Queries related to journals, books, conference proceedings, etc.
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What references must be acknowledged in a paper?
This question came up from a discussion on meta.MSE.
My question is:
Do we need to search MSE (or blogs, math forums, ...) to make sure someone hasn't already proven a result when writing a ...
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Are the Hardy-Littlewood “rules” unethical?
For the second time recently, someone mentioned to me the Hardy-Littlewood rules for collaboration (and on that very site). From what I read about it, they include the following rule:
And, ...
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Is it important to list the merits of a research paper?
When we write a research paper, most of the times we need to describe in the introduction what is the merit of the present work (unless is a survey of sorts).
Many professors, tell me that is enough ...
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Military usage of scientific work
I'm currently writing my diploma thesis (old equivalent of master in Germany) in mathematics. It's about a fairly new combinatorical optimization problem which has military applications. In fact, the ...
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How to find all of the responses to a published research paper?
While searching through various journals with my library's on-line journal search tools, I have occasionally found short articles which are simply comments on other published papers. These short ...
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Article “communicated by”
What does it mean when it says under a journal article that it has been communicated by "XYZ" where XYZ is not the author but some other scholar with a very strong reputation ? What is the ...
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When does one go for an invited paper?
I have little understanding about invited papers, but as far as I know, I think these are non-peer-reviewed papers presented at a conference.
Now why and when does one go for an invited paper? Is it ...
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Is an emphasis on “novelty” necessary in academic papers?
I often come across papers which have a 'Novel' in their titles. In the content the authors go out of their way to explain how their work is the first to the best of their knowledge to come up with ...
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Should I include a publication where I'm only acknowledged (and not one of the authors) in my CV?
Suppose that I've helped other researchers with the statistical analyses for an epidemiological study and therefore I am acknowledged for that in the "Acknowledgments" section of the paper (something ...
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Is a thesis a publication?
If I publish a Master's thesis, does that count as a "publication" (ie protect me from other people publishing my work as their own?)
If I think I can get a paper out of my thesis, am I forfeiting ...
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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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Should I respond to emails (resembling spams) asking for my papers?
I started to get emails like this:
From: Firstname Middlename Lastname <someotherfirstname0000@hotmail>~
Title of paper.
I need the article to study.
thank you!
Firstname ...
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Why is the date left out of some academic papers?
Being somewhat familiar with referencing of academic papers as a source, it has struck me as odd why authors would leave out some date on their paper. The date could be the day the author completed ...
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Why do some reviewers mention their decision explicitly?
Recently, some of the reviews I received mentioned their decision at the end of the review (i.e. 'I recommend acceptance of the paper'), while others do not have such statements.
What is the point ...
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Use Google Scholar only for open access journals
Sometimes I work from home, and for security reasons it is not possible to connect to the campus computers. I use Google Scholar for finding papers and so, but from home, most of the journals can not ...
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Replacing tech reports: can we put good undergrad dissertations in arxiv?
My department requires dissertations from all honours students (being England, that's basically all of them). Some of these are extremely good, even though they are written by undergraduates. My ...
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Handling credit with advisor
Some background information: I am a junior PhD student in electrical engineering and I need ideas about how to handle my mentor. Whenever I go to her with an idea she rejects it saying it is wrong or ...
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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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Can I present the results of a paper that is currently under review?
Among the presentations in a major conference, I attended one where the author cited a paper (of theirs) under review in another major conference. Not only cited it, but showed some of its results.
I ...
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What should/can I do on finding an error in a published article?
Recently I found a paper that has a number of typographical errors, esp in equations. Should one notify the authors or the publishers on such issues? How do the approach change if the article is ...
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Can I use the work in my journal/conference publications as chapters in my dissertation?
At my institution, I am required to publish four papers in addition to my PhD thesis. Of course my planned papers are related to my dissertation project, but I'm not sure if it could be considered ...
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Can “Feel free to contact me if you are interested in a copy of any of my publications.” cause legal issues?
I know that some journals allow public archiving of publications (making them available for download) on a researcher's personal website. Some of these journals (at least in my field), however, ...
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Is reuse of “internal” results considered self-plagiarism if used in a later publication?
This is a little bit different from the case of reusing boilerplate text.
Say one has done a series of experiments (either real or "virtual") to produce a set of results. Because the results are ...
