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Different disciplines began regularly posting their papers to the arXiv at different times. The order was (very) roughly High-energy theory ~1992 Other physi
by jessriedel 3y ago
Different disciplines began regularly posting their papers to the arXiv at different times. The order was (very) roughly
High-energy theory ~1992
Other physics theory ~1994
Physics experiment ~1996
Math ~2000
CS ~2008
Some disciplines flipped nearly overnight, while others took several years of slow growth before posting to the arXiv become the default.
- bfung 3y agoAdvertisements masquerading as science ~2016 (2023 for sure)
- queuebert 3y agoI feel like you're calling out deep learning.
- bfung 3y ago100%
- starcraft2wol 3y agoOf course. Sophisticated marketing campaigns have material covering the full range of audiences from bikini clad women, to scientific papers.
- jxf 3y agoAhh, this does explain it somewhat (I'm mostly a CS-background and econ-background person). Thank you for adding your knowledge.
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoCS was surely earlier, it was quite widely used by 2006 in my recollection
- jessriedel 3y agoLike I said, it's very rough since the transition happened over several year. I dunno, you can eyeball this plot; if anything I'd say it didn't become default in CS until after 2010: https://info.arxiv.org/help/stats/2021_by_area/index.html https://info.arxiv.org/help/stats/2021_by_area/index.html
- sillysaurusx 3y agoThank you for linking that! Do you happen to know what "eess" is?
- jessriedel 3y agoElectrical engineering and systems science. You can find all the abbreviations on the home page (which is easy to ctrl-f for) https://arxiv.org/ https://arxiv.org/ or this taxonomy page (which annoyingly has to be clicked at each level, but is maybe easier to read) https://arxiv.org/category_taxonomy https://arxiv.org/category_taxonomy
- sillysaurusx 3y agoThank you very much :)