“Publishing preprints, postprints, or even the peer-review process allows the tracking of the development of a final version of a scholarly article” “Its impact is measured by counting the amount of citations to it, references which result at article level … it remains unclear as to whether the article is referenced as a citation within the introduction, a reference to similar ‘Material and Methods,’ or whether the cited article is being disputed in the discussion” The production process is not visible to the reader … currently, final versions of scholarly publications do not contain traces of their production process. The contribution of individual authors is not visible Finalized versions do not allow changes, thus making corrections and additions nearly impossible The current publication system is a consequence of a scholarly knowledge dissemination system which developed in times before the Internet when printing and disseminating printed issues of papers were the only means for distributing scientific results. Dynamic.. Meaning no static version exists. Dynamic publications evolve. Working version Message boards where threads are initiated by posting open questions leads to a question-centered discussion and the discussions in turn stay on topic
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