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Will Google Scholar update the title of existing papers?
I have published a journal paper with IEEE; however, I noticed that both the journal paper and its conference version have the exact same title, which may cause confusion. I contacted IEEE to request ...
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How should I cite a labor union CBA in Turabian style?
I need to cite a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) negotiated between a labor union (United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 555) and an employer (Fred Meyer Stores, Inc., a subsidiary of ...
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Google Scholar referring to deleted ResearchGate article
My Google Scholar profile shows citations from ResearchGate articles. RG articles were deleted due to certain issues.
How long does it typically take for such citations to disappear from Google ...
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How to thank others for referencing my paper? Will it seem unprofessional? Is it common practice? [duplicate]
There are groups who have referenced published papers of which I am a co-author. The groups who referenced are not collaborators. How can I acknowledge their intellectual input?
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arXiv - is it possible to upload there an abstract and only within a week the text itself?
I want to submit a paper to a journal on which I've worked with a colleague. The paper is almost finished but refers to another unpublished paper I've been working on. To avoid falling behind schedule ...
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Is it possible to use Mendeley to produce chapter notes without a citation?
Is it possible to use Mendeley to insert sequential text chapter notes without a citation?
For example:
Chapter text
Lorem ipsum dolor [1] sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod [2] ...
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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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Paper used the wrong title but correct arxiv id, citation is not reflected on Google Scholar
A few years back I wrote a paper with a collaborator. We never formally published it but put it on arxiv. Later they wanted to pursue this idea further (get it into a more polished state + add some ...
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Should I mention a junk citation?
I am writing down an application to a professorship, and among several other documents a list of all the papers* that cite mine is required (I suspect this is somewhat unusual to most readers, but ...
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How to let researchers know that they need to cite my paper?
I've recently noticed that some researchers are publishing papers in the same (or similar) IEEE journals where I've previously submitted (a year ago), covering topics closely related to my work. ...
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Is it acceptable to cite review papers when they don't provide any references for where the information has come from?
Is it acceptable to cite review papers when they don't provide references for where the information has come from?
I'm working on a report, and I've cited quite a few review papers, whose number I'm ...
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Should I cite 200 webpages?
For my paper I am getting quarterly data on company earnings from their 10-Q reports. I am scraping together about 200 of these reports.
Am I supposed to cite all 200 of these, or I can just say the ...
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Resources to filter and/or rank research papers based on keywords?
I'm trying to make the case for funding at my college's directive board to take an important course in a research tool that requires us to pay for travel and lodging in another town. Even though it's ...
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How to initial an author's name that contains nobiliary particles and articles
When an author's name contains something like "van der", "de la", etc, and you wish to initial the author's first/middle names (all but surname) in a reference, how do you deal ...
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Google scholar "merged" my paper with another Author's paper
I recently discovered that my paper shares the same title as another author's work, and unfortunately, Google Scholar has merged the two. When viewing the other author's paper, there are six versions ...
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Does adding an MIT-licenced package to my research software qualify the author for co-authorship?
I have a research software on GitHub, using an MIT license. I need to include an additional package/library, which is also MIT-licensed, to my software for a new feature to work properly. I do not ...
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How to deal with "cans of worms" of references in publications
I have found an algorithm that solved a puzzle in an unexpected way, so I'm planning to publish it on arXiv.
After some online research I learned that the puzzle belongs to a larger class of more or ...
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What is the limit for needs for citations when it comes to well known facts?
I am aware that this question is quite broad, but I am curious about what the limits are here. Probably the answer is a "It depends", but I am still eager to hear what other people thing ...
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Make Google Scholar find public access versions of indexed articles
Google Scholar helpfully nags me about providing public access versions of my articles in order to fulfill their funding mandates. Unfortunately, it sometimes indexes the restricted-access version of ...
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better to cite pre-print or thesis
When I submitted my PhD thesis, the journal article version of one of the chapters was under review. A preprint of it is up on ArXiv. It was eventually rejected, not with particular faults so much as ...
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Manually adding citation of my work on Google Scholar [closed]
I recently noticed that my work was cited in a working paper uploaded to arXiv about five months ago. However, the citation format is incorrect (wrong year, missing repository), and it has not been ...
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Uploading the same working paper again after some years
In 2022, I uploaded a working paper to my university's working paper series. Since then, my experience has been somewhat unsatisfactory. Each time I needed to update the paper (which happened a couple ...
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Including unpublished quotes in research proposals
Currently, I am writing a research proposal for the purpose of obtaining a one-year grant. The proposal centers around a mathematical algorithm that possibly has applications in oncology. As far as I ...
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References/Database for commonly used quotes [closed]
I stumbled upon a quote that is said to be by Einstein: "Je mehr ich weiß, desto mehr erkenne ich, dass ich nichts weiß." ("The more I know, the more I realize that i know nothing")...
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How long should a direct quote be in order to be put in quotation marks?
Let's suppose there is a short definition in a source and that I want to report such definition in a paper but adapting the initial wording to the sentence.
For instance
Definition: a bottle is a ...
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Is it necessary to cite all publications with erroneous interpretations in a PhD thesis?
