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Seeking Advice: No Citation from a PI I Applied to Work With, Who Built on My Preprint
Last year, I applied to multiple PhD programs with limited research experience but worked hard to publish a preprint on arXiv and submitted it to a workshop before the application cycle. One of the ...
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What annoys reviewers more: Missing information or a paper that is too long? (STEM-related field) [closed]
I for myself, when reading papers, almost always miss important information such as justifications for certain design decisions, implementation details or more detailed differentiation to related work....
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Help with referencing a summarized data from multiple sources into one single reference
What would be the best way to reference the following case:
I have taken some reported financial figures from the annual reports ranging from 2017 to 2023 of 5 different companies. Using those ...
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How important is it to use publically available data in publication? [closed]
I have access a lot of data from hospitals and we as a team have been publishing works on application of AI models using the data.
recently, in one of the reviewers comments, the reviewer was ...
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What is a "recent" investigation?
I am writing a doctoral thesis in philosophy (Europe) on an author who passed away in 1980. Over the past 20 years, there has been a significant volume of research on his thought. In my thesis, I ...
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Can I include ideas from a referee report from a paper with a coauthor without involving the coauthor in the next project?
I am a young researcher. In the past, I have collaborated with someone a few times whose contribution was very minimal, and their claim to coauthorship is questionable (yet I let them have it). Awhile ...
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What to consider as reviewer before dooming a paper
I am conflicted about what should influence my recommendation as reviewer.
A few times, I've been in a situation similar to the current one. Consider a paper that, after receiving a major revision, ...
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"First et al.", many authors with same surname, and IEEE citations
I'm describing an evolution of ideas like this:
Wang et al. suggested quantizing the ReLU function [1]. Later, Wang
et al. extended that method by shifting the function base [2]. In
contrast, Wang et ...
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How to react to a rejection based on a single one-line negative review?
I’m a beginner researcher. Several months ago I submitted an article to a seemingly reputable journal and recently received a decision letter. The decision was to reject my article. There were no ...
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Manuscript in 'Decision in Process' for 6 weeks and no response to email requesting update [duplicate]
I seem to be having a recurring issue with a journal. I submitted a manuscript in April of this year that was sent out to peer-review and the reviews were completed relatively quickly. The manuscript ...
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How to reply to a revise and resubmit review, saying is all good? [duplicate]
I am a reviewer for a paper that has undergone three revision and resubmit stages - the paper has greatly improved - and the authors have made great efforts to address all the comments they received ...
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For citations, Should I use the citation of the mentioned name or the journal it was in?
An article I want to cite mentiones an author and has paraphrased a sentence. I would like to refer to that sentence but I'm not sure who to reference in the in-text citation: the author of the ...
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over 2 weeks with editor after major revision [duplicate]
I would like to know if it is normal 2 weeks after major revision my paper is still with editor and he doesn't send it to reviewers. I'm concerned that maybe my revision wasn't satisfactory.
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Cite PowerPoint Icons
Microsoft PowerPoint provides a wide variety of icons. I want to use them in a graphic, but can't find any usage terms. Do I have to cite them? And if so, how?
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Asked to suggest referees 9 months after submission: what to do? [closed]
I submitted a research paper to a mainstream journal of my math subject domain in December 2023. I did not hear anything from them since, so last month I reached out to them. My editor informed me ...
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Publishing an article with only three citations on the arXiv [closed]
I wrote a paper about quantitative biology that is 55 pages long and has only three citations. Does this have a chance of being accepted on the arXiv?
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What should be the affiliation of PhD student who submitted thesis but yet to defend, in a conference talk slides?
I have submitted my PhD thesis in mathematics but have yet to defend. I have a conference in the next month, a contributed talk on a topic different from the dissertation.
I have prepared the front ...
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What is the consequence of not mentioning an in-text citation in Bibliography
I have recently submitted a paper to a reputed Wiley Journal. I have used in-text citations in the main body, with all references alphabetically arranged at the end of paper in a bibliographical ...
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Should I report a review I suspect to be AI-generated? [duplicate]
We've recently received reviews for a paper submitted to a top (STEM) journal in my field. Most reviews were helpful, but one was particularly sloppy, heavily misunderstanding our paper and making ...
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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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Sharing reviewers’ comments with all reviewers when a manuscript is rejected?
