Questions tagged [literature]
Publications that report latest research findings are collectively referred to as literature in academia.
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How can I be up-to-date on recent papers, practically?
I'm just starting my PhD, and during a sort of informal journal club, my professor told us that we should always try to read some new papers in our field (high energy physics, and general relativity ...
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Should I include the write-ups I have published in newspapers in my CV?
I am a student of English literature.
Since 2018, I have regularly published short stories and literary articles in national and international newspapers. The number is around 20.
Should I mention ...
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Satirical journals for the arts and humanities [closed]
It was very easy to find scientific journals that allow satirical articles to be published. The top Google result for "satirical journals" was Wikipedia's list of them: https://en.wikipedia....
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Is it normal to not care about the current literature?
I am currently working on a research project with my PhD supervisor. The focus of this project is a sub-field that my supervisor has not previously published in and one that I am not familiar with. ...
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Are there instances of papers the first parts of whose colon-wise titles are questions?
pre-colon-part: post-colon-part is a format which is often used in titles of papers. In all of the instances I have seen, the first part is an informative phrase, a (fictitious) example of which may ...
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What software do you use to keep up to date on literature, and if Google Scholar, how do you avoid information overload?
I see a lot of people use Google Scholar and ResearchGate alerts, but I find those alert systems too overwhelming to the point I get inundated and treat them like spam. Perhaps I'm not using them ...
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Is there any free alternative to Mendeley desktop app on Windows?
I have been using Mendeley for a very long time now. I use it for organizing and reading articles. I just noticed that it keeps removing files randomly from the folders and groups. I don't know the ...
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A citations generator needed
I am having a hard time creating citations for new literature.
I get a new work (either electronic or printed) and I want to incorporate its citation to my library by means of a citation file (no ...
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Using "standard" literature in local language instead of English literature
I'm currently working on a paper where I want to compare UML with a "leaner" approach of modelling software architecture. UML already has some coverage by writers (besides the open specification), and ...
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When are there reasons to cite more or fewer sources?
As a young scholar I was paranoid about accusations that I hadn't read the literature, so I tended to cite lots of papers. More recently, I've noticed an elegance in relying on fewer of them.
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Would my paper get rejected if the related work section takes up too many pages, and what would the optimal maximum length for this section be? [closed]
I have recently submitted my paper to the journal of IEEE Access. They wanted me to only expand the related work section, so I have additionally included dozens of papers, most of which were suggested ...
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How is literature that contains racially charged language treated in the context of academic discourse, and what is the etiquette for using it?
One of my good friends is a history professor at a local college; in order to preserve anonymity I will not specify which one, but it is a conservative Christian private school in my state. We were ...
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What is the academic argument against Sci-Hub?
I know that some consider certain activities of Sci-hub to violate the law in some jurisdictions. Many of the previous questions and opinions related to Sci-hub have focused on these legal aspects (...
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Are GRE scores useful in making some graduate admissions decisions?
Background: There is some recent research indicating that, among students admitted to the Ph.D. program, their GRE scores are not very useful for predicting success in the Ph.D. program. This appears ...
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How to do a literature review on practical research (thesis)?
Some background, for my bachelor of science degree I have to do a practical research (thesis) for a company that develops software.
At the end of my Introduction chapter I arived at the following ...
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For those who study in the humanities, have I made a mistake in doing my Master's abroad?
I'm an American student currently earning a Master's in American cultural studies in Germany. Why study American culture in Germany? Firstly, I wouldn't have been able to afford a U.S. Master's in ...
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How many papers per week does a professor typically read?
I'm curious as to how many papers one would need to read per week, in order to keep up with the latest research in a particular field. For example, how many papers on average would a typical tenured ...
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What is the difference between a 'materials and methods' section and an 'experimental procedure' section?
What is the difference between 'material and methods' section and 'experimental procedure' section in a scientific article or report or assignment? Does they differ at all?
Elaboration :
If I'm ...
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Colloquial forms (let's...) in articles
I am writing an article for a peer reviewed journal in the field of literature, and I am wondering about the use of colloquial expressions like: "Let's take a step back", or "Let's look at the data", "...
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Can I cite almost total literature survey from a textbook unit?
Suppose I'm writing a research paper on topic T.
Additionally, suppose there is a textbook or research paper on topic T that covers all the progress of the topic from its initial time to 2018 ...
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How to cope with the abuse of notation in the literature? [closed]
In mathematics or (mostly) computer science, there is a gap between the literature and the standard textbooks.
Many good research papers are also abusing the notations either with or without ...
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Best practice when summarizing (not reviewing) research literature [closed]
I recently started my PhD program and have already accumulated a vast amount of papers on my to-read-list. I never had troubles reading and remembering content of academic papers, but this pile is ...
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References that are not literature or qualified sources
The Duale Hochschule has published this guideline (German) (this question might be specific to the studies in Germany) and it does quite a good job explaining how literature shall be cited and put ...
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How to read without specific purpose?
Posting for a friend, but in first person for simplicity.
I am a research master student in linguistics of a particular language. In my bachelor thesis and some coursework I specialised on a very ...
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Will past medschool failure history affect Graduate admission in Literature/Linguistic major?
14 years ago, I attended med school. After 6 years and chronic depression issue, I decided to withdraw from that program. This means I have an official transcript, but of course did not earn a degree. ...
