Timeline for Tips for reading arXiv papers in mathematics
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| Jul 20 at 21:47 | comment | added | xralf | I'm not sure if this helps, but when reading something for me the most important is the focus to understand the topic carefully. So, I created this Android app for reading. But it supports only html format now. | |
| Feb 11 at 15:49 | vote | accept | Shaun | ||
| Feb 7 at 19:32 | comment | added | juan | It is increasingly common to see that the latest version of arXiv corrects errors in the journal version. I would look at the latest arXiv version of any journal published article. | |
| Feb 7 at 17:50 | answer | added | Pace Nielsen | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 7 at 15:40 | comment | added | Hollis Williams | The degree to which proofs are carefully checked during peer review can depend on the area. | |
| Feb 7 at 7:26 | comment | added | Vladimir Dotsenko | @SamHopkins not only this depends quite drastically on the domain of maths, I also feel that the very drastic increase of the number of daily submissions over the last 20 years impacted the quality quite drastically too. I see more and more papers that benefited no proof-reading by the authors (and it is very easy to hide mistakes in badly written arguments)... | |
| Feb 7 at 5:45 | history | edited | David White | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 7 at 1:35 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 6 at 19:42 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Stefan Kohl♦ | ||
| Feb 6 at 18:49 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | The quality of arXiv papers in math is quite high generally. I don't think there's a reason to be enormously skeptical of most arXiv papers. Now, if we're talking about a claimed proof of a famous open problem, okay, be a skeptical; but that's definitely not the norm. On the flip side, having been peer reviewed is not a guarantee of correctness for a paper. I think young researchers are often confused about this. Proof checking is one thing that happens during peer review. But equally important, the referees and the journal itself determine if the paper has important new ideas in it. | |
| Feb 6 at 18:10 | answer | added | David White | timeline score: 36 | |
| Feb 6 at 18:06 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 6 at 18:06 | history | edited | YCor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 6 at 17:35 | history | asked | Shaun | CC BY-SA 4.0 |