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What will be the consequences of this citation [?] error? [closed]
I have recently submitted my thesis but there are some citation errors [?]. I am really in a disaster and cant sleep properly. I think I will get sick soon. What should I do? Can anyone guide me? Do I ...
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Going solo: the risks of forging your own path?
I'm trying to figure out the path I take when I return to my PhD (UK). I want to develop research skills and 'capability' in an area of physics that is not my thesis title. I've asked multiple times ...
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Is it possible to create a classification scale similar to Kardashev to classify scientific articles?
My idea would be to build a theoretical classification similar to Kardashev's ladder to consider what is scientific, what is not scientific or what is pseudoscientific.
The Kardashev scale definition ...
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How to summarize a MSc thesis for PhD information request?
I am currently looking for a PhD program in Aerospace Engineering and I am going to ask by email if my research interest and thesis work fits the university research areas. Hence, I thought to ...
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research statement/proposal for a (pure-)math-PhD?
When applying for PhD programs outside your home university, the university you apply to usually requires a research statement from you.
However, this isn't the case when you reach out for a Bachelor'...
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Is it ethical to dedicate a thesis whom I want to choose as a referee?
I am a Ph.D. student in mathematics and am currently writing my Ph.D. thesis. One old mathematician (emeritus), very famous for his work in number theory, philanthropically helped me through my Ph.D. ...
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Is publishing a selection of conference articles into a single massive journal article "surveying the latest results" just gaming the system?
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Is publishing a selection of articles presented at a conference into a single massive journal article "surveying the latest results" in an area just a way to game the system (and ...
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Can I use a Stack Exchange answer post as references in journal articles in the physical sciences? Should I include precedent so editor doesn't balk?
While this Mathematics SE answer might (or might not) be a straightforward exercise to a number theorist, to an experimental surface scientist it seems new, as-yet unpublished (in this field) and ...
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Is it considered plagiarism if I implement a program by closely following a book?
I am creating a software application for my bachelor thesis. I have found a book that guides me through the whole implementation process of my problem, as well as a source code and I am following the ...
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How to deal with a total lack of motivation, stress and anxiety when finishing my masters thesis?
I am a master's student in Germany. I am currently writing my thesis and am more or less done with it.
Last week, I wrote my Conclusions and Methodology, so the only things left are the Introduction ...
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How to acknowledge a crappy supervisor at the start of my PhD thesis?
I have 3 supervisors, two of whom have been very helpful and supportive throughout my PhD.
The third (technically my secondary) has been pretty unhelpful and absent over the years (doesn't come to ...
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What are some considerations that I should be aware of when it comes to creating a code package?
I am performing a wide survey on algorithms and models on a current hot topic in machine learning that I have been taking part in contributing recently. Many of the algorithms/models proposed in ...
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Citation acknowledging contradiction
How do you acknowledge contradictory citations? Which (if any) of the following examples would be acceptable? (My field typically has citations at the end of the sentence, so I'm finding it even more ...
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How to handle potentially gaslighting and very confusing PhD advisor?
I’m a new PhD student (3 months in) of a niche area, and I now feel like my supervisor (f, 56) has been constantly gaslighting me. English is not my first language and this is a really confusing ...
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I botched the author and date of a reference – is this misconduct?
In a homework assignment, I wrote the wrong author and date with the title of the article in reference. Would it be counted as academic misconduct?
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Regarding name change after marriage [duplicate]
I have about 500 citations on Google Scholar on 10-15 of my research papers. My partner and I started talking about name change. Basically, we’re thinking of use each other’s last names as our middle ...
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Will plagiarism software find my drafts in Overleaf?
I am a Ph.D. student in mathematics and soon will start writing a thesis on my published papers. I think Overleaf (online cloud) would be more flexible to write the thesis instead my TeXstudio editor. ...
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Citing the preface of a book written by a different author in ASA
As the title says, I'm trying to cite the preface of a book. The book is a new edition, and the preface was written by a different author. How do I cite that in ASA style? The closest I can think of ...
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When is a math diploma thesis seriously publishable?
When is a diploma thesis in mathematics (bachelor or master thesis) actually considered good enough for a supervisor to propose publishing it in a journal? In some universities (e.g., ETH), this ...
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How do I cite a book when it seems to have no year?
This is an edge case my mental citation engine couldn't quite handle. I'm entering all my physical books in a database, to do more principled library management (at long last), and I ran into a book, ...
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Is it reasonable to stop working on my master's project during the time I'm not being paid?
TL;DR: I finished my bachelor of mathematics this year and I will not be able to enroll in the master program I wanted to get into until January 2024, so I will be a NEET (not in education, ...
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Advisor offers phd early during master's thesis [closed]
I'm currently two months into writing my master's thesis, which is scheduled to take 12 months. During a conversation with my advisor he offered me a PhD position after I finish my thesis. He ...
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How to handle endless revision requests for PhD thesis?
I am in my 5th year of my PhD and handed in the draft of myentire thesis in December 2022. I discussed wanting to defend in August 2023, and was told that this was doable and to look for an external. ...
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Proving authorship and names on public magazines when name in publications does not match name in passport [duplicate]
My official passport name is very long Mukhammadyusuf Fakhriddinov that's why I use Yusuf Fakhriddinov on my publications, also on most websites I use shorter name. Will it cause any confusion in the ...
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Should I tell my co-authors that I don’t have any energy left for an undergrad dissertation that is taking forever?