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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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Acknowledging funding
I often read in research articles acknowledgments such as
The first author is (partially) supported by a grant of the National Science Foundation of Sikinia no. 1234567890.
What are the ...
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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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I want to submit a paper to arXiv.org, but I'm not affiliated to an Institute. What can I do?
I've graduated in Physics by Unicamp/Brazil, but I didn't follow scientific career. My current employer doesn't relate to Physics, but I have a paper which I'm interested to submit to arXiv.org.
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Under what circumstances can one republish a conference paper/presentation?
For conferences that "peer review" and "publish" full papers, when, if ever, can you resubmit essentially unchanged versions for publication in a peer reviewed journal?
In my field, when conference ...
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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 ...
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Should I post publications in preparation on my CV?
If I have works that are almost submitted to journals, or are in journal review, is it appropriate to include these on my CV?
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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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Is it reasonable to cite published computational results rather than reproduce them yourself?
In computer science, when we write an academic paper, we often have to include comparative results that our method has some kind of quantitative advantage against some other state of the art results.
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How is lambert academic publishing?
I was contacted by the Acquisition editor of Lambert publishing house to publish my bachelor's thesis that i did in college in the form of a printed book .
Have a question in mind is LAP any good? ...
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Will a paper in A help PhD application in B?
I understand that as an undergraduate student, when you apply for a PhD degree in the US, you have to demonstrate adequate research capabilities, such as publications. But will areas matter?
Let's ...
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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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How to build research paper based on a unpublished paper?
A few days ago, I read an article that I found through Google. I analyzed it and find that article is correct, and then I prepared a paper of my own built on the basis of that article.
But when I ...
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When should an author retract their paper as a result of misinterpreted results?
I'm curious when should an author make a call on retracting their paper vs. sending an errata or a correction. Many say it is when an error is involved that influences the interpretation of the paper.
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Can I use my blog posts for an academic publication?
It is not very clear in the publication guidelines of journals or conferences whether one can post some preliminary data or results online (blog, twitter, facebook, etc.), gather feedback, and then ...
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For indexes, what do I do when my first name is abbreviated?
I'm Muslim, I use Md. as for Muhammad. So when submiting to journals, should I stick to the 2nd & 3rd names? I'm currently facing problems in submitting to arxiv.org which asks for only first and ...
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How to quickly get complete list of citations to all my papers?
I need to get citations (with complete info including authors, journal, date) to all my papers. What's the best way (hopefully without too much manual copy & paste) to do this?
What i so far ...
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Why doesn't citation of a book give specific pages?
In papers or books, citation to another book usually doesn't contain the specific page, section, chapter of where a result is borrowed. If the book is really thick, and the readers may have different ...
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Easy way to see historical trend in keywords in publications?
Is there an easy way or existing tool to generate a historical chart with the occurrence of one or more user-specified keyword(s) (combinations) in academic publications, based on the words in the ...
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How to review a paper for originality?
Originality with timeliness is among the most important criteria for a paper to get published.
Many a times when we are reviewing a paper, we are faced with dilemma as to how much of it is original ...
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What tense should paper titles use?
I have recently noticed that the tense of paper titles can be somewhat odd. This previous question, In what tense (present/past) should papers be written?, has some great information but it doesn't ...
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How to choose to which conference submit a scientific paper?
Nowadays, in almost every scientific field, there are hundreds of conferences. Many call for papers emails fill our mail boxes.
Freedom of choice is great, but, how to choose to which conference send ...
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When should conferences precirculate papers?
I have been to a few conferences that worked based on precirculated papers. That is, everyone submits their papers in advance and the assumption is that conference goers who come to a given talk have ...
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How does one issue a call for papers on military history?
A non-academic group to which I belong holds military history conferences a few times a year. We've discussed seeking presentations from graduate students, but we're unsure of the process. So, I have ...
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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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Why are all these papers exactly 10 pages long?
I've been reading papers authored by professor A's PhD students. I have read about a dozen of papers by now, and realized that all of them are exactly 10 pages long. These papers were written by ...
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What to do with a paper with references but no citations?
I just received a paper for review that does not have a single citation (in the text) of its references.
I wonder if this is common in other areas non-CS related.
Since it is a conference, I don't ...
