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How much of arXiv goes on to be peer-reviewed and published?

Sorry the not-so-snappy title, but this is a question someone asked me yesterday: How many papers on arXiv eventually end up published in a peer-reviewed journal? I had to confess I had no idea.

Tim Ingoldsby of the AIP has done some fantastic work recently in working out the reverse of this, how many papers in published journals are also available on arXiv.org [answer: it varies wildly across sub-disciplines but averages out to around 40%]. I emailed Tim, but he didn't have the information for this particular question.

So has there ever been any work done on signal-to-noise in arXiv? ['noise' may be a little unfair, but you get my drift]. If there isn't - then a Friday afternoon project may well have presented itself to me!

Posted by Chris Leonard at 10:23    Comments (0)