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SSRN Medical or Health Care Preprint Checklist
Last updated on July 10, 2023
Thank you for choosing to share your medical or health care related research with SSRN, Elsevier's open access preprint repository. SSRN completes a screening review process on all medical and health care related preprints. Review the checklist below to ensure your submission contains all the required information necessary for the successful review of your paper. Failure to provide this information may result in a delay in processing. Your submission may be temporarily unavailable and removed from your My Papers page during the review process.
The Corresponding Author submitting on behalf of his/her co-authors should provide a simple statement (roughly one sentence) addressing the appropriate information below and ensure everything is included in the PDF.
Click on each of the questions below to see a description of what information is needed for screening purposes.
Provide a Conflict of Interest or Competing Interest statement ensuring that any financial / personal interest or belief that could be considered to influence an author’s objectivity are disclosed. The statement needs to address/cover all authors.
State whether you received funding and identify the funding sources you received by providing a declaration of any funding or research grants (and their source(s)) received during the study, research, or assembly of the paper.
Provide a brief description of ethical approval including the name of the board that approved the study and the approval number/ID. If your study uses published or secondary data, please tell us in the methods section.
Appropriate consents, permissions and releases must be obtained where authors wish to include case details or other personal medical information. Please state whether written patient consent was obtained. Note, please do not send the signed forms to us.
Please provide details of the ethical / IACUC approval board / number for animal studies.
Trial should be prospectively registered, please provide a trial registration number associated with the trial (the publication of information about the design, conduct and administration of clinical trials).
Case Reports (typically 1-10 patients) should state that all patients provided written consent.
Confirm that the tables and figures you reference in your paper are included in the full text PDF.
SSRN does not always obtain the supplemental files you may have submitted to the journal therefore you may be required to submit these files to SSRN as well.
Written permission must be obtained from the rightsholder to re-use any copyrighted material. Typically, the rightsholder of published material is the publisher unless it is explicitly indicated otherwise. If applicable, provide SSRN with copyright permission in the comments section of your submission or resubmit with a different version of the full text PDF to which you hold the posting rights (i.e., the pre-print or accepted manuscript).
The title and all authors must be noted on the PDF. In addition, all authors should be displayed with their affiliations in the submission.
Why would a medical or health care preprint not be accepted to SSRN?
We do not post studies that have potential to cause harm. We also do not post medical or health care related preprints that are abstract only or studies that we cannot screen because they are non-English.
NOTE: Medical or health care preprints on SSRN are designed for the rapid, early dissemination of research findings; therefore, in most instances, we do not post reviews or opinion-led pieces, as well as editorials and perspectives. We do not post abstract only or non-English medical submissions.
For more information about SSRN and our preprint medical screening process visit What are medical or health care preprints?
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