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| Mar 4, 2015 at 16:09 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @IgorBelegradek : My impression is that there is a generation gap at work. There are people who check journals but not the ArXiv, but they tend to be older. Also, the situation varies somewhat depending on your subfield. Some subfields of mathematics have lagged behind other subfields in their adoption of the ArXiv. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 3:47 | comment | added | Igor Belegradek | @TimothyChow: for most people I know the exact opposite is true-they check arxiv but not journals. It is hard to get excited when a paper appears in the Annals several years after it was written. Yes, I know a few people who never read papers on the internet, but then they do not read journals either. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 2:22 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @IgorBelegradek : There may be some confusion surrounding your use of the word "publicity", which to most people connotes actual awareness of the paper by many people, or at least active effort to make people aware of it. I believe that Pace Nielsen is saying that some mathematicians are more likely to be totally unaware of what is posted on the ArXiv compared to what is published in journals. (Of course nobody disagrees that the ArXiv provides the public with excellent access to its papers.) | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 1:24 | comment | added | Igor Belegradek | Sure, publishing in a good journal is better than almost any proceedings. But this is due to prestige and higher standards rather than to access and publicity. Papers put in arxiv are not "lost to general knowledge" even if they stay unpublished. | |
| Mar 3, 2015 at 22:25 | comment | added | Pace Nielsen | @IgorBelegradek: I disagree that posting a paper on the arxiv always gives it the same level of publicity (especially in terms of acclaim) as publishing it in a solid journal, but that's just my personal opinion. | |
| Mar 3, 2015 at 21:58 | comment | added | Igor Belegradek | For publicity and access it is enough put the paper to arxiv, so this is a non-issue. | |
| Mar 3, 2015 at 20:46 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Mar 3, 2015 at 15:56 | history | answered | Pace Nielsen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |