Author preprint behaviour and non‐compliance with journal preprint policies: One biomedical journal's experience

We investigated author use of preprints including compliance with journal preprint policy, timing of posting, likelihood of preprint review impacting manuscript content, and consistency in licensing. Submissions to one biomedical journal were reviewed over 2.5 years. About 24% of authors were non‐compliant with the journal's preprint policy. Only three journal articles out of 76 posted as preprints received publicly available comments on the preprints. Additionally, most preprints and articles were submitted so closely together temporally (