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Is there such thing as too many references for one paper?
I'm currently reviewing a paper that has an uncommonly large number of references compared to the average number for that particular venue (more than 60 versus around 30). This is a regular paper, not ...
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How to cite my own submitted but not yet published work?
I plan to submit part of my current work to conference A. I then wish to submit my whole work to a more prestigious conference B. As for the part submitted to A, there is no point of repeating it ...
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I spotted a paper which has six pages worth of plagiarism: should I report it to the editor of the journal?
I spotted a 2019 paper which literally copy-pastes paragraphs from a 2011 paper and doesn't cite them. The author (who is different than the 2011 paper's) claims that as their own research paper. ...
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Paper rejected due to short reference list
Recently I submitted a paper to a journal and I got the following feedback from the Editorial Office:
The reference lists of manuscripts submitted to our journal should include a variety of English-...
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Is it OK to add citations from low impact factor journals?
For example, let us consider that I write a manuscript which is to be submitted to one of the prestigious journals such as PRL, PRB, etc. In this manuscript, is it OK to cite from some journals which ...
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Skipping same old introductions
I’m working in the area of adversarial examples against neural networks. A standard research paper generally starts off an introduction with something along the lines of the below, but probably with a ...
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Is it ethical to cite a reviewer's papers even if they are rather irrelevant?
We have just received reviews on a paper, and in reading through one of the "borderline" reviews, I recognized that the "voice" of the review sounded like a researcher I associated with at a ...
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Confirming the Identity of a (Friendly) Reviewer After the Reviews
Somewhat a follow-up to this post.
I recently had a paper reviewed, and in receiving one of the reviews, I feel strongly that I know the identity of one of the reviewers (someone with whom I'm on ...
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Which could be considered an appropriate number of self-citations?
I am currently writing a paper that cites other works authored by me. I was wondering which percentage of self-citations is recommendable in a journal paper.
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What does "The references in general are not current" mean?
I submitted a paper recently and one of the major revisions that they ask for was this: "The references in general are not current."
What does the reviewer mean by this?
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Do published research papers cite preprints?
Do journals publish papers that cite preprints? I have an article where a good chunk of work is based on a preprint and I have cited it, accordingly. But that preprint was released on arXiv in 2021 ...
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Is it bad to get 40% on TurnitIn?
I submitted my Anthropology paper about abortion in the United States to my teacher, and I saw the Turnitin report being 40%. Needless to say, I almost got a heart attack (figuratively, but it felt ...
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Adding a citation after paper is accepted
I am a junior researcher in mathematics.
I worked simultaneously on proving Theorem A and Theorem B. They both generalize Theorem X in two different directions. Theorem X was proved several years ago (...
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Can I cite a paper published after the initial submission of my paper?
I wonder if it is allowed to cite a recent paper, published after the initial submission of my paper. In the revision phase I am adding some missing references and I would also like to refer to some ...
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Is it ethical to publish a paper about porting an existing software package to another programming language?
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I have ported a package in another programming environment, and I want to write a paper of my ported package. Would it be considered cheating?
In details:
I have implemented a package in ...
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When submitting a paper, do we need to cite articles from the journal where we are submitting?
My colleagues and I are trying to publish a paper since July of this year. Unfortunately, we have sent the papers to three journals, but on all three occasions, the response we got from the editor was ...
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What if your reviewer told you need to cite author A and Author A is you?
It is common practice in my field to remove self-citations completely in a manuscript for consideration. Even if you use neutral language like: “Author A said XYZ” (with Author A being myself), it is ...
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How do I cite my own PhD dissertation in a journal article?
I recently finished my PhD, and now I'm in the process of submitting a journal article on the work I did in the final few months of my degree. This work is an extension to some conference papers that ...
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How to cite a new journal in abbreviation form which is not found in existing abbreviation list?
Recently, I want to submitted a paper to IEEE, I encounter a problem when I want to cite a paper from a new journal, for example, Systems Science & Control Engineering . According to IEEE standard,...
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Using BibTeX when submitting an article
Some journals have their own bibliography styles (bst) for BibTeX.
If a journal does not have its own bibliography style, am I supposed to include the content of the bbl-file into the tex-file I am ...
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How to submit two separate works simultaneously to two conferences when the works are similar in a few parts?
I want to submit two separate works to two different conferences in CS field. The conference deadlines differ only by 3 weeks and one of them would be held in November while the other in September.
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Circular References in Papers
Is it possible to submit two papers to the same conference which are citing each other?
Both papers were accepted and they are both very related, so I think to cite the papers in each other, when ...
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How should I cite something that I saw in a famous internet forum (not Stack Exchange)?
Let me tell you the story. I am a researcher in Mathematics and I have been the past months developing an idea that seems simple but potentially fruitful. The idea is so simple and straightforward ...
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Better to cite github project or web page of unpublished software?
