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Can a person just go upload anything on arxiv or is there a review process around these things? What I am really asking is "what makes something a paper and no

• forgotpwd16 3y ago
  ArXiv is kinda reputation-based. That is to submit something you need to be endorsed, either done automatically, based on institution, or asking established authors. After being endorsed to a subject area, you can submit freely to it, keeping in mind: >Submissions to arXiv are subject to a moderation process that classifies material as topical to the subject area and checks for scholarly value. Material is not peer-reviewed by arXiv - the contents of arXiv submissions are wholly the responsibility of the submitter and are presented “as is” without any warranty or guarantee.
• MzxgckZtNqX5i 3y ago
  "Articles" on arXiv are not peer-reviewed, they just check whether it looks like it belongs to one of the categories they hosts: "Registered users may submit articles to be announced by arXiv. There are no fees or costs for article submission. Submissions to arXiv are subject to a moderation process that classifies material as topical to the subject area and checks for scholarly value. Material is not peer-reviewed by arXiv - the contents of arXiv submissions are wholly the responsibility of the submitter and are presented “as is” without any warranty or guarantee." [0] They are commonly known as pre-prints, in a similar fashion to IACR ePrint [1] for cryptography. [0]: https://info.arxiv.org/about/index.html https://info.arxiv.org/about/index.html [1]: https://eprint.iacr.org/ https://eprint.iacr.org/