Nobody questions that arXiv is a publisher. They even have a moderation. Preprint publishers are not peer-reviewed publications, arXiv does just basic moderatio

Nobody questions that arXiv is a publisher. They even have a moderation. Preprint publishers are not peer-reviewed publications, arXiv does just basic moderation and requires registration to sumbit. The emergence of low selectivity megajournals like Nature Scientific Reports and their low quality of peer review, blurs the difference in the low end. IMHO arXiv is in par with "Nature Scientific Reports" as credibility goes. That does not mean arXiv is peer reviewed publication. It means Scientific Reports is not proper peer reviewed journal either https://info.arxiv.org/help/submit/index.html https://info.arxiv.org/help/submit/index.html >All submissions are subject to a moderation process that verifies material is appropriate and topical. Material that contains offensive language, non-scientific content, or is plagiarized may be removed. An open letter regarding Scientific Reports https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-open-letter-regarding-scientific.html https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-open-letter-regardi... Cleaning up "Scientific Reports": Can It Be Done? https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/cleaning-scientific-reports-can-it-be-done https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/cleaning-scientifi...