There are still a few journals that do not accept submission of manuscripts that have been published on a preprint server. Besides, is there any other cons of publishing preprints?
Dear Dr. Anh-Duc Hoang,
Let me give you some of these disadvantages :
Academic publishing remains a competitive process. If someone else has recently published a paper very similar to mine, mine is less likely to be accepted.
So although I may share my topic, I prefer to keep my methodology, findings, and discussion private, until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
I agree with Michael W Marek's response.
There is a good chance of duplication of your work..
Papers in certain fields such as mathematics are so specialized that they can take up to 4 years to get published. Having them on a preprint server means that you can immediately lay claim to the fame of the method, if new, and be cited already. There’s a saying in English that “great minds think alike.” The point is, holding your paper back in the hope of perfecting it for the “perfect journal“ or time may actually cost you because, rest assured, one mind among the thousands out there may be working on the same exact problem. The history of science abounds with such examples. Then, of course, having them on a preprint server means that your work receives critical reviews before actual publication. The fears of being plagiarized aren’t really founded because once your work is preprinted, it is dated and digitally identified with a DOI. So, proving precedence is not the problem. Technically, you can use that as proof against plagiarism. How easy is it to fight the plagiarizer in practice? that’s the question!
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