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Elsevier production team messed up my paper. What should I do?
I have a paper accepted by a journal of Elsevier, and it went under production for 3 months. Yet the production team has not been able to fix certain problems with typesetting which appeared during ...
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Paper was rejected for high similarity with parts of my own dissertation
My PhD thesis consisted of two published papers and one submitted paper embedded in some additional framing. For completion of my PhD, I had to upload my thesis to the servers of our academic library, ...
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Are there boycotts against publishers other than Elsevier?
Academics have called for a boycott against Elsevier, with some success for instance because it has led to resignations (recently in the Lingua journal).
As I understand it, Elsevier is not the only ...
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Status of Elsevier Boycott
Starting around 2012, Timothy Gowers had much to say about the practices of Elsevier. Very roughly speaking, he argued that Elsevier made research articles expensive to access and profited heavily ...
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What are some examples of negative effects on a career for boycotting Elsevier journals?
I fully support the Elsevier boycott, and came from mathematics (BS and MS) into my current PhD program in an engineering subdiscipline. I'm finishing up my PhD now and starting a post-doc soon.
I've ...
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Why does or did Elsevier make PDFs grey and therefore unfit for printing?
My university subscribes to various online journals. Sometimes I print off articles that I know I will read over and over again. (I'm all for saving paper, but some things I do prefer reading on paper....
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I believe a publisher is infringing copyright when reproducing a figure I created. What can I do?
A few months ago an Elsevier representative contacted me asking for permission to reproduce one of my thesis figures in one of their books. Since this figure is only in my thesis (introduction section)...
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Elsevier actions following US sanctions on Iran
Elsevier has started circulating this letter as a consequence of the sanctions taken by the US against Iran to the editors of their journals:
Subject: US editors and reviewers can no longer handle ...
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Does "required reviews completed" mean good news or bad? [duplicate]
I submitted by math paper to an Elsevier journal around 6 months ago. Today I logged into EES and saw that the status changed to "Required Reviews Completed" about 10 days ago. Is this good news or ...
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Does journal access significantly influence choice in which journal to publish in? [closed]
The University of California has been out of contract with Elsevier this year following disputes on higher costs and reduced rights to a number of journals.
My lab has published numerous papers in ...
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What should I do If I find out that there is a typo (repeated many times) in a recently published paper of mine at Elsevier?
I've recently published a paper. It's available online, but not published on hard copies yet. What should I do If I find out that there is a typo (repeated many times) in a recently published paper of ...
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Does ORCID matter for a person who would like to work in academia?
I just noticed the following words from arXiv:
"You are encouraged to associate your ORCID with your arXiv account. ORCID iDs are standard, persistent identifiers for research authors. ORCID iDs will ...
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What to use as a identifier for researchers?
I am preparing the final document of my PhD and I would like to include some kind of identifier to my person – something like a DOI for people. My intention is to to make it easy for the readers of my ...
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How to request retraction of a published paper when contacting the editors and publishers doesn't work?
About 18 months ago, I found a published paper which plagiarised my work.
I initially contacted the journal editors, but they did not respond. I then contacted Elsevier, which publishes the journal. ...
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Which license should be chosen in arXiv for a paper to be published in Elsevier?
I would like to know what license needs to be chosen in arXiv for a paper that is to be sent to an Elsevier journal. I have read the terms of both arXiv and Elsevier attentively, but I'm still in ...
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Why use unique digital researcher ID?
I recently discover the existence of unique digital identifier for researchers (such as the one proposed by ORCID or ResearcherID).
I never really heard about it, maybe because it is not common in ...
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How does ORCID work?
Will the ORCID appear in the article people write? I could not find an article in which ORCID was included. Can somebody point out some examples if there are any?
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How can a professor who has signed The "Cost of Knowledge" pledge review papers without having to recant?
A large majority of researchers in my field publish in Elsevier journals. However, a professor who is widely regarded as an authority in my field has, some years ago, signed The Cost of Knowledge ...
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I lost my university email account. How can I help the readers of my publications reach me? [duplicate]
In my university days, I published eight papers in journals of Elsevier and in the the top-50 publications. I used the email account provided by my university, since they promised me that such account ...
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Elsevier open-access fee waived for subscribers?
I have recently been comparing publishers regarding their policies on double dipping (charging an open-access fee for publishing in a hybrid journal and then charging again a subscription fee). Many ...
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Does an ORCID alone convey any information?
Do the digits of an ORCID convey any information?
In particular, given two ORCIDs, can I infer anything about the order in which they were created? For example, if two ORCIDs had prefixes 0000-0001-...
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Why do some Elsevier journals use a single column format?
I believe that the majority of Elsevier journals use a standard dual column document class.
However, some journals that are owned by Elsevier use an alternative single column format (e.g. J. Comput. ...
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What are potential downsides of (universal) author IDs pushed for by publishers etc.?
In recent years, several organizations (publishers, arXiv, universities) started pushing for systems of a reliable author identification, gaining considerable traction with the recent launch of ORCID. ...
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Why do I have the "required reviews completed" status on my submission in Elsevier?
I had submitted my paper in an Elsevier journal one year back. Now, status update on the submission tracking says "Required reviews completed." However, for the last two weeks still there is no change ...
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Is there a flaw in the Elsevier green OA license?
I'm checking the Elsevier article sharing policies and I think there is a problem with their license of the accepted manuscript (post-review article). Indeed, the instructions say:
Authors can share ...
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Why would I want to register with ORCID?
