I recently posted a Phys.SE question based on: "spherical solutions to the Schrödinger equation" and had linked a research paper that formed a basis for my question. I was later informed via a comment by the moderator that the paper I had linked was from viXra.org, and that it was not a very reliable source for scientific research information.
So can anyone provide a list of acceptable(or unacceptable) sites which have reliable scientific papers, upon which questions can be based?
Here is what the founder of viXra has to say- click/touch here here
rxiv.org
is an alias for vixra? That is an underhanded, dishonest move, and knowingly linking to that alias is an act of deception. (That means, Naveen, that it's OK if you linked without knowing what the difference was - but don't do it again unless you fully understand the differences.) There's nothing inherently wrong with vixra, but trying to pretend that it is equivalent to arxiv, or passing it off as the same, is not the way to get any sort of credibility. $\endgroup$ – Emilio Pisanty Nov 29 '16 at 23:44