Queries related to journals, books, conference proceedings, etc.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Asking for official e-mail address from ex-employer University for publication?
I am no longer affiliated with a University. In the instance that I publish a paper (co-author or otherwise), is it appropriate for me to e-mail my old University and ask them for a staff e-mail? This ...
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Is typical ebook reader with pdf support enough to read scientific papers
I am considering buying either an e-book reader or a full tablet. My main motivation is to read books and scientific papers and I really don't need all the extra stuff tablets can give me.
My only ...
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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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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 metrics are used to judge a mathematical journal's quality?
The metric I see most on the internet and on journals' home pages is the 'Impact Factor'. Are there any other metrics that are considered as important as (or more important than) the Impact Factor?
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In what tense (present/past) should papers be written?
That is, should it be present tense or past tense?
Should there be a difference between the abstract, main body and the conclusion?
Does the field of publication have any impact?
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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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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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Value of light-to-none peer reviewed pay-to-publish articles
I have been approached by an international student about doing a PhD with me. As an MSc student in his home country he has published 3 articles in pay-to-publish venues, that are known to have little ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What will happen to my paper if the status of the accepted paper is “AAR” in a IEEE conference
I have been notified by IEEE organizing committee that my paper has been accepted by for their conference and requested to register. and the status of the paper is AAR . Please see below quotation. I ...
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Publishing Same Research Paper on a National Conference as well as International IEEE conference
I submitted my final year research paper for a national level conference as well as international level IEEE conference. I was notified that my research paper has been accepted for the national level ...
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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?
