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When Is It Okay to Leave Mediocre Work Off Of Your CV?
I'm currently a first-year PhD student in a quantitative science. As an undergraduate I performed research with a postdoc which resulted in a co-authored paper on arXiv. To fulfill a requirement to ...
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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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Is there a way to do a PhD such that you get a broad view of a field or subfield as a whole?
I will aim to keep this as general as possible, given the already narrow scope of the question.
I am looking for a way to design a PhD around the broader study of mathematics. I want to learn more ...
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Ask permission to publish article based on work from a different school?
I want to publish an article based on my master's from a previous school. I am now in a phd program at a new school. Do I need to ask my new supervisor for permission to publish the article? The ...
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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 switch my math master’s programme for better grades, thesis opportunities, and a stronger shot at a PhD?
I am currently pursuing a master's degree in mathematics at one of the top two institutes in India. The coursework here is very fast-paced. Many of us who joined this programme are encountering these ...
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Why does it take so long for journals/committees to detect fabricated data or theses after submission?
I'm curious about the retraction process of papers or theses due to fabrication or dishonesty. Specifically, why is it that some papers or theses are retracted years after publication? Why can't ...
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What are the strengths and weaknesses of wanting to study everything and how can I use it to my advantage? [closed]
I'm a master's student in STEM. I changed my undergraduate major 3 times before settling on physics because it was the most general degree I could find. I'm now in a master's program and need to ...
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Using illustrations and comics in dissertations
It's common to use quotes related to the context in the first page of each parts in PhD dissertations and books. Is it also acceptable to use some illustration instead, similar to dummies book series?
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AI Tools for Restructuring an Doctoral Dissertation
I recently changed PhD programs and need to restructure my 325+ page dissertation according to the guidelines of the new program. The subject and approach are the same but the chapter outline/...
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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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Can your friends/family go to your Dissertation Proposal? (not one's final defense, but the proposal) [closed]
I am presenting my dissertation proposal (first three chapters) to my committee in a week, and my friends/family asked if they could come. I know they can come for the final defense, but what about ...
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Advice for finding support to pass PhD milestone
I'm a 3rd year PhD student at a UK research university, but find myself scarily close to being forced to leave.
Who should I look for to help me resubmit my 3rd year milestone report?
Context: I have ...
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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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Is excluding some parts of proposal in Phd. dissertation acceptable?
Is this situation considered acceptable, wherein a PhD. student has submitted a research proposal for evaluation and the proposal is approved by committee members, but due to some reasons (which are ...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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An article containing a copyrighted figure should be embedded in a stapler thesis: How to fill in RightsLink form?
I wrote an Elsevier article (open-access, CC-BY 4.0) that contains a third party figure from a Springer subscription book. At the time, I obtained a license for re-using the Springer figure in a ...
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How to find the Ph.D. thesis of Sir Roger Penrose? [duplicate]
I am currently writing my Ph.D. thesis. I like to take inspiration from the writing of people I have admired my whole student life. The idea is to take inspiration from how people wrote many ...
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How do I lower the similarity index percentage in iThenticate?
I have run into a situation where a "plagiarism detection software" (I believe the one being used is called iThenticate) is showing 31 % similarity index for my document. In the list at the ...
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Help with my bachelor's thesis [closed]
My bachelor's thesis is a research one. I am solving a specific problem using my ideas, combined with an existing approach, method, and the results are original. My supervisor doesn't know what to say ...
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Redacting third-party figure in journal article before including in thesis?
I have included a third-party figure (from a Springer subscription book) in an open-access Elsevier article (CC-BY 4.0 license). At the time, I obtained permission via RightsLink and included the ...
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What to do if you disagree with a juror during master's thesis defense?
I attended a master's dissertation defense and I was wondering what one might do in a situation like this.
Juror: What do you mean by the phrase “previous work” in your thesis text? Is it your ...
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If a reference is no longer publicly available, should you include the proofs of the results you cite from it?
I am writing a math paper and planning to cite 1-2 results from a non-published preprint article that I had found online a couple years ago. The original link to the document no longer works, since it ...
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Statement of Contribution in Dissertation
I'm currently writing my PhD dissertation and I need to fill out the statement of declaration page. This page declares my contribution to my published papers, which are coauthored with my supervisor ...
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What is the meaning of retrieved paper?
What is the meaning of "retrieved journal" ? Can a retrieved article be cited in a paper? The article has a publication date (2018), but it has been written "retrieved 2024". I do ...
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Why does Google Scholar omit the publishers and editors in chapter citations?
I've noticed, at least in my own research, it seems to regularly do this with few exceptions.
When trying to use Google Scholar's cite feature on a chapter of an edited volume, it gives a reduced ...
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Do we add references of the dataset?
I'm doing a thesis on the generic organisation of the conclusion section of research articles. I already had the authors' consent to use their conclusion sections as part of my data set and extracted ...
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What is the best way of citing a colleagues not yet given conference presentation?
I am finishing a paper and will probably submit within the next month or so. I would like to cite the upcoming conference presentation of a colleague (wich will also be published as a conference paper ...
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How does Google Scholar handle pre-print citations?
Sometimes a paper appears as a pre-print first, and then in a peer-reviewed form, possibly with more authors. And people might cite one or the other, and sometimes both.
Google Scholar can probably ...
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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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Publishing parts of my thesis under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License in journals
I am about to electronically "publish" my PhD thesis under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Some chapters will eventually be published in journals, and I am wondering if that type ...
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How can I help a PhD student who's dead-set on keeping methodologically wrong results?
I am helping a STEM PhD student with a statistical approach they developed for a key thesis chapter. Unfortunately, the approach is fundamentally flawed and makes no statistical sense. (I'm a ...
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I am citing from a paper which confused the word "affective" and "affectionate", what should I do?
I understand that with minor spelling mistakes you use [sic] or just [brackets]. However, in this case, I think the author accidentally wrote the wrong word.
It looks odd to write affect[ionat]e and ...
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How to prepare to talk with my advisor about concluding our relationship before the defense?
I'm in the last semester of my PhD program and trying to pull together my dissertation, which has not been going well for the past 2 years.
I shoulder most of the responsibility for this situation, ...
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What section of PhD thesis should my standpoint be in? [closed]
My research is at the intersection of technology and autism (but it's mostly technology focused). I'm approaching things from a particular standpoint of autism (i.e. neuroafirmative, neurocosmopolitan,...
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How do you ensure that you'll get "credit" when your conference talk is cited?
I don't mean in the sense of ensuring that someone correctly cites your talk when they reference it in their own work, but rather that that citation actually ends up counting towards things like your ...
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What should I do with my 60 page undergraduate thesis?
I recently finished my undergraduate thesis in philosophy. It came out to about 60 pages/16,000 words. Now that I'm done, I'm wondering what I should do with it - if I should send it somewhere for ...
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Best practices for citing a reference you've found an error in
I am writing a mathematics paper and citing a particular reference in a peer-reviewed mathematical journal. It turns out that the result I reference is ultimately correct, but the proof has an error ...
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How can I build a research profile now?
I'm gutted. I recently graduated with a non-thesis Masters degree and always wanted to do a PhD or at least a Masters thesis. I approached several professors to convert to thesis but it never worked ...
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I am not getting academic credit for code I have written for my PhD, when it was later used in other research. Should I complain?
During my PhD, I developed a data analysis code. My PI encouraged its development, expecting it to stay within the research group. The code was used in some published papers and gained attention when ...
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