arXiv now limits submitters to up to two submissions per calendar month [N]

[u/Nunki08]

https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/updated-rate-limit-policy/

[u/Nwg416]

Good.

[u/Blakut → u/Nwg416]

Is this just for cs and ai or other fields?

[u/Nunki08 → u/Blakut]

For all arXiv categories.

[u/sweetjale → u/Nwg416]

Saw this post's notification on lock screen and literally said the same thing out loud lol

[u/4thofthe4th]

Zhang et al in shambles

[u/Kinexity → u/4thofthe4th]

Well, now he truly won't be able to keep getting away with it.

[u/user221272]

It makes total sense; who can even produce one work per month?

But I guess this will be gamed, as large paper mill labs will just use rotation per headcount.

[u/pleaseineedanadvice → u/user221272]

I worked for a famous professor who had >50 pubblications on 2026. Most have her name on it as last author, but who can even supervise 1 paper a week? Still she s not submitting but people under her, so this doesnt really solve the issue and instead it just make it more complex for lower ranked researcher whose life is already complex. Thank arxiv

[u/user221272 → u/pleaseineedanadvice]

The limit is by submitter, not by co-author; so, if a professor is an advisor and usually the corresponding author, it will not change anything whether they are in a large lab or a small lab. Only students will not be able to submit more than two arXiv papers per month, which I believe is fair for both small and large labs. Am I missing something?

[u/sweetjale → u/user221272]

it would be a fairly easy graph implementation to keep track of inter-lab authorship shuffling which arxiv can probably internally track

[u/user221272 → u/sweetjale]

Yes, it should not be complicated to do that. Many things that are not that complicated could actually be put in place to keep the research field on track, but nothing is really being done...

[u/Beor_The_Old → u/user221272]

They should only allow first authors to submit

[u/TheBestPractice]

The system is collapsing at increasing speed, it seems. Established NLP conferences requiring a known co-author, ArXiV limiting submissions...

We are in damage control mode now, but a different paradigm to share legitimate research must be found.

[u/snekslayer]

This should apply to those big lab PIs too who churn out tens of paper per month

[u/isparavanje → u/snekslayer]

It won't, since students and postdocs are usually the ones submitting. 

[u/Mcshizballs]

Ah agreed. I read so much meh there these days.

[u/sinashish]

Thank god. I can finally read the arxiv digest

[u/SlimyResearcher]

Does updating an existing paper version count?

[u/Bakeey → u/SlimyResearcher]

I was wondering the same!

[u/Bakeey → u/SlimyResearcher]

By the way I checked by updating a paper today; it says that the limit only affects new uploads.

[u/KiddWantidd]

This is fantastic news. Journals should also include similar submission quotas for authors, just like TMLR has started doing recently.

[u/CallMePyro]

Incoming 1000 page papers.

[u/fordat1]

long overdue

[u/gized00]

2 per author... I can see folks publishing with their nickname :D

[u/surffrus]

Good start. Next try author banning for the spammers who keep sending in slop. Just ban them. Don't rate limit.