The gap between a Masters level dissertation/thesis and a journal article
should be quite considerable from the perspective of educational outcomes, let
alone the more superficial editorial considerations of restructuring and
rewriting. This should guarantee that the two documents are too
No, not always so. Some master theses are written in the journal article
format. We even have examples of already published articles being submitted as
master theses.
So I am still keen on views on how common it is for journals to reject
manuscripts if the preprint is already available in an
Heather and others,
Although I acknowledge the differences between these publishers, it is perhaps
noteworthy that apparently Elsevier did find it (commercially, which includes
reputation) wise to release mathematics backfiles for free, as you probably
know:
You can also get a PhD the same way, if you also provide sufficient context and
explanation of the overall contribution of your (usually three) papers to
satisfy examiners, but that is the opposite to what is being asked. (Submitting
a publication for examination, rather than an examination
Question: How common is it that journals reject submitted manuscripts purely
because the paper is already available as a preprint in some repository?
At our institution (UiT The Arctic University of Norway), master students'
supervisors very often advice their students not to make their thesis
Longva Leif wrote:
So I am still keen on views on how common it is for journals to reject
manuscripts
if the preprint is already available in an IR.
This would be an application of Ingelfinger Rule (no submission accepted in
case of “prior publication”).
I haven’t found any in-depth
See:
Marisa L. Ramírez,
Gail McMillan,
Joan T. Dalton,
Ann Hanlon,
Heather S. Smith,
and Chelsea Kern
Do Open Access Electronic Theses and Dissertations Diminish Publishing
Opportunities in the Sciences? Coll. res. libr. November 2014 75:808-821;
doi:10.5860/crl.75.6.808
