审定预印本的兴起与发展:概念、内容与价值

The Rise and Development of Refereed Preprints: Concept, Content and Value

[目的/意义]基于目前预印本发展过程中面临的质量控制问题,对审定预印本的概念、内容与价值进行系统阐释,为我国学术界、实践界认识这一新型学术交流媒介提供参考借鉴。[方法/过程]采用网络调研法与内容分析法,对审定预印本的中文意译及概念的内涵与外延做出明确界定,基于概念定义剖析其宏观与微观内容体系,最后分析并论证其价值来源与价值构成。[结果/结论]审定预印本主要由预印本初始手稿、单轮同行评审报告与作者修改回复三部分组成,其内容体系上的完整性,使之具有完成预印本发布后的同行评审质量控制、服务于当前期刊学术出版过程两大核心价值,同时还具有提供科研人员同行评审学习范例、辅助公众对预印本中早期研究结论进行科学评估两大附加价值。

[Purpose/Significance]Based on the current quality control problem faced in the development of preprints,this paper systematically explains the concept,content and values of refereed preprints,so as to provide reference for Chinese academic and practical circles to understand this new academic communication medium.[Method/Process]Using the method of network research and content analysis,the Chinese translation of refereed preprints were interpreted,the denotation and connotation of the concept were defined,the macro and micro content systems were analyzed,finally its value source and value composition were demonstrated.[Result/Conclusion]Refereed preprints are mainly composed of three parts,which are the initial manuscript of the preprints,the single-round peer review reports and the author’s revised response to the single-round review reports.Relying on the integrity of its content system,it not only has two core merits of fulfilling the peer-review quality control for preprints’post-publication and serving the current journal academic publishing process,but also goes with two additional values of providing peer-review learning examples for researchers and assisting the public to give scientific evaluation for the early findings in the preprints.