In my PhD thesis, the main topic is to justify that a philosopher P claims that x = a, but a (very) large number of publications assert that x = b, even though their research doesn’t directly deal ...
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Is there a tool to visualize the connections between specified authors?
Is there a tool that, provided a list of authors, visualizes the connections between these authors, if any?
Or at least a tool to to visualize the academic citation network around several researchers ...
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Seeking Advice: No Citation from a PI I Applied to Work With, Who Built on My Preprint
Last year, I applied to multiple PhD programs with limited research experience but worked hard to publish a preprint on arXiv and submitted it to a workshop before the application cycle. One of the ...
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Help with referencing a summarized data from multiple sources into one single reference
What would be the best way to reference the following case:
I have taken some reported financial figures from the annual reports ranging from 2017 to 2023 of 5 different companies. Using those ...
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"First et al.", many authors with same surname, and IEEE citations
I'm describing an evolution of ideas like this:
Wang et al. suggested quantizing the ReLU function [1]. Later, Wang
et al. extended that method by shifting the function base [2]. In
contrast, Wang et ...
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I have two last names and want both Arxiv and google scholar to show them both everytime. How can I do this? [closed]
So I have two last names: FirstLastname SecondLastname, Nicolás. But both ArXiv and Google Scholar abbreviate this as SecondLastname, Nicolás F.
I have colleagues who have literally given in to the ...
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For citations, Should I use the citation of the mentioned name or the journal it was in?
An article I want to cite mentiones an author and has paraphrased a sentence. I would like to refer to that sentence but I'm not sure who to reference in the in-text citation: the author of the ...
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Cite PowerPoint Icons
Microsoft PowerPoint provides a wide variety of icons. I want to use them in a graphic, but can't find any usage terms. Do I have to cite them? And if so, how?
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Publishing an article with only three citations on the arXiv [closed]
I wrote a paper about quantitative biology that is 55 pages long and has only three citations. Does this have a chance of being accepted on the arXiv?
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What should be the affiliation of PhD student who submitted thesis but yet to defend, in a conference talk slides?
I have submitted my PhD thesis in mathematics but have yet to defend. I have a conference in the next month, a contributed talk on a topic different from the dissertation.
I have prepared the front ...
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What is the consequence of not mentioning an in-text citation in Bibliography
I have recently submitted a paper to a reputed Wiley Journal. I have used in-text citations in the main body, with all references alphabetically arranged at the end of paper in a bibliographical ...
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Paper appears on my Google Scholar account but not when searched
I published a paper in an open access computer science conference last year (ECAI 2023, if it matters). The paper is on the conference website, arXiv, researchgate, and some additional websites it ...
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How to cite a book if only its chapters have DOIs?
I want to cite a book in my bibliography which does not seem to have a DOI listed anywhere. Google also does not give me a DOI for the whole book. However, it does provide me with DOIs for each ...
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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 ...
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Is there a way to easily match zbMATH and MR numbers?
I'm a mathematician and I love using the MathSciNet and zbMATH databases to trawl through the literature, find new papers, and generate citations. So in my own papers, in my own bibliography, it makes ...
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CSL style following APA 7th Edition and providing a superscript and a full footnote for every citation
Is there a CSL (Citation Style Language) style that follows APA (American Psychological Association) 7th Edition, and provides a superscript and a full footnote reference for every citation? An ...
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How to best cite a series of equations?
This question kind of sits at the intersection of academia, math and latex stackexchange.
In my (mathematics) master's thesis, I am trying to cite a series of equtions like this (this may be a bit ...
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What is the longest cycle in the graph of academic papers and citations?
Okay, this is obviously just a fun and hopefully interesting question, but it is related to academia as a whole.
Sometimes two papers cite each other because they were published around the same time. ...
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How to cite a conditionally accepted article?
I'm currently working on an R&R with a fairly strict due date coming up within a few weeks. One of the reviewers had a question about a small part of the paper that uses data from a particular ...
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How do you cite an entire magazine/periodical?
I have a class where I am supposed to talk about advertising in magazines, and I can't find any information on how to cite the entire magazine/periodical. I have to talk about the trends I generally ...
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Citing specific R functions in publications?
I'm wondering how common (or uncommon) it is to cite R functions in publications. E.g. to write in a manuscript something like:
We used the 'X' function from the 'Y' package version 0.2.0 [@ref] to ...
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What do I do if I cant find a proper basis for my methods of experimentation?
I am currently a senior high school student whose study is about producing homemade paper using coconut husks and testing for their certain properties. However, most studies that I have come across ...
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If a reference is no longer publicly available, should you include the proofs of the results you cite from it?
I am writing a math paper and planning to cite 1-2 results from a non-published preprint article that I had found online a couple years ago. The original link to the document no longer works, since it ...
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What is the meaning of retrieved paper?
What is the meaning of "retrieved journal" ? Can a retrieved article be cited in a paper? The article has a publication date (2018), but it has been written "retrieved 2024". I do ...
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Why does Google Scholar omit the publishers and editors in chapter citations?
I've noticed, at least in my own research, it seems to regularly do this with few exceptions.
When trying to use Google Scholar's cite feature on a chapter of an edited volume, it gives a reduced ...
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