In my research, I am using several compression algorithms that do not have a related publication. For example Facebook's lzfse. Would it better to cite it's active github project (e.g., https://github....
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Is it taboo to disclose info to 3rd parties about the review status of a paper of other authors?
I was under the following situation and I'm not sure which would have been the right way to handle it.
I was refereeing a paper. I suggested that the authors could cite a very recent paper which was ...
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Removing some citations between initial and final submission of paper
Is it considered bad practice or unethical to remove some references/citations between the initial paper submission and the final one? I submitted an 8-page conference paper, it got peer-reviewed, it ...
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How to cite a github repository that I used for data collection (research paper) [duplicate]
I am working on a research paper where I work with large amounts of data. The data was collected using a python code that I found on someone's Github repository. I was wondering how I would go about ...
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How to rewrite sentences based on the SAGE Vancouver style citation?
Based on the SAGE Vancouver style in line citations are superscript and should be after puncutations. Also no space is allowed between citations and words. How can I rewrite example this sentence ...
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Does every paper in mathematics have Zbl and MR?
I need to insert the Zbl and MR of papers given in the reference of my paper. I can't find Zbl of some the papers. for example the paper On Inverse Eigenvalue Problems for Two Kinds of Special Banded ...
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Citing my own thesis in the extracted paper
I am going to extract a paper from my MSc thesis. But I am not sure how to point out that this paper is the synopsis of my thesis. What is your suggestion? In which section should I refer to the ...
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R Code attachment
Hello academia community,
I'm writing a paper in Finance on Portfolio optimization and stock returns. For this, I'm using R code to compute optimal portfolio allocation, histograms, boxplots etc.
My ...
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Reusing a codebook/technique in a new publication
I have published a paper, hereby referred as "the first paper", where I lay out a conceptual framework that categorises and evaluates, let's say, policies. This article got published with a ...
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Can I cite an accepted, pre-publication paper without DOI and the citations gets counted correctly?
My situation: I got two papers underway and the second one was accepted only days after the first one. The second one cites the first one and, naturally, I want the citation to be attributed correctly....
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What are the necessary and recommended practices to cite a published picture of experimental result?
I want to make a direct comparison between my simulation result and a published picture of other people's experimental result.
There are a lot of morphological features of similarity, which are ...
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How to cite a paragraph from a paper with a citation in it
In my paper, I want to cite a paragraph from another paper that looks like this:
Universities are an ideal target for attackers because they have high bandwidth and open systems.“A university is ...
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Cite a paper currently under review [duplicate]
I wrote a paper a few months ago, which I submitted to a journal and is currently under review. My field is mathematics.
Lately I have been thinking about a few things with a colleague and we came ...
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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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Drop accents in submission forms
A title of my paper includes an accented character ě. I'm submitting it to a conference and arXiv. Unfortunately, arXiv does not support the accented character and turns it into \v{e}. It renders ...
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Reviewers want me to cite their barely related papers [duplicate]
I recently sent a paper to a journal which has now been reviewed by 2 reviewers. Both of them have some good points that I should change. However, both reviewers also suggest to include specific ...
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Journal submission cover letter: length and references
I wrote a cover letter that takes 2 pages: 1 for the main text explaining the purpose of the research and why it is important, and 1 consisting of my name and institutional details plus references.
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How to Use a Result Already Under Review in Another Paper?
This may apply to any mathematical scientists. I am working on a paper, which (as far as I can tell) needs a result that I obtained. The result needed is a part of another paper of mine that is ...
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How to cite a journal paper which do not have a page number?
I was very annoyed with the Elsevier's journals. Many of them do not provide the page number of the paper.
For example, see, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165168420302176
You can ...
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How to cite a work in a manuscript that is under review? [duplicate]
I have two manuscripts that I am ready to submit in two different journals.
In the first manuscript, I have developed two models to be used for my research. Both of them are new and are an upgrade ...
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Research topic already covered, change direction or what?
The previous days i begun with a research project on economic impact of physical disasters, and in the mean time , I found a paper with the same topic published 10 years ago (Sample period 1980-2003). ...
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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 cite an old paper?
My first article was accepted with minor revisions, one of them being the correction of a citation. This citation points to the first time the method I am improving was proposed, which was 1962.
Here ...
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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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What's the name of this citation style?
I am working on a research paper, and the journal I am submitting to requires a specific citation style for references. However, I am having trouble finding the correct format for one of my references ...
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Publish a short summary of an accepted paper before proceedings
A paper I submitted as part of my PhD to an international conference has been recently accepted and I wish to publish a short translated summary to a national conference (which is allowed by them ...
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Formalities for video submitted with paper?
A conference mentions "Supplementary material (images, video, etc.) may optionally be submitted with papers, must be submitted as a single zip file and be no larger than 100MB.".
So along ...
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