Author: PABLO MARKIN
The growing prominence of preprints, such as in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, has significantly affected the manner in which the paper abstracts are worded follows from the study of Frédérique Bordignon, Liana Ermakova and Marianne Noel (2021). More broadly, their findings suggest that Open-Access-first formats, e.g., preprints, that provide access to output that meets basic scholarly requirements but has not been submitted to peer review yet are not tantamount to publishing models, e.g., those of scholarly journals, the practices of which have evolved in closed-access environment and in their editing, review and other practices ensure the maintenance of quality standards. In this respect, while scholars around the world are increasingly motivated to take recourse to preprints, it is not necessarily free access to scholarly output that is bound to lead to citation advantage.
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