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Google Scholar referring to deleted ResearchGate article
My Google Scholar profile shows citations from ResearchGate articles. RG articles were deleted due to certain issues.
How long does it typically take for such citations to disappear from Google ...
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Is there a python wrapper covering multiple scholarly resources API endpoints?
Question: Does anybody know of a Python Wrapper containing a number of the mentioned APIs listed by MIT?
Context: I want to execute a systematic literature review, and apply bibliometrics/ citation ...
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How should I cite a labor union CBA in Turabian style?
I need to cite a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) negotiated between a labor union (United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 555) and an employer (Fred Meyer Stores, Inc., a subsidiary of ...
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Cite NumPy in BibTex
How to cite NumPy in BibTex?
The Scipy citing page recommends:
Travis E, Oliphant. A guide to NumPy, USA: Trelgol Publishing, (2006).
Is it correct to use:
@Misc{numpy,
author = {Travis ...
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What do I do if I cant find a proper basis for my methods of experimentation?
I am currently a senior high school student whose study is about producing homemade paper using coconut husks and testing for their certain properties. However, most studies that I have come across ...
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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 The paper is almost finished but refers to another unpublished paper I've been working on.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 to thank others for referencing my paper? Will it seem unprofessional? Is it common practice? [duplicate]
There are groups who have referenced published papers of which I am a co-author. The groups who referenced are not collaborators. How can I acknowledge their intellectual input?
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Case where superscripted footnote reference numbers may be in brackets or parentheses
Is there a particular case when footnote or endnote reference numbers placed in brackets or parentheses? Is this done in block quotations to distinguish reference numbers contained in the original ...
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Can semanticscholar do exact title search?
I tried to search a paper using semanticscholar with exact titles. But it seems that it just treated the title as a list of keywords and gave only irrelevant results. Is that possible to have ...
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Is it possible to use Mendeley to produce chapter notes without a citation?
Is it possible to use Mendeley to insert sequential text chapter notes without a citation?
For example:
Chapter text
Lorem ipsum dolor [1] sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod [2] ...
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How to cite and reference forthcoming sources to appear in a Festschrift
It’s not uncommon, at least not in my field, to refer to articles, books, chapters, etc., which have not yet been published. In in-text citations, these simply appear as Author (fc.) (or forthc. or ...
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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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Incorrect citation in a published paper: can I ask the journal to correct it?
I found an (already published) paper that cites a paper of mine, but without inserting even the arXiv link (the paper is still in press). In this way, I lose one citation.
Is it possible for me to ...
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Should I let my professor know that I cited a text written by him....that I pirated from online
I wrote an essay for a professor of mine, in which I cited a book he had written. As it so happens, the citation is based on my having obtained a (most likely) pirated PDF copy of the book. The text ...
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Google scholar doesn't send me citation alerts
Google Scholar fails to send me citation alerts or alerts when articles have been auto-included in my profile. This happened about a year ago; before that, Scholar faithfully sent me the updates. In ...
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What's an appropriate phrasing of a caveat about self-citation?
I'm writing some report, and at a certain point I give an example by citation. The citation format is such that you don't see any names (e.g. "[123]") without visiting the bibliography; or ...
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Asked to cite papers for money
I was recently contacted by someone claiming to run a "decentralized collaborative team" who cite each other's papers and offering me money for citing their papers ($10 per citation, paid ...
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Including unpublished quotes in research proposals
Currently, I am writing a research proposal for the purpose of obtaining a one-year grant. The proposal centers around a mathematical algorithm that possibly has applications in oncology. As far as I ...
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Can I set up zotero to download arxiv vanity when I download a paper from arxiv?
When I add a paper from arXiv to my zotero, it will download the arxiv paper along with all the details. I was wondering if there is some way to get it to also download the corresponding arxiv vanity ...
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Is paraphrasing my own texts using online tools is okay?
I am currently writing my master's thesis. I came across paraphrasing tools quite recently too. I saw that sometimes my texts are not very clear and repetitive (although I can explain an idea in an ...
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Is it acceptable to cite review papers when they don't provide any references for where the information has come from?
Is it acceptable to cite review papers when they don't provide references for where the information has come from?
