Regarding the process of production and dissemination of literature, and information. The activity of making information available to the general public.
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Where to upload a reprint (post-print) of my publication?
I used to self-archive papers on my homepage in the institute where I was doing phd. I just noticed that my homepage and the reprints were removed -- that's normal, I'm not working in that institute ...
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Impact factor of IJSC (International Journal on Soft Computing) [closed]
We have recently gone through the process of journal publication in the International Journal on Soft Computing. Our manuscript was accepted with minor changes. Our manuscript was about digit ...
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Does “corresponding author” carry an implied meaning?
After reading the question Mentor trying to be first author?, I got the impression that (at least in the writers' field) the "corresponding author" flag could carry an implied meaning, such as "did ...
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Mentor trying to be first author?
I was on an internship with professor A at University B in China. We were working on a computer science project. During the internship I implemented professor A's idea and got some results. Three ...
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E-books and e-publishing
What options are there, and how do they compare against each other, for digitally publishing (for example, a series of short stories)?
In addition to the issue of format management (producing ...
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How can I ensure that my software is correctly cited?
I have the following situation.
I have published a paper and in order to get and analyse the results for my research I created some software. I want to make my software open-source, so that anyone ...
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Alphabetical Order for Authors in Computer Science
I was wondering, in the field of Computer Science, if there is a convention for acknowledging that author ordering for an academic paper is by alphabetical order, not contribution.
I know that in CS, ...
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What if you have submitted a research article in a reputed journal that has a slight error?
What if you have submitted a research article in a reputed journal that has a slight error? Recently I have submitted my paper in a reputed journal which is now under review. I have proposed few ...
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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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How many manuscripts should I agree to handle as an editor?
I've been asked by a peer-reviewed journal whether I'd be willing to act as an associate editor for them. The question How to act as an editor? has some useful hints as to the tasks associated with ...
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Should CV include special note about published 'cover articles'?
I just published an article and, when I saw the journal, I was surprised to discover that they put my article on the cover.
My question is, should I update my CV to make special note of the fact that ...
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How long and detailed should be the rejection comment when reviewing and rejecting a paper?
If someone is a reviewer and recommends major revisions to a medical journal paper, the review can be quite lengthy. (e.g., list of 10-15 points to work on)
On the other hand, how detailed should be ...
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How to say that research work was done as part of research project?
I'm carrying out a research work as part of a big research project. How to mention this in the abstract for an article?
The best I can is "This research work was conducted as part of the project ...
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Mentioning Products of Companies in Technical Paper?
I am writing a technical paper for my college project. This is my first time so dont have much experience in this arena.
I am writing about a philosophy used by Mechanical Engineers while designing a ...
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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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When can I safely use CC-BY license on arXiv?
On arXiv one can license a preprint on one of the following (see also a note on arXiv on licenses):
arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute this article (Minimal rights required by ...
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Can I write an article in a reputable CS journal not with results but conjecture?
I work in industry and some interesting idea has struck me. This is a conjecture which will take a year or two of full time research work to confirm it although it looks very realistic. Unfortunately ...
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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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What changes after peer review but prior to final submission are acceptable?
Suppose I write a paper and submit it to a conference. The paper gets some weak rejects and weak accepts and lots of criticism, but the conference is not that prestigious, so they accept it anyway.
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Strategy for submission of articles to highly ranked journals
I am working on a research project that all total will probably end up lasting about 2 years. As the research progresses, I am writing articles about each new discovery/study, with each article ...
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Professor withholding course grade until submission of conference paper
I have recently been told by the professor of a particular course of mine, that our final grades will be withheld (given as an "Incomplete" which is later replaced by the final grade) until we ...
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How can I invite open comments or reviews of my published papers?
I would like to attract more discussion, comments or reviews of my papers and so would like to add the ability for comments or reviews to be made by the public in relation to my papers. Ideally I ...
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Favoring citations in the same journal
I have once, some time ago, received a rejection notice in which the journal editor made what I thought was a peculiar comment. The reviewers all found that the work was good, but one emitted a doubt ...
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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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Rediscovery of calculus in 1994: what should have happened to that paper?
There's a well-known paper in academic circles that features a rediscovery of the trapezoidal rule for numerical integration by a medical researcher:
“A Mathematical Model for the Determination of ...
