How to find published article from arxiv preprint I just came from here and have a related but different question. My question is, is there an online tool that will allow me to definitively check if a published version of a preprint exists and locate the published version?
Take, for example, this paper. Perhaps it was never published in a journal. But is there a way to definitively know?
No, this is impossible to determine definitively because there is no complete list of publications.
The correct solution is for the author to update their ArXiv submission with a citation.
The practical solution is to use Google Scholar to search for an article with the same text.
You can also ask the author, who will know if there is an authorized publication.