Timeline for Tips for reading arXiv papers in mathematics
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| Feb 11 at 16:49 | comment | added | Vladimir Dotsenko | @PaceNielsen I am very surprised to hear that in your area not a lot goes to the arXiv! My experience in hiring committees suggests that people do use arXiv a lot to have a first approximation of candidates' research activity, and so if some fields do not use arXiv that much it really should be better known... | |
| Feb 8 at 2:29 | comment | added | Pace Nielsen | @darijgrinberg Journal ToCs are one tool I use, which I've found to be much more useful than daily arXiv checking (which I also do). But, honestly, to get up-to-date on a problem, it is much better to simply use MathSciNet, look through citations and the literature, talk to others who publish in the area, etc... [There are, of course, some significant counter-examples to my general claim, which is why I waste so much time checking the arXiv.] | |
| Feb 8 at 1:38 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | @SamHopkins the arXiv can feel like it covers "the large majority .. of the papers I am interested in", but it really is only a selection. The rate of journal publication even in mathematics is more than the arXiv. The numbers are not exactly comparable, but 2021 on the arXiv is about 34.4k articles arxiv.org/year/math/22 (and another 10.7k with cross-lists). The US alone has 40k articles published in maths in 2022 scimagojr.com/countryrank.php?area=2600&year=2022 Germany/UK/France is another O(40k) articles. | |
| Feb 7 at 21:59 | comment | added | darij grinberg | How do people stay up-to-date in noncommutative algebra then? Do they subscribe to journal ToCs and ask authors for preprints in case of interest? Are there newsgroups where papers are announced? Asking for a friend (I am partly working in the field myself, and would rather like to know what has been done). | |
| Feb 7 at 18:23 | comment | added | Pace Nielsen | 1. My field is friendly, and I can send papers to people most likely to be interested. 2. We have regular conferences, where I can talk about my research and get feedback. 3. I have almost never received feedback from my arXiv submissions. 4. I don't like some aspects of the arXiv. 5. I post preprints on my own webpage, under my own control. | |
| Feb 7 at 18:23 | comment | added | Pace Nielsen | @SamHopkins It is absolutely subfield dependent. Number theory got about 75 submissions this past week, while combinatorics got 110. By the way, some researchers in my area do put all their papers on the arXiv, others never post preprints, and others (like me) put some on and others not. Speaking just for me, there are a number of reasons I don't post all my papers. | |
| Feb 7 at 18:08 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | Maybe it is subfield dependent then. There were 19 preprints listed or cross-listed on math.CO (combinatorics) yesterday, and I would guess that is pretty typical. But I do wonder why so many researchers in your area would not put their articles on the arXiv. | |
| Feb 7 at 18:02 | comment | added | Pace Nielsen | @SamHopkins In the past week, there were 26 submissions under the arXiv heading "rings and algebra". Most of these are not directly in my specialized research area (noncommutative ring theory). Every month, the single journal "Communications in Algebra" publishes around 30-35 articles. A much larger percentage of these are in my area. And this is just a single journal. The total output in good journals far exceeds the arXiv (in both amount, and in quality---depending on the journal). | |
| Feb 7 at 17:55 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | I'm surprised about your claim that the arXiv is a small amount of recent research. I would guess the large majority (not all) of new papers I am interested appear on the arXiv, and significantly before they appear in any journal. | |
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