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How to interpret a promising preprint that was never published?
What procedures should I follow if my preprint is stolen and published in a journal?Can someone else publish a paper based on independently achieving a result that is in a preprint of mine?When a journal requires that the work has not been published before except as a “preprint”, is an arXiv publication considered a preprint?If my paper was published in IEEE Xplore, can I upload it to arXivCiting a project performed in a previous class that was never published?What license to choose for preprint on OSF (Open Science Framework) when the preprint has been published in a journal?Will the preprint published to the figshare be available on Google scholar?How to modify a final draft to reflect that a conjecture in its preprint was refuted?How and from where to get feedback for my preprint?A specific term was first coined in a preprint but publication took many years. What to cite?
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There have been a couple occasions in my research that I've come across a preprint that is several years old and is very relevant to the work that I'm doing. Often these preprints have very promising initial results. However, when looking at the CVs or google scholar pages of the authors on the preprint, I can't seem to find a version that ended up getting published, even if the preprint is several years old already. Why would would a researcher abandon a manuscript that they obviously put a lot of time into? Do researchers sometimes just abandon lines of inquiry because they get too busy? Or, is this an indication that their promising initial results were not robust enough to publish, and I should be wary of attempting a similar study?
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There have been a couple occasions in my research that I've come across a preprint that is several years old and is very relevant to the work that I'm doing. Often these preprints have very promising initial results. However, when looking at the CVs or google scholar pages of the authors on the preprint, I can't seem to find a version that ended up getting published, even if the preprint is several years old already. Why would would a researcher abandon a manuscript that they obviously put a lot of time into? Do researchers sometimes just abandon lines of inquiry because they get too busy? Or, is this an indication that their promising initial results were not robust enough to publish, and I should be wary of attempting a similar study?
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There have been a couple occasions in my research that I've come across a preprint that is several years old and is very relevant to the work that I'm doing. Often these preprints have very promising initial results. However, when looking at the CVs or google scholar pages of the authors on the preprint, I can't seem to find a version that ended up getting published, even if the preprint is several years old already. Why would would a researcher abandon a manuscript that they obviously put a lot of time into? Do researchers sometimes just abandon lines of inquiry because they get too busy? Or, is this an indication that their promising initial results were not robust enough to publish, and I should be wary of attempting a similar study?
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There have been a couple occasions in my research that I've come across a preprint that is several years old and is very relevant to the work that I'm doing. Often these preprints have very promising initial results. However, when looking at the CVs or google scholar pages of the authors on the preprint, I can't seem to find a version that ended up getting published, even if the preprint is several years old already. Why would would a researcher abandon a manuscript that they obviously put a lot of time into? Do researchers sometimes just abandon lines of inquiry because they get too busy? Or, is this an indication that their promising initial results were not robust enough to publish, and I should be wary of attempting a similar study?
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There might be any number of reasons. You might try to contact the author(s) to get more information. But... (not all with the same likelihood)
They might have left academia for various reasons and not bothered. Is the CV also old?
They might have incorporated the key ideas into another paper with a very different title. You search is then fruitless.
They might have discovered errors.
Reviewers might have considered the results trivial.
Their attempts to publish might have been rejected by journals for other reasons.
They might have changed sub-fields. (This one less likely, I think.)
But you should be wary, at least, of following up on unpublished work and, at least, be sure that you can verify the claims independently.
answered 9 hours ago
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One other important possibility (if it's math), everything with the preprint is basically fine but they submitted to a top journal and the refereeing process took 2 years but the paper was rejected, they then spent a year revising based on those reports and other feedback they'd gotten, spent half a year deciding where to resubmit, then it took another year and a half to get accepted at the second top journal, but their backlog is such that it takes another year and a half for it to be published. So now 6 years have passed and the preprint isn't published anywhere.
– Noah Snyder
6 hours ago
2
@NoahSnyder that sounds oddly specific...
– Mark Omo
54 mins ago
That’s not actually intended to be the exact story of a particular paper (mine or others), but more a realistic amalgam of different stories of mine and others.
– Noah Snyder
38 mins ago
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There might be any number of reasons. You might try to contact the author(s) to get more information. But... (not all with the same likelihood)
They might have left academia for various reasons and not bothered. Is the CV also old?
They might have incorporated the key ideas into another paper with a very different title. You search is then fruitless.
They might have discovered errors.
Reviewers might have considered the results trivial.
Their attempts to publish might have been rejected by journals for other reasons.
They might have changed sub-fields. (This one less likely, I think.)
But you should be wary, at least, of following up on unpublished work and, at least, be sure that you can verify the claims independently.
answered 9 hours ago
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One other important possibility (if it's math), everything with the preprint is basically fine but they submitted to a top journal and the refereeing process took 2 years but the paper was rejected, they then spent a year revising based on those reports and other feedback they'd gotten, spent half a year deciding where to resubmit, then it took another year and a half to get accepted at the second top journal, but their backlog is such that it takes another year and a half for it to be published. So now 6 years have passed and the preprint isn't published anywhere.
– Noah Snyder
6 hours ago
2
@NoahSnyder that sounds oddly specific...
– Mark Omo
54 mins ago
That’s not actually intended to be the exact story of a particular paper (mine or others), but more a realistic amalgam of different stories of mine and others.
