Queries related to journals, books, conference proceedings, etc.
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how to share to mention/publish large datasets?
When writting an article with outputs (by outputs I mean a big dataset created), how do you share them?
Do you ask the readers to contact the main author? Should I pput them in a university website?
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Why do universities tolerate uploading papers on their websites?
Lots of professors provide their full papers published by scholarly journals on their personal website (in the university official domain). PDF files of their final papers published by different ...
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Proportion of journal submissions by developing countries
Is there any source that details the ratio of journal submissions that come from developing countries to those that come from developed countries?
I see extremely low acceptance rates in my field and ...
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How to phrase authors' contributions when the convention is that all team members are authors?
The question
When a journal (such as one of the Nature family) asks for information about authors' contributions, what is the most effective way to answer this, to ensure that the co-authorship is ...
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Do old preprints actually exist?
It is quite common (in some areas) to see the reference to the paper, which is cited as "to appear" or "in prepapation" but never actually appeared. Such citations are treated in the same way as ...
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Does an author have to submit an article to Math databases once it has been published in a journal?
Let us suppose one publishes an article in a peer-reviewed journal that is archived, indexed, etc. in databases such as Zentralblatt, ResearchBib, etc. Does the author have to manually submit his/her ...
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Academic affiliation: which to choose?
I am actually working for two different universities in my country, and the problem is that they do not give too much support to academic research. I mean for paying the costs of tickets, travel ...
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Travel grant for undergraduate researcher for attending conference
I am an undergraduate student doing independent research. My research work is selected in a very reputed conference in US. I am from India. I cannot afford to attend the conference at all. How should ...
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My paper was accepted in Springer International Conference and National conference. What to do? [duplicate]
We had prepared the paper and applied for National Conference. After some days came to know about the International Conference and improved the paper and applied for it. After a month we got an accept ...
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Writing Literature review for a paper that is an extension of my own research paper?
I am a Masters student in Computer Science. I am planning to write two papers. The first is based on computer simulation and queuing theory. I have written its literature review and everything else. ...
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Journals(Computer Science) that are suitable for low impact publications? [closed]
I have a small idea for my first publication. It's a low impact publication but I have to publish it in order to complete the requirements for a course I am taking. The course requires a small ...
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How to make my papers accessible to other researchers?
I have published some papers in some conferences, but the problem is that the people in charge put them in bibliographic repositories, such as DBLP, and they take too much time to do that.
I would ...
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Scientific output of researchers in industry and academia
How does the scientific output of PhD’s who work in industry compare to that of PhD’s who stayed in academia (professors, mainly). In mean, in terms of number of publications, conferences, etc.
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If one wants to generate several papers from a single research project, what is a reasonable way to do so?
As a follow-up to "Does number of research publications matter?":
Suppose one wants to generate a number of publications from a single research idea or project, because other things being equal, more ...
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Can we send our research paper to multiple journals at once? [duplicate]
I have heard that if someone sends his paper to two different conferences and is somehow caught, then there would be severe consequences for the researcher.I did not know that before but I heard two ...
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Does number of research publications matter?
Let's say I invented a system to solve a problem. To run this system, I made my own algorithm.I also created some other things for that system. The main contribution was supposed to be the system.So ...
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Can a research publication have a bad impact on your career?
When I was starting out in my Masters degree, I had an idea of a publication that could be completed in a small amount of time. I was starting out and I felt it would get me at ease with research ...
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Is it necessary to show what improvements you have made to similar work in literature reviews section?
I have seen quite a few research publications where the literature review section doesn't compare past work to the author's work. It's like:
[1] did this using X technique. [5] used Y technology. ...
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Is it acceptable as referee to contact an author on a paper you review?
I am reviewing the second revision of a paper and am getting tired of this incredibly slow process of me pointing something out that requires clarification just to hear back from those authors two or ...
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The differences between AMS research journals
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) has quite a few journals titled "(something) of the AMS".
The research journals include:
Journal of the AMS
Proceedings of the AMS
Transactions of the AMS
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Should academic papers necessarily carry a sober tone?
I was reading this paper titled "Optimal Symmetric Rendezvous Search on Three Locations." While talking about the history of search problems, the author mentions the following anecdote in passing.
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Is it a bad idea to submit a paper merely to elicit reviewers' comments?
Some days ago I was talking with a friend of mine, who is currently a post-doc at the illustrious Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) working on humanoid robotics.
He was quite disgruntled because ...
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Researcher with the same name in a different field
I would like to get some advice on what may or may not be a problem, namely the lack of unique identifiers for scientific authors.
So there is a researcher with the same first and last name as ...
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Are contributions to conference proceedings considered to be “archival” publications?
While technical papers are generally considered to be "non-archival" and journal papers "archival", I couldn't find a clear statement about papers that appear in conference proceedings. Does it matter ...
