Questions tagged [errors-erratum]
On errors found after submission or publication in a book, paper, thesis, or other document, and erratum (written notice of errors and corrections) for them.
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Error discovered in an accepted conference paper but not yet presented
I'm a CS student, and I discovered two code bugs that change some numerical values on a table of a paper that got accepted and will be presented at a conference very soon. The changes is very small (...
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Submitted paper with wrong title
I wrote a paper which got accepted in a reputed journal, I wrote another paper with completely different work, however when I submitted the second paper I mistakenly (actually I was in a hurry) with ...
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Someone cited my paper in an irrelevant manner
I checking my google scholar page, when I noticed that one of my papers, of which I am a co-author, had been cited by an unknown academic. I read the article, which was on gene regulatory networks, ...
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minor errors in published paper [duplicate]
I am inexperienced in publishing papers in scientific journals. I was going over recently published paper of mine and found that I accidentally reported mean with standard deviation when I meant to ...
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Publishing a Corrigendum?
I recently published a book chapter with my supervisor. I just realized that I messed up two dates in the chapter. For the first one, the original sentence is like "xx policy decisions were published ...
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Identifying a published error
Hypothetical:
I found an error which fundamentally kills a published paper and re-opens a number of problems the paper claimed to solve.
Not only is there an error, but the results are actually wrong....
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Author removal from a published paper [duplicate]
I have been one of the co-authors of a published paper 8 years ago. In those years I was an undergrad student. So, I had no significant scientific contribution to this paper. I have just finished my ...
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A senior colleague that belittles my contributions, expertise and won't acknowledge a published error that I identified
I am a PhD student and the most junior person on our small team (me, a lab manager, a statistical analyst, a wet-bench scientist, a senior statistician, and our PI). The statistical analyst has been ...
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How to withdraw ones name from an already published paper
I am having the following trouble. Within a collaboration I was asked to prepare and pre-characterize some samples. I did so and sent the samples along with a report on the characterization results.
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What to do if authors don't respond to my serious concerns about their paper?
I recently read a paper that conducted an experiment, analyzed it, and reached a conclusion. However, the way they conducted the analysis is seriously flawed and cannot be used to support the ...
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Correcting small errors in text/picture after publication?
I got a manuscript published in November 2018 (Elsevier) and realized after reading it again today that an error has been introduced, after proofreading/publishing, in one of the equations I wrote; ...
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Maintaining Credibility with Data Obtained by Hand
Recently, I was doing a project in computer science (involving modes of computation) that had a very specific time limit. Unfortunately, due to software problems, I was forced to obtain my data by ...
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Found a major flaw in paper from home university – to which I would like to return
During my Ph.D. in condensed-matter physics, I published a paper together with two other students. The research group of the university that I am originally from (in Madrid, Spain) happened to work on ...
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How do I phrase (in my thesis) that results in an important study are wrong?
The title probably comes off wrong, I tried to keep it short. I do not necessarily want to make an absolute statement like "that is wrong". But I do need to address the problems I am facing with a ...
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What to do if a paper by respected authors has obvious problems, and I have told them so already?
I have recently found a paper of a very respected research group in my field. In this paper, they have some theoretical calculations, and they are obviously completely wrong. Not in the sense that the ...
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Found a mistake in my paper after submitting the final version. What should I do?
Recently my paper got accepted in a journal. After that we submitted the final version with all corrections. Now I found an error in the way I calculated some type of numerical error. I don’t think ...
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I regret publishing a sloppy conference paper
I have published two conference papers at one conference in physics with two other authors and I am the first author in both articles. And I am currently in the second year of my PhD Thesis and these ...
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Can i submit a revised version of a retracted paper to another journal
One of my paper was retracted die to honest error (statistical error). is it possible to submit the revised version of the paper to another journal for consideration of publication. Thank you
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I found some topographical errors in one of my published papers
i found some topographical errors mainly missing spellings in one of my published papers. However the errors does not alter the meaning or concept of the paper. I contacted the joirnal editor but told ...
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Check whether an article has any correction or been retracted
Is there any website where I could enter the reference of an article, and see whether any correction or retraction has been made on the article?
I know some publishers indicate it on their website, ...
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Erratum, Rejoinder etc. in Article names: What are the differences?
I am a little bit confused with the following terms and do not know how they differ:
Erratum/Corrigendum
Rejoinder
Commentary
In which cases is/should an article be named one or the other?
What ...
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Publishing erratum to arXiv and other best practices
Is publishing a single page erratum to arXiv an acceptable practice? And does it violate the copyright of journal who published the original work?
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How are these kinds of published errors managed?
Context: Say author A writes: "the authors B in Ref [30] found two consequences of the standing posture i.e sitting in the workplace on the health of industrial workers".
Actually, it should be "the ...
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Erratum or corrigendum on arXiv too? Should the authors lists match?
We have a mistake in a published paper and we will send a Corrigendum to the journal. Concerning arXiv we have two options:
Replace v1 by v2, where v2 has no longer the mistake, and state what we did ...
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Citing a paper whose title has received errata
I recently stumbled upon a published article entitled "ANCOVA versus change from baseline had more power in randomized studies and more bias in nonrandomized studies," which has an errata stating the ...
