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How to manage thesis professor who is wrong
I am a med school student who is writing her master's thesis. I finished compiling my thesis with all the statistical analyses and wrote them as well. My problem is that today, when talking to the ...
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How to correct citation count of a given paper in Google Scholar?
Two of my works have been recently cited by the same paper. The citation count of one of them was updated properly in Google Scholar, but not for the other one. What is weirder is that the references ...
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When citing a scientific article do I have to agree with the opinions expressed in the article?
I have a subject in uni called "Academic Writing". I don't know if that's a thing in the US or other parts of Europe.
But anyways my professor told us that, and I quote "Citing ...
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Do I need to get the authors permission for creating a similar image?
Consider a situation where author X explains a concept on his website (no copyright marks etc.).
He also provides graphics to visualize what he puts in words in that explanaton.
I cited that ...
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What is academic protocol for citing a Tweet?
Are there international standards for how a cited source should strive to be persistently discoverable?
A Tweet can be deleted.
Is using WaybackMachine / Web Archive better practice?
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How to cite when modifying a graphic out of an article that is CC-licensed?
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I want to create a graphic in my thesis that is based on a graphic included in a published article. The whole article itself has a creative-commons license. How do I do this correctly? Is ...
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Copyright for a thesis
In my thesis most illustrations are mine but some of them aren't and all the illustrations that aren't mine are used with permission.
However, my college department has a history of plagiarism. What ...
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What should I do when my supervisor wants to correct my thesis in parts instead of all at once?
I submitted my master’s thesis four months ago. And now, my supervisor sent me an email with only 10 pages corrected. She informed me that she will send me the feedback by parts!
I am really concerned ...
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Citing my unpublished master's thesis in the article that builds on top of it
I am writing an article from my master's thesis. It is a polished and much shorter version of it, with equal contents. My master's thesis is unpublished by my university, but available from my GitHub.
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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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Should one cite other grants in a grant application?
This is referring mainly to the European setting, but of course perspectives from other academic systems are welcome.
For grant proposals (let's say ERC Starting Grant level), it is important to make ...
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Reference "private" lecture notes available for members of a different university
I'm writing my final dissertation and, among all the documentation I have read, I have consulted the private lecture notes of a course on the topic of my dissertation that is taught in another ...
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Does a course abstract have to correspond directly to the required readings/bibliography of the course?
This might be a bit of a strange question, but here goes:
I am proposing my own course for the first time and am currently working on the course abstract (meaning the summary of the course that'll go ...
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Is it appropriate to cite vulgar websites used for gathering data?
I am working on a master's thesis in natural language processing wherein I analyse various tokenisation algorithms. These algorithms keep a large fixed-size set of recognised words (more specifically, ...
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Is there a simple way to bulk download a large number of papers from a list of references
I've got a library of 1200 references I'm using for a systematic review. Now I need to download the PDFs of all these references, which will take days if I do it manually. Is there a simple way to ...
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Citational nationalism: citing only groups within the same country
This is a trend that I have noticed more and more over the years as a reviewer for a number of journals: a group of authors from country X submits a manuscript, where the vast majority (if not all) of ...
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Is it ok for a thesis chapter to start with a figure?
Slightly different to the question here which asks is it ok to put a figure in the introduction of a thesis, is it ok to start a thesis chapter with an illustration like a figure or table?
An even ...
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Does a problem statement chapter contributes / addressing a research question by establishing a deeper problem understanding?
Considering a PhD thesis that use a problem statement chapter in the middle of the thesis. The reason for the chapter is that the required background information is only, fully available at this point....
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Is the use of we / us (in the sense of the reader and writer exploring the topic) accepted in a PhD thesis or bad style? [duplicate]
Before, referring just to some other question that sounds likely to be the same, e.g., about can I write: "I/We have developed X?", what I am asking about is: "Let us (you the reader ...
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Can I keep my PhD thesis chapter intro as is when publishing it as an article if another article was published in the meantime that paraphrases it?
I graduated from my PhD in 2019 and published my thesis online. Just before COVID I submitted an article based on a thesis chapter, but because of life getting in the way I was unable to finish it and ...
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Examples of great PhD Thesis and great PhD Plans to learn from? [closed]
In order to understand if I really want and can pursue a PhD program I would like to see some real PhD Thesis and especially some real PhD plans from real world so I could at least approximately ...
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What citation software orders Vancouver references automatically?
I know that MS Word can create numbered citations, but it doesn't include Vancouver style. I'm hesitant to try to install the Vancouver code on Word (not sure I have the skill to do that). I want to ...
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Choice between article-based and monograph thesis
I am in the fourth year of my PhD studies in General Linguistics at a university in Spain, and I was working on my thesis in the form of monograph, until the beginning of this year when I managed to ...
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Using presentation style from someone else's talk in my personal statement
A while ago I have come upon a spectacular academic talk. The presenter, an analytic number theorist, used a unique take on a classic fable to introduce her subject (which is completely unrelated to ...
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Are we allowed to use the figures of a published paper in our poster/oral presentation at a conference by citing the source of figures?
Is an author (coauthor or corresponding author) of an already published paper in a journal (IOP and Elsevier) allowed to use figures of the (already-) published paper in their poster or oral ...
