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What can I do if my coauthor takes a long-time/unreliable to finalize/submit a paper?

I asked the same question 3 months ago. I am a Ph.D. student in mathematics and am suffering from a problem. My coauthor has not responded for 2 months, and as a result, I am unable to submit the ...
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University specific platform for engaging students with industry through their projects

I am working on a project to foster university industry collaboration through a platform which engages students with industry through their projects(students) but i want to know if there are existing ...
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Collaborator remade all the figures of our results. How to proceed?

We are in a collaboration with another group, and our PIs have several papers and ongoing projects together (I am a 3rd year PhD student). They are experimental, we are computational. Around 1.5 years ...
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Supervisor excessively adding self-citations to our paper

I'm a first-year PhD student working alongside my supervisor on my second paper. So far, the process has been that I write a draft, he adds some comments/text where necessary, and we re-iterate. This ...
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Collaborators have asked me to oversee another PhD student’s work, how to proceed?

A newer PhD student in my lab has begun conducting research very similar to mine. We are both working on a large body of research, and although the projects are similar, their research will ultimately ...
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Ethical standards in asking a professor for reviewing a finished manuscript and publishing it together

I have been independently working on a substantial idea. The results of my work have been compiled into a complete manuscript. However, I think I need to have an expert in the field reviewing it to ...
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How do I pivot from a collaboration with some professors on a project I am not particularly invested in to one lying more in my area of interest?

I am a graduate student who is currently working on a project with another student and some professors which will soon lead to the publication of a paper with my name on it. As someone who would like ...
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Contraints for an article

I'd like to write a scientific article from my master's thesis. My supervisor offered to collaborate on this, and become co-author. I would answer positively if it wasn't for the following ...
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Do graduate schools encourage collaborations with other professors?

I'm planning to attend a top 25 school in the US for a Ph.D. in Mathematics. Are research collaborations with professors outside of the school generally encouraged? This could include short or long-...
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How to handle a coauthor who is very late in finalizing a research paper?

I am a PhD student in mathematics. I have been collaborating with a professor on a research article. I have done my part. Almost all mathematical content is already developped from my side, then my ...
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Saving an article from a broken collaboration

Background: In 2022, I was introduced to a professor belonging to the UK who recommended me for getting a job at an Institute "A", in India. The professor also trying to get some ...
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How can I state my collaborations in my thesis?

During my PhD I had the opportunity to collaborate with people with many different affiliations. Now that I am ending my Thesis I would like to read sum hint on how to compactly mention them, their ...
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Is it alright to cold email a Professor for research opportunities?

I have completed my masters, and am currently working on a year-long project, and I am hoping that I will be accepted for a PhD position sometime by the end of this year. Although, my current project ...
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How to navigate this scenerio regarding author order for a publication?

Let me start off by saying that I am really a nobody in my field of research. Several months ago I reached out to a very well-known researcher, one of the big names, with a draft paper I was working ...
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How can two people as a couple enter into the same PhD program? [duplicate]

My partner and I are from the same background [math/stat], and we are study buddies as well. We plan to enroll in Ph.D. in the public health program at the same university. It's important for both of ...
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How should I talk to my advisor about changing the research topic after already choosing one?

I started an engineering PhD program this year with an excellent advisor that I get along well with. I just finished my first semester where students are mostly required to focus on coursework with ...
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Should I ignore or reply an external colleague insisting in sharing methods in potentially COI project?

I (scientist X working at lab A) have received several e-mails from one specific colleague (scientist Y working at lab B) regarding engaging in some specific project led by Y. Some of the ideas I ...
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Funding on research collaborations

I am currently a graduate student, and I have an idea for research that connects to something I worked on during my undergraduate studies. Given that my supervisor agrees, I want to know how funding ...
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How does working with other people in math actually look like?

I'm about to finish an undergraduate degree in mathematics, and I want to do research in mathematics, so naturally I'm looking into postgraduate study options. I'm quite stressed about this, and I was ...
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How to sustain and realize a collaboration?

This might sound silly for those who know how to do it and do not see that it is a problem but for some people like me it is. Since I started working in academia, I have had the problem of building ...
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Are US researchers prohibited from sharing journal articles via university-sanctioned cloud resources?

I want to share PDF journal articles with my research team, where the team members are all affiliated with my academic institute, a US-based university. The articles are not necessarily my ...
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Are the social sciences amenable to the idea of making money off their research? [closed]

I realize that lots of engineering/biology/physics/computing sciences tend to encourage their researchers to go and make industrial applications out of their research. I noticed there is a complete ...
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How to address colleague taking analysis pipeline and ideas and not come across as aggressive?

I was recently been asked by a colleague to help acquire some data with a specific method that only I know about. Beyond that, I have an analysis pipeline that is very specific to this project. ...
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Is "academic incest" a concern with research grant applications?

A colleague and I, early-career researchers, are planning to submit a research funding proposal. The research program we are envisioning would need a third PI with complementary expertise and ...
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How much does collaboration matter for theoretical research output in mathematics?

I'm particularly interested in the condition in mathematics. In this post, I find that the average number of authors for a mathematics paper is less than three. This suggests to me that, most of the ...
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A collaborator wants the full sample/data process established in his lab

We are an interdisciplinary lab that use novel platforms to profile cells from different organisms at very high resolution. One of the advantages in our lab is to have people from different ...
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Is it appropriate to ask a postdoc from another university about the possible research opportunities?

