject and geographical domains, each developing at a different pace based on adoption patterns and disciplinary ethos. This briefing will offer invaluable help to those who wish to understand this rapidly evolving publishing model...

https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/preprints-their-evolving-role-in-science-communication/

Preprints can be a wonderful way for researchers to get their findings out quickly. Jay Bhatt touches on the potential implications for researchers and highlights some key dos and don’ts that librarians can share with authors...

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/library-connect/preprints-best-practice-tips-librarians-can-share-with-researchers?dgcid=RN_AG_Program_400002061&utm_campaign=RN_AG_Program_400002061&utm_medium=email&utm_dgroup=LB_ALL_EG_20220202_DL_100002373&utm_acid=144380065&utm_source=AC&utm_in=DM224164

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.

Over the past four years, the Earth and Space Science (ESS) Open Archive has preserved over 10,000 early research outputs – preprints, posters, and presentations – contributed by nearly 37,000 authors across 25 subject areas. Now, ESS Open Archive is moving to a different platform supported by Authorea...

https://eos.org/editors-vox/earth-and-space-science-open-archive-takes-a-big-step-forward

For researchers focused on today’s urgent global challenges, access to preprints can significantly speed up scientific progress. With the recent launch of the Preprint Citation Index on the Web of Science, now it’s even easier for researchers to include preprints in their existing research workflows and link them to trusted sources...

https://discover.clarivate.com/WebofScience_Preprint?utm_campaign=EM3_Academic_Excellence_WOS_LeadGen_Webinar_Mar21_AG_Global_2023&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua

Nahida is right , the plagiarism is serious problem for preprint, reject by an journal, and next journal will considers it as plagiarism text

Researchers support preprints and open access publishing, but with reservations: A questionnaire survey of MBSJ members

...Although open access is widespread, and recognition of preprints is increasing, some issues remain that need to be addressed. Academic and institutional support, and transformative agreement may help reduce the cost burden. Guidelines for handling preprints in academia are also important for responding to changes in the research environment...

Article Researchers support preprints and open access publishing, bu...

Alexandr Evdokimov Пожалуйста, прочтите, что было сказано здесь относительно обмена неопубликованными работами на таких платформах, как Researchgate.

I somehow feel that keeping preprint for open access is to ensure that the research is first made public by you and even if you fail to get it published, you have a stake in the findings.

Preprints bring many benefits to scientists and, by extension, to science overall. They give more control to authors by allowing them to share their findings publicly as soon as they are ready. Readers can then access new studies on topics of interest to them, while other researchers can reuse and build on the findings for their own work.

However their growth in popularity has also highlighted a lack of systems of review around preprints that mean readers cannot easily assess the quality of new findings. This is the great opportunity for the future of research communication – bringing expert peer review and curation to the preprint literature...

https://www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opinion/why-preprint-review-way-forward?utm_campaign=RI%20Newsline%2005-08-23&utm_content=Read%20now&utm_term=Research%20Information&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Adestra

The scientific periphery and new flows of knowledge: the case of regional preprint servers

"It is unclear whether regional rather than global or discipline-focussed preprint platforms as an innovation in the communication of science are removing any of the barriers faced by researchers in the scientific periphery or whether they are increasing access to and visibility of science from the periphery. In response, this paper focusses on the uptake, visibility and academic impact of regional preprint publishing platforms in two peripheral regions (Africa and Latin America) to gain insights into the use and possible impact of regional preprint servers...

There is evidence of the uptake of regional preprint servers, but the uptake is comparatively modest compared with global and discipline-focussed preprint servers. The academic and social visibility of preprints available on regional preprint servers is comparatively lower when compared to other preprint servers. The preprint server SciELO preprint in comparison to AfricArxiv shows signs of increasing growth and visibility, but more time is required to reach any definitive conclusions..."

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/OIR-04-2023-0153/full/html