I've noticed that in the ACM article document class you can now list authors' "ORCID" registration key.
I've not heard anyone mention that to me before. They Orcid website says:
ORCID provides an ...
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How are paper authors uniquely identified?
Some authors have an ORCID ID in order to be identified and distinguished in case of authors with similar name, change of name, different name format, etc. However, some sources don’t provide the ...
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Can a rejected manuscript be submitted to another Elsevier journal?
Can one submit a rejected manuscript from one Elsevier journal to another relevant/similar Elsevier journal after apply the given feedback from the reviewers?
Is there any minimum wait time?
Is it ...
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Is there any non-commercial alternative to ResearcherID?
Identifying uniquely a researcher as author of a publication is important. There is a commercial effort to create researcher ID for every researcher. It is not likely to succeed if it is not multiple ...
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What can cause the date of submission status to change without a change of status "under review" for Elsevier editorial systems?
I have a paper submitted to a journal of Elsevier.
From "Manuscript Submitted" to "with editor" took one day; then it was "with editor" for five days, and then "under review". One and a half months ...
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Which license should be chosen in arXiv for reports and preprints to be published in Elsevier?
First, imagine the following scenario: A "report" is first archived in arXiv as version one (v1). From that report, a "preprint" manuscript (with the same title as the report, but probably shorter ...
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Are all Elsevier journals legitimate
I have seen a lot of negative reviews and even boycotts of some Elsevier journals. I do not want to jeopardize the future of my academic career by publishing in illegitimate journals. Am I correct in ...
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How can co-authors check the status of a submitted manuscript in Elsevier Editorial System?
I know that after submitting a paper through Elsevier Editorial System, the corresponding author can check the status of the submitted paper online. But how about co-authors? Can the corresponding ...
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Can a company employee become an associate editor of a scientific journal?
I am wondering whether a company employee can take a role of associate editor of a scientific journal. Let's take the following example.
Suppose I am a university professor, and my role is teaching ...
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How do I add my ORCID to papers authored by myself?
I have a few papers that have already been accepted and published.
I recently signed up for an ORCID.
Is is possible to add my ORCID to these already published papers,
and if so, how do I do this?
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What does "not available" mean in Google Scholar for Public Access, why is it an issue, and how to resolve it?
A while ago, Google Scholar introduced "public access mandates". For me, for example, it says on the starting page that one article is "missing" (not available), so I go on the ...
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Why would a journal force me to register on ORCID?
I recently got a paper accepted as a co-author in a relatively good journal. Now that we are at the finalizing phase, I got an email prompting me to give my ORCID identifier and to create one if I don'...
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What happens if I don't pay the article processing charge after my paper was accepted by a gold open access journal?
My manuscript has got accepted and published online as "in press" in an Elsevier journal.
I noticed that it is an open access journal late after its acceptance.
I have not signed any forms ...
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Why did I only receive reviews from reviewers 3 and 4?
I have recently received reviews for my manuscript from Elsevier.
There are comments from Reviewer #3 and Reviewer #4 only, does that mean reviewer 1 and 2 rejected the article??
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Are there any researcher digital identification services or directories, similar to ORCID and ResearcherID?
Are there any general (not field-specific) researcher digital identification services or directories, similar to ORCID and ResearcherID?
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What is the difference between open access and open archive?
In Elsevier ScienceDirect search, there are two types of access type filters; Open Access articles and Open Archive articles. What is the difference between these two? Is there a notable difference ...
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Do editors know how many papers I am refereeing on the same platform?
I have very recently returned two referee reports for two different Elsevier journals. Within two days, I have received two new requests from the exact same two journals (but from different editors).
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Arxiving accepted manuscript after publication in Elsevier/IEEE/etc
The Elsevier policies state:
Authors can share their accepted manuscript: by updating a preprint in arXiv or RePEc with the accepted manuscript
I haven’t arxived a preprint; the paper is published ...
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Is there a benefit to registering digital identification via both ORCID and ResearcherID?
This question is in continuation to the discussion from about a year ago, concerning researcher digital identification: Why use unique digital researcher ID?.
It appears that researchers, who would ...
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Automatically updating ORCID, etc, from arXiv?
Generally, whenever I write an article, I will always upload it to arXiv first. So, my list of publications on arXiv is essentially the most official version of my publication record.
Is there a way ...
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Which elsarticle documentclass parameters in LaTeX should I use for different Elsevier journals?
So here is the thing, I recently submitted a paper to an Elsevier Journal (EJOR) and prepared it using LaTeX. I used the elsarticle documentclass that Elsevier provides.
When doing this I tried to ...
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How to notify Elsevier or Clarivate when then they are indexing predatory or very low quality journals?
What is the best way to alert Elsevier or Clarivate Analytics -- for instance, if I see a potentially predatory (or just really low quality) journal indexed in Scopus or WoS or if I see recent changes ...
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Uploading preprints of old Elsevier papers to arXiv, and updating arXiv preprints by newer versions
Let's say that my first scientific paper was published in 2010 in one of the Elsevier mathematical journals. At that time I didn't care about uploading a preprint of the paper to arXiv which I now ...
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Getting ORCIDs by DOI
Is there a web service that retrieves all of the ORCIDs for the authors associated with a DOI? I've looked at crossref.org, but I can't seem to find information on how to do this with their service.
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Which form of English (US or UK) should be used for Elsevier journal publication?
I am intending to write a journal paper for Elsevier Gait & Posture publication, but so far I found contradictory answers to the above question.
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