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To Preprint or Not to Preprint: A Global Researcher Survey

par Rong Ni et Ludo Waltman

Publié: 27 juillet 2023
Serveur de preprints: SocArXiv
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/k7reb

Résumé

Open science is receiving widespread attention globally, and preprinting offers an important way to implement open science practices in scholarly publishing. To develop a systematic understanding of researchers’ adoption of and attitudes toward preprinting, we conducted a survey of authors of research papers published in 2021 and early 2022. Our survey results show that the US and Europe lead the way in the adoption of preprinting. US and European respondents reported a higher familiarity with and a stronger commitment to preprinting than their colleagues elsewhere in the world. The adoption of preprinting is much stronger in physics and astronomy as well as mathematics and computer science than in other research areas. Respondents identified free accessibility of preprints and acceleration of research communication as the most important benefits of preprinting. Low reliability and credibility of preprints, sharing results before peer review and premature media coverage are the most significant concerns about preprinting, emphasized in particular by respondents in the life and health sciences. According to respondents, the most crucial strategies to encourage preprinting are integrating preprinting into journal submission workflows and providing recognition for posting preprints.

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Rédigé par Stephen Gabrielson, Melissa Chim, Nicolás Hinrichs, Allie Tatarian, Ashley Farley et Yueh Cho du ASAPbio Meta-Research Crowd

This review reflects comments and contributions from Melissa Chim, Nicolás Hinrichs, Allie Tatarian, Ashley Farley, Yueh Cho, and Stephen Gabrielson. Review synthesized by Stephen Gabrielson.

Rong and Waltman undertoook a global survey of authors who published between 2021 and early 2022 to…

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