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What is the most cited paper of all time?
There was recently a talk at my university of someone who wrote the most cited paper in the top journal of my field. Something like that is usually easy to look up for a single journal, but it made me ...
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Retrieving the references in a publication automatically
This is probably not 100% on-topic here, but this site is closer to appropriate than others. Let me give it a try: I have collected about 50 publications relevant for a project of mine. For these ...
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How to find all of the responses to a published research paper?
While searching through various journals with my library's on-line journal search tools, I have occasionally found short articles which are simply comments on other published papers. These short ...
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Is it wrong not to cite a bad quality paper when the literature on the topic is scarce?
Should I cite a paper that I deem of bad quality just because it is among the only two papers that use the same methodology I'm using in my research?
I'm writing a paper that uses a relatively new ...
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Citing (or not) a flawed or incomprehensible paper or preprint
Is there a good practice of citing (or not) a paper or preprint that you consider flawed (or at best - totally incomprehensible)?
Once I had a problem of that sort. I wrote a paper on a topic, which ...
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I publish under a one-word name, which Google Scholar does not index. What can I do?
I publish under a single name (no last name). As Google Scholar does not recognise me as an author I face several issues with citation counts and wrong bibliographic data being available in Google ...
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On citing "common knowledge" statements
I am an undergraduate student with no experience at all.
If you are writing a research paper, that you are planning to submit for publication, how do you state that a particular statement/fact is ...
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Should I cite myself in my PhD proposal?
I am writing a research proposal for a PhD, and I am referring to my earlier research, which is published in a scientific journal. Should I cite myself? It feels a little preposterous, but I can ...
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Does adding an MIT-licenced package to my research software qualify the author for co-authorship?
I have a research software on GitHub, using an MIT license. I need to include an additional package/library, which is also MIT-licensed, to my software for a new feature to work properly. I do not ...
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Author's last name is misspelled online but not in the PDF. How do I cite the paper?
When checking the 'References' section of my manuscript, I noticed that the last name of one of the authors of one paper has a typo. Searching for the source of the typo led me to the paper's page on ...
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Referencing the reference?
Suppose I have a paper with the following text:
Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you [3],[4].
As one can see, the author got the information from two other references.
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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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Should one cite unethical research that may contradict one's current research?
Most people are familiar with the controversy over citing Nazi medical experimentation and related unethical findings. I'm not questioning that.
Assuming that citing unethical research in order to ...
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Miscited in a bachelor thesis
I recently discovered, to my delighted surprise, that my bachelor thesis had been cited in another bachelor thesis - however...
my bachelor thesis has been entered in the reference list as an PhD ...
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Citing a paper whose title has received errata
I recently stumbled upon a published article entitled "ANCOVA versus change from baseline had more power in randomized studies and more bias in nonrandomized studies," which has an errata stating the ...
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Using leaked proprietary information in scientific paper
I am working on a project in the area of IT security where we are analyzing a proprietary embedded system. While researching the system, we came across a confidential data sheet that was made ...
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How to reuse complete paper for my thesis?
I am currently writing my PhD thesis, and I have published an article together with my supervisor. The third chapter of my PhD thesis (1/3 of my whole thesis) is basically the paper. I plan to include ...
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What address to put in bibliography for Springer (and others)?
Some publishers like Springer appear variously with different addresses. Sometimes (in the case of Springer) it's "Berlin, Heidelberg", sometimes it's "Heidelberg, New York", or even "Berlin, ...
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Should my citation graph be acyclic?
In a recent question on how to deal with submitting several papers on similar subjects at the same time, one of the (good) practices suggested by the answers is make sure that they cite each other, ...
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How can I get the DOI of a paper from its title?
Is there a way to get the DOI (Document Object Identifier) of a research paper when its title is available?
I am preparing a reference database I could not get the URL of all the references. So, I ...
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Is pasting an excerpt from Wikipedia in a paper without reference plagiarism?
Assume you are reviewing a paper and discover that some general definitions therein have been copied from Wikipedia without mentioning the source. Should it be considered plagiarism or can it be ...
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Curious case of self-citations and how to monitor self-citers?
If one looks superficially at the publications of author X, he seems to be one of the top scientists in his field. But looking more closely his citations are 60% from himself 35% from his co-author, ...
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Cases when old references are valid?
Some guides say to limit the references to up to 5-6 years old.
But I've speculated as to, whether it's possible that research would become "deviated to pursuits for which in the history there ...
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Whom to cite from an article: the reporter or the person who provided a quote to the reporter?
I am reading this 2016 article: EI benefits (The Globe and Mail)
The article is written by the reporter R. Younglai. In an academic paper, I am talking about a specific theory/concept which is ...
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How to deal with your research results becoming obsolete?
My coworkers are pursuing a generalization of one of my (recent) results. Is it wrong of me to frown a little on this? I would prefer it if they had an original idea of their own, or that if that they ...
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Is it ethical to cite the complete version of a paper in the short version of it?
I've written an article which is 32 pages long, (including 1.5 page of references and 3 pages of appendices). I intend to submit it to a conference which accepts 20-page long articles including ...
