Questions tagged [citations]
Questions about when to cite a certain work, which work to cite, etc. For questions on formatting a given citation, use [citation-style].
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Should abstract contain citation, if current research is an extension of the another research?
I am working on submitting an abstract to a conference. My research is an extension of another publicated research (paper B) at my University. In the abstract, I do have a short summary of paper B ...
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Is there any way to find the most-cited papers that match a keyword?
Let's say Google Scholar has a million matches for a certain keyword, but I only want to see the 100 most-cited ones. Is there any way to do this? (Note that "Sort by Relevance" doesn't ...
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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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Why is bibguru not detecting an ISBN reference?
The WHO have a report entitled
Global report on hypertension The race against a silent killer
ISBN 978-92-4-008106-2
When I put the ISBN in BibGuru it cannot find the report. Which is strange as it'...
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Is 18 references in a 18 page article too little?
I'm about to submit my paper which is about predicting the apparent geothermal gradient in a country using a machine learning algorythm, the main motivation is the fact that the country only has heat ...
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Best methods to send citations to co-reviewers
I am currently conducting a systematic review and have finalised my initial extraction. I need to send a list of citations to my co-reviewers so that they can screen the relevant citations.
Does ...
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How do I start a priority dispute?
I'm hoping to get advice on this issue. Here's a rough chronology:
A few years ago, I published a method on arXiv and presented it at a few conferences. I tried publishing the work in a journal, but ...
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How to cite oneself as co-author without all names, for graduate school CV application?
I saw someone posed similar question before, but I would like to know for biostatistics/clinical trials papers, if my name is listed in the 10th authors, how should I cite the work without mentioning ...
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Citing general information about visualization in related papers
I have been reading multiple (20+) physics research articles on related topics, which use different visualizations for the same thing. I want to state that a certain visualization is used less often ...
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Is having the same reference twice a mistake?
I'm looking at an IEEE paper:
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85135877899&partnerID=8YFLogxK
Here, the same reference is listed twice: Reference [31] and reference [45] are citing the ...
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Author's last name is misspelled online but not in the PDF. How do I cite the paper?
When checking the 'References' section of my manuscript, I noticed that the last name of one of the authors of one paper has a typo. Searching for the source of the typo led me to the paper's page on ...
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ChatGPT-alike for local abundant PDFs
I have a lot of PDF files collected using such tools as Mendeley or Zotero (thousands of files). I want to use ChatGPT-like to ask questions based on these PDF files (for example: "What is the ...
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Is "e.g." ever needed in parenthetical citations?
It seems to me that "e.g." is rarely needed in parenthetical citations because readers assume that the works listed are examples taken from all works on the topic. For example:
"This ...
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Ask scopus to update arxiv citations with peer-reviewed versions? [closed]
Scopus does not take ArXiv citations into account, which makes sense. However, when an ArXiv article is published in a peer-reviewed journal, Scopus does not 'transfer' previous ArXiv citations to the ...
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How do I cite multiple papers from a single book in the oxford humanities style?
I am trying to cite multiple papers from each of several collections of papers, published as books (mostly as 'in memoriam' collections). They are not cited at the same point, in most cases. For ...
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APA reference for a search page, a query, or the underlying database: which one and how
A student wants to properly reference a source that is not a typical one AFAIK (and to do it using APA 7 style). She is finding a lot of useful information by means of a query in the search engine of ...
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Duration of article citations to appear in web of science
My articles were cited in a web of science (wos) journal. My citations appeared in google academic. But these citations still do not appear in wos.
Is there a certain period of time required for the ...
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How to paraphrase and cite correctly a large thesis section with only one or two textbook sources?
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I have developed a program, which relies on a pretty common and well studied statistical method. It seems sensible to provide an extensive summary on the mathematical basis of this algorithm (...
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Which date (received, accepted, published) is relevant when citing a paper?
I want to cite this article in my thesis. Which date should I to use in my bibliography? At the beginning of the article, there are three dates
Received 28 April 2021
Accepted: 5 November 2021
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Email other people to cite your paper? [duplicate]
I noticed that someone posted a paper on arxiv that has a good overlap with a paper of mine, including some key inspirations/lemmas. However, it seems like there was no reference to my work or the ...
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How to publicize my rewrite of another group's software, should I try to get citations for it, and how would I attribute original authors
Four years ago, another group published a paper describing a new method for estimating an important parameter in my field. The method is theoretically elegant, has good accuracy in their benchmarks, ...
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Citations error
I published a paper and I have it in my profile. While I can find other versions of that which have different citations. The problem is that some of the citations from other versions are not included ...
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Adding bibliographic information on arXiv
ArXiv offers the option to add bibliographic information once a paper is published in a journal. To do so, it asks me to add a Journal Reference and the Journal version DOI. Does ArXiv gather the ...
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Do I need to refer to a publication which provides a useful summary of primary sources?
If a secondary source provides a great summary of a primary source, do I need to cite that secondary source?
For instance, what if Foo, B. (2009) wrote the following:
World (2003) maps factors which ...
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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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How to cite different pages of the same book in IEEE using Mendeley reference manager?
