Preprint policy

Dove Medical Press encourage authors to share an early version of their research as a preprint to increase visibility and support open research. We do not consider posting on a preprint server to be duplicate publication and this will not jeopardize consideration for publication. We require that you acknowledge in the disclosure section of your manuscript that your manuscript is also available on (name of non-commercial preprint server).

• If you have posted your manuscript to a preprint server, we ask that, upon acceptance, you acknowledge that the article has been accepted for publication as follows:
  “This article has been accepted for publication in [JOURNAL TITLE], published by Dove Medical Press.”

• After publication please update your preprint, adding the following text to encourage others to read and cite the final published version of your article:
  “This is an original manuscript of an article published by Dove Medical Press in [JOURNAL TITLE] on [date of publication], available online: https://doi.org/10.2147/[Article DOI].”

Updated 15 November 2024