Comment by fnands
2 months ago
Recently went through this. Not exactly an independent researcher, but my current field (ML) is different from my educational field (physics), so needed to get someone to endorse me so I could upload a paper to cs.CV
I asked someone who organised a workshop I had spoken at. If you haven't met anyone in the field, then look at the papers you cite, see if any of the authors of those papers can endorse you (you can see it at the bottom of a paper's ArXiv abstract page), and ask them.
Thanks a lot for this hint, I'll definitely look into it. Seems to be the only option. I was able to "publish" it to SSRN [1] but not sure it has the credibility I'm looking for.
[1]https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5910263
ArXiv doesn't give your paper any credibility either.
If you want credibility, submit it to a journal. Journals don't require that the paper be on ArXiv.
The reason I submitted our paper to ArXiv was that it was accepted at a workshop that was peer-reviewed, but non-archival, so just wanted to be able to point people at something a little easier to reference than the workshop github page.