– Noah Snyder
38 mins ago
add a comment |
There might be any number of reasons. You might try to contact the author(s) to get more information. But... (not all with the same likelihood)
They might have left academia for various reasons and not bothered. Is the CV also old?
They might have incorporated the key ideas into another paper with a very different title. You search is then fruitless.
They might have discovered errors.
Reviewers might have considered the results trivial.
Their attempts to publish might have been rejected by journals for other reasons.
They might have changed sub-fields. (This one less likely, I think.)
But you should be wary, at least, of following up on unpublished work and, at least, be sure that you can verify the claims independently.
answered 9 hours ago
BuffyBuffy
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One other important possibility (if it's math), everything with the preprint is basically fine but they submitted to a top journal and the refereeing process took 2 years but the paper was rejected, they then spent a year revising based on those reports and other feedback they'd gotten, spent half a year deciding where to resubmit, then it took another year and a half to get accepted at the second top journal, but their backlog is such that it takes another year and a half for it to be published. So now 6 years have passed and the preprint isn't published anywhere.
– Noah Snyder
6 hours ago
2
@NoahSnyder that sounds oddly specific...
– Mark Omo
54 mins ago
That’s not actually intended to be the exact story of a particular paper (mine or others), but more a realistic amalgam of different stories of mine and others.
– Noah Snyder
38 mins ago
add a comment |
There might be any number of reasons. You might try to contact the author(s) to get more information. But... (not all with the same likelihood)
They might have left academia for various reasons and not bothered. Is the CV also old?
They might have incorporated the key ideas into another paper with a very different title. You search is then fruitless.
They might have discovered errors.
Reviewers might have considered the results trivial.
Their attempts to publish might have been rejected by journals for other reasons.
They might have changed sub-fields. (This one less likely, I think.)
But you should be wary, at least, of following up on unpublished work and, at least, be sure that you can verify the claims independently.
answered 9 hours ago
BuffyBuffy
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There might be any number of reasons. You might try to contact the author(s) to get more information. But... (not all with the same likelihood)
They might have left academia for various reasons and not bothered. Is the CV also old?
They might have incorporated the key ideas into another paper with a very different title. You search is then fruitless.
They might have discovered errors.
Reviewers might have considered the results trivial.
Their attempts to publish might have been rejected by journals for other reasons.
They might have changed sub-fields. (This one less likely, I think.)
But you should be wary, at least, of following up on unpublished work and, at least, be sure that you can verify the claims independently.
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One other important possibility (if it's math), everything with the preprint is basically fine but they submitted to a top journal and the refereeing process took 2 years but the paper was rejected, they then spent a year revising based on those reports and other feedback they'd gotten, spent half a year deciding where to resubmit, then it took another year and a half to get accepted at the second top journal, but their backlog is such that it takes another year and a half for it to be published. So now 6 years have passed and the preprint isn't published anywhere.
– Noah Snyder
6 hours ago
2
@NoahSnyder that sounds oddly specific...
– Mark Omo
54 mins ago
That’s not actually intended to be the exact story of a particular paper (mine or others), but more a realistic amalgam of different stories of mine and others.
– Noah Snyder
38 mins ago
add a comment |
4
One other important possibility (if it's math), everything with the preprint is basically fine but they submitted to a top journal and the refereeing process took 2 years but the paper was rejected, they then spent a year revising based on those reports and other feedback they'd gotten, spent half a year deciding where to resubmit, then it took another year and a half to get accepted at the second top journal, but their backlog is such that it takes another year and a half for it to be published. So now 6 years have passed and the preprint isn't published anywhere.
– Noah Snyder
6 hours ago
2
@NoahSnyder that sounds oddly specific...
– Mark Omo
54 mins ago
That’s not actually intended to be the exact story of a particular paper (mine or others), but more a realistic amalgam of different stories of mine and others.
– Noah Snyder
38 mins ago
4
4
One other important possibility (if it's math), everything with the preprint is basically fine but they submitted to a top journal and the refereeing process took 2 years but the paper was rejected, they then spent a year revising based on those reports and other feedback they'd gotten, spent half a year deciding where to resubmit, then it took another year and a half to get accepted at the second top journal, but their backlog is such that it takes another year and a half for it to be published. So now 6 years have passed and the preprint isn't published anywhere.
– Noah Snyder
6 hours ago
One other important possibility (if it's math), everything with the preprint is basically fine but they submitted to a top journal and the refereeing process took 2 years but the paper was rejected, they then spent a year revising based on those reports and other feedback they'd gotten, spent half a year deciding where to resubmit, then it took another year and a half to get accepted at the second top journal, but their backlog is such that it takes another year and a half for it to be published. So now 6 years have passed and the preprint isn't published anywhere.
– Noah Snyder
6 hours ago
2
2
@NoahSnyder that sounds oddly specific...
– Mark Omo
54 mins ago
@NoahSnyder that sounds oddly specific...
– Mark Omo
54 mins ago
That’s not actually intended to be the exact story of a particular paper (mine or others), but more a realistic amalgam of different stories of mine and others.
– Noah Snyder
38 mins ago
That’s not actually intended to be the exact story of a particular paper (mine or others), but more a realistic amalgam of different stories of mine and others.
– Noah Snyder
38 mins ago
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