Why can’t I find my paper on SSRN?

Your paper may not be available on our site for a few different reasons. One possibility is that your paper may contain medical or health-related content, which triggers a deeper review process by SSRN's Medical Team to ensure transparency and compliance with best practices regarding health data. This review process can delay the public availability of the paper until the review is completed. This is not a peer review process, but we are screening for disclosure of ethics, conflicts/declaration of interest, funding and trial registration (where appropriate).

Another reason could be that SSRN may be waiting for additional information from you before making the paper publicly available. Your paper may be absent from search results until the requested information is provided.

Rest assured, our team will work quickly to restore your submission once we have all the full details.

If you opt to have your preprint sent to SSRN the journal will send the paper to SSRN at the time of submission, or when it goes under review with the journal. SSRN does not control when we receive your paper. The journal controls the timing of when the paper is sent to SSRN.

 

If your paper contains medical or health-related content and relies on tables and figures to explain certain concepts, we may be unable to make the paper public as we do not always receive tables and figures in the transfer from Editorial Manager. In addition, submissions that include files in LaTeX format may not be available to SSRN. This is something that SSRN is currently working on, but if you are able to share the data with SSRN, we can assist you in making the paper public.

 

If you would like more detailed information about medical content on SSRN or have specific questions about your paper's status, you may want to visit the FAQ section titled "What are medical or health care preprints?"