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Journal keeps messing with my proof
Our work was accepted at a prestigious Q1 journal. We have gone through the peer review process and we’re in the final state of correcting the proof. I heard that it, the journal, is bad at editing,......
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How to reply to reviewers who ask for more work by responding that the paper is complete as it stands?
I have a paper under review at a journal. Reviewers have very positive feedback, but have brought up a few of the limitations of the method (which I had described and suggested as future work) and ...
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Paper appears on my Google Scholar account but not when searched
I published a paper in an open access computer science conference last year (ECAI 2023, if it matters). The paper is on the conference website, arXiv, researchgate, and some additional websites it ...
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Submitting a paper as a nonacademic practitioner in a field
I am a professional with an undergraduate education. Out of both curiosity and a commitment to continued education I read papers and research related to the field that I am interested in.
I recently ...
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How does one go about writing papers as a nobody?
To begin with, I have no credentials, no degrees, no references, and no certificates. I haven't even started university.
However, I still want to write a paper, for two main reasons.
The people ...
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What possibilities do I have for publishing a disputed manuscript?
There is an unpublished research paper that I partly wrote while working as a postdoc at my former institute. Part of the work was done at my current institute where I am an assistant professor. ...
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Publishing extension work for a previous research (in Chemical physics)
I did a project a while back, publishing molecular properties in lengthy tables (paper A). A few years down the line, others used the data in new constructive ways, to obtain insights which were ...
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Why are scientific publications generally not in cartoon, video, or other forms different from paper documents?
The advantage of looking at scientific publications is that they tend to be the most reliable source of information as they are produced using the scientific process. I think the disadvantage of ...
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Manuscript rejected after all reviewers indicate it is "good match" to publish in journal. Is this common? [duplicate]
Just got a surprising rejection from an IEEE journal. For the following question in the reviewer form (which is usually the last one to give their overall recommendation I think), all 3 reviewers have ...
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How do journals treat papers that have been transferred to them by a sister journal?
My recent submission to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) was rejected after the first round of reviews. The journal suggested transfer of the manuscript (after revision and ...
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Advice needed for publishing a math paper [closed]
I am an under grad student and have prepared an original manuscript which revolves around numerical identities of zeta function.
Since it is written not using overly advanced mathematics, I am ...
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Can WoS track citations from indexed to non-indexed publications?
I recently registered to Clarivate Web of Science, and synced my Orcid profile with WoS. It detected 11 publications, but it says "Showing 11 publications not indexed in Web of Science". So ...
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Why do most published papers hit the maximum page limit exactly?
Most published papers have a number of pages equals to the maximum page limit of their corresponding conference! Is there an unwritten rule that makes authors enforce this? Should aspiring researchers ...
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What is the difference between AIAA 'articles' and 'technical notes'?
I am curious about how the technical notes compare to to the full-length journal articles in AIAA. I have seen some PhD student graduating with only technical notes, and I want to understand if this ...
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Technical Notes - what are they?
I am a new PhD student in aerospace engineering. I am currently already a member of a research group. Suffice it to say I am not in an American institution.
As I learn more about the research culture, ...
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Conference Organization and Academic Journal - Not known
I recently had a paper accepted at an international conference, which means that if I attend and participate, my paper will be included in the conference proceedings. Additionally, if the paper ...
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Presented at IEEE, paper accepted but delayed for a year. No clarity. Need advice on next steps
I have presented my research paper at an IEEE conference. It has also been accepted at that respective IEEE conference but the publishing is being delayed. It has almost been a year but they don't ...
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Can I submit an abstract to a different conference before withdrawing from another?
I submitted a paper to Neurips, but I'm not very happy with the reviews/scores, so I'm thinking about withdrawing my paper to resubmit elsewhere. There is still an opportunity to raise the scores in ...
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Writing a Book Chapter and Adjusting One's Scholarly Tone (Writing Style)
I'm turning my master's dissertation into a book chapter and I'm worried about my scholarly tone. When I read other articles they don't sound like the way I have written my dissertation and I'll be ...
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Adding another author to a paper that hasn’t contributed?
I’m a non traditional postbacc student have been working in a medical clinic for the past 2 years. I have been working on a case report for months. Almost done… just working on the introduction and ...
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arXiv CS.AI and CS.CL endorsement [duplicate]
I have been working with a newly created startup as a machine learning researcher. I've been working on two research papers snd they were reviewed by my professor st my university and they told me ...
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What publications are "conference proceedings?"
I'm trying to figure out what things count as "conference proceedings," so I can clearly distinguish them from normal peer-reviewed articles.
Are special issues of a normal journal which ...
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Why does medical research have by far the highest retraction rate of any science?
Looking at the Retraction Watch Leaderboard,
knzhou commented:
the main common feature among the top 10 isn't that they're Japanese, it's that they're almost all medical researchers. Medical research ...
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Turning a Master's Dissertation into a Journal Article
I'm supposed to turn my masters dissertation into a journal article. The journal has no problem with me doing so as long as my work has not been published before, which it hasn't. However, I was ...
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Is it useful to mention that you are an early career researcher in journal article cover letters?
I recently attended a political science conference where there was a workshop for early career researchers (ECR). During the workshop, a senior scholar mentioned that it is useful for him a journal ...
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How can I handle unavailable papers in a systematic literature review?
Context: I am writing a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) as part of my master's thesis project. After initially screening the titles and abstracts of 338 papers from four selected databases, I ...
