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Very important
& important

Somewhat important

Not important & should not be doing this

No opinion

arXiv checks papers for text overlap: an author's use of too much identical text from other authors' papers, without making it clear that the text is not their own material, i.e., "plagiarism":

77.41%

14.66%

4.96%

2.96%

arXiv makes sure submissions are correctly classified (the subject categories are included on the arXiv homepage):

64.38%

25.32%

7.01%

3.29%

arXiv keeps out (rejects) papers that don't have much scientific value:

60.02%

19.14%

15.49%

5.35%

arXiv checks papers for too much text re-use from an author's earlier works, i.e., "self-plagiarism" (reuse of identical content from one's own published work without citing):

57.77%

24.64%

14.08%

3.51%

arXiv checks papers for format-related problems (line numbers in text, missing references, oversize submissions, etc.) and asks authors to fix them before they are announced:.

55.00%

29.83%

11.51%

3.66%

arXiv moderates the scientific content of trackback (links to blogs and commentaries) before permitting the link to be added:

39.60%

26.31%

17.59%

16.50%