Questions tagged [journals]
Online or printed academic periodicals in specific subjects to which the research papers in various topics are sent by the authors and are published after being reviewed and accepted by the editorial board.
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Why are journals so pesky about partial submissions?
I recently began the submission process at a few potential journals for my paper to verify the process / requirements. Having not submitted these yet, the journals seem to be very concerned with these ...
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Mathematical journals which accept micro-articles [closed]
A micro-article is a paper of at most six pages.
The following mathematical journals accept micro-articles:
Elemente der Mathematik,
Examples and Counterexamples and
Journal of Computational ...
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How to publish independently in top journals?
I am a second year PhD student. I also worked on topics outside my thesis. The results are good and I want to submit it to top journals. However, I am surprised by the attitude of most of the editors ...
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Gender inclusiveness in academic writing: "they are" or "they is"? [closed]
"A person is doing an experiment, and they are having fun."
This expression sounds grammarly incorrect. "A person" and "they" are the same being, how can we use different ...
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How to write review requests that are not classified as spam?
I'm the editor of a statistical journal (currently it doesn't have an Impact Factor but will have one soon as far as our information goes). I have experienced that it is very hard to find reviewers ...
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How to deal with author's extensive self-citation? [duplicate]
As a scientific journal reviewer, how can I deal with a manuscript where the authors cited their own works extensively (14 times) in the manuscript?
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What is a reviewer integrity check in this particular context?
I recently submitted a manuscript to a well-known journal in my field. It is published by Wiley and Hindawi. I received a "major revision" decision based on two reviews. One of the reviewers ...
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After a plagiarism complaint, the journal is slow to respond and not taking any action. What should be done?
Someone from where I work took a piece of work I wrote and published it in their name without informing me. I gave them almost a year's time to remove that paper. They did not. Now I complained to the ...
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When is it useful to wait for the resubmission of a revised manuscript?
I recently attended a conference and witnessed an interesting discussion between a PhD and his supervisor. The supervisor recommended his student to "wait with the re-submission until the very ...
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What does the Editor-in-chief do with the Associate editor recommendation? How much is him/her involved?
I am aware about the typical workflow of a journal. Still, I am very curious about the "last steps" before an article is accepted. Let's assume one successfully passed peer review and the ...
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"Awaiting Referee Assignment" Does that mean my submission passed the first decision? [duplicate]
I submitted a paper yesterday to a SAGE journal, and it went very quickly from with journal administrator (or something like that) to Awaiting Referee Assignment. There is an editor attached to it as ...
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ORCID iD Inclusion in SpringNature Manuscript Submission
I am currently preparing a paper for submission to the International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (JDSA) by SpringNature. I have filled out all the required information in the submission ...
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Upon resubmission, can I oppose some previous reviewers if I stronly disagree with their comments?
I submitted a manuscript to an Elsevier journal. I was given a major revision after a two-month review period. The comments from the two reviewers are positive and constructive. It took me a month to ...
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Submission was sent back to me by the journal, for these reasons. What do I do
A Table of Contents must be provided for reviews as required for the journal.
Please use the correct structured abstract format required for the journal (Ethnopharmacological relevance, Aim of the ...
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Request for Changes to the Author List
I need to change the corresponding author in my paper. The journal asked to submit a form which is about changes in the author list. The text is as follows :
Do I still need to submit this form. I ...
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Being in "1 Reviewer(s) invited" state for 4 months, What should I do? [duplicate]
I have submitted an article in a math journal, the status has remained at "1 Reviewer(s) invited" for the past 4 months. In an attempt to understand the reasons behind this delay and seek an ...
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Status "Reviewed by all reviewers" hasn't changed in 20 days [duplicate]
On the journal website my research papers' status is “Reviewed by all reviewers”. It has been almost 20 days without a change in status. Should I mail the editor/the journal? What should I write?
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What are Honarary Editors?
As in the title: what is the function of an Honorary Editor on a journal's editorial board, as opposed to regular editors?
I have seen this a few times in a journal and I suspect it is supposed to add ...
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What is "educ times"? A journal?
I am looking for the original article about the Cullen numbers. But all I can find is the reference to "Question 15897" in "Educ. times 534, 1905". But I cannot find the "educ ...
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Collatz conjecture proof [closed]
A while ago a submitted an article to ENT about the Collatz conjecture, it consists the proof that I derived from within the structure stress theory which is a theory a I devolved to view the Riemann ...
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My paper was accepted by a Journal four years ago, but it has not been published yet. They didn't answer my last e-mail about it. What can I do?
It is a very important journal in the field. My paper is a letter explaining that an article previously published in that journal had a mistake, and that the correction reverts the result. The paper ...
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How long do I give my supervisor to read my paper?
I am looking to submit my paper in the very near future to a journal. What is a reasonable period of time to give my supervisor to read my paper? I set a deadline with my supervisor of when I would ...
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Adding More Empirics During "Revise and Resubmit" Process?
So, I (an early career researcher) have an article submitted to a journal in Political Science. In the article, I use several interviews with very specific and very busy people from my related field. ...
