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ACM Computing Surveys review time [duplicate]
I submitted a survey paper to ACM Computing Surveys over four months ago. When I contacted the journal, they told me they had difficulty securing reviewers. I'm okay with that, but I am curious if ...
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Revise & Resubmit: changing the text color of revisions in the text?
I am about to resubmit a project proposal for a postdoc grants. I am wondering whether I should submit a normal black & white text, as the original, or whether to highlight the new parts in-text. ...
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Asking a professor for review on paper draft before submitting to a journal
I have conducted independent research, and wrote a paper based on it, and want to ask the opionion of some expert before submitting it to a journal. I am contemplating whether I should ask someone or ...
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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 handle offers of auto-transferring a paper to another journal following a desk rejection?
Following a desk rejection of a paper submitted to one of the Springer journals, the editorial submission advisor sent me a recommendation of other suitable journals, with an offer to automatically ...
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Will submissions to special issues of journals be sent to referees only after their deadline? [closed]
I have submitted a manuscript to a special issue of a math journal one month ago. The deadline for submission papers to that special issue is 30 of January 2025. Do I have to wait to the end of ...
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Confusion regarding manuscript status in IOP's article tracking system, the status of awaiting IOP staff decision made me very confused [duplicate]
In the ScholarOne Manuscript System, the status changed from "Awaiting Decision" to "Awaiting IOP Staff Decision". Do you know why the state changes from awaiting decision to ...
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My PhD supervisor was not satisfied with the authorship of the paper from my dissertation
I graduated from an R1 university with a major that could be described as either social science or business. TBH, my committee chair provided significant spiritual support throughout the process, but ...
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Editor is requesting for journal self citation
Recently, I submitted a paper to a journal listed in Scopus. They sent me review results, but some of the items in the review list are strange. One asked why there are no references in the first two ...
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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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Are hand-drawn figures appropriate for physics or engineering journals?
Hand-drawn figures in papers were common in the old days. If I use hand-drawn figures (generated e.g. with the software Paint) for illustrations, will that result in a rejection of my manuscript?
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Should I submit my paper to another journal after long delays in publication?
In January 2024, I submitted my paper to the University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Journal (UMURJ). I received confirmation of acceptance for review in March 2024, and after some back and ...
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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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How can I withdraw a paper from any conference?
Recently my paper got accepted in a conference. But the registration fee was too high for me. Plus they didn’t give any review of my paper. My supervisor told me not not register it. I decided to do ...
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How to attribute authorship to personal non-academic friend who made significant contributions
I'm working on a paper which involves the application of a particular equation to sets of experimental materials science data. I devised the idea for the equation and collected/collated the data. With ...
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Can I ask for the first reviewer's comments while I wait for the second?
I submitted a manuscript to a journal seven months ago, and I recently received an update stating that one review has been returned while another is still pending. The editorial office mentioned they ...
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How to deal with former student requests to be co-author?
I am a fairly new assistant professor in a social science discipline and I've started encountering the situation where students I've supervised at the masters or PhD level finish their dissertations ...
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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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What should my name be on research articles? [duplicate]
Kamiruzzaman is my name. Although the last five letters zaman are typically used as a surname, my academic records all use the name Kamiruzzaman. However, I've been having trouble lately submitting ...
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A predatory journal has a copy of our confidential abstract, what should I do?
Our group submitted an article to a prestigious journal and while under review, we received an email from a most probably "predatory" journal, basically saying that your article can be ...
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Manuscript included in special collection by editor?
I have recently submitted my first manuscript to an academic journal. I was notified by an Associate Editor that my manuscript was included in a special collection of the journal, and I need to either ...
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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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Editors did not reply emails for requesting extension of revised manuscript [duplicate]
I sent an email to the chief editor before the deadline and did not receive any replies. Then I sent emails to other editors (ADMs of my article) in the system but still got no reply before the ...
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is being mentioned in acknowledgements section of a paper worth putting on a CV? [duplicate]
Recently, there was a paper that asked for both antibacterial and anti-adhesion assays against bacteria. I contributed and performed all these tests but in the end, the other authors decided to omit ...
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Joint submission in two Physical Review journals: can I use the same plots? [closed]
I am submitting two papers to two journals from the Physical Review journals family; this is a joint submission. I am going to use the same plots in these papers. Am I right that it would not cause ...
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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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Is it okay to submit another paper to the same journal while the first one is still under review (within a short span such as of 3 months)?
About 3 months ago, I submitted a paper to a journal, say journal X. There hasn't been any news on that from the journal, i.e. that paper is currently under review. Now for my current work, which I ...
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What does "CoRR" classification mean in papers on openreview.net?
I frequently encounter papers on OpenReview.net that are classified as "CoRR 2024". While I understand this might be related to arXiv classifications, I haven't been able to find a clear ...
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How important is it to avoid a duplicate name?
I am about to publish my first paper in a few months and, as many on this site have already done, I am pondering which name to use. I happen to have multiple surnames, like say Abel Burton Cürtis ...
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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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How to handle reviews that are not about the content of the submission, but about the expanding the scope? [duplicate]
We recently submitted a paper and received the first round of reviews. For the sake of this question, lets say our paper was "On the bending durability of different types of natural reeds in ...
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Advisor won't let me push back against reviewer comments
I am a PhD student at a US institution and I am trying to revise a recent paper that I have submitted, to address some comments we have had from reviewers. I am first author, with my advisor also on ...
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Disadvantages of posting on arXiv when submitting to Nature or Science?
In astronomy, most papers are posted on arxiv.org before being published in a peer-reviewed journal, partly because the review process is long and timing is crucial to ensure one gets the credit for a ...
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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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Regarding APC and withdrawal of accepted paper
I recently submitted my paper to a well-known journal, who accepted it after review. The 'Fees and Charges' of their site mentions that Article Processing Charge will be taken 'only' for Open Access. ...
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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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Can a paper be assessed again by the same journal after a retraction?
Can I resubmit my previously retracted paper to the same journal?
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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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