A million works at arXiv.org

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    Paul Ginsparg - founder of arXiv.org

    The largest free online archive of electronic publications of scientific articles and their preprints arXiv.org December 29, 2014 reached the mark of 1 million documents, which was announced in a special press release on the website of the University of Cornwall.

    Over the first 17 years of its existence, 500,000 documents were uploaded to the site founded by physicist Paul Ginsparg in 1991, but recently the growth rate has increased significantly - arXiv.org has reached the mark of 1 million articles in just the last six years. So each month 8,000 articles are uploaded to the site, which are checked by 150 volunteers to ensure compliance with the requirements for the subject of materials, and the fact of possible plagiarism is automatically checked.

    Probably (it’s difficult to determine exactly because of the peculiarities of counting downloaded files), the anniversary work on mathematical statistics " A well conditioned and sparse estimate of covariance and inverse covariance matrix using a joint penalty " was uploaded on the morning of December 26th.

    Despite the fact that publication on arXiv.org is not a publication in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, very often first-class works appear first only on it. So the famous Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman, known for proving Poincare’s theorem, sent an article about it only to arXiv.org, in fact, refusing to print anywhere else.

    An approximate quantitative distribution of work on scientific disciplines on arXiv.org is as follows: the largest number of articles is on high-energy physics (about 150,000), followed by mathematics and solid-state physics (125,000 each). The indicator of 20,000-30000 articles is divided among themselves by articles on IT topics, quantum and nuclear physics.

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