arXiv facts for kids

arXiv

Type of site	Science
Available in	English
Owner	Cornell University
Created by	Paul Ginsparg
Alexa rank	2,233 (June 2020[update])
Commercial	No
Launched	August 14, 1991; 33 years ago (1991-08-14)
Current status	Online
ISSN	2331-8422
OCLC number	228652809

arXiv (pronounced "archive"—the X represents the Greek letter chi [χ]) is an open-access repository of scientific pre-prints. All documents are stored as PDF.

Importance

Generally, all scientific journals have peer-review procedures. This process sometimes take several years. The time lag made by this process will easily cause delay to the scientific community. arXiv was made to avoid this delay.

Usage at Wikipedia etc.

Wikipedia and some journals accept citations by arXiv. Some academic search engines (such as Google Scholar) can help users to find arXiv pre-prints.

Scientific areas

arXiv includes pre-prints from various scientific fields such as:

• Computer science
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning
• Mathematics
  • Algebraic geometry
  • Numerical analysis
  • Statistics
• Physics

Similar websites

Today, there are several arXiv-like websites in other areas.

• bioRxiv: This is the biology version of arXiv
• ChemRxiv: This is the chemistry version of arXiv
• EarthArXiv: Earth science & planetary science version of arXiv
• medRxiv: Medicine version of arXiv. It includes many pre-prints about COVID-19.
• SocArXiv: Social science version of arXiv

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Images for kids

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  A screenshot of the arXiv taken in 1994, using the browser NCSA Mosaic. At the time, HTML forms were a new technology.

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  ArXiv's yearly submission rate growth over 30 years since its beginning with topics labelled by the standard abbreviations used on arxiv.org

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  A screenshot of viewing a paper's abstract on arxiv.org in 2021

See also

In Spanish: ArXiv para niños