Donna YatesNov 24, 2022

Pre-prints in social science: does anyone have any experience with how journals feel about this? Your own thoughts?

I've got a complete paper that is hot right now, basically today, and it maybe can't wait for journal publication. One issue I can see is that it kills double blind peer review, but everyone on earth would know it is me writing this so that's gone anyway.

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Show threadPamela OliverNov 24, 2022
@Drdonnayates @academicchatter I believe the blindness of peer review is more to keep the reviewer blind to the author than vice versa. Even without Googling I recognize the work of top people in my field. Keeping both reviewer and author named seems to me to risk quid pro quo in reviews. I am a big proponent of preprints and am one of the moderators on SocArXiv.
Show threadDonna YatesNov 24, 2022
@pamelaoliver @academicchatter Oh excellent! Do you find any complaints about preprints coming from the sociology journal arena?
Show threadPamela Oliver
@Drdonnayates @academicchatter mostly no. When the paper is published you can link to the published version and include "please cite as" on the preprint, and that helps the journal citations.
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Show threadDonna YatesNov 24, 2022
@pamelaoliver @academicchatter This is all very helpful! I think I'll put the preprint up tomorrow.
Show threadPamela OliverNov 24, 2022
@Drdonnayates @academicchatter feel free to ask if you want advice. I've done this several times. You can update the PDF attached to an entry as long as the title stays the same. If you change the title it gets a new number. But in my experience it is still easy to do.