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Elsevier Computers and Security "With Editor" status just after 12 hours - what does it mean?
I am new to journal submissions. I have been working as a research assistant at the University in Sweden for 3 months. Yesterday, at 5:00pm I submitted a paper to Elsevier's Computers & Security. ...
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When should I register for an ORCID identifier?
I plan on starting my PhD in a few years. Is there any particular time that I should register for an ORCID identifier? Can I do it now (still an undergraduate student), or should I wait for acceptance ...
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While my elsevier in press article shows up on the journal website, it has not appeared in Google Scholar after a week
While my Elsevier in-press article shows up on the journal website, it has not yet appeared in Google scholar after a week. Is this normal and part of the process? If not, what's wrong with it?
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Can I send an email to the journal editorial board explaining a specific situation about the status of my paper?
I submitted a paper to an Elsevier journal, and the status is "Submitted to Journal". That was a week and a half ago. I know it's not a long time, but I have an additional issue. I just need the ...
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What does this Elsevier revision report mean?
This is a review report of an article on the EVISE revision status website:
Does this mean my article was rejected? Why there isn't any "Complete and send review" for the second reviewer? And why is ...
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Manuscript rejected for no reason after revision. Elsevier
After submitting to one of the journals in Elsevier recently,
we got a response as following:
I think the manuscript can be improved and should be resubmitted, but the changes will probably take too ...
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Is it common practice to accept an applied mathematics manuscript based on only one positive report?
A week ago, I have received an invitation to review a manuscript in Applied Mathematics by an Elsevier journal and I was given a deadline of two weeks to reply to the invitation. As I was a little bit ...
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Publish as undergraduate in Elsevier
I am currently in the 3rd year,studying BSc in Economics. This period I finished a project which ended up with statistical significant results, covering a topic which was not mentioned in the ...
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No response from Journal even after 3 Months of submission [duplicate]
I had submitted a manuscript to an Elsevier Journal in February 9, 2016. Usually it takes time of around 1 week to get the manuscript number assigned something like XXXX-D-16-XXX and status changes ...
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Paper status changed to “Decision in Process” rapidly after initial submission
I submitted a paper to one of Elsevier’s journals. After a couple of days, its status changed to “with editor”. But now after about ten days from the submission date, it changed to “Decision in ...
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Manuscript status "Submitted to Journal" over a week in an Elsevier Journal [duplicate]
I submitted a manuscript to an Elsevier journal on 8 days ago. However, the "Current Status" of the manuscript is still "Submitted to Journal".
Is it common that the status "Submitted to Journal" ...
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After with editor the current status is submitted to journal [duplicate]
I have communicated my article to one elsevier journal. After being with editor for more than one month, the current status is "submitted to journal". I am confused regarding this status? What does it ...
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What is FLA in the Elsevier manuscript submission checklist?
Elsevier Clinical Biomechanics journal requires the submission of a mandatory checklist along with the manuscript. One of its entries include the following.
The section heading 'Introduction' ...
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Sharing a green Open Access manuscript
I am considering trying to publish in an established Elsevier journal. I like the idea of having free available science.
As there is no fundings in my project for golden open Access, I researched a ...
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Not publishing an author photo on Elsevier journals
This is related to Co-author does not want biography+photo in paper submission but specific to Elsevier journals. In the mentioned question, answers showed that for IEEE they have a policy where a ...
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Personal log of peer review conducted at Elsevier journals
A few months ago, I found a web app that showed statistics on my experience as a reviewer, especially with respect to Elsevier journals; it just displayed the number of referee reports I had submitted,...
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Can I write a template just like the Elsevier LaTeX template?
A scientific institute wants me to write a LaTeX template just like the articles which are published on the ScienceDirect website, in other words, the institute wants a template like the following:
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Do I include non-academic works on my ORCID?
A children's book I wrote is about to be published soon. Should I include it in my ORCID account?
ORCID is very clearly concerned with academic works. However, it would be nice if someone who wasn't ...
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Is it appropriate to put master's and bachelor's theses into ORCID web page as dissertations?
I recently registered to ORCID and put information of all my journal articles there. I started to think whether it's appropriate to put my master's and bachelor's theses there as well. ORCID doesn't ...
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ORCID and its QR-code on business card back cover as a researcher?
I am thinking to include my ORCID on my business card back cover as a researcher.
I wanna know if this is necessary or too much.
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pros and cons of accepting ORCID Reviewer Credit / Recognition
When submitting a review, some Publishers/Journals ask whether one would like to getting Reviewer Credit, by asking the following question
ORCiD Reviewer Recognition. Publisher xyz can send ...
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Anyone here experimented Elsevier's new "Data in Brief' and 'MethodsX' journals? [closed]
Since recently I have adopted the practice of depositing and publishing raw data and background information (e.g. original images, chromatograms, R scripts, etc) regarding my published papers. I am ...
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Should I always provide my current affilition and address when a paper got accepted?
I had submitted a manuscript in last year (December, 2014) while working in Institute-A. After one month of submission I left Institute-A and joined in Institute-B from January, 2015. Now that paper ...
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How can I prove that I did a review for a journal?
About two years ago, I did a review for a journal (Engineering Failure Analysis, which is published by Elsevier). At that time my affiliation was different from today and I used my institutional email ...
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What does it mean when an editor needs additional reviews despite a status of "reviews completed"?
I have submitted a paper to an Elsevier journal. After two weeks of required reviews completed status I have sent and E-mail to the editor. He replied:
Your paper is still under review. We need 1 or 2 ...
