What is your opinion on pre-prints? Do you think we should move towards something more similar to pre-prints or remain close to the traditional way of sharing results?
Regarding pre-prints, do you think we should have more servers like bioRxiv or try to aggregate the more we can in few servers?
1 - https://www.biorxiv.org/
I think pre-prints are really useful to share your methodology during the development of your work. Getting feedback on your methodology is much more useful at the beginning of your experiments/work than in the middle or definitely better than at the end.
Once you have your results, then maybe it's better to go straight to a regular journal, though I have seen some journals accepting manuscripts directly from pre-print servers.
Hi Marcel, I think it is a good idea to wait until you have peer reviewed comments on your research paper before going online.
Feedback on your methodology will probably be useful to you, but you have to realize that many contemporary scientist are not the gentlemen of past generations. They will steal whatever they can to get ahead.
Thank you for your reply, Steingrimur.
Would you ever submit some work of yours to a pre-print server?
Does it happen that you share your ongoing article with some colegues before submitting it to the journal? I'm not talking about co-authors. How do you usually do that?
You usually get feedback from co-authors. It is also a good practice to get opinions from colleagues you trust.
The following article (with 8 citations) provides an interesting discussion on this topic and may help in making decisions about pre-prints:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6358/1344
preprint may be an idea to get valuable feedback from different researchers expert in their field.
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.
I have a different perspective for uploading any preprint anywhere before it has been published anywhere. 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.
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