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Why don't people just publish through Arxiv? Is there not a discussion forum where people can post, discover, and comment on new papers? If you know of one for

• avs733 8y ago
  because while that might make sense at the field level, it relies on scholars getting credit for that work, which few do.
  • QML 8y ago
    Could you elaborate on what you mean by scholars getting credit for their work?
    • Fomite 8y ago
      Very few tenure committees, funding agencies, etc. give equal weight to an arXiv pre-print and a published paper.
• tnecniv 8y ago
  > Why don't people just publish through Arxiv? ArXiv is not peer reviewed.
• ms013 8y ago
  Posting on arxiv is useful for making results available early, and to make published work available in some form that isn’t pay walled, but posting on arxiv on its own is not publishing as it isn’t peer reviewed.