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Is it ok to send an email informing about your new paper?
Several times in the past, after publishing a paper, I have sent email to several people which I thought might be interested in the results obtained in the paper. Usually I have emailed some of the ...
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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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Why become a journal editor?
I know peer-reviewing research papers is a lot of work, but it is something that as a scientist in academia you must do. However, you are not required to become an editor of a journal. It seems to be ...
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Why does the copy editor want Nature to be “Nature (London)”?
I have noticed that the copy editors of at least two publishers (the American Institute for Physics and American Physical Society) do something weird when they copy-edit my submitted papers. For all ...
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How much can you share unpublished forum articles?
There are some journals, such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, that publish a single target article per issue, followed by 20 to 30 commentaries on that article, and then a rebuttal/synthesis from ...
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Are law review publications helpful for gaining acceptance into a PhD program?
I'm currently finishing up my J.D., and I plan on practicing law for at least a few years. However, I'm also considering returning to school to study CS. In the meantime, I plan on researching and ...
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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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How can I determine the quality of a conference?
I recently received an invitation to a conference and I'm trying to determine how reputable it is. Is there a good way to go about this?
One method I'm using is examining where the proceedings will ...
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What should I think about “spammy” invitations for publishing papers (or even books) [duplicate]
I quite often receive emails similar to this (I am changing the names to some fictitious journals/publishers):
You Are Welcome to Submit Your Articles for OA Journal- "Advances in Witchcraft and ...
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Putting PhD Dissertation on Facebook
I am told that one of the best ways in which to disseminate information/knowledge/findings from doctoral research is to put your dissertation on-line. By default, many universities make the ...
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Are book reviews peer-reviewed? Are news articles peer-reviewed?
A couple of simple questions:
Books are not peer reviewed in general. Are book reviews that appear in academic journals peer-reviewed? Since they represent personal opinions, I would think they ...
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Can I publish a critique of an experiment in a field in which I am not an expert?
I found a major flaw in reasoning in a psychological experiment, but I am not even related to psychology, I just attended to that course at my university in my spare time. The flaw I found is strictly ...
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How to present data in a paper in terms of style
I have previously been involved in a course, where we (the students) were supposed to use a specific style, when presenting our graphical data. By style I mean the size/color of legends, thickness of ...
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How to quote a passage with a punctuation error?
I want to quote the following passage (actually, the original passage as somewhat longer but let's consider this a minimal working example)
Awareness of others, can address affective needs.
but ...
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For undergraduates, is publishing “weak” research better than not publishing?
As an undergraduate student, I have worked on some projects for my own interest, and recently a professor said that one of these works can be published (in a Elsevier journal with impact factor of ...
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Is it better for a mathematical paper to have a citation or a nice theorem + another coauthor?
I'm publishing my first paper soon with 3 collaborators. We made a conjecture towards the end of the paper and intended to publish with the question still open. Another mathematician heard of the ...
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How do I sign my papers?
My name is Jorge Fernández de Cossío Díaz. In my country, we have two last names: the first (Fernández de Cossío) comes from the father side, and the second (Díaz) comes from the mother side.
I have ...
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Legal or duplicate to publish results in both dissertation and journal [duplicate]
Suppose one has published his results in a journal, then uses them in his dissertation, is it legal or duplicate?
Conversely, if one tend to publish some important results in his dissertation to a ...
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Spam “The International Journal of Science and Whatever”
I'm a very early stage researcher and my first two conference papers weren't great, but that doesn't stop new journals spamming me with offers to publish them again. This morning I received two emails ...
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Article-based PhD and advisor's (new) role?
My engineering university offers a relatively new option to do an article-based dissertation, where the primary research is submitted (and hopefully published) in several scientific journals (at my ...
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What versions of a paper do I still hold rights to?
I just had my first paper accepted for publication (hooray!), but I'm wondering how copyright works for the paper. I know that for this publication, the publishing house owns the copyright of the ...
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Is a IEEE student member counted as a member in a submission to a transaction?
I am going to submit a paper to a IEEE transaction. I am a student member of IEEE. In the auther line of the paper, do I append "IEEE, Member", "IEEE, Student Member" or nothing after my name?
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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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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 ...
