Preprinttinä

Preprinttinä is the Finnish term for the status of a manuscript when it is shared publicly before undergoing formal peer review and journal publication. In academic practice, a document posted as a preprint is intended to disseminate findings rapidly, establish precedence, and invite feedback from the scholarly community. The phrase roughly corresponds to “as a preprint” in English.

Preprint systems operate through repositories such as arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and OSF Preprints, as well as institutional repositories. When a manuscript is submitted, the repository assigns a unique identifier and records metadata including authors, title, date, and subject area. Most preprints are posted with a clear disclaimer that they have not undergone peer review; readers should interpret results cautiously and not treat them as final validated work. Preprints can be updated with new versions, each of which is timestamped and often assigned its own version number and DOI.

Authors may license their preprints with open-access licenses, such as Creative Commons, enabling reuse under specified terms. Journal policies vary: some journals allow submission of manuscripts that have appeared as preprints, while others impose embargoes or restrictions. Because of these differences, authors commonly verify a target journal’s policy before posting a preprint.

Overall, preprinttinä can accelerate dissemination, facilitate feedback and collaboration, and help establish precedence, while requiring careful interpretation due to the absence of formal peer review.