I'm currently a master's student studying theoretical physics. I've been really interested in a research project done by a postdoc from a different university. I was wondering if it would be ...
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Can my past supervisor use our unpublished data for grants without my permission?

Say I work on a project as a Postdoc/PhD student and conduct an experiment or study, and this results in data that leads to another interesting follow-up question, or possibly even indicates a major ...
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Should a blog post based on a scientific paper have the same co-authors?

I recently published a paper in a scholarly journal together with two co-authors. (I was the first author and the leader of that project.) Having found a blog on this topic, I quickly penned down a ...
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Forced to put my name on a bad quality and fraudulent paper

I am studying Computer Science in an unknown, crap tier university in India. Due to my interest in Deep Learning, I've done some strong projects and internships in it. Word passed over and people ...
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Is it normal to let another person lead the writing of a project that you performed most of the analysis?

I am a final year Ph.D. collaborating with people in my lab (Biomedical) and spent more than a year on this side project which is not part of my thesis research. My results combined with some ...
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How to avoid disappointing a professor interested in supervising me?

I am a PhD student in the social sciences and I already have a first advisor. A few years ago, eyeing the possibility of a PhD, I had informally asked a professor of mine if she would be possibly ...
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Shall I ask for coauthorship?

I and my advisor (both theorists) used to have a nice collaboration with experimentalist A on paper X a few years ago. A and I were the co-first authors. A few months ago A came to us again on a ...
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Who decides the references in collaboration papers and how to get relevant papers from our group cited in those collaboration papers?

I come from a Theoretical Physics background and we are working on some interesting topics related to black holes and neutron stars. In present times, various collaboration like the Gravitational ...
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Conflicted about performing joint research with individuals from an enemy country

I am currently pursuing my PhD in mechanical engineering in the US and currently working (as part of a team of graduates) with my advisor on a research project. At this stage, we are in the modelling ...
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I feel humiliated and upset after a meeting with a collaborator, and I'm unsure how to proceed

Background: I am a junior postdoc who has been working for some years with an overseas collaborator who is much more senior. I have previously had no issues at all with this collaborator. For the last ...
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How to ask my co-author to put our paper on arXiv?

I am a math postdoc who defended his Ph.D. two years ago. I have been working on a project with some senior mathematician for 1.5 years. I also invited him to the university where I am affiliated for ...
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Is it appropriate to discuss authorship while proposing collaboration?

I have a theory that I cannot test myself. A group that doesn't know me has the proprietary data needed to test it, and I think they could test it fairly easily (hours to weeks of work, I think). I ...
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How to politely and diplomatically ask one "half-senior“ coauthor to contribute more?

In our discipline we are equal coauthors ordered alphabetically. We have one most senior coauthor (advisor) who supplied the idea and edited the manuscript, two junior coauthors who have done most of ...
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Can I write a systematic review as an undergraduate and get it published in a journal?

I am an undergraduate of Animal and Environmental Biology. I don't have much research experience, but I have taken some courses on research writing and have assisted some senior students in their ...
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Will people be interested in the collaboration that can have the last author?

As a just graduated PhD, I would like to work with other people. But I am a nobody in my field. I am thinking that people will be interested in working with me if I do a postdoc with them or become a ...
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What does a professor aim at when talking about communication?

I am a PhD student at a good university in the US. I am good at my work and do my assigned tasks well. But this is the second time I heard from the second professor that I should communicate more with ...
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Does it make sense to provide a 'CRediT statement' when I am the sole author?

CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) offers 14 roles that, when enumerated alongside a mult-authored publication, renders individual contributions visible. Here is a simple example from this paper (...
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How can I have productive meeting with a very prominent researcher?

Summary: I am a shy/introverted PhD student and I have a collaborator at another university. They are setting up a meeting for me with an important researcher in the field. What should I even say in a ...
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Can someone else claim that their name should be on our paper because they have been working on the same problem?

A few months ago, in our group meeting, my advisor brought up a problem in the field that might be interesting for us to think about it. Although it was not related to my PhD, since I was going for my ...
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Ending a Collaboration?

Here's the scenario. I am an expert in a subject X and I would like to combine it with method Y to do something new. I have a distant connection to someone who co-authored a book on Y and I approached ...
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Lack of a second collaboration just after a successful first publication

I am a postdoc with some experience. I collaborated with a well known scientist (S), which resulted (after around 3 years) in a paper in the Nature Publishing Group, where I was first author and S was ...
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Asking a collaborator to work on a second problem he is already working on

I am a PhD student in Mathematics and I'm working in collaboration with a more experienced researcher for some time. We are working in a nice topic in which some good results are being attained. On ...
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Collaborative project started by a post-doc taken over by PI

I am a young post-doc working under an ERC-contract (thus, I do not have my own grant or fellowship). I recently attended a conference where I met some people and we discussed possible collaborations ...
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How much should I share my thesis dissertation with advisers while writing? [closed]

As I begin writing up my work in earnest during my final year of a PhD in computer science, I'm wondering about how much and how often to share my work-in-progress thesis dissertation with my ...
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