More on pub claims of added value. "Our analysis revealed that the text contents of the scientific papers generally changed very little from their pre-print to final published versions." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00799-018-0234-1 …
Kitaev's paper on topological fault-tolerance - one of the best papers in physics (&, IMO, all of science) in the last 25 years - went 9 years between arXiv submission & journal publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9707021 … https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003491605002381 … (Not the publishing journal's fault)
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Thx and granted. There might even be longer cases. I can put my point more conditionally: If (or insofar as) the delay is caused by the journal, not the authors, then it's subtracted value. Most of us know cases where the J itself caused 2+ years of delay.
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Perelman's proof of the Poincare conjecture is ~15 years on arXiv and counting. Of course, it's not an example of your point, since AFAIK he didn't submit to a journal.
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