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How complete are academic databases?
Right now I'm using Web of Knowledge, ScienceDirect, etc. to find papers to read and get some metadata. My university has a subscription, so this is nice. As far as I know these databases simply have ...
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Author Ambiguity in PubMed Search
Given a (rather large) list of authors, what is the best way to find the number of publications by each author? The big problem here is author ambiguity (which John Smith, etc.) - the author list we ...
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Ownership of the code
My advisor sets the problem. I implement the solution for this particular problem and for the set of similar problems using a programming language.
My question is, can I put the code in the public ...
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Archiving papers, simulation and experimental data, etc?
Archiving of papers and projects is very important for most of the people, and everyone has a method of it.
I, personally, try to have different folders for different papers. In the folder of each ...
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Software for extracting data from a graph
There are many times when I am faced with the task of extracting data from a published graph (usually a bitmap image in an paper). For example, a scatter plot from which I would like to get a list of ...
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What should raise red flags to detect fabricated data
In academia, there has been recently some cases that came to light of very well known scientists that have fabricated their data out of thin air.
In some instances these papers have been cited many ...
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Is it ethical to use a data-set made as a research assistant?
Two years ago I was a research assistant during my undergraduate and my sole duty was the aggregation of many economic surveys, a very tedious task. This data-set, to my knowledge is one of a kind.
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What is the principal investigator’s responsibility regarding data authenticity?
Every now and then, you hear stories of data being fabricated by a graduate student (or post-doc) who felt the pressure to publish groundbreaking results was too much. This unethical behavior makes me ...
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Do academicians consider Challenges on Kaggle to be research-worthy?
I am a somewhat new-ish member of Kaggle competitions with 1 submission. Do academics research via Kaggle challenges/competitions? If so are there any prominent names?
If not why? They provide well ...
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Requesting raw data from previously published research
I am working on a mathematical model to help explain some experimental results and generate new hypotheses. Unfortunately, I have neither the resources nor interest to gather experimental data, but in ...
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Data publication basics - where, why, how, and when should I publish my unpublished data?
Many researchers have unpublished data. Some of this data may never be published as a manuscript. But I would like to make scholarly contributions of data that I have no intent on publishing, e.g. by ...
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How to get the data to reproduce a published result?
I'm studying published journal articles on my topic, and I'd like to reproduce their analysis. How can I get a copy of their dataset and enough specifications to reproduce their numerical results?
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