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How much time chief editors usually take to make final decision on a manuscript? [duplicate]
I have a manuscript submitted to a good (SCIE indexed) maths journal. I received a minor revision on May 27, 2024. I submitted the revised version on June 1, 2024, addressing all the reviewers' ...
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Can a publication license for one figure be different than the whole article's license?
A funder requires a scholar to publish their paper with a CC-BY license.
However, the paper includes a figure which is taken from another source and which is accompanied with a CC-BY-NC-SA license.
Is ...
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Why are half of the top 10 researchers ranked by number of paper retractions Japanese?
I looked at https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-leaderboard/ and see that out of the top 10 researchers ranked by number of paper retractions, half are Japanese. Why?
E.g, are there ...
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Does Stack Exchange answers have the same validity as pre-print sites like arXiv when proving priority?
Say I have done some simple calculations in an answer to a Stack Exchange question, which after a quick search does not have any existing papers detailing the same procedure, or that the few existing ...
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Best tools to create figures for papers/journal [closed]
What are good tools to create figures for papers/journals similar to the figure below which is both clear and well designed? Which tools can I use to create similar figures?
Features: Smoothly bended ...
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How to make an entire section as a conjecture?
I was writing a research paper and solved a problem inside it. To solve the problem for a specific case, I need to assume something to be true (I'm now sure about that) and then write a set of proofs ...
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Is it ethical for a PI of a collaborating PhD student to be part of my publication, even if he hasn't contributed anything?
I'm a PhD student in a country in Europe. There is a collaborating PhD student from another institute (in a different country), who has worked closely with my PI (principal investigator) and me. Some ...
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What is the longest cycle in the graph of academic papers and citations?
Okay, this is obviously just a fun and hopefully interesting question, but it is related to academia as a whole.
Sometimes two papers cite each other because they were published around the same time. ...
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Can I add a GitHub Pages link to an IEEE paper abstract?
Can I add a GitHub Page link to an IEEE paper abstract? The page has videos, photos, abstract, codes links etc. Is there any restriction for that?
Example:
We provide real robot video demonstrations ...
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Publishing a paper written in your free time as an unaffiliated author when you are affiliated
Suppose you are a researcher that works at a university. You produce, during your free time, i.e. outside of work hours, and without any other university colleague's involvement, a paper with your own ...
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Submitting paper to lower tier journal instead of doing major revision at higher tier journal
I am about to submit a paper from my master's thesis, my ex supervisor is my co-author.
They are letting me choose between two journals: one is a top journal, one is a good journal.
I'd like to submit ...
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Adding a co-author in the arXiv version of a conference paper
How can I give credit to a co-worker who contributed significantly to our paper after submission, given that the conference won't allow us to add them as a co-author? The entire team, including the ...
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Why are Management Information Systems journals publishing so few operations management interdisciplinary research works?
I am new to Management Information Systems (MIS) research. Before embarking upon my research journey, my prior education and work experience has been in logistics and operations management.
My first ...
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Incorrect affiliation on publication
As the title says, I (and a coauthor) recently had our manuscript accepted at an IOP Science journal. The manuscript was published just a while back and we have noticed that our affiliations have been ...
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What should I do if I am not able to reproduce the coauthors’ results?
We are doing computational biology research using ML. My coauthor who is a Phd student initially proposed a new idea that he said worked better than the baseline. However, after trying to replicate ...
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How to cite a conditionally accepted article?
I'm currently working on an R&R with a fairly strict due date coming up within a few weeks. One of the reviewers had a question about a small part of the paper that uses data from a particular ...
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How do you cite an entire magazine/periodical?
I have a class where I am supposed to talk about advertising in magazines, and I can't find any information on how to cite the entire magazine/periodical. I have to talk about the trends I generally ...
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How deep should I check references of a papers I am going to cite?
I am a new researcher who just started writing scientific papers and am concerned about checking the papers I am planning to cite. When citing a specific paper, I always try to read most of the cited ...
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I found a counterexample to one of the intermediate assertions in a proof but not (necessarily) to the overall result – how to publish this?
I am working on a paper which builds upon work from a paper from the 1980s.
In that paper, a result of the form A < B < C is claimed in generality and is necessary for the proof of a result.
I ...
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Is it normal for journal reviewers to reject submissions based on non-scientific reasoning? [closed]
Is it normal for reviewers to use nonfactual statements as reasons to reject journal submissions? Here, nonfactual statements will be defined as statements that are in contradiction with verified ...
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What does this mean when I submitted the revised manuscript (the decison is minor revision )? [duplicate]
I have submitted a manuscript to IEEE TRANS Journal.
After rounds of revisions, I have gone through the major revision, minor revision, and minor revision.
I have just submitted the revised manuscript ...
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Should you ever pick "recommended" or "opposed" reviewers for journal submissions in social science?
This question applies to all disciplines but I am curious here about social science journals in particular. Is it ever a good idea to name/identify specific reviewers that you would like to have them ...
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Status of a manuscript whose required reviews are completed
I have submitted a paper to a good math journal in first week of May 2024. After a month (+ a week at most), the online system shows the status “Required reviews completed”. However, to this day, I ...
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Is there a limit to the number of times a journal editor will send my paper for review if referees keep declining?
I submitted a paper to Physical Review D, an APS journal, approximately a month ago. So far, the editor has forwarded my paper to six referees for review, all of whom have declined. I suspect this may ...
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