Hi friends at @ASAPbio_ and fans or preprints, I really need your help. I'm a bit fan of #preprints, but there is new development that if it finds copycats, will totally kill preprints at @biorxiv and @medrxiv. There is a journal at @mitpress, called 'Rapid REviews COVID19'. It..
downloads #preprints from @biorxiv and @medrxiv, and starts a formal peer review process, against the wishes of the authors, and then puts the reviews online. Our paper is already under peer review, and I really believe it should not be peer reviewed by @mitpress against our wish
Why is it a problem? 1) Imagine you have a controversial paper. It may become unpublishable, and in this way Rapid Reviews will have severely compromised the career chances of the postdocs and PhD students participating
2) They claims that one can transfer thir Reviews to an established journal and publish it there. But that's a stunt. No important journals has committed to decide on the basis of their Reviews. So effectively each paper they take, gets through a useless, additional Review round
I'm worried that if publishing a #preprint now means, you loose control of your paper, and dodgy journals like 'Rapid Peer Reviews' start public review processes against the wishes of the authors, and in this way clearly compromise the success of getting a paper published...
What I'm worried is, if publishing #preprint now means your chances to get your paper published in a serious journal are compromised, due to dodgy, public review processes conducted against the wishes of the authors, you have no choice rather than stop publishing preprints
So please help me in approaching @biorxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint , @ASAPbio_ @mitpress and safe #preprints, by stopping journals like 'Rapid Reviews COVID-19" to kill #preprints, by conducting Review processess agains the wish of the authors
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