On the value of preprints: an early career researcher perspective
Peer-reviewed journal publication is the main means for academic researchers in the life sciences to create a permanent public record of their work. These publications are also the de facto currency for career progress, with a strong link between journal brand recognition and perceived value. The c...
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| author | Sarabipour, Sarvenaz Debat, Humberto Julio Emmott, Edward Burgess, Steven J. Schwessinger, Benjamin Hensel, Zach |
| author_browse | Burgess, Steven J. Debat, Humberto Julio Emmott, Edward Hensel, Zach Sarabipour, Sarvenaz Schwessinger, Benjamin |
| author_facet | Sarabipour, Sarvenaz Debat, Humberto Julio Emmott, Edward Burgess, Steven J. Schwessinger, Benjamin Hensel, Zach |
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| description | Peer-reviewed journal publication is the main means for academic researchers in the life sciences
to create a permanent public record of their work. These publications are also the de facto currency for career progress, with a strong link between journal brand recognition and perceived value. The current peer-review process can lead to long delays between submission and publication, with cycles of rejection, revision, and resubmission causing redundant peer review. This situation creates unique challenges for early career researchers (ECRs), who rely heavily on timely publication of their work to gain recognition for their efforts. Today, ECRs face a changing academic landscape, including the increased interdisciplinarity
of life sciences research, expansion of the researcher population, and consequent shifts in employer and funding demands. The publication of preprints, publicly available scientific manuscripts posted on dedicated preprint servers prior to journal-managed peer review, can play a key role in addressing these ECR challenges. Preprinting benefits include rapid
dissemination of academic work, open access, establishing priority or concurrence, receiving
feedback, and facilitating collaborations. Although there is a growing appreciation for and adoption of preprints, a minority of all articles in life sciences and medicine are preprinted. The current low rate of preprint submissions in life sciences and ECR concerns regarding preprinting need to be addressed. We provide a perspective from an interdisciplinary
group of ECRs on the value of preprints and advocate their wide adoption to advance knowledge and facilitate career development. |
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| spelling | INTA60102019-09-30T11:31:22Z On the value of preprints: an early career researcher perspective Sarabipour, Sarvenaz Debat, Humberto Julio Emmott, Edward Burgess, Steven J. Schwessinger, Benjamin Hensel, Zach Open Access Research Acceso Abierto Investigación Investigadores Académicos Revistas Científicas Revisión por Pares Beneficios Open-Access Preprints Peer-reviewed journal publication is the main means for academic researchers in the life sciences to create a permanent public record of their work. These publications are also the de facto currency for career progress, with a strong link between journal brand recognition and perceived value. The current peer-review process can lead to long delays between submission and publication, with cycles of rejection, revision, and resubmission causing redundant peer review. This situation creates unique challenges for early career researchers (ECRs), who rely heavily on timely publication of their work to gain recognition for their efforts. Today, ECRs face a changing academic landscape, including the increased interdisciplinarity of life sciences research, expansion of the researcher population, and consequent shifts in employer and funding demands. The publication of preprints, publicly available scientific manuscripts posted on dedicated preprint servers prior to journal-managed peer review, can play a key role in addressing these ECR challenges. Preprinting benefits include rapid dissemination of academic work, open access, establishing priority or concurrence, receiving feedback, and facilitating collaborations. Although there is a growing appreciation for and adoption of preprints, a minority of all articles in life sciences and medicine are preprinted. The current low rate of preprint submissions in life sciences and ECR concerns regarding preprinting need to be addressed. We provide a perspective from an interdisciplinary group of ECRs on the value of preprints and advocate their wide adoption to advance knowledge and facilitate career development. Instituto de Patología Vegetal Fil: Sarabipour, Sarvenaz. Johns Hopkins University. Institute for Computational Medicine. Department of Biomedical Engineering; Estados Unidos Fil:Debat, Humberto J. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA).Centro de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (CIAP). Instituto de Patología Vegetal (IPAVE); Argentina Fil: Emmott, Edward. Northeastern University. Department of Bioengineering; Estados Unidos Fil: Burgess, Steven J. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology; Estados Unidos Fil: Schwessinger, Benjamin. Australian National University. Research School of Biology; Australia Fil: Hensel, Zach. Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier; Portugal 2019-09-30T11:17:31Z 2019-09-30T11:17:31Z 2019-02-21 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000151 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/6010 1544-9173 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000151 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf PlosONE PLoS Biology 17 (2) : e3000151. (February 2019) |
| spellingShingle | Open Access Research Acceso Abierto Investigación Investigadores Académicos Revistas Científicas Revisión por Pares Beneficios Open-Access Preprints Sarabipour, Sarvenaz Debat, Humberto Julio Emmott, Edward Burgess, Steven J. Schwessinger, Benjamin Hensel, Zach On the value of preprints: an early career researcher perspective |
| title | On the value of preprints: an early career researcher perspective |
| title_full | On the value of preprints: an early career researcher perspective |
| title_fullStr | On the value of preprints: an early career researcher perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the value of preprints: an early career researcher perspective |
| title_short | On the value of preprints: an early career researcher perspective |
| title_sort | on the value of preprints an early career researcher perspective |
| topic | Open Access Research Acceso Abierto Investigación Investigadores Académicos Revistas Científicas Revisión por Pares Beneficios Open-Access Preprints |
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