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Protocol of review process of article submission [duplicate]
I am totally new to submitting articles to journals and I have only one (probably naive) question. I submitted a preprint (quite) some time ago and this is the protocol of the process:
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Near the end of my PhD, I want to leave the program, take my work with me, and my advisor says that he lost all of my drafts [closed]
My advisor has been neglectful throughout my program, and unfortunately, switching advisors was never an option. He provided no scientific guidance, only emailing me every six months to tell me to ...
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Is it appropriate to ask former mentors/professors to peer review a study?
I conducted research with my former professors and mentors during my internship and master's program at my former institution. We published one paper together, of which I was the lead author. Three ...
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Author Affiliation for Paper Accepted After Leaving University
I submitted a few papers while I was at a university. All major revisions were done while I was still there. Now I've left academia and joined an R&D company and working on totally unrelated ...
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Will posting my preprint that was accepted Cambridge university press cause issues with peer review? [duplicate]
I recently published a literature review manuscript on Cambridge University press's open engage journal, it was accepted and is now available on its public website. It has yet to pass peer review in a ...
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How can researchers effectively stay current as the volume of publications increases?
For most academics, it is professionally vital to stay current in our fields. However, the volume of publication appears to be increasing exponentially [1, 2]. The first of these studies estimates a ...
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Looking for papers or research on best practices for presentation of text and data in scientific papers [closed]
Are there peer-reviewed research on the best way of presenting things for online/digital scientific publications.
There are lots of questions that people might have about publication guidelines in ...
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Publish a paper about a contribution already briefly outlined in one of my papers?
Can I publish a paper about a contribution X that was already (very briefly) outlined in the Supplemental Information of a previous paper of mine ?
Background: X is significant and deserves a paper on ...
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Editor is requesting for journal self citation
Recently, I submitted a paper to a journal listed in Scopus. They sent me review results, but some of the items in the review list are strange. One asked why there are no references in the first two ...
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Are hand-drawn figures appropriate for physics or engineering journals?
Hand-drawn figures in papers were common in the old days. If I use hand-drawn figures (generated e.g. with the software Paint) for illustrations, will that result in a rejection of my manuscript?
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Should I submit my paper to another journal after long delays in publication?
In January 2024, I submitted my paper to the University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Journal (UMURJ). I received confirmation of acceptance for review in March 2024, and after some back and ...
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arXiv - is it possible to upload there an abstract and only within a week the text itself?
I want to submit a paper to a journal on which I've worked with a colleague. The paper is almost finished but refers to another unpublished paper I've been working on. To avoid falling behind schedule ...
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How can I withdraw a paper from any conference?
Recently my paper got accepted in a conference. But the registration fee was too high for me. Plus they didn’t give any review of my paper. My supervisor told me not not register it. I decided to do ...
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How important is storytelling when submitting a grant application (or even a science paper)?
A recent paper titled “Elements of Successful NIH Grant Applications” https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2315735121 argued that telling a story is key to communicating science especially when ...
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Proud moment or Okeyish moment for a researcher? [duplicate]
Namashkaram, hello. I had a question to ask to you all.. in my 5.5 year of pH.D. my 3 reasearch articles (Two 1st author and one 2nd author) got selected as Front cover page article , with full waiver ...
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Can one publication contribute to two separate grants?
I have a set of collaborators I have worked and published with in the past who have received a new, rather large multi-year grant to continue some inquiry areas. I am not funded through that grant.
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protect full paper by preprint
through some research that I have conducted shows that: preprint is a version of a scientific article that precedes its acceptance by the editorial board of a scientific journal. It therefore does not ...
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How to attribute authorship to personal non-academic friend who made significant contributions
I'm working on a paper which involves the application of a particular equation to sets of experimental materials science data. I devised the idea for the equation and collected/collated the data. With ...
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Do referees get to see each other's reports?
I have submitted a paper to a physics journal. Two referees reviewed it, and I got their reports.
My questions are the following: Does each referee see another one's report? If yes, at which stage - ...
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Do longer papers have lower chances of being accepted because they take up more "space" in a journal issue (STEM)
Do long papers (all other factors being equal) have a lower chance of being published because they take up too much "space" in a journal?
I am specifically asking about the field of Computer ...
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To publish previous papers in books
People are invited to publish in new books papers that were already published in SCI indexed journals. Some say it depends on the agreement and if there's transferred exclusive rights. Is it usually ...
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Do rediscoveries justify publication?
I have found a new solution for a problem in Computational Geometry but after intensive research learned that the key idea was already known in a different field of mathematics but also hard to find ...
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eLife-like publications and Tenure Decisions
I'm a postdoc and thinking about where to publish. eLife seems good for my work. However, I heard that eLife would be considered "reviewed preprints" and not count as publications for tenure ...
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Are there any disadvantages of pre-publishing figures for a paper separatly using a CC-BY license?
I recently came across a blog post, where it was suggested to pre-publish figures you intend to use in an academic paper somewhere using a CC-BY license. I find this idea really nice (as it allows ...
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Reusing a codebook/technique in a new publication
I have published a paper, hereby referred as "the first paper", where I lay out a conceptual framework that categorises and evaluates, let's say, policies. This article got published with a ...
