“When multiple researchers accomplish the same result, who is credited with priority? When I was a graduate student, the primary yardstick for priority was the date of publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Every so often, this would lead to a sordid drama in which a referee of a submitted paper was accused of using the ideas in that paper to rush out a competing paper to a faster journal. Within a decade, though, the arXiv preprint server, with its trusted submitted timestamp, supplanted the jo”
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