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Can I publish an improved variation of a prior method or/and the results I found using it?
I am doing economic analyses of natural resources based on processes seen in the real world (geology) for my PhD thesis. The model I have built is mostly inspired from an already well-established ...
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eInk eBook reader for reading scientific PDF papers (as of 2018)
While reading lot's of papers for my Thesis, I was looking for another solution than printing important papers. So I started browsing the internets, watched tons of reviews on YouTube, etc.
I ...
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What is the "chain search" method for literature search?
I am working through a tutorial about literature search, reading, and writing. It says:
Chain Search:
A chain search consists of finding suitable literature by letting one text lead you to the ...
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What strategies are there for finding literature for a literature survey when the terminology used is diverse?
I want to write a literature survey on a topic, let's say it's risk of crime due to a new technology, let's say due to the Gutenberg press. However, when I search for the overall theme (crime and "...
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Literature review both by keywords in title and sorting by publishing date
Is there any free online databases where I can do literature review by
(1) giving keyword(s) that occur in title
(2) at the same time, sorting by publishing date from newest to oldest?
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Following academic development, citation, new publications - From a pre-existing "library"
"Library" in this context means the papers/books that you have in program X (Zotero, Mendeley, etc.) forming the literary core of a project or topic.
Is there an already-established method to ...
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What kind of index of papers is behind the search functionality of web applications and services related to the scientific literature?
There are many, many websites that include a search function that returns a list of papers matching some keyword: Scirate, Shortscience, Brevy, etc.
Do all these sites run their own crawlers and ...
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List of citation graph browsers?
What are good ways to explore/discover literature visually, e.g. a visual interface for Google Scholar? There are a few tools to explore the citation graph ("which papers cite which papers"). Some are ...
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How to use MLA for a paper in Spanish?
I'm currently working on a Spanish paper in MLA for an undergraduate course and have stumbled on some confusion for my Works Cited for which I can find no definitive answer. MLA says that I should use ...
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How much should I write about the competing policies?
I'm working on a political science problem that has attracted (by my count) fourteen proposed solutions, ranging from somewhat useful to positively harmful. Some are already law in many countries; ...
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Is it okay to copy paste some part of my Bachelor's thesis literature review for my own Master's thesis?
So my bachelor's thesis and master's topics bear some similarity. Now I am doing literature review for my master's thesis under same supervisor. Can I copy some relevant parts (about 10 pages long) ...
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Literature review and originality
Everyday there are hundreds of papers published worldwide in every single area of study. I am mostly interested in architecture and environmental psychology.
A question arises how to assure that we ...
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When peer reviewers are public/open, are they less likely to be critical of a manuscript?
I have been peer reviewing scholarly manuscripts for more than 10 years, and I am always concerned that the quality of my reviews might be impacted by the fact that my name is made public to authors ...
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Literature review in thesis and research paper
What are the major differences between a thesis and research paper literature review? Despite the volume of literature citations between thesis and research article what are the other major ...
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Is it better to focus on relearning mathematics fundamentals or learn material as needed to understand research papers?
I am working toward a PhD degree and my major involves lot of mathematics. The problem is that my basis of math is not very strong but after putting a lot of time I can understand the theorems, lemmas,...
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Are there differences between academic papers and industrial papers?
Are there differences between academic papers (f.e. a (conference) paper written by PhD students and/or professors) and industrial papers (f.e. a conference paper written by engineers working for a ...
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Disagreeing politely
Suppose I disagree with the methods and/or conclusions of a paper published in a scientific journal, and I produce some new results that refute the claims in this paper. What would be the best way to ...
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Ideas for and approaches to adding value to literature reviews
One of the tasks in my short-to-mid-term plan is to convert my dissertation into several research papers. In this context, I was thinking about extracting my dissertation's literature review (which is ...
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Why are some research papers scanned with OCR instead of actual PDF?
I have some research papers in PDF format that are actually scanned (and then OCRed) instead of being the original PDF. Some are so badly created that text cannot be properly searched inside.
For ...
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Assessing the relevance of textbooks
I have accumulated a lot of textbooks, many of which I have yet to read, and I am wondering how to determine the relevance of those books for me based on my field of study, my interests, and academic ...
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How to locate most important literature in an unfamiliar area
I'm a pre-doctoral researcher (does it exist?) figuring out my true interests and learning the craft. When I start exploring a new (that is, unfamiliar) area, I try to find the most influential ...
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How to 'stay up to date' in your field?
In academia, it's important to stay up to date with the latest 'hot' hypotheses in the your field. By 'hot', I mean the hypothesis that are most important/topical/relevant/popular. Perhaps the best ...
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How to best approach literature with low information content for good retention
My question relates to a certain type of opaque pseudo-technical prose that unfortunately is so pervasive in management literature. Authors with this kind of writing style like to make completely ...
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Searching for open source literature management software [duplicate]
I recently started my PhD and now try to find a convenient software for managing my literature research. What I want it to be able to do is:
Let me highlight PDFs
Add notes to PDFs
Add tags to my ...
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Should I cite every study that supports my point?
Suppose I'm writing a paper and at some point in the paper (e.g. the background section), I write that "Vanilla ice cream is healthier than chocolate ice cream." I search EBSCO and find check all ...
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