The Need for Speed: How quickly do preprints become published articles?

Authors

Rachel Herbert, Elsevier
Kate Gasson, Elsevier
Alex Ponsford, Elsevier

ORCID IDs

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4088-1223 Rachel Herbert

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5263-146X Kate Gasson

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2560-572X Alex Ponsford

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2019

Citation

Herbert, R., Gasson, K. & Ponsford, A. (2019) The Need for Speed, How quickly do preprints become published articles? ICSR Perspectives

Comments

CC-BY-NC-SA

Abstract

bioRxiv’s option for authors to submit biology preprints directly to journals typically speeds up publication of articles by nearly 2 weeks—an advantage for authors who are keen to get their work published quickly

Authors approach ‘preprinting’ in different ways: while most post a preprint before submitting to a journal, just over a third of preprints were submitted to and accepted by a journal before the preprint appeared on bioRxiv

Biology preprints with just one version are published 2 weeks more quickly than those with multiple versions