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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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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 can i cite a kaggle dataset in ieee conference paper?
I want to know how can I add a dataset link as a reference in the IEEE conference paper. I used a dataset for my works and then I described the dataset in the paper. But I don't know how to cite the ...
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Using Cambridge's "short-title reference system"
Does anyone have experience using the Cambridge UP's "short-title reference system" or even just know of a work that uses it. I'm copy-editing for some extra cash but the style guide they ...
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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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Authorship disagreement between PhD student and supervisor
I completed my PhD thesis two years ago. My thesis subject was supported as a project by my university scientific research committee. In this project my supervisor was principal investigator and I was ...
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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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Masters student used part of PhD student's work
I am a PhD student doing research in a university. I was working on a research project which would be part of my thesis and upon completion of some parts of it I submitted the draft manuscript to my ...
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A few questions about properly citing resources according to the APA format
I recently finished writing a monograph but I am having some slight misunderstandings about how to properly cite the resources I used.
When mentioning the source of figures, should I write the author'...
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How to cite a spoken quote?
I have a quote spoken by a person in an interview, how do I cite it?
Chinua Achebe, the prominent Nigerian novelist and essayist who died
on Thursday, said in a 1994 interview with the Paris Review, &...
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APA7 citation - What to use for 'location' of an online conference poster/presentation
Since there's quite a few online or virtual (i.e. not in person) conferences happening these days (e.g. the 2020 AGU Fall Meeting), what do people use for the 'Location' field in a full citation? ...
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How to cite an old poem which appears in a new collection/anthology put together by a different editor? (Chicago)
According to CMS, we should cite a poem in an anthology as we would a chapter in an edited book. But, what if the poem was orginally written in another year?
eg.
Hàn Mặc Tử. [1939] 2009.“Hồn là ai?” (...
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Making an offhand note in a citation
I noticed that a PDF link from a university course I used as a URL to cite doesn't open, unless it's opened from the course portal itself. Within my referencing of the source, I note which link to ...
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Getting paid for work and research overlap in masters thesis collaboration
I'm a master student in Computer Science and currently writing my master's thesis in collaboration with a company. In our original agreement regarding compensation, the organisation and I agreed that ...
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Citing draft papers
I'm working on a project where I've come across a couple relevant papers that are marked as "preliminary drafts" and/or with a request not to cite them because they are preliminary.
Should I cite the ...
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How to cite computer terminals like Bloomberg or Thomson Reuters?
Consider that I looked up some data, more specifically credit ratings for a sovereign, in the Bloomberg and the Thomson Reuters terminal for my thesis:
The sovereign is rated Aaa by Moody's, AAA by ...
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ChatGPT-alike for local abundant PDFs
I have a lot of PDF files collected using such tools as Mendeley or Zotero (thousands of files). I want to use ChatGPT-like to ask questions based on these PDF files (for example: "What is the ...
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Software tool to identify clusters in academic papers?
I know connected papers, web of knowledge, research rabbits, but they all either only seem look at one or a limited amount of papers and visualise new papers related to them.
What I want to do is to ...
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Google Scholar is assigning citations for my paper to a completely different paper
My paper's arxiv id is 2008.09164. The title is "PyTorch Metric Learning".
When I search for the above arxiv id, Google Scholar retrieves an entirely different paper.
You can see here that ...
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Which authors do I use when citing technical documentation which is community-editable and has multiple contributors?
Let's take this sample page from Microsoft Docs. It lists multiple contributors (linked below the heading), some from the community with nicknames, as the pages can be edited by practically everyone ...
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Citing literature reference as a statement of purpose title
I'm currently putting the finishing touches on a few grad school applications, and some of them require that my statement of purpose has a title. For one reason or another, I decided that the title of ...
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If I derive a formula for a paper do I need to put the derivation directly in a paper?
Let's say that I derived a formula that I am using in a paper, without any prior knowledge of the formula. Do I need to then put my derivation directly in my paper, or could I submit a supplementary ...
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How to organize the thesis chapter on literature review when there are only a few past works on the topic?
I have to include an individual chapter on literature review in PhD thesis. While going through the theses of seniors in the library, I found that typically the chapter is 30-40 pages long and covers ...
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What do graders expect in a master thesis in pure mathematics?
I am writing a master thesis in pure mathematics the upcoming year and want to know what graders look for in a master thesis. I am in the US.
How do they grade the thesis? What are the things that can ...
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THE ranking: citation score
The Times Higher Education university ranking seems to be a popular metric to rate universities (although rankings are kind of weird). I wanted to understand how they actually create the scores and ...
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References of version 2 of an arXiv paper not added in Google Scholar
I first uploaded a paper to arXiv and it was correctly added to my Google Scholar profile. After a few months, I made some modifications to the article, uploading a second version to arXiv (this ...
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What should I write under the heading "Significance of Findings" in my dissertation?