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Publishing funding issues and collaboration after PhD graduation
I managed to graduate out of a PhD program in Computer Science. But I had horrible experience with my former advisor. In addition to my dissertation related research works, I had some ideas and ...
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SVG logo collection for scientific journals
Is anyone aware of a GitHub repo or similar resource collecting SVG logos for scientific journals? Sort of like https://icones.js.org but for journals?
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Study on number of papers in math during the pandemic
I would like to know if there is a serious study about how the disruption caused by COVID-19 affected the publication figures of some mathematics journals during 2020 and 2021.
Was a downward trend ...
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Invitation for science outreach - any downsides?
A few days ago, I got an invitation to write an article in layman's terms about my recently published research.
The "small outreach journal" is called The Science Breaker. They are a "...
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Should I referee for MDPI journal Mathematics? [duplicate]
As a general rule, when I receive a request to referee a paper from a journal, I do my best to accept it unless I have a strong reason not to. One possible reason is that the journal in question is ...
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Can I submit a demo paper to a conference while the journal paper of the algorithm is being processed?
We have submitted a journal paper and it is now being processed with the experiments and the algorithm description.
We want also the submit a demo paper about the user interface software we created to ...
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Can you submit for journal publication an institutional working paper?
Journals are nowadays fairly open to preprints before submission (e.g. Nature policies here https://www.nature.com/nature-portfolio/editorial-policies/preprints-and-conference-proceedings). However, ...
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Disadvantage of having only accepted papers but no published papers while applying for a postdoc position
Is there any disadvantage of having only accepted papers but no published papers while applying for a postdoc position? All my papers are in arxiv, where the names of journals where my papers will ...
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Is it possible to edit name in a paper at the stage of pre-proof correction after acceptance?
I am a part of a collaboration in an article. The paper is accepted in a journal and we are asked to check the pre-proof version. Now I see initial part of my name is missing. For, example if my name ...
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Where to check free of charge the impact factors of all journals
Where can one check free of charge the impact factors of all journals? jcr.clarivate.com seems to be one but it's not open to those with no subscription. Many other sources only show other metrics but ...
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Journal editor demands changes to article published online two years ago
Three years ago I wrote a manuscript and submitted it to a well-known journal in my field. After a few months, I received the reviews, which were extremely positive, but suggested minor improvements. ...
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When resubmitting the revised manuscript, what if response to reviewers missed?
I misunderstood the way of submitting response to reviewers document, so I submitted the revised manuscript before uploading response to reviewers. I contacted the journal with the attachment of ...
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Is it necessary to obtain permissions for using figures from my published articles in my dissertation?
How can I ask a journal to use my figures, knowing that the journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License?
If it is unnecessary, how can I do it ...
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Can I reuse a figure I created and had published if the publisher leaves the copyright with me, the author?
Let's say I create a figure. I then publish a paper that includes this figure in an open access journal where the author retains copyright to the paper and allows the journal to apply the CC-BY ...
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Does a research paper of a Phd student get equal attention in top category math. journal?
I am a PhD student in pure mathematics from a lower-developed or developing country in the Asia region. I have two published articles in average-category peer-reviewed journals (one is in the Q2 ...
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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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A new journal offers me to publish there at no cost because my previous papers are successful. Can taking up the offer impact my career?
I have published a paper in a then new journal about 2 years ago. As my paper is one of their most cited so far, they have since invited me to publish another article (fully open access, waiving the ...
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Can an author choose the reviewer of their book?
I suspect the answer is no. The problem is, there is a group of scholars who would invariably trash the works of young scholars from a certain school of thought (they already did).
My book was ...
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How do I go about adding a figure from APS journals to Wikipedia?
I would like to add a figure from an article published in Physical Review E to a Wikipedia article. I have already contacted the corresponding author for permission, but I am not sure how I should ...
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How to add Copyright Notice Code?
I have got a paper accepted in a conference, they have told me add a copyright notice code at the bottom of page 1. This is my first time in conference and I am confused whether the code is same for ...
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Is the reviewer the journal manager?
I submitted a manuscript to a journal, and the feedback I received required major revisions. Interestingly, I noticed that the system indicates that one of the reviewers is the journal manager. What ...
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Article accepted for publication by the managing editor of Taylor & Francis Journal [duplicate]
I received notification that my article was accepted for publication by the managing editor of Taylor & Francis journal. But when I previously looked at the site, I found that my article has been ...
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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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Writing the introduction section of an academic journal
I have a question about writing the introduction section of an academic journal.
In particular, is it appropriate to include the potential impact of the research being proposed in the introduction ...
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Editor Assigned Pending to Reviews Completed in Less Than a Day
I submitted to a mathematics journal on August 20, 2023, and the next day the system status changed to 'Editor Assigned Pending'. It remained 'Editor Assigned Pending' until September 18th. However, ...
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Are publications strictly required to obtain a PhD thesis?
I am a PhD student in electrical engineering and I am writing my first article, probably for a Q1 journal. My question is the following: in order to get a PhD degree, do you need to have one or ...
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Find papers that use specific sample groups
I've been tasked with finding all papers within a journal whose sample groups contain children. There are journals between 1999 and 2023 that I need to search through.
My first thought was to try to ...