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Correct typo in paper title?
One of my published papers has a typo in the title. I have found errors of various kinds in my other papers (who hasn't) and never cared to make corrections, but I often refer people to this ...
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How does an Erratum on one's own paper affect one's career as a researcher?
I'm still early in my scientific career, with only a few papers published. However, I've discovered a typo in a non-critical equation of my paper, and one of the graphs in the same paper should have ...
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How to refer to a source with "minor" typos in the title?
This questions supplements the existing: how to refer to a source with typos in the title, where OP spotted grammar mistakes in the title of papers mentioned in the reference list and wondered whether ...
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How can I overcome feelings of unworthiness after finding mistakes in my research?
I'm currently a PhD student suffering from extreme anxiety after finding some mistakes in my scientific paper 7 months back. I've talked to my supervisor about it and he said that those were simple ...
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Found published work that doesn't reference previous related work
I have been researching a specific topic in computer science for a couple of years now and a well established professor and his students have recently published a couple of publications in that topic ...
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Should I follow-up with the editor about formatting issues on a published article?
I just received an email from the editor of a monograph series letting me know the issue where my article is included is now live. I went through normal things recently to get it published, like a ...
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How to cite a paper with erratum?
I want to cite a paper [A], which has been corrected by an erratum [B] in the same journal. I have not found a rule how to cite this case.
Is it proper to cite [A,B], or just [A] or just [B].
I am ...
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Is a corrigendum required for this error?
Our manuscript, for which I am the first co-author, got accepted in a journal. However, upon careful review of our manuscript, I noticed that there are errors in one table. The percentages were ...
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Conference abstract: AutoCorrect underline not removed
I started my PhD last August, and recently I submitted an abstract to a major conference. After submitting it I noticed that on one of my figures, which contain multiple subfigures, I have forgotten ...
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They shared the code, but then, I found key errors in their work. How do I criticize this in my research paper?
Associate Prof. X is committed to reproducible research and makes his code available. He authors a paper with Dr. Y and others.
Dr. Y is the first author of the paper and the code is shared on Ass. ...
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What to do about an important typo mistake in my submitted conference paper?
I just noticed there is an important typo mistake in my recently submitted conference paper. Actually it is like inserting a "-" where it shouldn't be and of course the whole algorithm might not ...
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My name was misspelled in a citation, what should I do?
Recently, a newly published paper in a journal cited one of our papers and managed to misspell my name in the reference list. How should I deal with this? Simply ignore this? Or should I contact the ...
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Can I correct a typo in my published paper if it doesn't affect content?
I discovered a minor error (essentially a typo) in one of my recent publications. It would not be noticed by most readers. It does not affect the content of the article and does not require an erratum ...
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Serious error in published journal paper by a faculty member
Consider the following scenario:
Paper A used a model developed in Paper B.
This model developed in Paper B was corrected over the years in an erratum before Paper A was published.
This makes the ...
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How to discuss an error of my previous supervisor's paper with the new supervisor
I have been recently working on my Master thesis. The idea for it was approximately the following: take a recent Nature paper of my supervisor, reproduce the results and add them to my Master thesis. ...
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Can I resubmit the article?
I submitted my revised paper (second-time major revision) just few days back through Scholar One. Now I found some errors in my submitted paper. As the paper is already submitted, what shall I do? Can ...
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Miswritten reference in (in press) paper
A paper A has been published recently with a big publisher. The article is available as early access, but it is still in press, i.e. not yet assigned to a volume. In that paper, our paper B was cited, ...
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Recommendation letter has slightly wrong info – should I mention it in my cover letter?
When I asked for the letter, last semester’s grades hadn’t been fully uploaded to the system so among the things my professor wrote, they said I was a top-5% student. This week, grades were updated ...
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Former PhD supervisor faked results and submitted a corrigendum two years after publication
During my PhD studies, I published a journal article (one of total four) in a prestigious journal of my field. I gave my codes to my PhD supervisor, but he messed up things in the lab and lost it (I ...
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Hugely important database replete with errors
I am about to finish my PhD in bioinformatics. I am trying not to give out too many details, so I won't be very specific.
In the field I am working in, there are two extremely important databases ...
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Paper with a spelling mistake in author affiliation in publication
I published a paper late 2016. Recently I noticed that the published manuscript has a typo error in one of the authors affiliation. But it got indexed correctly on all databases under that author. ...
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How should I handle a paper with incorrect experimental results? [duplicate]
We found that a paper, published in an important CS conference, presents incorrect results in its experimental evaluation section.
Merely reading the paper is not sufficient to spot these mistakes, ...
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Finding some errors in my "IEEE conference paper" after presentation but before publication
Two days ago, I presented my accepted paper in an IEEE conference. While I am presenting, I noticed that I really made 3 mistakes in the notations! I don't really know why I didn't make attention for ...
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Corrigendum for wrong reporting of results
My paper got published in a good journal but later I noticed that in the final results table I have mistakenly written the parameters used in the previous literatures and not what I have calculated ...
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Found error in published article where to submit a correspondence?
I have found an error in a published article. The error lies within the method section.
I would like then to write a correspondence to let people know about this issue and to explain what could have ...
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