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Should you provide citation for an professional organization or learned society?
I am writing a paper in which I refer to a database maintained by a learned society. Something like:
We performed this analysis on 7,195 structures taken at random from the Poisonous Substances ...
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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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What does “Publish or perish” really mean?
In this site, I quite often see answers containing this "Publish or perish" sentence.
What does it really mean? Is it limited to a particular academic system (i.e. U.S.) or it is the general case ...
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Request for high res figures: what should I be mindful of?
A researcher in my field has written to ask me high resolution files for 5 figures from 3 different papers of mine. He states:
Currently I am revising one review article where I have used several ...
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Can dissertation be included in publication part in CV
In my CV, I include my dissertation topic within my education part like this:
From start-time to end-time
Master of something, University at somewhere
Dissertation title: something
However, I also ...
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Why aren't all research articles on PubMed?
I was recently doing some research on PubMed and I noticed that, in my field of research (plant science), some articles are referenced and others are not, even for two articles in the same journal...
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Where can I get presentation slides of research papers
When I go through the Abstract section of a research paper and find a subject that I'm interested in, then I go through the whole paper. But going through the whole of it, takes lots of extra time ...
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Indicating a name change after publication
My wife has publications under both her maiden name and her married name. How should she indicate that this is the case on her CV, if she wants to mention publications from both time periods?
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On the use of grant funds for extracurricular research
While reading the PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH section of some completed NSF award abstracts, I expected to find papers only within the limited scope of the goals of the ...
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Should the distinction between bibliography and reference be maintained when writing a paper?
There is a small difference between a bibliography and a reference: the former includes all works consulted and the latter only those that are cited in the paper. Should we maintain this technical ...
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What proportion of papers submitted to Nature are actually sent for review?
From Nature's "Getting Published with Nature" guidelines:
Nature has space to publish only 8% or so of the 200 papers submitted each week, hence its selection criteria are rigorous. Many ...
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Has it ever happened that one paper's findings were contradicted by another?
Since reviewers don't check the experimental results by trying to reproduce the experiment, is it possible for someone to submit a paper which basically says "Method X was proposed in paper Y and ...
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How is a new academic journal born?
We have witnessed (heard or read) about the birth of new academic journals many times. I have a vague idea how that happens:
A scientist or a group of scientists recognize the need for an academic ...
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can we earn money through a research publication?
Is there a way we can get money for our research paper? Do research journals pay us for a research paper? or can we sell the research paper?
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Is asking an author I'm reviewing to cite me a conflict of interest?
I'm reviewing a paper whose work is quite related to some of my early PhD work, that was about 2 years ago. I have a paper published in a Journal that proved that method A had good solutions for the ...
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Standard for figure description in main text and its placement in a report/paper
I heard of this rule/recommendation (or may be its opposite) - Always let the figures come after they are described in the text.
What is the correct rule? What's the logic? Is it always followed?
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Is it necessary to include and update the status of a paper on arXiv once it has been accepted for publication in a journal?
Let's suppose you write a paper and you post it on arXiv. If a paper is sent to a journal for peer-review, should you always include this information in the paper comments (including the name of the ...
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If I publish under a pseudonym, can I still take credit for my work?
Is it possible to publish under a nom de plume (pen name, pseudonym)?
... and still take credit for the work?
I may have a chance to publish with the professor I am working with soon and if I am on ...
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How important is the publication venue for academic hiring and grant applications?
A comment in this question says: but spending some money to publish in a high rank journal can open more funding opportunities in future, doesn't it?. In another post, JeffE writes in this answer:
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Shrink the paper or pay for extra page charges?
A PhD student has started his research about two year ago by research scholarship from university. His supervisor won a huge grant on a topic very close to his research project couple of months ...
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How to negotiate with referees of your paper
I have submitted a paper several years ago and its referee process took about three years and I had to revise the paper six times to get the final approval. The paper had two helpful and knowledgable ...
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Has anyone ever written a paper and put your name on it?
I am a professor and researcher in mathematics and my research is kind of on the theoretical side. Online, I discovered a mathematician who had written some papers with ideas similar to mine, and we ...
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Can the publication conference choice affect one's admission to a new academic job?
Sometimes, I have been noticing some postdoc open position announcements that, besides the common requisites for the admisssion (PhD, an excellent cv, programming skills, etc), were asking to the ...
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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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Quality of an image for publication reproduced from another source
I have my paper back from a reviewer. The main point is that a quality of the image is not good enough for the publication. I reproduced this image from another paper (with permission) but the only ...
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Worry about stealing of research ideas
I have gotten an idea in the field of Computer Science that it can result in a research paper. The problem is that I lack the adequate background in one part needed for this research, mostly ...