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How good to publish a paper in an E-Journal compared to printed journals?
I am wondering the qualitative difference between a printed journal publication and E-journal? Whether both have same impacts. I understand that impact varies from journal to journal and publisher to ...
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Claiming papers with ORCID, as a co-author
I am setting up my ORCHID iD and account and am prompted to claim my published papers. For my first authored papers it is straightforward. However I am wondering: am I also supposed to claim papers ...
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What Are Companion Journals?
Elsevier launched new NeuroImage: Report as a companion journal to NeuroImage. What does companion mean here in terms of publishing content, cite-score and impact factors.
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What does it mean to go directly from "under review" to "decision in process"? [duplicate]
I submitted a paper to an Elsevier journal in mathematics, which is right now in "decision in process". The status changed in the following manner:
Submitted to journal----(after 1 day)---&...
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Do all Elsevier journals require ONE column format for manuscripts to be reviewed?
I want to submit my paper to Elsevier Optics Communications, but I'm confused about the template of the journal. According to the guide for author, the manuscript can be in either Word or LaTex format....
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Elsevier's 'MethodsX' journal as an additional article to my original research article (plagiarism) [closed]
I recently submitted a paper to an Elsevier Journal (Biomedical Signal Processing and Control), in the revision stage they propose to me to send a part of my work as MethodX article https://www....
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How many major revisions are allowed when publishing with Elsevier?
I submitted my paper to one of the Elsevier journals in the field of molecular biology and evolution, I've got one major revision back; I fixed the comments, and sent it back to the journal.
It is ...
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How to use more than 8 boolean operators in ScienceDirect advanced search? [closed]
The advanced search in the ScienceDirect database seems to be limited to 8 boolean operators at max. This number of operators might not be sufficient, especially when applying a search string within a ...
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Does quick review means likely rejection?
I recently submitted a paper to an Elsevier journal in the management area, where I can track the review status. After submitting the paper, I found that one of the reviewers completed the review just ...
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Why do editors sometimes reject manuscripts for being out of scope even though they cite references from the same journal?
I wonder why editors sometimes do reject submitted manuscripts for being out of the journal's scopes while the authors have utilized published papers from the same journals.
Is it just a polite way ...
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Is increasing the DPI of a low resolution image a good idea?
Today after a paper of mine got accepted I received this from the publisher (Elsevier):
We have received the above article for publication, unfortunately
figures x1, x2 and x3 are of low ...
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In that scenario, how will the editor handle my academic paper (a revision)?
I submitted a paper to the Elsevier journal and got positive feedback from the editor and two referees with only 8 comments. However, after I submitted the revision, one of the referees declined (or ...
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What is the page limit for an open access review paper in IEEE or Elsevier?
I am writing a review paper in the field of engineering.
At the moment the paper is 20 pages and I am afraid that this goes up to 80 pages when it is finished.
I was thinking about making it open ...
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Switch license between arxiv preprint and accepted manuscript for Elsevier publication
I want to submit a paper to Elsevier (yes, I know, evil me - there are specific reasons). Elsevier allows sharing preprints "anywhere at any time". Later, one is allowed to "update a ...
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Latex submission template: keep figures to margin size?
For submitting papers to Elsevier journals, they instruct you to prepare Latex files using the Elsarticle class. This class has huge margins (as other questions have also touched upon), to give space ...
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How does the proof process in Elsevier work?
I have an article 'in press' with a journal in Elsevier. Having done some searching, it seems there are a few very similar instances/complaints that ran into the issues I am having with them. What I ...
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Do publishers actually care about arXiv?
For-profit publishers (my experience is mostly with Springer and Elsevier) typically have some conditions on what you can an cannot do to self-archive your manuscript.
For example, Springer allows you ...
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Virtual Special Issues in Elsevier good or not? [closed]
From the information available online, I understand that Virtual Special Issues (VSIs) can be either curated (comprising previously published articles) or dedicated to new work.
As a PhD student, I ...
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A journal with higher IF but general scope, or a journal with less IF but specialized scope? [duplicate]
Which one is more valuable to send a paper (in computer science?
A journal with a general scope of computer science from Elsevier, with impact factor of around 8. H index around 140.
A journal with a ...
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How to find Elsevier journal-specific average publishing time
Through this link, https://www.elsevier.com/physical-sciences-and-engineering/mathematics/journals/fast-publication, one sees the publishing times for selected Elsevier journals, given by Elsevier ...
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Why using ORCID iDs instead of DOIs to identify researchers?
DOIs are used to identified papers, presentations, datasets, programs, figures, audio files, video files, amongst other things. ORCID iDs are used to identify researchers.
Why using ORCID iDs instead ...
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No pagination in Elsevier journals
My paper was accepted in one of Elsevier's journal and it was recently published, but there is no pagination instead they have this "article number" for example "Volume 123, Article No. 212021" ...
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Under review paper appearing on SSRN
I recently submitted an article to an Elsevier journal X. The article was consider out-of-scope, so I re-submitted it to another Elsevier journal Y (via article transfer). Thus, the article is ...
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How long between the acceptance and proof correction of Elsevier?
My paper has beed accepted by Elsevier's International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEUE).
I want to know how long I should expect to wait until I receive the notice of online proof ...
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Elsevier's confusing guide for authors
I am trying to submit a manuscript to an Elsevier journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (RSER) and found the author guidelines most confusing. For example, under author guidelines, it is ...
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