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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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Is it polite to send a follow-up email to the editor after 15 days, if the previous email had no reply?
I submitted a research paper in pure mathematics in a good (in the sense of science citation indexing) journal published by a university in the USA. It has been over 3 years since I submitted it.
In ...
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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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Protocol of review process of article submission [duplicate]
I am totally new to submitting articles to journals and I have only one (probably naive) question. I submitted a preprint (quite) some time ago and this is the protocol of the process:
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How would someone submit a proposed proof of a Creator of the universe theory for peer review [closed]
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I'm aware of this question Getting peer review for research without submitting to conference or journal
Which asks specifically for what platforms are good for submitting a study for peer ...
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Is it appropriate to ask former mentors/professors to peer review a study?
I conducted research with my former professors and mentors during my internship and master's program at my former institution. We published one paper together, of which I was the lead author. Three ...
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Will posting my preprint that was accepted Cambridge university press cause issues with peer review? [duplicate]
I recently published a literature review manuscript on Cambridge University press's open engage journal, it was accepted and is now available on its public website. It has yet to pass peer review in a ...
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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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Publish a paper about a contribution already briefly outlined in one of my papers?
Can I publish a paper about a contribution X that was already (very briefly) outlined in the Supplemental Information of a previous paper of mine ?
Background: X is significant and deserves a paper on ...
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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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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 important is storytelling when submitting a grant application (or even a science paper)?
A recent paper titled “Elements of Successful NIH Grant Applications” https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2315735121 argued that telling a story is key to communicating science especially when ...
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Do referees get to see each other's reports?
I have submitted a paper to a physics journal. Two referees reviewed it, and I got their reports.
My questions are the following: Does each referee see another one's report? If yes, at which stage - ...
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Do longer papers have lower chances of being accepted because they take up more "space" in a journal issue (STEM)
Do long papers (all other factors being equal) have a lower chance of being published because they take up too much "space" in a journal?
I am specifically asking about the field of Computer ...
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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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What is interactive review stage in a journal's review process useful for?
I am in the process of revision of my manuscript that I have received feedback from reviewers. In the journal the paper is in the "interactive review" stage. I want to know what are the ...
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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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Why do some institutions have a Pre-Defense for PhD degrees?
The process of acquiring a PhD degree at my institution (after successfully completing comprehensive exams) is as follows:
Submitting a research proposal and defending it.
Approving the proposal by ...
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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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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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Paper got rejected without feedback
I had submitted a research paper to an IEEE conference recently. It's a new conference; the first occurrence of this conference. I submitted it, and did not receive a response from them even until a ...
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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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What is arXiv++, and who is behind it?
I have just learned of the existence of arXiv++ via an email, whose main content was:
The summary of your paper "Critical spin chains and loop models with $U(n)$ symmetry" has just received ...
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Resubmitting a grant application for a postdoc research: how to approach changes when you think one reviewer made some mistakes
I recently submitted an application for a interdisciplinary postdoc research with a grant specifically dedicated to skills development.
In a scale including "outstanding, excellent, very good, ...
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How come I haven't been accepted as a reviewer for Physical Review D?
A few months ago, I applied to become a referee in Physical Reviews D. I have seven publications there.
However, I still have not received any update on the status of the application. Could you please ...
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How long should one wait before declaring that an author "did not comment"? [closed]
Around a week ago, I sent an email to the author of an article published in an independent blog, requesting comment on a claim for which I cound find no evidence (and, in fact, not insignificant proof ...
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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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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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What to do if a work is too extensive to be properly presented in a single paper?
I have been working for years (started already as an undergraduate student) on a topic in computer science (robotics/AI). The work consists of many sub-contributions (i.e. novel ideas) in several sub-...
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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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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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Reviewing a paper that's badly written such that reading it takes a long time
I'm reviewing a paper for a journal, with a mathematical nature. Its content, from what I can gather from an initial pass, is probably ok. However, it has a tendency to reinvent things with its own ...
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How should one deal with criticism from formal superiors (advisors, reviewers) when they have misunderstood the criticized aspect of the work?
EDIT: I already mentiond this in the last paragraph of the original question, but the most voted answer so far seems to ignore the point: This is explicitely not about the (frequent) case that the ...
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Why the recent trend to not indicate deadlines anymore in reviewer invitation letters?
Over the last half year or so I have realised that very many letters that invite me to review papers for journals (all Springer journals, but there are also others) do not communicate a deadline ...
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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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Are there any special actions that I should execute as a reviewer of a sloppy manuscript?
Occasionally, I review a paper that is submitted to a high-quality journal that is one of the journals regarded as the most prestigious journals in my field, and the manuscript is sloppy. The ...
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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 it acceptable to respond to a reviewer by indicating that their request is practically unfeasible, while providing valid justifications?
I am currently addressing feedback from a reviewer regarding my paper, in which the reviewer recommends comparing my results with those of other similar studies. However, such comparisons are not ...
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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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