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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Research Square?
Research Square is a multidisciplinary preprint platform developed and operated by a company of the same name. The platform allows researchers to share their work early, gain feedback, and improve a paper before submission to a journal.
Preprints are preliminary reports that have not undergone peer review. They should not be considered conclusive, used to inform clinical practice, or referenced by the media as validated information.
How do I know my work won’t be stolen?
As soon as your DOI is issued, your work is time stamped and becomes a permanent part of the scholarly record.
Will posting a preprint on Research Square impact the editor’s decision when I submit to a journal?
Many journals allow and even encourage posting a preprint prior to submission. A list of journal policies can be found on Wikipedia and SHERPA/RoMEO. Consult these lists and your target journal’s author guidelines before submitting your preprint.
What are the benefits of posting early?
Posting your work early allows you to register your discovery prior to publication in a journal. A DOI timestamps your work, and once public, your preprint can be cited, commented on, and shared by you or others.
Most importantly, posting your work early means discoveries are shared more quickly, allowing others to build off your work and science to move more quickly. A commentary on the benefits of preprints in the life sciences can be found here: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6288/899.
What does it cost to submit my manuscript to Research Square?
Submitting to Research Square is free.
Can I post my paper on another preprint server after posting to Research Square?
When you post to a preprint server you retain full copyright over your paper and are free to post it in as many places as you like. However, having more than one version in different places reduces the usage counts, dilutes metrics obtained here and on other sites and creates unnecessary redundancy in the scholarly record.
How are preprints on Research Square licensed?
Research Square preprints are published under a CC-BY 4.0 license, meaning the author retains full copyright for their work. Readers are able to reuse the content under the rules of the CC-BY license.
Why was my submission not approved for posting on Research Square?
When a preprint is submitted, it undergoes a series of checks to ensure it is suitable to be posted on the platform. These checks include:
If we feel your paper does not pass all of these checks, we may decide not to post it, in which case you will receive an email informing you of our decision. Decisions to withhold posting cannot be appealed.
Will purchasing language editing services from AJE or other services from Research Square affect whether my manuscript is posted on Research Square?
While many of the language services and editorial services offered at AJE and Research Square will improve the quality of your paper, ultimately, whether a service has been purchased will have no bearing on whether your preprint is posted.
What is the relationship between AJE and Research Square?
The use of these services in preparing your manuscript does not guarantee posting on Research Square.
What types of articles do you accept?
We do not accept literature reviews, hypotheses, opinions, theories or commentaries.
How is Research Square different from other preprints?
Research Square features all the characteristics of a traditional preprint server but with some notable differences:
Does Research Square have an Impact Factor?
No. Research Square is a preprint platform and is therefore not listed in the Web of Science. Articles can still be cited, however, and citations will be counted by Google Scholar and Crossref.
How do I submit a preprint?
Click Submit a preprint, create an account, and then follow the instructions to upload your manuscript and figures. After you submit your paper to Research Square, it will be checked by our editorial staff to ensure it meets our requirements for online posting. We’ll email you when your paper is posted online and ready to be shared. At that time, you’ll receive a DOI and a link to the public version of your preprint to share with others.
What are Research Square’s editorial policies?
Read our full editorial policies here.
What is a DOI and why do I need one?
A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a persistent, unique string of characters associated with an online document, indicating that it has been published online and is part of the scholarly record. This means the work can be cited by other researchers in the knowledge that the cited article will be permanently available through the DOI link.
DOIs from Research Square are issued through Crossref, who have a specific DOI structure for preprints. This allows them to be linked to the final published journal article.
How do I cite my paper once it’s been posted as a preprint?
Whichever reference style you use, the citation should make clear that the paper is a preprint and not yet part of the published literature. We suggest the following format:
How do I submit a revised version of my preprint to Research Square?
To upload a revision, simply log into your account and select ‘Edit Submission.’
How can I get others to comment on my preprint?
Once your paper is posted online, use the share icons in your author dashboard to share on social media or through email. You can reply to comments and engage with the community directly. You can also flag comments you find inappropriate. Read more about how to make the most of your preprint using social media here.
How can I comment on other preprints?
Comments allow the community to provide transparent feedback to authors about their preprint. Comments can include constructive feedback on the methods, conclusions, statistics, impact, or any other aspect of the work. Comments that are deemed to be inappropriate or promotional in nature may be moderated and removed.
Readers can also comment on specific words, sentences, or sections of the text by simply highlighting the text and selecting «annotate» using the hypothes.is annotation tool.
What is In Review?
In Review is a free preprint service that gives authors the option to have their paper posted online at the time of submission to select journals. Powered by Research Square and developed in partnership with Springer Nature, In Review also gives authors and readers access to the status of a manuscript via a peer review timeline while the paper is under review at the journal.
Click here for more information about In Review or view participating journals.
What is Research Square’s long term content preservation strategy?
All content on Research Square is permanently archived in Portico, a not-for-profit organization committed to the long-term preservation of scholarly content.
What is the relationship between Research Square and Springer Nature?
