Timeline for Is it ok to upload joke papers to arXiv?
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| Apr 2 at 6:38 | history | edited | David Z | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Add the rest of the 2024 joke papers, and one older one (last edit for this round I promise)
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| Apr 1 at 18:00 | history | edited | David Z | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Add some astro-ph papers from 2024 (not a complete update for this year, I expect there will be more)
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| Oct 5, 2023 at 2:16 | history | edited | David Raveh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Removed duplicate "UFO's... (2023)"
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| Jul 1, 2023 at 21:25 | comment | added | David Z | @Anyon Hmmm, good question... I read the paper and it does have some telltale signs of being intended as a joke, but it wasn't actually clear to me that it was a joke. Or maybe I should say I didn't get it. I mean, part of what typically makes a good joke paper is that it's funny even to non-experts. But that is not part of my stated criteion. So I'm on the fence about including that one, but I think if someone well versed in Majorana research can confirm that they would consider it clearly a joke, I'd put it on the list. | |
| Jun 30, 2023 at 15:18 | comment | added | Anyon | @DavidZ Does arxiv.org/abs/2203.17060 count as "clearly a joke"? After all, it's making fun of practices that apparently made it past referees of Nature and Science. | |
| Apr 6, 2023 at 19:14 | history | edited | David Z | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Add joke papers for 2023 which were uploaded over the weekend
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| Apr 2, 2023 at 2:45 | history | edited | David Z | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Add joke papers for 2023
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| Feb 10, 2023 at 16:24 | comment | added | E.P. | Not on arXiv, but relevant: Another article that makes bibliometric analysis a bit harder | |
| Apr 4, 2022 at 0:44 | history | edited | David Z | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
remove a non-joke paper that snuck in by accident
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| Apr 3, 2022 at 0:38 | history | edited | David Z | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
add papers from 2021 and 2022 and update list of "joke" journals/conferences
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| Apr 4, 2020 at 20:19 | history | edited | David Z | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
make answer CW for shared editing and add a note about criteria; Post Made Community Wiki
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| S Apr 4, 2020 at 20:12 | history | suggested | Mike Lund | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added several more papers, especially by myself, Eve Armstrong, and Dave Scott/Ali Frolop
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| Apr 2, 2020 at 8:23 | history | edited | David Z | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
add even more papers
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| Apr 2, 2020 at 8:16 | history | edited | David Z | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
add some more papers
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| Apr 1, 2020 at 15:32 | history | edited | E.P. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 1, 2020 at 9:53 | history | edited | E.P. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 8, 2018 at 0:29 | comment | added | ZeroTheHero | The best joke paper of all times is Gates, V., et al. "Stuperspace." Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 15.1-2 (1985): 289-293. The published version is available here: sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0167278985901733 and a free e-copy from here: languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/Stuperspace.pdf. It predates arXiv. | |
| Apr 2, 2018 at 3:21 | history | edited | David Z | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
add a couple links to the list, and a link to my mirror on my website
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| Apr 4, 2017 at 17:12 | history | edited | David Z | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
move list to the end, fix paper title capitalization
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| Mar 15, 2017 at 14:19 | comment | added | David Z | @CapeCode Articles on arXiv are targeted at experts. Other people generally won't understand what they're reading whether it's a joke or not. | |
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| Mar 14, 2017 at 13:22 | comment | added | Cape Code | So how do non-experts know when they're reading a joke article? That sounds unprofessional and childish to me. | |
| Mar 13, 2017 at 1:58 | comment | added | Nat | -1, because I was planning on using my time productively before seeing this. (+1!) | |
| Mar 12, 2017 at 21:11 | comment | added | Voo | As another example there is also Donald Knuth's (quite hilarious) "The Complexity of Songs" which was published in ACM SIGACT - a quite serious and prestigious journal. So the tradition of posting joke papers does not just exist on arXiv but is a wider phenomenon at that. | |
| Mar 12, 2017 at 8:21 | history | edited | David Z | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
add some more links
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| Mar 12, 2017 at 8:02 | history | answered | David Z | CC BY-SA 3.0 |