What are the preprint papers mean and what is the difference between them and the research articles as a journal or conference ??
Reema Ahmad
Preprints are research papers that are shared publicly before they have been peer reviewed or have been formally accepted for publication.
The main benefits of preprints are:
1- Giving the authors a great opportunity to start gaining visibility to their paper early on and lets them get valuable feedback from their peers.
2- Saving their idea where most of the journals' review process take a long time ( months or even years to be published).
The arXiv site is one of the most famous and useful site for hosting these types of articles as well as make it easy for other researchers to find and cite your work.
Furthermore, the journal or conference papers are the final formatted work that already accepted and published or ready for publishing and you can find them on a publisher's website.
Reema - 'pre-print' means unpublished material. It may be conceptual/research-related material that you don't intend to publish (but might contain useful information for those that do publish in the topic area) - or it might be full or 'preliminary' information that you might want to share with the RG community (for feedback and commentary) prior to sending for publication. If preliminary, it might be a data-set, for instance, that you have not yet fully analysed.
Personally, I have yet to upload 'pre-print' material onto RG as I prefer to complete a full manuscript and send directly for journal review. The main difference, in my mind, between RG pre-print material and journal or conference proceeding material is that pre-print material on RG only has it's own internal impact metric i.e. reads, followers etc - whereas many journal/proceedings have offical rankings - such as Impact factor and citation rates.
To me, there are two things to be mindful of before uploading pre-print material:
1. Copyright laws might prevent you submitting the posted material on RG to academic journals as it is deemed 'already published in the public arena'.
2. It is perhaps not a 'good look' to be posting lots of pre-print material to RG in favour of actual published material in journals.
Dean Whitehead
Thank you very much for your wonderful answer and full of details discrption of the meaning and the differences
The idea is recieved , thank you again
I wish you all the best, successes and good luck
Reema Ahmad
Preprints are research papers that are shared publicly before they have been peer reviewed or have been formally accepted for publication.
The main benefits of preprints are:
1- Giving the authors a great opportunity to start gaining visibility to their paper early on and lets them get valuable feedback from their peers.
2- Saving their idea where most of the journals' review process take a long time ( months or even years to be published).
The arXiv site is one of the most famous and useful site for hosting these types of articles as well as make it easy for other researchers to find and cite your work.
Furthermore, the journal or conference papers are the final formatted work that already accepted and published or ready for publishing and you can find them on a publisher's website.
@Ibrahim Elgendy
Thank you very much for your valuable answer
And good luck
The difference is often small between The preprint paper and the published scientific publication. Often the formal difference in the recognition of scientific texts by specific national and international scientific institutions is greater.
It seems to me that this is an interesting question and it is very good that this question appeared on the research portal Research Gate. Best wishes
In academic manuscript publication, a preprint is a version of a scholarly or scientific paper that precedes formal peer review and publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal. The preprint may be available, often as a non-typeset version available free, before and/or after a paper is published in a journal.
Interesting question, and perfect answers, however, do peer review publishers (journals or conferences) accept a research that it has been uploaded as a pre-print ? or it will be considered 'already published in the public arena' as Dean Whitehead mentioned ?
Another aspect: are pre-prints citable ?
@Yaser Jamour
Thank you for your answer
As I understood from these answers that the pre-print paper is not Completed to be published or cited ... It needs some requirements and additions of concepts abd explanations to be ready to publish as journal or conference
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