V much see your point here (and the follow-ons): in my mind the scoop threat fear is mostly about incidental/accidental
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that much harder to do, label it as malicious.
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Too early to be thinking about academic misconduct, need coffee!


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Also to be clear, if somebody is working on the same thing sees you're doing something similar and uses something you came up, a method
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an analysis anything that's more yours than common knowledge, and publishes it without telling you... That's scooping & certainly malicious.
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Even if their excuse is "sorry I forgot you came up with that"... Well, if they are indeed sorry they publish a correction stating as such!
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This is exactly that situation in which a preprint can only strengthen your argument and demonstrate to others you came up with it.
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IMHO this is one of the rarest ways people scoop. Needs so much data and experimental overlap for them to steal your method of idea.
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Ah, def a field difference: in astro this is probably more common b/c there’s a lot of methodological overlap even for v diff sci results
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