Firstly, every submitting author who begins a submission gets a number allocated to their submission. (Apparently, this is not the approach with xxx.lanl). A few authors bail out; a few start from scratch again -so their submission gets a new number.
I suppose I have screened out about 6 submissions -because they didn't fulfil our criteria for "original research." These articles fall more easily into the category of hypothesis. For original research, I don't think it's up to us to have an opinion on whether it's right or not, and exclude the stuff that we think isn't.. So from where I sit there's no confusion. Clarity, really. The low numbers (cf with the first six months of the lanl server) may be explained by the lack of a pre-existing preprint culture in medicine and ignorance of our service. We're learning -as are all pure online "plays" - that you've got to market your product hard if people are going to be aware of its existence. And that's for a product for which we have identified no supporting revenue stream...and we're not looking for one. Tony Delamothe ------------------------------------------------------------ Comments sent via ClinMed NetPrints Feedback Page ------------------------------------------------------------
