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Re:Implicit Ode Solvers Are Not Universally More Robust Than... by wizzwizz4 on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @03:51PM (#45267095)
Please don't "publish" on Zenodo. If you think your work has merit, go arXiv -> peer review -> open access journal. Otherwise, put it on your own website. Zenodo is a repository for artefacts (mainly datasets): if you try to put papers on it, people will think you're a crank. It's about as damaging for your reputation (and the reputation of your work) as a paper mill.

Of course, make sure you've done a thorough literature search, and that your paper is written from the perspective of "what is the contribution of this paper to the literature?", since most people reading your work will not read it in isolation: it'll be the hundredth or thousandth paper they've skimmed, trying to find those dozen papers relevant to their work.

Re:Implicit Ode Solvers Are Not Universally More Robust Than... by abdullahkhalids on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @07:50PM (#45269821)
Just to add, people in the field are unlikely to find a paper on Zenodo. I don't think any of the major search engines or databases for papers will include anything on Zenodo in their results.

That said, posting on arXiv can't be done unless someone vouches for you, which might be difficult or not for an independent person.

I think the best bet would be to submit your paper directly to a journal. However the paper in GP is unlikely to be published by any reputable journal. One direct feedback: if you can't explain at the start why your paper is relevant to current researcher's then why should anyone care? A sniff test for this is that you discuss in the introduction recent papers which have tried to solve the same or similar problems. But GP paper's references are over two decades old.

Re:Implicit Ode Solvers Are Not Universally More Robust Than... by wizzwizz4 on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:51PM (#45295466)
Getting someone to endorse you on arXiv is easy if you have work to show. (If you don't get endorsed, it's theoretically possible that the endorser might plagiarise your work, but you'll have a paper trail to prove it; I've heard more stories of PhD supervisors plagiarising their students' work than of arXiv endorsers doing so.) It's hard for us plebs who don't yet have work to put on the arXiv to get endorsements, but that's not actually much of a problem.
Re:Implicit Ode Solvers Are Not Universally More Robust Than... by timefirstgrav on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @11:41PM (#45271403)
arXiv is gatekept. I'm a self taught independent researcher. I don't have connections. I do this for fun because I like solving puzzles.

I publish to vixra... math is math.