#preprints

#preprints

Preprint moderators have to strike 'a really, really difficult balance' between rapidly sharing new research and protecting the community from flawed or harmful material, says Natascha Chtena, who studies scholarly communication and open science at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.

A few years ago, I put together what I felt was a truly innovative concept, which I presented in a conference poster at an international meeting in my field. After the presentation, I spoke to another early-career scientist about my work and how it might apply to their findings. Two years later, they scooped me by publishing a preprint paper that presented my idea, with many of the same verbal formulations and an identical flow of ideas, without any acknowledgement or attribution to my work.