Million works in arXiv.org

Paul Ginsparg - founder of arXiv.org

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

Based on the website founded by the physicist Paul Ginsparg in 1991, 500,000 documents were uploaded in the first 17 years of its existence, but recently the growth rate has increased significantly - the 1 million articles arXiv.org has reached in just six years. So every month 8,000 articles are uploaded to the site, which are checked by 150 volunteers for compliance with the requirements for the subject matter of materials, and the fact of possible plagiarism is checked automatically.
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Probably (it is difficult to determine precisely because of the peculiarities of the calculation of the downloaded files), the anniversary work was the work on mathematical statistics " A well conditioned and inverse covariance matrix using a joint penalty ", loaded 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 first appear only on it. So the famous Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman, famous for the proof of the Poincaré theorem, sent an article about it only on arXiv.org, in fact refusing to be printed elsewhere.

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