Post #1316081

2025-05-01 14:38 UTC

Preprinting helps accelerate dissemination of scientific knowledge. To what extent do researchers adopt preprinting? And how does this vary by discipline and region? Together with Narmin Rzayeva and @stephenpinfield, I just published an article answering these questions. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/xdwc4_v2 @cwts @RoRInstitute @ASAPbio

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@LudoWaltman@social.cwts.nl 2025-05-01 14:38

Our work shows there are still lots of opportunities for growth in preprinting. Math and physics demonstrate what can be achieved when preprinting becomes the norm. Other disciplines still need to make significant efforts to reach this point. Asia and Africa are lagging behind compared to many other regions, in particular North America and Western and Northern Europe. Lot of room for growth in preprinting in Asia and Africa.

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@Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie 2025-05-02 10:16

@LudoWaltman @stephenpinfield @cwts @RoRInstitute @ASAPbio An under-appreciated factor in the early adoption of preprints by the physical and mathematical sciences was I believe the introduction of TeX for typesetting the mathematics in preprints. Once scientists realised that they could do their own typesetting the journals lost one of their main selling points. https://council.science/publications/normalization-preprints/ #Preprints #OpenScience

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@hfalcke@mastodon.social 2025-05-02 10:21

@LudoWaltman @stephenpinfield @cwts @RoRInstitute @ASAPbio I am surprised it is only 50 % in physics. Astrophysics is probably higher than that. Maybe the other 50% are very low impact papers?

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