![]() It’s in the way preprints are talked about in the preprint server itself 2. It’s in the way preprints are talked about 1. It’s in the way submission guidelines are written. ![]() They do not warn us but there are many, many signs. “Make sure you also publish it for real”. ![]() “Please make sure you are sending this to a journal too, or be prepared for very awkward small talk from here on”. Maybe it should be under the disclaimer about preprints not being certified by peer-review. They do not warn us about this when submitting to preprint servers! The ethology of post-preprint-submission in the life sciences. Did you send it to a journal that matches the value they thought your research had? It’s a fun game to play. Certainly, and generally unspoken, some sort of gauging of the value of the research. Who knows? Your answer of “Journal X” will be followed by an understanding nod, an approving “yep that one is a nice one”, the sharing of a funny story about their own experience with that journal. Or maybe it’s just a conversation starter while queuing for the cafeteria. Well-meaning PIs or postdocs, colleagues, strangers, that all really enjoyed reading your research and findings… but also really want to know “which journal have you submitted it to now?”. When you are a PhD student that just published your research, and you decided to publish it as a preprint, one of the most common questions you then get asked is “Where is it now?”. “When I decide to not submit to journals because I see the future as being journal-less, I am doing prefigurative practice,” the author writes.There is always an option for a scientist to not submit their paper to a journal, but it’s not the option encouraged at any point of the process.While the word ‘preprint’ fits very well the reality of it, how we frame it is important: a preprint precedes journal publication, it does not transcend it. ![]()
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