I've been writing my dissertation regarding a Rubik's Cube Solver I have developed. I have performed various tests regarding each solving methods' performance and I have created several graphs and ...
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Cite appendix from guest author (APA)
I need to cite the appendix of a book that I already cited somewhere else in my paper, but the appendix was written by a guest author whose name is not among the author names of the book. Does this ...
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How often to cite / back-up claims?
Good morning all,
I have recently embarked on an MSc programme in CompSci, on which the first module is Critical Reading/Writing. So far, I have written two "introductory" paper assessments. ...
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How to quote sources in multiple languages in a list of references with APA (and MLA)
The APA Manual of Style covers in detail the issues associated with translating references into other languages. However, it fails to give any answer to my question (just as any resources I have been ...
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Import RIS from zotero to Mendeley while maintaining folder structure
I am trying to export my Zotero library and importing into Mendeley. However, I would like to preserve the folder structure. I cannot seem to do it. Is this possible?
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Is there a multi-supervisor multi-author PhD thesis culture anywhere in the world?
Current PhD training culture involves supervisor student relationship, atleast at my institute. There is a risk associated with single point failures that might arise as a result of testing a ...
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How to cite JavaDoc?
Writing a technical Master's degree thesis in the IT field, I need to cite sentences that are in the JavaDoc, where are no author and no year. Ex.
From: java.util.Queue
The Queue interface does not ...
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Dr. rer. med Title
The doctorate title "Dr. rer. med" is awarded to non-medical postgraduate researchers from University Hospitals.
Is it equivalent to a PhD, or Dr. Eng. etc.?
Is it recognisable in other countries ...
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Arxiv updated references not tracked by Google scholar
I uploaded a preprint to arxiv and then uploaded a second version after 2 weeks with additional references. It seems that it has been more than a month but Google Scholar is unable to track the ...
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Will EasyChair preprints be automatically indexed by Google Scholar?
Is anyone aware if a preprint uploaded to EasyChairs preprint server will automatically be indexed by Google Scholar, or do I need to manually add the citation to my profile?
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Properly citing an image from a website
I'm using an image from https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/eteu/agn/ on the Unified Model of AGNs, and I've captioned it
The AGN unified model, showing the BLR and NLR, as well as different types
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How to change the title of a paper without harming the citation counts
Sometimes, after I publish a working paper in arXiv or a refereed paper in a conference, I change the title of the paper. This can be due to several reasons:
A reviewer in a journal I submitted to ...
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Master's student without internship or publications in final semester; how to accomplish something worth putting on my resume?
I am a 3rd-year Masters CSE student. Since I am a 3rd-year student, my advisor has asked me to work on my thesis since 1st year. I picked a problem and worked very hard for around 1.5 years only to ...
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What does 'Ex:' in Google Scholar results signify?
Any Google Scholar gurus out there?
When I run a search in GS, in this case for the term 'webometrics' for the year 1988, the results all contain the following in parenthesis...
(Ex: webometrics)
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Long-distance collaboration as Master student
I am about to start a Master's degree in Computational Biology. My future goal is to do a Ph.D. in Europe in the field of Computational Biomedicine. I have already completed the first year of another ...
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How many levels of sub-citations are appropriate?
I'm writing my Thesis and I found a brilliant book that helps me write it in a coherent manner. Consider this:
The author, Smith, talks about Approach XYZ and writes:
XYZ is about ..., first used ...
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How much of a master's program would a Ph.D. admissions committee consider?
I will be starting a master's degree in applied mathematics in the U.S. this fall and am considering entering a Ph.D. program after this. The master's program lasts two years; I'd want to begin the Ph....
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A question about thesis supervisor responsibility
I have heard many people in academics state that a thesis is a students own project and that only the student is responsible for its quality and completion. Unfortunatelythis does not agree with my ...
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Is it normal that my supervisor told me to submit my thesis without any correction from him(he took only one day to look to the thesis)?
I send my Ph.D. thesis to my supervisor, he replied on me after only one day(my thesis is 130 pages)told me that your thesis is OK and you can submit.He did not do any correction or comments!! does ...
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Origin of public defense of thesis
An article on Martin Luther's "Ninety-Five Theses" indicates that he posted the document on the church door according to "university custom". The reference included indicates various books. I recall ...
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Is there a correlation between month-of-submission to arXiv and citations?
The plot shows the number of submissions per month (source) on arXiv:
July and October seem to be the months with the highest number of papers submitted, and August the month with the lowest number, ...
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What should the difference be in content between thesis written submission and oral defense presentation?
I was just wondering if anyone has tips for a thesis defense presentation. One thing I don't understand is how it is supposed to differ from the written submission (which panelists will have already ...
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Consecutive sentence citation in Chicago date-author style
I am writing a paper in which I repeat a newspaper article citation.
"The New York Times article discusses the introduction of the AFB mainframe computer (Stevens, 1984). During an interview with ...
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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 ...