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Publishing an article despite the outcomes are not what we wanted
For my master's thesis (6 months), I worked very hard for the project with the supervisor. I wrote all the codes everything by myself from scratch. However, the results we have now are not what we ...
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How can I get a DOI for articles from 2008?
I have authored research papers from 2008 in the field of biology, but there are no digital versions available. Is there any way to obtain a DOI for these articles? If so, what steps should I take to ...
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How to get an academic affiliation as an independent researcher
I don't know how to approach the following problem:
I've been out of the research world for several years now, and I'm currently working in a different field.
I've completed a scientific work as an ...
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Google scraped an unpublished, not publicly available, currently under review manuscript: can I post it to arXiv?
I have a paper currently under review (mathematics). I didn't post is to arXiv, but I'm now thinking that I probably should since Google's AI search app is now bringing it up. I had the article ...
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What should my name be on research articles? [duplicate]
Kamiruzzaman is my name. Although the last five letters zaman are typically used as a surname, my academic records all use the name Kamiruzzaman. However, I've been having trouble lately submitting ...
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Are confidentiality agreements in internal reports lifetime? [closed]
I gave a talk in the most valued French conference of my field (Operations Research) during the first year of my MSc in 2018. I kept working hard, dedicating my life to research during the final year ...
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Will it be beneficial to my research funding application if I try to explain the reasons of the relatively few citations of my works?
My papers have on average 4 citations despite having been presented at A-rated conferences or published at A-rated journals.
To give you a perspective the number of citations of the average paper on ...
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Will it be beneficial to my application if I include in a research proposal the fact that all my papers improve papers published at top conferences?
During my undergraduate studies, I was actively engaged in reading research papers and even discovered a significant result. However, after spending about 10 months trying to write a paper on it, a ...
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Does the increasing number of co-authors per paper justify not having publications in top conferences? [closed]
I'm currently drafting a research proposal but I don't have publications in top-tier journals or conferences. Observing recent trends, it seems that the average number of co-authors per paper in ...
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Has the average number of co-authors on papers published at the top CS conferences increased in last several years and if yes why?
It seems to me that over time the average number of co-authors on papers published at the top Computer Science conferences (and perhaps journals as well) has increased.
I suppose this may has ...
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A predatory journal has a copy of our confidential abstract, what should I do?
Our group submitted an article to a prestigious journal and while under review, we received an email from a most probably "predatory" journal, basically saying that your article can be ...
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Manuscript included in special collection by editor?
I have recently submitted my first manuscript to an academic journal. I was notified by an Associate Editor that my manuscript was included in a special collection of the journal, and I need to either ...
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Should I mention a junk citation?
I am writing down an application to a professorship, and among several other documents a list of all the papers* that cite mine is required (I suspect this is somewhat unusual to most readers, but ...
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How to let researchers know that they need to cite my paper?
I've recently noticed that some researchers are publishing papers in the same (or similar) IEEE journals where I've previously submitted (a year ago), covering topics closely related to my work. ...
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Does my university get billed every time I access a paper?
I do not keep a folder on my computer with the hundreds of PDFs of the scientific papers I read, but rather whenever I need a paper I just go and download it from the publisher's website. Of course I ...
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Do I ethically need to acknowledge a collegue's confidential work if I consider it obvious?
A colleague of mine that I worked with a number of years ago completed some work that he formally presented and discussed with me in a confidential setting. The work involved a new product design (...
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Where can one find research proposals in mathematical disciplines such as theoretical CS and Operations research? [closed]
Does anyone know where I might find sample research proposals specifically related to these disciplines?
Are there repositories, university archives, or publications that make such documents ...
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Where can I find a template for a Brill Journal
I want to write an article for this journal from BRILL Publishing, but I an unable to find on their site or even on the internet a template for it. This is my first attempt to a journal in humanities ...
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How to politely ask not to be first author on a paper?
A few years ago I did a brief undergraduate research apprenticeship in pure math, where I helped a professor come up with a novel construction, and it's in the works to get published. I think I helped ...
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Automatic publication list in group webpage
I manage my research group website, and whenever a member of the group publishes something/posts it on the arXiv, I'm supposed to add it to the list (along with DOI, URL, status, etc.). But it's hard ...
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Resources to filter and/or rank research papers based on keywords?
I'm trying to make the case for funding at my college's directive board to take an important course in a research tool that requires us to pay for travel and lodging in another town. Even though it's ...
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Is it safe/a good idea to give a talk about one's independent research (in math) to people in academia?
I'm an independent reasearcher in mathematics. I do have a professional background, a master degree, but I'm not longer affiliated with an university. I have now proven something, that seems to me as ...
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Is it appropriate to acknowledge your family or even mention them in articles or slideshows?
What if I believe the research we conducted is not only the work of my supervisors or colleagues but also nearly all my family and I would like to acknowledge them in my slideshow or articles writing ...
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Should I list a dual affiliation in publications when incorporating prior independent work into my current full-time research?
I’m currently employed full-time as a researcher, and my institution has asked me to integrate a tool I originally developed during my prior independent consulting/research. The tool was created ...
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What does "CoRR" classification mean in papers on openreview.net?
I frequently encounter papers on OpenReview.net that are classified as "CoRR 2024". While I understand this might be related to arXiv classifications, I haven't been able to find a clear ...
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