预印本可否替代学术期刊?——基于科学社会学的视角

Can Preprints Replace Journals?From the Perspective of Sociology of Science

预印本作为一种快速发展的学术交流方式,展示出诸多传统期刊不具备的优势。在重大公共危机中,这种优势愈加凸显。预印本与期刊的功能存在重叠,两者之间的竞争不可避免。为了回答预印本可否替代学术期刊这一问题,文章从信息传播、科学优先权和同行评议三个方面讨论了预印本的创新实践和影响。在综合比较了预印本和期刊的功能后,文章进一步指出预印本与期刊将共同塑造一种新的学术交流格局。最后文章探讨了中国布局电子预印本服务系统的策略。

As a rapidly developing, preprints are showing advantages that many traditional journals do not have, especially in a major public crisis. The functions of preprints and journals overlap, so competition between the two is inevitable. In order to answer whether preprints can replace the functions of journals, the article analyzes the characteristics of the preprint from three aspects: information dissemination, scientific priority, and peer review. The article then compared these features of preprints with journals, and concluded that preprints would weaken journal functions but not replace journals. Finally, the article discussed how China should develop preprints service system.