I'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.
The 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.
Ditto 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.
Yes, 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.
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It's almost like peer review all over again!
Wouldn’t you want some kind of barrier against slop?
[0] https://garfield.library.upenn.edu/price/pricequantitativeme...
I wouldn't want my google drive to start telling me my paper was too sloppy. I just want a link.
Personally, i see no problem with delays, research takes longer than a few days. Reviews take a few weeks or months even.