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I published an article developing and applying a method that I thought new. Someone had developed it before, outside of my applied field
I am writing my PhD thesis now. It comprises, in particular, one published article in a Q1 journal. This is a compilation thesis, and thus articles are pasted directly. For context, we apply machine ...
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No quotation marks/citation needed for common expressions/language or for using texts as a model?
This might be a stupid question, but I am asking as a non-native English speaker. Given that we all (even native speakers) will get our English expressions from somewhere, I am wondering when a ...
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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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A colleague has found that all the Google Scholar citations for a book of hers are erroneously attached to a book chapter she co-authored [duplicate]
My colleague has written several editions of a book which we know is very highly cited. However, the book does not appear on her Google Scholar profile - instead all the citations for it have been ...
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Researchers "forgot" to cite their previous relevant work
I found two papers related to my current research (A published in 2021, and B published in 2023). More precisely, all authors of paper A & paper B are from the same institute. Actually, one person ...
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A better name for a reading list around a mathematician
I would like to create a reading list around the life and works of a mathematician. But I need to choose the name to use as the title.
Take as an example the Bibliography of N. Bourbaki by L. Beaulieu
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Should I reproduce figures from other publications in my thesis to make it more self-contained?
I am working on a computer science master's thesis wherein I occasionally cite figures and tables from other works. Currently, the way I am doing this is something like
Foo et al. (2021) visualise ...
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How do you cite an image taken from Amazon.com?
I need to cite an image from amazon.com, but there isn't really an author/date.
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I submitted my BSc. Special thesis without page numbers
I didn't notice that the page numbers had somehow been removed from my thesis before submission. I just saw this.
The day before I had included all the correctly formatted page numbers and set up the ...
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Tool to distinguish the paper citation by type
I was always interested in whether there is any tool that allows you not only to count the citations of your paper (e.g. Google Scholar) but also distinguish the citations by their quality or by how ...
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Is it worth pointing out missed works in already published papers?
I have come across several works that omitted the citation of relevant related literature, but clearly are camera-ready versions already accepted/presented at a conference or journal.
Of course, due ...
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When to capitalize the beginning of a quotation?
So I know (now) that if you quote a complete sentence and this sentence is syntactically set off from the rest of your sentence with a comma etc, one has to (according to the Turabian) capitalize the ...
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Chicago Manual of Style footnote question: one author, split source
I'm citing a journal article that was published in two parts, one week apart. Everything is the same--the title, author, journal, etc.
Cornelia G. Harcum, “A Study of Dietetics among the Romans,” ...
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Embedded hyperlinks in a thesis or research paper
I am writing a master's thesis in engineering. It is quite literature-heavy, and I'm using Zotero with BibTeX to manage my references. For the most part, I use Zotero's browser extension to create ...
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About Master's Thesis Literature Review - Is this plagiarism?
I am writing my thesis for political science in a Masters programme. I found another thesis that is extremely similar to mine, where I could literally use its literature review.
So, I wanted to ask if ...
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Olaf K. Storaasli Master's/Doctor's Theses, Princeton/Temple University (Schools of Theology) [duplicate]
How can I find a copy of my Dad's Seminary Master's/Doctor's Theses at Princeton/Temple Universities in 1942/1944. His name: Olaf K. Storaasli
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Writing lit review for publication in a good journal: what to do about papers published in dubious journals?
I'm publishing in a field related to applied linguistics, and I'm making use of a new theoretical framework which has been used only in 4 published articles. 1 of those articles was published in an in-...
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Complex citation - perhaps too much detail
Dealing with a new edition of a well known architect's tome from the 1950s, amending and adding citations for sources neglected in the original edition. The author takes liberally from a section of ...
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Networking in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics: How to Build Professional Relationships and Expand Your Network as a Master's Student?
As a master's student in theoretical and mathematical physics, I've been advised that networking with fellow scientists is crucial for securing a good PhD position and building a successful career in ...
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How is thesis evaluated in pure mathematics for PhD?
I am a Ph.D. student in pure mathematics with a few published works in my field. I would like to know how Ph.D. students are evaluated by the examiners before the defense. What are essential points to ...
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What are the ethics of removing a reference from literature?
I have been reading a journal article that extensively references another article by the same author. The cited article is referenced to a pre-print service but it has now been removed. I had no luck ...
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I am a Masters student and my supervisor has been ignoring my email [duplicate]
I have a group project due next month and I have had to deal with a difficult partner. This is for my dissertation and I have spent the academic year working on it mostly alone with some input from my ...
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How to cite AI generated images in a presentation?
I’m making a presentation, and wanted to use some images from an AI tool as sort of stock imagery. How would I properly cite them? I’m making them myself using Midjourney, but could find no guidance ...
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On the originality of a master thesis: how far does it need to go?
I am in the process of writing a master thesis and I need advice.
I was reading this topic Can master's thesis be simply a description of an original algorithm? and this one On the originality of ...
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JPG vs PNG vs SVG for plots in publication [closed]
I have generated some basic scatter and line plots that I want to embed in my paper. I am using matplotlib, which gives me flexibility over the format exported. I like the SVG approach for its ...