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Apparently arXiv, can reject paper after several weeks of submission even if you are an academic with no reasons given whatsoever. This perhaps due to some rea
by teleforce 3y ago
Apparently arXiv, can reject paper after several weeks of submission even if you are an academic with no reasons given whatsoever. This perhaps due to some reasons but the fact that they can just reject any paper as they wished since they are the gatekeeper even without telling the authors the reason why, is very concerning. Perhaps due to the authors being first submitter to arXiv with no endorsement, but lack of feedback and several weeks delay just not professional on their part although it is probably a voluntary work though. In research a few weeks can affect the paper's originality tremendously.
I once read that arXiv is everything good about science, remember Perelman published his groundbreaking here, but now I have my doubts [1]. I think this a good opportunity to have an automated AI based repository with proper timestamp, no backtracking and non-repudiattion features as an alternative to arXiv without human gatekeeper in place. The paper's authors can be charged a small fees for the submission to this new online research repository so that their originality of idea and contribution is timestamped properly.
[1]The Non-Peer-Reviewed Proof That Won the Fields Medal:
https://siddharthlabh.medium.com/the-non-peer-reviewed-proof-that-won-the-fields-medal-8a9683cb0f28 https://siddharthlabh.medium.com/the-non-peer-reviewed-proof...