Christian Corda
Dear Christian, I'm curious if you've broken the record of 20 publications systematically reclassified to the same author on the same idea. Many of these papers were published in peer-reviewed journals even before submission to arXiv, others were conference papers.
My feeling is that the phenomenon of reclassification or rejection is much bigger than one might imagine. No one can know for sure how frequent this practice is also because some papers are then reclassified on the main lists. It is impossible to keep track of what happened.
Incredibly, the reclassification back to the desired list is done by arXiv even the day after the announcement of the reclassified paper on physics:gen-ph. I know for sure (documented) the case of a reclassification that occurred only on the single day of the announcement. The day after the paper was spontaneously readmitted in hep-th with the motivation of a "late replay of one of the moderators". This paper was published in a prestigious letter physics journal before submission. Of course, while this was an admitted arXiv mistake, the article was not subsequently re-announced in hep-th to remedy the mistake. The fact is that with this machination the article has left no trace of the extemporaneous reclassification that took place and has not been noticed by any theoretical physicist, that is, by none of the reference target audience for the paper.
Does it seem to you that people who do science, after obtaining a PhD, after having a research grant in a prestigious institute, after waiting for their article to be published in a prestigious peer-reviewed journal, can be treated in this way? That is, to be censored with such brazen machinations without even knowing what criticisms are raised and without the possibility of defending oneself on the scientific merit of the evidence (certified by publication) brought?
This type of behavior goes not only against science but also against basic human rights.
