tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post6982520473515402051..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Trend of ArXiv SubmissionsSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-47260071147862094962011-11-28T13:06:18.058-05:002011-11-28T13:06:18.058-05:00Look the current picture (2011)... Really math has...Look the current picture (2011)... Really math has taken the lead!Alejandro Riverohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181521111080562335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-2927570793415278272007-12-28T20:45:00.000-05:002007-12-28T20:45:00.000-05:00Hi Dylan:That's a good point actually. It seems to...Hi Dylan:<BR/><BR/>That's a good point actually. It seems to me in fact that many papers that earlier ended up on hep-th or -ph are now better classified as general physics or history of physics etc. Also, it might be part of the submissions went into quant-ph and gr-qc, which in '06 seem to have constituted about 9.5% (see website I linked to above), but don't know what the trend over the last Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-19651778143924778912007-12-28T20:40:00.000-05:002007-12-28T20:40:00.000-05:00Hi Dr. Who,This was also my thought, but I think t...Hi Dr. Who,<BR/><BR/>This was also my thought, but I think the reason why astro-ph is so crowded is that it contains all shades of experimental papers as well, which hep-th doesn't. The blue 'hep' bar above is hep-th/hep-ph/hep-lat and hep-ex. Which taken together might very well be about the same amount as astro-ph (can't tell, I hardly ever read hep-lat and hep-ex). It's definitely overdue to Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-41324356787581736472007-12-28T20:33:00.000-05:002007-12-28T20:33:00.000-05:00There seems to be something wrong with either the ...There seems to be something wrong with either the plots or my interpretation of them: on most days, astroph papers outnumber hep-th by a factor of at least 2, right? It's not unusual for astro-ph to have 50 papers on one day.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I am sure that the number of hep-th papers has gone up in 2007. You used to see 12-15 papers each day; nowadays 17-20 is common. No comment as to what has Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-29720118008073515332007-12-28T17:25:00.000-05:002007-12-28T17:25:00.000-05:00Perhaps one explanation for the drop in hep-th is ...Perhaps one explanation for the drop in hep-th is that some papers that were posted there were somewhat misdirected; for instance, I know some mathematicians who posted there before switching to the math archives. On the other hand, the timing is wrong for that; I would expect that shift to have happened around '96 or so. But maybe there were other shifts from hep-th to other archives.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-82858631737779909272007-12-28T12:25:00.000-05:002007-12-28T12:25:00.000-05:00I mean cond-mat. Also, I should have added, I actu...I mean cond-mat. Also, I should have added, I actually think people publish too much, so I find this trend a good development. Best,<BR/><BR/>B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-79331229552372825222007-12-28T12:22:00.000-05:002007-12-28T12:22:00.000-05:00Hi Peter:What is 'easily explained'? I was not won...Hi Peter:<BR/><BR/>What is 'easily explained'? I was not wondering about the continuing rise in math and cond math, and a leveling off in hep, but about the drop in hep, and the fact that there are in total more submissions in math-ph. Also, one has to further take into account that there is a general increase in the community (as well as in the world population overall), which should underlie Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-13883854409589712512007-12-28T12:11:00.000-05:002007-12-28T12:11:00.000-05:00This is very easily explained: virtually all paper...This is very easily explained: virtually all papers in high energy physics appear on the arXiv nowadays; whereas there are still many subfields of math where substantial numbers of papers are not posted to the arXiv. As these subfields saturate, eventually mathematics will level off as well.<BR/><BR/>Since the aeXiv classifies subfields of math, it might be interesting to see the statistics Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-8081876445098126632007-12-28T07:59:00.000-05:002007-12-28T07:59:00.000-05:00Holy shit! Is it really fifteen years since I sta...Holy shit! Is it really fifteen years since I started reading Arxiv? Ouch! I really am old.CapitalistImperialistPighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17523405806602731435noreply@blogger.com