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Know your Publishing Space: Preprints: Boon or Bane?

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  • Shubhada Nagarkar

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This essay addresses preprints, their advantages and disadvantages, the degree of public acceptance, and global promotional campaigns. It also focuses on dubious preprint servers as a source of scientific misinformation. It concludes with a cautionary note about the scenario in India.

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  • Shubhada Nagarkar, 2021. "Know your Publishing Space: Preprints: Boon or Bane?," Working Papers id:13163, eSocialSciences.
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    1. Tom Sheldon, 2018. "Preprints could promote confusion and distortion," Nature, Nature, vol. 559(7715), pages 445-445, July.
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