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categories: physics, mathematics, computational science, biology, chemistry, humanities, and other areas. Anyone may post anything on viXra, though house rules do prohibit "vulgar, libellous, plagiaristic or dangerously misleading" content. As a result, the site has a reputation among physicists for hosting "material of no interest". Physicist
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Gibbs originally started the archive to cater to researchers who believed that their preprints had been unfairly rejected or reclassified by the arXiv moderators. As of 2013, it had over 4000 preprints, and by December 2020, the number had grown to 36,321. A 2020 study of preprint servers found that
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Although dominated by physics and mathematics submissions, viXra aims to cover topics across the whole scientific community. It accepts submissions without requiring authors to have an academic affiliation and without any threshold for quality. The e-prints on viXra are grouped into seven broad
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viXra uses the same article numbering schema as arXiv: yymm.iiiii, where y stands for last two digits of the year, m stands for the month, and i stands for a sequential index among articles sent during the month.
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writes, "When a paper is published in viXra, it is usually a sign that it is not likely to contain acceptable results. It may, but the odds against that are considerable".
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Nabavi Nouri, Shayan; Cohen, Yosef A.; Madhavan, Mahesh V.; Slomka, Piotr J.; Iskandrian, Ami E.; Einstein, Andrew J. (February 2021).
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Kelk, David; Devine, David (2012). "A Scienceographic Comparison of Physics Papers from the arXiv and viXra Archives".
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Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research
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as of September of that year, viXra hosted 440 preprints about
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Electronic e-print archive for unconventional publications
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What’s arXiv spelled backwards? A new place to publish
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Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University
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Scientific God Inc.
Founder(s)
viXra.org
e-print
fringe science
independent physicist
arXiv
Cornell University
Gerard 't Hooft
COVID-19
List of preprint repositories
Collins, Harry
"Demarcating fringe science for policy"
doi
10.1162/POSC_a_00248
S2CID
57566881


"The importance of recognising fringe science"


"What Counts as Science?"
Nautilus


What’s arXiv spelled backwards? A new place to publish
"Chapter 20, Fake archives: The search for openness in scholarly communication platforms"
ISBN
978-0-262-53793-3

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