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Chetan_Waghela
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Dear Friends,
I want people to give their views criticize and improve what I place here.
Vixra is an open-access journal created to circumvent the issue of endorsement on arXiv. It does not have endorsement issues and is open to all. The reasons arXiv puts, is that it receives more than million papers every year, is it possible? check the page of endorsement policy of arXiv. If we see arXiv, then it is equally filled with crackpot papers which never get published in peer-reviewed journals. I am even sorry to say that I been working with a person who has more than 100 papers stuck in arXiv since years, and is a professor of a very famous institute worldwide. Moreover many big journals do not even accept papers if they are published in open-access, the reason is not that they might be low quality, but it reduces their chance to make money from subscribing to their journal,.
Over 30% of papers on viXra get published in peer-reviewed good journals like PRD.
I am not in favour of viXra.Comparing them, we see that if arXiv promises a semi-guaranteed approach viXra opens doors for new and critical ideas but both of them cannot guarantee entry of baseless papers.
I personally feel arXiv should relax their endorsement policy a bit or modify for good, and divide their journal to better manage it, if they receive a huge amount of papers to be published, then there would be no place for wrong papers being published.
What are your thoughts?
I want people to give their views criticize and improve what I place here.
Vixra is an open-access journal created to circumvent the issue of endorsement on arXiv. It does not have endorsement issues and is open to all. The reasons arXiv puts, is that it receives more than million papers every year, is it possible? check the page of endorsement policy of arXiv. If we see arXiv, then it is equally filled with crackpot papers which never get published in peer-reviewed journals. I am even sorry to say that I been working with a person who has more than 100 papers stuck in arXiv since years, and is a professor of a very famous institute worldwide. Moreover many big journals do not even accept papers if they are published in open-access, the reason is not that they might be low quality, but it reduces their chance to make money from subscribing to their journal,.
Over 30% of papers on viXra get published in peer-reviewed good journals like PRD.
I am not in favour of viXra.Comparing them, we see that if arXiv promises a semi-guaranteed approach viXra opens doors for new and critical ideas but both of them cannot guarantee entry of baseless papers.
I personally feel arXiv should relax their endorsement policy a bit or modify for good, and divide their journal to better manage it, if they receive a huge amount of papers to be published, then there would be no place for wrong papers being published.
What are your thoughts?