arXiv submissions double in two years to 40k/month, now capped at 2 per person
lemire · x · 2026-10-05
Early arXiv adopter and CS professor Daniel Lemire explains the new policy: starting October 1, arXiv caps submissions at two per person per month.
Key facts:
- arXiv, started by physicists in 1991 with math and CS following, runs on volunteer moderators and offers a paywall-free paper repository
- September saw over 40,000 submissions, roughly double the 20,000 from two years ago
- Lemire argues this doubling every two years is unsustainable for human moderators
He notes Google also stopped accepting new bug reports in its open-source bounty program for the same reason — overwhelming influx — and concludes "the writing is on the wall" for human-scale review systems.
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