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What's the point in "the paper is structured as follows"?

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Should academic papers necessarily carry a sober tone?

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How do we end the culture of “endless hours at work”?

46 votes

Use of first person in a PhD Thesis

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What are the different roles between a program committee member and reviewer?

33 votes

How to contact a potential PostDoc advisor?

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How to tell my advisor I don't want to stay in academia

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Resources on how to overcome writer's block, especially for non-native English speakers?

26 votes

Is it a bad idea to submit a paper merely to elicit reviewers' comments?

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After my PhD how much salary should I expect as a professor of computer science?

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Is it hard to start a PhD programme after leaving to work in industry?

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How to physically handle hundreds and hundreds of papers

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What proportion of papers submitted to Nature are actually sent for review?

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Why upload to academic preprint sites like arXiv?

24 votes
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How should a PhD student approach a collaboration?

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Is there any non-commercial alternative to ResearcherID?

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Why would one choose a particular advisor, other than having shared interests?

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What does "Publish or perish" really mean?

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How to encourage seminar attendance?

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How common is it to inadvertently "reinvent the wheel" in academia?

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What are the key features of a short (15 min) conference presentation?

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What does it mean to have vacation time in European academia?

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Publishing an 'ok paper' to arxiv

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Are there Conference Proceedings that have impact factor?

16 votes

How should I cite a website URL?

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What does "research university" mean?

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why is the impact factor of mathematical journals "often" lower than the impact factor of journals in other disciplines

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Why use version control systems for writing a paper?

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Choosing a title to hold upon completion of a doctoral degree: "Dr." vs. "Ph.D."

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What do co-supervisors get out of a PhD?

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