Springer Nature is an investor in Research Square. Both companies have a long-standing relationship based on our shared commitment to providing high-quality services to global researchers. We began formally working together in 2008 through Research Square’s sister company, AJE, and have continued to co-develop innovative products and services for the global research community. (For more about Springer Nature and AJE’s relationship, see here). Most recently, our partnership led to the launch of In Review. This journal-integrated preprint service gives authors the option to post their paper as a preprint at the time of submission to a journal and track its status in real time through peer review. For more information about In Review, including a list of participating journals, see here.
A shared commitment to global researcher
Our partnership with Springer Nature allows us to support more researchers at various stages of the publishing lifecycle – from preprint to post-publication – and ultimately helps us accomplish our mission to make research square communication faster, fairer, and more useful.
Preprints
Following the launch of In Review in 2018, Research Square began accepting direct submissions to the platform in 2019. In Review is currently available on many Springer Nature journals with plans to include the service on more journals over time. The service is free to authors and all content is free to read and download.
I have a concern about one of the preprints on the platform. Who should I contact?
Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal.
As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. Our growing team is made up of researchers and industry professionals working together to solve the most critical problems facing scientific publishing.
Editorial Policies
1. Scope
1.1 Subject areas
Research Square is a multidisciplinary preprint server that posts research in all scientific areas, including physical, biomedical, and social sciences.
1.2 Content types
We currently accept the following content types:
Manuscripts reporting negative results are included. We do not accept literature reviews, hypotheses, opinions, theories, or commentaries.
2. Journal preprint policy
Most journals allow posting of a preprint to sites like Research Square before publication in the journal. A list of journal policies can be found on Wikipedia here and on SHERPA/RoMEO here.
3. Formatting guidelines
We accept the following file formats: doc, docx, RTF, Tex/LaTeX.
If you need help with writing in English you should consider:
4. Data availability
We strongly encourage authors to make the data on which the conclusions of their manuscript rely publicly available. For an index of relevant data repositories, see Fairsharing.org. We recommend authors include a Data Availability statement, documenting where the data can be found.
Data availability statements can take one of the following forms (or a combination of more than one if required for multiple datasets):
5. Screening
Research Square does not conduct peer review on preprints prior to posting. Content submitted to Research Square is checked for appropriate ethics and consent statements; disclosure of competing interests; absence of patient identifiers; and inappropriate, alarming, highly controversial, or pseudoscientific claims. A submission that has already been published at a journal will not be posted as a preprint. Preprints that are posted to the platform as part of the In Review service display the set of checks that have been carried out by the journal. They will include any checks the journal performs in addition to the above-mentioned Research Square checks. These checks are displayed in the “prescreen” badge. Checks at Research Square are carried out by our trained editorial staff. Our policies currently do not preclude posting submissions whose titles match those of preprints posted to other servers. For more on our position on preprint duplicates, see here.
6. Time to post
Once received, submissions undergo our screening checks and are posted within 24-48 business hours. Preprints received through the In Review service first undergo a quality check at the journal. Once the quality check is complete, Research Square will begin processing the manuscript for posting as a preprint.
7. Withdrawal and removal policy
Preprints posted on Research Square receive a DOI, making them a citable part of the scientific record. They are widely indexed by indexers such as Crossref and Google Scholar, giving them a permanent digital presence. Once preprints receive a DOI, we cannot remove them from the platform without cause.
7.1 Withdrawal
7.2 Removal
In very rare circumstances, we may decide that a preprint needs to be removed from the site altogether. In these cases, the preprint is replaced with text indicating that the preprint has been removed. Wherever possible, the title and author list will persist.
8. Indexing
Preprints at Research Square are indexed through Crossref, Europe PMC, Google Scholar, Researcher, and Meta. PubMed Central indexes a limited subset of preprints.
9. Appeals
If we make a decision not to post a manuscript to the platform due to concerns identified at the screening step described in section 5, that decision cannot be appealed.
10. Commenting Policies
10.1 Commenter identification
Commenters are required to provide a name and email address.
10.2 Comment moderation
Comments that are flagged for moderation should only be removed if they contain offensive or inappropriate content. Comments written in a disrespectful manner may also be removed.
10.3 Comments guidelines
11. Archiving
Preprints are held in an archive run by Portico, who will post the full Research Square content repository in the event of the site ceasing to exist. This ensures permanence of all content posted to the platform.
12. Licencing
All preprints on the platform are published under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. For more guidance on licensing, please see the Preprint Licensing Information Page at ASAPbio.
13. Policy on media (images and videos) provided as part of a preprint submission
Pursuant to our Terms of Service, authors agree not to submit content that
Regarding the inclusion of geographical maps in any media provided as part of a preprint submission, Research Square remains neutral concerning jurisdictional claims implied by the depiction of frontiers or boundaries displayed in maps.
14. Citation
Please cite preprints on Research Square using the following format:
Martina Bientzle, Ulrike Cress, Joachim Kimmerle. Development of domain-specific epistemological beliefs of physiotherapists: A longitudinal study, 22 October 2019, PREPRINT (Version 3) available at Research Square [ +https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.2.9685/v3]
15. Guidance on the responsible use of preprints
Because preprints are posted before they have undergone expert scrutiny, they should not be considered conclusive, valid, or suitable for dissemination as established information or used to guide clinical practice. As with journal articles, readers should use their judgement or seek expert opinion themselves before using the information to inform their own research, writing, or behavior. Additional guidance for reporters seeking to cover preprints can be found here.