I do know that the same book should be mentioned only once in the citation list regardless of the number of different page sections or chapters being cited of that book. I also know that different ...
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Uploading adapted research code with missing licence
I adapted some code from a public GitHub repository for a paper, and I have to upload my code to make my work reproducible. I cite the work for which the repository was created in the paper and added ...
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Should I cite pubpeer comments?
My background is in biomedical research. Citing preprints seem to be an acceptable practice now, which are non peer-reviewed materials.
My question is: what about pubpeer comments? They are also not ...
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Complicated citation of sources
I am writing an essay and have to use the Chicago 17th edition notes and bibliography style.
One of my sources is a book. Within the book is a collection of 30 historical documents. Some of these ...
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How to cite the number of articles with a specific keyword?
In the introduction of a paper I'm writing, I want to make the observation that the specific field we're studying is experiencing a huge boom. I don't know if I need to back this affirmation by citing ...
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Is there a magic number for the number of references in computer science topic survey paper
Is there a recommendation or an acceptable number for computer science topic that is going to be published in journal? Is more than 300 references considered too much? What is the recommended number ...
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How to transfer citations from a wrong paper to right paper?
Suppose there is an Arxiv paper that has got 100 citations, this paper is also published in a journal X.
But suppose I prove this paper wrong/incomplete/show many claims are false. I wrote the new ...
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What to do when a result is essentially proven but not stated in an existing publication?
I am writing a paper in mathematics that uses some technical results from a classic paper in the field, but not exactly in the way these results were stated at the time. Basically, I found that ...
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Which software can check on false references and incorrect citation on student papers?
I'm a TA at a medium-sized university in Asia, and as part of my routine, I randomly review student papers before using Turnitin for plagiarism checks. During these reviews, I've come across numerous ...
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How to properly reference the appendix
I have an appendix in addition to my thesis. How do I refer to this correctly?
Which version is the correct one?
As seen in the Appendix A1
As seen in Appendix A1
And how does it work if I refer to ...
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Mendeley Bibliography Settings
I'm trying to format my bibliography in Mendeley. Specifically, I'd like it to have this format (in a single document):
Text 1
References for text 1 (1, 2, 3)
Text 2
References for text 2 (4, 5, 6).
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Correctly adding publisher information to BibTeX bibliographies
Certain bibliographic item classes in BibTeX require or recommend the inclusion of a address field which (as far as I can tell) is supposed to contain the city in which the publisher is located. ...
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Do I have to re-cite sources in the conclusion that I already cited in the main part of my masters thesis?
I am currently writing the conclusion of my master's thesis. In the main part I have mostly explained an economic model and tried to make it more understandable. If I now summarize the findings in the ...
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How do I cite personal observations of what people generally believe about a topic?
I am trying to figure out how to cite what the general "word on the street" is regarding a certain topic within a scientific paper. As a researcher, I have noticed there are a number of ...
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Can Bachelor's Thesis include online forum entries as references?
I am currently writing my bachelors thesis at a german University of applied science. My topic is somewhat unusual as it focusses on the development of a tool for Minecraft-Servers.
I want to lay down ...
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Using figures from papers in PhD applications
Is it okay to use figures from other papers when writing a statement of purpose for a PhD application, after of course citing the paper? Or do I have to ask for permission from the author?
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Should a thesis cite a published paper that originates from the thesis Itself?
I find myself in a complex situation involving citations between a published paper and the thesis from which it originated. Here are the key details:
I submitted my thesis for examination and, during ...
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Graduated and work as a data analyst. How should I tell coworkers who use my analyses to cite my work?
I completed my PhD in Biomedical Informatics a year ago and now work as a data analyst at an academic research institution. I am the only analyst in my particular department. I've noticed that when ...
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What should be my response for a rebuttal on double blind citing my own work as "similar"
Case in Hand:
I submitted a paper to a Q1 Conference (I'm in CS, so conferences have a strict baseline for us) and recently got it back for a rebuttal that I need to submit in 6 days.
The issue is R2 ...
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Famous professor refuses to cite my paper that was published before him in the same area
I wrote a paper that had a similar idea to a paper that a famous professor wrote. I put my paper in arXiv. He put his paper on arXiv after me. I asked him to cite my paper, but he outright refused to ...
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What will be the consequences of this citation [?] error?
I have recently submitted my thesis but there are some citation errors [?]. I am really in a disaster and cant sleep properly. I think I will get sick soon. What should I do? Can anyone guide me? Do I ...
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Is it possible to create a classification scale similar to Kardashev to classify scientific articles?
My idea would be to build a theoretical classification similar to Kardashev's ladder to consider what is scientific, what is not scientific or what is pseudoscientific.
The Kardashev scale definition ...
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Is publishing a selection of conference articles into a single massive journal article "surveying the latest results" just gaming the system?
QUESTIONS:
Is publishing a selection of articles presented at a conference into a single massive journal article "surveying the latest results" in an area just a way to game the system (and ...
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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 are some considerations that I should be aware of when it comes to creating a code package?
I am performing a wide survey on algorithms and models on a current hot topic in machine learning that I have been taking part in contributing recently. Many of the algorithms/models proposed in ...
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