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Should I apologise to a professor for not citing his paper?
Last year, I went to a math conference to present new results in my paper 1, which was just submitted to a journal. Afterwards, a well-known Professor X approached me to discuss the paper. He seemed ...
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Is it possible for a scientific article to lose citations?
I have just noticed something very weird, some months ago, I was looking in google scholar an article of Irving Langmuir called "The Vapor Pressure of Metallic Tungsten", it had 761 ...
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How to refer to a theorem in a book of which I don't know the source?
I am writing a paper in math. In that paper, I need to quote several theorems/propositions from a classic textbook on the subject. All of them are quite standard results, but I am not sure what are ...
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Should self-citations be excluded when calculating the h-index?
The Hirsch index, or h-index is a widely used citation statistic that, arguably, accurately reflects the impact of a scientist. It takes into account the number of publications as well as how often ...
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Does consistency in how my name is presented/abbreviated as author on a publication matter?
Assume I have the name: "First Middle Last". I have been publishing as "First Last."
At my current job (postdoc) my adviser prefers that I list my name on my paper as F. Last (or F.M. Last), and I'm ...
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Should I cite a paper that I haven't read if I use a theorem in it?
In my Master's thesis I use a theorem that is recent enough that I could find the article where it is proved, but I've actually learned the theorem and its proof in two books by other authors. Is it ...
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Which to cite: Review and Survey papers or Research papers?
Review papers are long papers gathering the results of various researches and have many conclusions. When I want to address an issue or a conclusion about something should I repeatedly cite a Review ...
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Citing "common knowledge" blogs?
I am a masters student in the process of writing a thesis in computer science.
In particular, there is someone who works in industry who is probably one of, if not the world leading experts in a ...
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When you reference an article, is it always expected that you have actually read it?
Naturally I would say "of course", but my current situation makes me doubt.
In my paper I'm briefly covering various alternative cryptographic constructions. I am (of course) familiar with all of ...
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Why are some sources cited twice in a bibliography, once with DOI and once with arXiv?
Just to clarify what I mean, I have seen some review articles that have bibliography items like this:
Bloggs, J., "The Paper that has Been Written", The Journal Title,
Series Number, page number(...
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Are references with indication of page number uncommon in computer science?
I am writing a computer science paper in which I cite several lengthy sources (text books and standard specifications). Whenever I cite such a source, I add the page numbers of the subsection to which ...
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What should I do, as a reviewer, if I see another reviewer suggesting the authors to cite papers not relevant to the manuscript?
I have just submitted my review of a manuscript to a journal, which allowed me to see other reviewers' comments once I submitted mine. I have points of disagreement with this other reviewer, but I am ...
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How to cite ISO standards?
I am currently writing my PhD thesis and several times I cite various ISO standards. I am unsure what the correct way to format the bibliography entry for such documents is.
Currently I am doing ...
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How to search for list of papers citing both papers A and B?
For given papers A and B, I would like to search for all papers that cite both A and B. I guess one can generalize to papers {A,B,C,...} and find all papers that cite all of them.
A quick Google ...
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How should you cite dead urls in a thesis?
I am currently writing a thesis. In the related work part I am discussing a paper from a few years ago. The paper presents several web applications which were available back then. Hence, these ...
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Ethics of not referencing StackExchange in a publication? [duplicate]
So I'm feeling a bit guilty. I've been working on a publication proof (my first) of an interesting theorem. The issue is I've been using StackExchange (Mathematics) to answer some similar questions ...
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Is it OK to add citations from low impact factor journals?
For example, let us consider that I write a manuscript which is to be submitted to one of the prestigious journals such as PRL, PRB, etc. In this manuscript, is it OK to cite from some journals which ...
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What is a 'classic paper', and when do we refer to a work as a 'classic work'?
I have come across a few times in research papers or in books, where the authors refer a past (mostly an old) research paper as classic paper. For example, in a book Bratko refers the following:
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If I write a really bad, but controversial, paper, can I increase my h-index?
Imagine that I write a paper about a controversial topic like global warming denial, the link between vaccines and autism, why different races have different IQ. After publication, the paper gets the ...
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Found published work that doesn't reference previous related work
I have been researching a specific topic in computer science for a couple of years now and a well established professor and his students have recently published a couple of publications in that topic ...
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How to make a software documentation "officially" citable?
We are currently finishing the implementation of a scientific software library. It's the first project of this type for me and I'm curious, how to make the software citable in a similar way to Molpro ...
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Should we put the references in slides/poster when we already have them in paper?
After reading this question about slides making and asking myself two questions about poster making and TED talking, I realize that these activities are for showing what you found, make the audience ...
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How to find credible sources for a general reference?
I am currently writing a paper in which I have many topics to describe. It would not be productive to read and cite papers or even books on the topics because I just have to describe them very briefly ...
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What to do when a publication uses results of your research but does not cite it?
Recently, I found a monograph that includes results from my dissertation. Those results have also been included in conference presentations. They have also been disseminated by the funding agency that ...
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