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Counting ArXiv Delays
- bagrow 3mo agoI'd like to see a cumulative version of that power law plot. How many papers had a delay of at least X days. I have been bit by several inexplicable, long delays recently. In my case, I suspected the reason was choosing stat.ml as primary and cs.lg as cross-list, which, after my time in purgatory, was flipped (without asking me, of course). My choice was completely defensible. It's almost like peer review all over again!
- jszymborski 3mo agoJust wanted to say that the plots are so nice. They perfectly balance visual noise and information density, _and_ they're aesthetically pleasing.
- doc_ick 3mo agoWith the rise of ai, ai-based papers, and ais writing terrible papers; why are you surprised or frustrated? Wouldn’t you want some kind of barrier against slop?
- fi-le 3mo agoIf you read the article, you'll find that, surprisingly, the delay I was personally observing likely has nothing to do with AI-assisted submissions.
- doc_ick 3mo ago“And here we found the culprit. The paper I was submitting belongs under cs.CY, Computers and Society, as I now know after reviewing all the categories more carefully.” I’d think the indirect cause is ai, given its recent bull/glass shop approach.
- fi-le 3mo agoWithin the cs.CY category, I only found a slight increase in delays since 2016, that seems to be well within error bars, but it could also be that my sample size was too small.
- tokai 3mo agoThe growths of scientific papers published has been understood to be exponential since the early 50s.[0] So it really shouldn't be a surprise. Even without AI. [0] https://garfield.library.upenn.edu/price/pricequantitativemeasures1951.pdf https://garfield.library.upenn.edu/price/pricequantitativeme...
- doc_ick 3mo agoHmm, I am surprised to hear it’s understood to be exponential, but thanks for the reference. I will read up on it.
- gdiamos 3mo agoNo, I want arxiv to host the paper, not to review the paper. I wouldn't want my google drive to start telling me my paper was too sloppy. I just want a link.
- Jaxan 3mo agoYou can also just put a paper on your website (or google drive). If arXiv isn’t working for you, why submit there? Personally, i see no problem with delays, research takes longer than a few days. Reviews take a few weeks or months even.
- doc_ick 3mo agoDitto with this, if arxiv is just a hosting site then what’s different then a personal GitHub site hosting your paper? Ai and Google would pick it up eventually.
- gdiamos 2mo agoI want a hosted paper to be archived. That means that 10 years from now I don’t want think about making sure the hosting server is up. I also want it to have a standard format for bibliography, DOI, and authors. I agree it isn’t much, but it’s more than I get from a regular web hosting service and it is a standard format for papers so I don’t think it makes sense for every author to roll their own.
- jazzpush2 3mo agoYes, the daly time recently is absolutely ridiculous. Been waiting on a preprint that's already been accepted in a top journal for seemingly no reason.
- emil-lp 3mo agoIt was accepted in a top journal for seemingly no reason?