I&#x27;m incredulous of:<p>&gt;There are vast areas of research where every credible paper gets posted to the arxiv<p>due to your word &quot;every&quot; which from context you mean literally; no exceptions.  So, what would these vast areas of research be?  The statement would not be true for any areas of research I know about.<p>EDIT: Thanks for the replies - fascinating.  That in certain fields, no paper is worth reading if not on arxiv.