ArXiv doesn't give your paper any credibility either. If you want credibility, submit it to a journal. Journals don't require that the paper be on ArXiv. The

ArXiv doesn't give your paper any credibility either. If you want credibility, submit it to a journal. Journals don't require that the paper be on ArXiv. The reason I submitted our paper to ArXiv was that it was accepted at a workshop that was peer-reviewed, but non-archival, so just wanted to be able to point people at something a little easier to reference than the workshop github page.