Timeline for Is there an alternative to the arXiv for uploading mathematical papers?
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| Mar 19 at 18:17 | vote | accept | Favst | ||
| Nov 19, 2022 at 8:47 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | @VladimirDotsenko since the paper in question is submitted to a real journal already, and the OP expects it to be published, then I'm not sure what the problem is... | |
| Nov 19, 2022 at 6:55 | comment | added | Vladimir Dotsenko | @DavidRoberts every good research paper I saw on RG was actually published elsewhere (in a reputable journal or on the arXiv). I strongly believe that if one looks at instances where the only published copy is on RG, it is as much bottom of the barrel as vixra. In any case, seeing it on the same list as HAL both amused and frightened me. | |
| Nov 19, 2022 at 0:15 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | @VladimirDotsenko I see lots of good papers on ResearchGate, for instance that turn up in google searches for actual results—but I've seen maybe two good papers on vixra, and they were slightly special cases. I confess that I don't go specifically browsing it, but one would imagine that serious papers would bubble up every now and then, were they there. | |
| Nov 18, 2022 at 14:38 | comment | added | Marco Ripà | In Favst's particular case (i.e., sharing a preprint by adding it in the link section of some OEIS sequences), I think that you can use almost any of the repositories that I've already mentioned above (so I did several times... arXiv, HAL, RG are usually pretty fine if the content of the preprint is relevant/valuable). | |
| Nov 18, 2022 at 14:35 | comment | added | Marco Ripà | I basically agree that we can find some/many bizzarre preprints on both viXra and RG (e.g., I remember preprints claiming proofs for Goldbach conjecture, FLT - in less than 10 pages -, and so on...). I think that about $15\%$ of viXra contents could be publishable by some non-predatory journal without addressing them (at least) for major revisions, while this percentage would be higher for RG.\ About Zenodo and OSF, I do not know them well, but I think that their main advantage is to let you share also intermediate drafts. | |
| Nov 18, 2022 at 11:21 | comment | added | Favst | Any thoughts on Zenodo? I came across it just now and wondered about it. | |
| Nov 18, 2022 at 10:36 | comment | added | Vladimir Dotsenko | @DavidRoberts in all fairness, ResearchGate also has an awful lot of truly bizarre preprints, as I discovered recently in the process of being harassed by someone demanding me to read their rather hopeless writings aiming to solve most Millenium problems... | |
| Nov 18, 2022 at 3:37 | comment | added | Marco Ripà | P.S. Feel free to rearrange my list by changing the order of the entries as you wish... that was just my thought, based on the specific question, not an absolute ranking of the repositories. | |
| Nov 18, 2022 at 3:34 | comment | added | Marco Ripà | I didn't know Figshare before, I've just taken a look and it seems to be very good. Then, I am taking only into account 100% free repositories and I put RG as a fourth choice, since it could be not allowed by some journals (which is the premise of the whole answer, but I like it very much as a user)... if we are only looking at the average overall quality of the preprints, I generally agree to put RG above viXra. | |
| Nov 18, 2022 at 3:17 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | Vixra is a gamble. There's a very small amount of decent work there, and I would advise something like ResearchGate for figshare or Academia.edu above vixra, since it sends a certain sort of signal. | |
| Nov 18, 2022 at 2:48 | history | edited | Marco Ripà | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 18, 2022 at 2:38 | history | edited | Marco Ripà | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 18, 2022 at 2:32 | history | answered | Marco Ripà | CC BY-SA 4.0 |