استخدام أعضاء هيئة التدريس بجامعة الأزهر للمستودعات المسبقة للطباعة

Abstract EN

Publishing to preprint servers is one alternative to the various scientific publishing process.

Therefore, this study aims to identify the preprint servers, monitor their advantages and disadvantages, and indicate the extent to which faculty members and the supporting body at Al-Azhar University use them in the publishing and scientific research process to cite them in scientific articles; Using the survey method, the study reached several results, including: The total percentage of knowledge of pre-print repositories for the study sample was 23% , compared to 77% who did not know what preprint servers were.

The most used preprint repositories in the process of searching for intellectual production by the study sample were the AfricArxiv and F1000 repositories and ranked first with 16% , then the OSF Preprints repository with 14% , then Arabixiv and MedRxiv repositories with 12% , and Arabixiv and MedRxiv servers in third place.

The majority of the study sample, 86% , do not cite articles published on preprint servers, and only 14% cite works published on preprint servers.

It was also found by examining the Scopus database, only 22% of researchers have published articles on preprint servers, and 88% of the most published researchers do not have articles on pre-print repositories, and only 13% of the study sample used these repositories in the process of printing.

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Most of the majority of the study sample, 90% , believe that preprint servers contributed to the process of publishing research results during the Corona crisis, while 10% of the study sample believed that these servers did not contribute to the Corona crisis.