Preprints, preprint servers, and early reporting of scholarly work

We support the need for authors to share early versions of their work before peer review publication. There are also a number of options for World Journal of Case Reports and Clinical Images authors to share the final Version of Record of their published article.

Preprints and preprint servers

A preprint, also known as the Author’s Original Manuscript (AOM), is your article before you have submitted it to a journal for peer review. Preprint servers are online repositories which enable you to post this early version of your research paper online.

If you upload your AOM to a non-commercial preprint server, you can subsequently submit the manuscript to a World Journal of Case Reports and Clinical Images journal. We do not consider posting on a preprint server to be duplicate publication and this will not jeopardize consideration for publication.