Imagine the following, very common case: A manuscript was submitted to a journal. The editor sent it to two to three reviewers. The review forms are ready and sent back to the editor. The final ...
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Are the peer reviewers of a journal article allowed to voice surprise to the editor at a "minor revision" decision?
Are reviewers allowed to express surprise to an editor? I was shocked by the ‘minor revision’ decision for an article I reviewed. Reviewer 1 was positive and listed a few minor points.
My review and ...
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How to cite a book if only its chapters have DOIs?
I want to cite a book in my bibliography which does not seem to have a DOI listed anywhere. Google also does not give me a DOI for the whole book. However, it does provide me with DOIs for each ...
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I submitted a paper and later realised one reference was missing, although I had written the authors in the body text. What could happen?
I'm a PhD student who has submitted his first article and I have a question that makes me upset and embarrassed.
After submitting the article I realised that one of my references which I cited in the ...
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Paper rejected as out-of-scope after submitting a minor revision
I sent my paper to a journal. The editor sent it for reviewing. I then received an email from the editor to congratulate me. I had have to revise the paper according to the minor corrections ...
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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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Response to reviewers as sole author
I am about to submit a response to reviewers on a paper where I am sole author. As it's my first paper of this kind, I am quite confused on using the first person in singular/plural form or third ...
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Is it ethical/acceptable to recommend a reviewer who gave a positive review to a previous submission of the same MS?
I (and my co-authors) recently received a rejection notice regarding a manuscript we submitted for publication. We had one positive and one negative review. The positive reviewer chose to reveal his ...
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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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Refereeing papers by people you are very close to
I was recently asked to referee a paper. I opened the paper and it was one of my former postdoc mentor. I disclosed my relationship to the journal and they didn't mind. I had already read the paper so ...
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Does a cancellation of an accepted review request before the due date happen often?
I accepted a paper review request of an ESCI journal last month. A few days later the editorial office wrote me they no longer needed my review. Last week they sent a request for the same paper again. ...
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Forgot to Anonymize Paper for Double-Blind Review
I recently submitted a paper to a conference, and I realized six days after submission that I forgot to remove the authors' names. The guidelines clearly state:
"All papers will be double-blind ...
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Minor Narrative Discrepancy in Submitted Paper
I recently submitted a paper and realized there is a minor discrepancy in the narrative.
I ran additonal experiments that combine my method with other approaches, showing improvements can be made. The ...
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Is there a way to easily match zbMATH and MR numbers?
I'm a mathematician and I love using the MathSciNet and zbMATH databases to trawl through the literature, find new papers, and generate citations. So in my own papers, in my own bibliography, it makes ...
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How should I acknowledge a reviewer who left a negative review?
I submitted a paper to a journal and received three peer reviews. Two reviews were very positive and recommended acceptance, and one was very negative and recommended rejection. This journal does non-...
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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 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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CSL style following APA 7th Edition and providing a superscript and a full footnote for every citation
Is there a CSL (Citation Style Language) style that follows APA (American Psychological Association) 7th Edition, and provides a superscript and a full footnote reference for every citation? An ...
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How to best cite a series of equations?
This question kind of sits at the intersection of academia, math and latex stackexchange.
In my (mathematics) master's thesis, I am trying to cite a series of equtions like this (this may be a bit ...
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what are the conditions that make the status changed from Reviewing Completed to Reviewers Assigned? [duplicate]
I got major revision and the status was under review for the 2 reviewers from 10/7/2024 and go Reviewing Completed in 26/7/2024 but the status become Reviewers Assigned after sometime.
Does that mean ...
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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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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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Difference in approach when reviewing papers vs grants
Normally, we begin our experiences as peer-reviewers by answering request from journals and conferences to review papers. In these cases, all the details are included and the quality of the science ...
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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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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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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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What are good reasons for declining to referee a manuscript that hasn't been posted on arXiv?
This question is inspired by the comments under this answer, specifically the points raised by user TimRias. The discussion was about a paper submitted to Physical Review D (PRD), a journal covering ...
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Citing specific R functions in publications?
I'm wondering how common (or uncommon) it is to cite R functions in publications. E.g. to write in a manuscript something like:
We used the 'X' function from the 'Y' package version 0.2.0 [@ref] to ...
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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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