I'm working on a report, and I've cited quite a few review papers, whose number I'm ...
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Should I cite 200 webpages?
For my paper I am getting quarterly data on company earnings from their 10-Q reports. I am scraping together about 200 of these reports.
Am I supposed to cite all 200 of these, or I can just say the ...
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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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What is the proper way of searching for a reference whose type is unknown?
In the article, Stability of quantum motion in chaotic and regular systems, Physical Review A, 30, 1610 (1984), in the reference section these two references given:
[11]M. V. Berry, in Chaotic ...
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Manually adding citations to ResearchGate
The source information of scientific publications uploaded to ResearchGate is often not recognized automatically. As a result, the cited works cannot be recorded in the statistics.
Can I add source ...
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How to initial an author's name that contains nobiliary particles and articles
When an author's name contains something like "van der", "de la", etc, and you wish to initial the author's first/middle names (all but surname) in a reference, how do you deal ...
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How to deal with "cans of worms" of references in publications
I have found an algorithm that solved a puzzle in an unexpected way, so I'm planning to publish it on arXiv.
After some online research I learned that the puzzle belongs to a larger class of more or ...
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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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What is the limit for needs for citations when it comes to well known facts?
I am aware that this question is quite broad, but I am curious about what the limits are here. Probably the answer is a "It depends", but I am still eager to hear what other people thing ...
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better to cite pre-print or thesis
When I submitted my PhD thesis, the journal article version of one of the chapters was under review. A preprint of it is up on ArXiv. It was eventually rejected, not with particular faults so much as ...
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Manually adding citation of my work on Google Scholar [closed]
I recently noticed that my work was cited in a working paper uploaded to arXiv about five months ago. However, the citation format is incorrect (wrong year, missing repository), and it has not been ...
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Uploading the same working paper again after some years
In 2022, I uploaded a working paper to my university's working paper series. Since then, my experience has been somewhat unsatisfactory. Each time I needed to update the paper (which happened a couple ...
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How long should a direct quote be in order to be put in quotation marks?
Let's suppose there is a short definition in a source and that I want to report such definition in a paper but adapting the initial wording to the sentence.
For instance
Definition: a bottle is a ...
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References/Database for commonly used quotes [closed]
I stumbled upon a quote that is said to be by Einstein: "Je mehr ich weiß, desto mehr erkenne ich, dass ich nichts weiß." ("The more I know, the more I realize that i know nothing")...
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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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Is it necessary to cite all publications with erroneous interpretations in a PhD thesis?
In my PhD thesis, the main topic is to justify that a philosopher P claims that x = a, but a (very) large number of publications assert that x = b, even though their research doesn’t directly deal ...
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Is there a tool to visualize the connections between specified authors?
Is there a tool that, provided a list of authors, visualizes the connections between these authors, if any?
Or at least a tool to to visualize the academic citation network around several researchers ...
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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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Are there any tools to automatically search and download literature in a given .bib file?
I'd like to download automatically tons of papers listed on .bib file so I'm trying to find a way to facilitate the process by, e.g. I import or input to a tool a certain .bib file which contains a ...
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Is there an online engine like Google Scholar which allows me to sort the papers by citation count?
I could not find a way of sorting the list of relevant publications on Google Scholar on the number of citations. It would help a lot as I prefer to start reading well-cited references before moving ...
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How should I paraphrase a paragraph with several primary references?
I have a question about in-text citations. I have read different answers and want to be sure about it: when I paraphrase a text from paper A, I should cite the author; if there is a reference in the ...
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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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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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"Retrofitting" sources
There seems to be a sort of craze about having as many references as possible. Among the students at my university, it has become common practice to write a passage of text and later figure out if ...
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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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How should you cite yourself when there are more than 15 authors?
I am not one of the primary authors of the article, and there are more than 15 authors for the paper I am referring to.
How should I include the paper in my CV? Should all authors be cited? How can I ...
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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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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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Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Date) in-text citation help for quoting a politician speaking in a House of Commons Debate
The general in-text citation rule is this (for a quotation): (Last name Year, Page Number). In 13.65 (17th Edition), CMoS gives an example of a detailed in-text citation:
... text in the quote ...
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