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What's the proper name for the section of a research paper introduction where you propose a method? Not to be confused with actual Methods section
I realize there are many ways to structure an introduction. This research paper's introduction has 3 sections: Background and Significance, Relevant Literature, and a third section where I actually ...
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What are the correct English tenses in a manuscript?
The following examples are representative situations in scientific writing. I hope to understand whether there are any preferred or correct tenses, and whether there are grammatical reasons and ...
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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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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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Co-author uses ChatGPT for academic writing - is it ethical?
I am writing a paper with a co-author. I spent a considerable amount of time (several months) writing a first draft of the paper. I then sent it to co-author asking them to revise the draft and add ...
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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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Interpretation and compliance with IEEE guidelines regarding the use of AI-generated text in research papers
I am in the process of submitting a research paper to an IEEE journal. While going through the submission guidelines, I came across the following instruction:
The use of artificial intelligence (AI)–...
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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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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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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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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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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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Do spelling changes count as translations for citations when using different English dialects?
Please assume I have a direct quote that contains: "found in the neighborhood". I wish to use this as a direct quote in my paper.
My spelling checker flagged on "neighbourhood" ...
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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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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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On the merit of text-to-speech system during manuscript writing [closed]
Background - I am an educative staff in an university. In my country, there is not a tenure system, but I can work here until the specified retired age. I am suffering from every kind of ...
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how to avoid procrastination of writing manuscript?
Let me ask an academician who knows lifehacks well. I'm thinking of ways to avoid the following vicious cycle related to writing manuscripts.
Go straight to one's keyboard or terminal
→ people can't ...
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Software Citation APA 7 - RStudio and Qualtrics
As part of my social psychology academic research paper, I have difficulty finding information about Software citations. I used the 'R Studio' IDE to do the statistical analysis, and used 'Qualtrics' ...
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If I copy from any source do I also have to use inverted commas along with the source?
I am writing a report in which I have to define some terminology. If I copy from any source and paste it and mention the source will it be enough or do I also have to mark inverted commas along with ...
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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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What do you call a paper without solid analysis and discussion?
I find in my reviewing activities that the last few years I've encountered more and more papers that are "data dumps". They tend to be papers with lots of data but very little analysis, ...
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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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Program/Process for updating calculation results in manuscripts
When writing a manuscript, my current practice is to conduct whichever calculations needed in one specific program (e.g. Python or Matlab) then copy and paste the result of the calculation into the ...
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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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How to refer to the work you are presenting in a scientific paper?
I am co-authoring a scientific paper. In the related works section, we discussed how our work addresses some of the limitations not evaluated in the literature.
To keep style more formal, we ...
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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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Sending paper to a journal while proposing its shortening right away
The Setup
I hold a prepared and written manuscript (10 500 words of text) focused on argumenting about specific problem in my field of study. This paper has been rejected few times from the most ...
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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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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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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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Best way to write an equation while explaining something in a paper
I have found it difficult sometimes to write properly an equation in the middle of some explanations on a research paper, for example:
This can be rewritten by a change in parametrization a = m as,
E ...
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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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First authorship dispute between the research leader and the person who did the most important analysis. What is the solution?
I'm involved in a research with a first authorship dispute between the one who lead the research and the one who did the most important part of the analysis.
I give you the facts from a neutral ...
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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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