From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 09:13:30 -0700

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/elusive-math-proof-found-almost-lost/amp/

This article about an obscure German statistician discovering an
important proof is mostly above my head, but I picked out this
paragraph.  The item was published first on arxiv.org, but now it was
published by an obscure author in a minor journal on the Indian
subcontinent with the author on its editorial board.  Accordingly, it
took a long time for serious researchers in the field to become aware
of the work.

"Proofs of obscure provenance are sometimes overlooked at first, but
usually not for long: A major paper like Royen’s would normally get
submitted and published somewhere like the Annals of Statistics,
experts said, and then everybody would hear about it. But Royen, not
having a career to advance, chose to skip the slow and often demanding
peer-review process typical of top journals. He opted instead for
quick publication in the Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, a
periodical based in Allahabad, India, that was largely unknown to
experts and which, on its website, rather suspiciously listed Royen as
an editor. (He had agreed to join the editorial board the year
before.)"

Jim O'Donnell
ASU