Preprints as a Hub for Early-Stage Research Outputs

Martyn Rittman

doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0243.v1

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Received: 26 July 2018
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Edmond Sanganyado

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Comment: Thank you for conducting this important investigation. Although limited by the small sample size, this study offers important insights on the state of the current preprint infrastructure and how it supports open science.

Different research areas often have different requirements for the preprint infrastructure. Therefore, what ways could you improve the current investigation to account for such differences? For example, one would expect the infrastructure of ChemXrv to be different to Earthxrv due to the differences in datasets they handle.

Furthermore, what were the differences in infrastructure between multidisciplinary preprints such as Preprints.org and some multidisciplinary OSF preprints.

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Response 1 to Comment 2

Received: 22 August 2018
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Martyn Rittman

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Commenter's Conflict of Interests: I am the author of the article, Director of preprints.org, and a full-time employee of MDPI which operates preprints.org.

Comment: Many thanks for the comment. It would be fascinating to look more deeply into the differences between disciplines. As you noted, the sample size is small and I only used information available online along with fairly general survey questions. I don't think the data I collected can definitively say anything about disciplinary differences, although to my mind there is enough to suggest that it is an avenue worth pursuing. To go further, I would recommend interviews and/or surveys with a variety of stakeholders in different disciplines. Still, due to subdisciplines within fields, it might be difficult to get a uniform picture, even about a single discipline - especially one as broad as, say, chemistry.

Regarding the differences between specific multidisciplinary preprint servers, given my conflict of interest, I didn't think it would be appropriate to make very direct comparisons. I made some general comments about the OSF projects setup, which is certainly unique as things stand. I'm aware of at least one forthcoming review on the preprint server space, perhaps it will be covered there.

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Received: 15 June 2018
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Comment: Note the conflict of interest.

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