arXiv Caps Submissions at Two Papers Per Author Per Month, Scholars Push Back

soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-02

arXiv announced a new limit of two paper submissions per submitter per calendar month. Scott Duke Kominers, a market-design scholar and longtime arXiv contributor, argued in a thread that arXiv needs to economize on moderation, not on scholarship, saying the policy confuses the two — a notable signal of how the platform is responding to surging submissions.

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