I have been working on my undergrad dissertation (which is a joint paper with two other authors) for about 7 months now. I have written a manuscript, but I keep on discovering bugs. Basically, I have ...
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How often do you have to cite a source when stating that you follow someone's work at the beginning of the section?
I am writing my thesis at this point and I have some sections, which started as follows:
Throughout this section we follow \cite[Section 3.2.1]{...} for solving ...
I am wondering whether I have to ...
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Confused over these terminologies "Dissertation" vs. "Thesis"
I'm a Master's student and I will defend my study in a month. Tomorrow is the deadline to upload my manuscript. The university announced two deadlines a week apart from each other
One for Thesis (...
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My supervisor suddenly told me not to submit to the top conference
As a newcomer to research I'd like to ask a question about submitting papers to conferences. My supervisor has been telling me before that my project can be submitted to the top conference and she's ...
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How do I scrape citation count from Google Scholar?
I have a list of publications in a CSV file for which I need to scrape the citation count of these papers from Google Scholar. I have a code to try do this, but naturally, it does not let me scrape ...
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Best practices to manage the workflow with your thesis committee (Ph.D.)?
I am doing my Ph.D. in the Social Sciences and I am reflecting on how to optimize the workflow with my thesis committee (three advisors) in the implementation of feedback on chapters or papers. I ...
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Arrangement of references in math papers
My question is the following. Should references in math papers be arranged according to author’s last-names or first-names?
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How to in-text cite a paragraph in APA format
I have the following paragraph:
This incident was part of a proxy war between the United States and the Soviet Union, known as the Cold War. These two nations had different ideologies. The United ...
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How can I identify the citation/reference style used when I have the citation/reference itself?
How can I identify the citation/reference style used when I have the citation/reference itself?
Is there a tool that can help with identifying/matching the style to my plain-text input?
For example, ...
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Where should I put a plot that summarizes my entire thesis?
My thesis is structured as:
Introduction
Methods
Study A
Study B
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography.
I have a plot that summarizes both study A and study B. The logical place to put it would be the ...
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How to properly cite an incorrect result?
This should be a common problem, but I could not find anything on Google (This question is relevant, but it is not quite the same).
I am writting a math paper where I prove a result, let's call it X.
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Being cut out of a start-up based on my thesis
I'm a - by all accounts - very talented programmer and student with over four years of self employed programming experience. For my thesis I decided to work in the field of genomic data analysis. Two ...
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Is this citation for reference correct? (APA 7th edition)
Is the citation in APA 7th edition format correct for this technical report?
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Servan-Schreiber, D., Cleeremans, A., & McClelland, J. L. (1988). Encoding sequential structure in simple ...
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Can I ask a specific person to leave my defence meeting?
There is a student that I helped a lot which I shouldn't.
Now I don't like her to attend my defence while she has the same supervisor as me.
Can I ask her to leave if my supervisor invited her by any ...
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Correct way to reference website with unknown authors
I am writing an essay as a university project and I would like to cite the following website: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/if.
My problem is that this website has no author in the ...
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How to give credit for a picture I modified from a scientific article?
I plan to show a picture in my scientific paper. This picture is a modification of pictures from another scientific paper. How can I annotate, explain and quote the picture ?
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Should i leave the lab i am in even though i like the science but my pi disrespect me?
I am a freshman. I have been in a lab but I felt that I am not interested in science, so left it. in my spring semester, I joined another lab, and I was pretty interested in the science I am working ...
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I plagiarised using chatGPT in my thesis, I assume I will be caught and maybe expelled. How do I create a more lenient punishment? [closed]
Of course, the no-brainer is using chatGPT. I have done something atrocious and unjustified. I realize that I have made a massive mistake after handing in my own assignment. I wrote a thesis with one ...
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How are the effects of published errors accounted for?
Imagine a researcher publishing a paper that contains a key error in some fact or figure. This error slips through review and ends up being cited in future papers. Later, the original researcher ...
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What expression to use when citing a publication for a result bordering one, oneself seeks to publish? (replicate, corroborate, in line with)
The specific reason for citing/referencing a publication may accompany an expression signifying that. One broad reason is empirical results (other broad reasons are theoretical ideas, methodological ...
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PhD Thesis from High Quality Masters Thesis and Publications
I went to a non-PhD awarding university for my CS master's degree applied to the medical field. I treated the research very seriously and tackled multiple existing problems and original research. My ...
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Is this a figure, a table, or... something else? (Thesis object labelling.)
I am writing my MSc in data analytics in the UK. I am planning to include some R code outputs in it: data and model summaries generated automatically (the grey part in the below example). Question: is ...
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Referee for two papers by the same author: can I let them know?
I am a referee for two papers by the same author: can I acknowledge in the second report (the first was almost ready when I was invited to referee the second one) my report to the first paper?
To give ...
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What is the actual date of PhD award (in India) [duplicate]
I have been awarded my PhD long back and I have my official award certificate from the university given in the annual degree convocation. However, often a question comes to my mind - What is my actual ...
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How long does it take in general to write a CS Ph.D. dissertation? [closed]
I want to ask about the approximate duration needed to write a CS Ph.D. dissertation in EU?
Or more specifically, when before the end of the Ph.D. program (3 years), most supervisors will advice about ...
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Earn doctorate by writing thesis by yourself? [duplicate]
Perhaps this is a ridiculous question, and I couldn't find any previous asker, so forgive me.
Is it possible to earn a doctorates by writing a thesis by yourself and then submitting it to a university?...
