Research Papers Appearing in Journals with Pre-Publication Restrictions

I am writing to collect information on research papers that have been published since October, or will be published by March 7th, in journals that preclude pre-publication distribution.* These are papers that could not be included in the NBER working paper series. Information on these papers will be distributed in the NBER 'List of Affiliates’ Work in Medical and Other Journals with Pre-Publication Restrictions’. Health-related papers will also be listed in the spring Bulletin on Health.

If one or more of your papers appeared in the last 4 months, or is going to appear by early March, in a peer-reviewed journal with a pre-publication embargo policy, please send citation details and/or a link to the published paper to me at sstewart_at_nber.org by Wednesday February 23nd.  These papers must meet the same standards as submissions to the NBER working paper series – they should present new research findings and may not make policy recommendations or offer normative judgments about policies.**

The list of health-related papers from last cycle may be found here: https://www.nber.org/bh-20222/affiliates-research-medical-journals-fall-2022

Thank you for providing this information and assisting the NBER in calling attention to your research.

Best,
Susan Stewart

Research Specialist and Communications Assistant
National Bureau of Economic Research
1050 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA  02138
617-588-0378

*We encourage affiliates to check journals’ policies regarding working paper preprints; many journals do not consider them as prior publication and some wish only to be notified of them upon submission to the journal. These include JAMA, NEJM, Nature journals, PNAS, Science, and others. However, we continue to include in our lists papers in these journals, recognizing that authors may be hesitant to post a working paper when they are not yet sure what journal will accept their paper, since editorial policies vary across journals.

**While they may report analytic results about policies, and explain how particular policies may maximize well-defined objectives, they may not state that particular policies should (or should not) be adopted, or make other normative statements. Please check you paper’s language in this regard prior to sending it to us for inclusion in the list. 

If the full text of your paper will not be available online until closer to March 7th, please send me a copy of the full text version.