Questions tagged [publications]
Questions related to academic publications including online and traditional journals, books, and conference proceedings.
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What do you call a paper without solid analysis and discussion?
I find in my reviewing activities that the last few years I've encountered more and more papers that are "data dumps". They tend to be papers with lots of data but very little analysis, ...
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My boss insists on submitting to MDPI
The title includes my main problem. I am a clinician-scientist in the field of clinical nutrition. I love my job and I have a good relationship with my supervisor who supports me a lot. I have my own ...
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looking for a jurnal
I'm doing research and I'm having problems finding journals that support my hypothesis that "Job Crafting has a negative effect on Psychological Availability"
Maybe someone can help me?
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Journal decision of submitted paper
I have submitted the paper to an Elsevier journal and one of the reviewers gave his review in just 5 days.
However the paper still appears to be under review.
I have 2 questions:
Does the fact that ...
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How important is publishing state-of-the-art surveys?
I am a Ph. D. student in computer science. I often cite surveys and find them very useful. By surveys I mean cataloging the state-of-the-art of all scientific efforts made in a single area. Not ...
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Position of npj journals and Communications journals in the Nature Portfolio
In the Nature Portfolio, there exist two series of journals lower than the 'Nature branded' ones: npj journals launched in 2014 and Communications journals launched in 2018.
However, it is not quite ...
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Paper leaked during peer review - what are my options?
As the title states. I recently submitted a manuscript for one of the flagship journals of Springer.
Not long after, I received information that they used my work for their external recruiting process ...
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Do Editorial Articles get indexed in SCOPUS and WOS?
I am editing a couple of special issues for two reputed journals that are indexed in SCOPUS, SCI, and WOS. Currently, I am writing the editorial articles for both of these special issues. Since these ...
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Citing my unpublished master's thesis in the article that builds on top of it
I am writing an article from my master's thesis. It is a polished and much shorter version of it, with equal contents. My master's thesis is unpublished by my university, but available from my GitHub.
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Which software or platform can I use to create a similar image to the one posted [duplicate]
Here
is a chart from article which I want recreate. Which software or platform can I use to achieve this?
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How to avoid an accumulation of manuscripts "under review"?
As described in the title, imagine a scenario where one has multiple prepared manuscripts for submission. Due to external factors (slow review speed, unavailability of reviewers, technical issues, ...)...
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Should I withdraw my paper after it has been under review for one year if the journal has been unable to find reviewers?
I submitted my paper to an journal published by Elsevier, but unfortunately, the editor has been unable to find reviewers for the past one year. After six months, we reached out to the associate ...
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Non-rigorous proof in an article
I am writing about the analysis of a certain mathematical object. The expression for this object is obtainable in several ways:
non-rigorous ways: they amount to just computations
rigorous ways: they ...
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Increasing your chances of entering a master while working
I am a 25 year old European student, I will graduate in a CS & Math dual degree this year. I have accepted an offer from a very good company (Meta) and I would like to get into a top CS Master ...
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Taxonomy of an ACM CSUR(Computing Survey) survey paper
I am new to the research domain and recently submitted a survey paper to ACM Computing Survey Journal (CSUR). After the first review, one reviewer commented,
Taxonomy is missing, and ACM CSUR paper ...
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Challenges of publishing a single-author paper in computer science
I have a strong background in computer science, with a significant publication record in top journals and conferences. After completing a five-year postdoctoral position, I have recently become an ...
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Finish paper or broaden question [closed]
I'm writing a paper on an extension of a topic I investigated in my PhD thesis. The paper refines what is known about a particular (automaton) model, call it A. I find the paper interesting. On the ...
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How do I get access to the RSS B Overleaf template?
I'm looking to publish in RSS B, but am having some issues finding the template. This is my first publication, so very new to this. The website directs me to the following template, but this clearly ...
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Why are mega journals so popular?
I would like to ask why mega journals (large journals designed to be much larger than a traditional journal and with a very broad audience, e.g. Scientific Reports, PlosOne, BMJ Open, Heliyon, ... to ...
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Should I review for journals where I would not publish my own papers?
Sometimes I receive review requests from journals that are not popular among my colleagues. I'm not so sure about the situation of these journals. They are typically Web of Science SCI Q2 journals (e....
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Citational nationalism: citing only groups within the same country
This is a trend that I have noticed more and more over the years as a reviewer for a number of journals: a group of authors from country X submits a manuscript, where the vast majority (if not all) of ...
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Sending paper to a journal while proposing its shortening right away
The Setup
I hold a prepared and written manuscript (10 500 words of text) focused on argumenting about specific problem in my field of study. This paper has been rejected few times from the most ...
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No confirmation after resubmitting a paper which got "Revision Required" [closed]
My paper submitted to a Springer journal got "Revision Required" and a comment on what type of revision was required. I completed that required revision and I want to re-submit the revised ...
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Can I publish my thesis content with a new affiliation although the work was mostly done in the previous institution?
I submitted my PhD thesis and went to work in a company where my PhD supervisor co-founded. I submitted part of my thesis work to a conference, and it got accepted. Now my supervisor asked me to ...
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Repeating a proof from the literature in my paper
This question is about writing a paper in mathematics.
I am studying a (partial differential) equation and an algorithm to solve it approximately (finite element method). I need to report in my work a ...
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Can I keep my PhD thesis chapter intro as is when publishing it as an article if another article was published in the meantime that paraphrases it?
I graduated from my PhD in 2019 and published my thesis online. Just before COVID I submitted an article based on a thesis chapter, but because of life getting in the way I was unable to finish it and ...
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Do I need to mention an incompetent referee in Conflicts of Interest (or comment)?
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About 18 months ago I submitted a paper claiming the result previously published by Michael is false.
The first referee used details in Michael's paper to defend Michael's points, trying hard ...
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Can I omit my department's name to express my dissenting opinions?
My full affiliation is:
Abacus Beard Department of Underwater Basket-Weaving, Calvin Doofus Division of Ocean Science, University of Watering-Down.
A. B. is the name of a big donor. C. D. is the ...
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4 weeks “with editor” normal? [duplicate]
I have submitted a math paper to an Elsevier journal. Before submitting it, I sent two separate polite emails to two editors (experts of the field) of the journal and asked them if they think my paper ...
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Submitting a paper without affiliation
I am about to finish writing a single-author paper for the first time in my career. I am an early career researcher. I am a postdoctoral researcher but at present I am unemployed, largely due to my ...
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Choice between article-based and monograph thesis
I am in the fourth year of my PhD studies in General Linguistics at a university in Spain, and I was working on my thesis in the form of monograph, until the beginning of this year when I managed to ...
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Journal of Reproduction
This question coupled with the general acceptance that a lot of scientific fields have a reproducability crisis has made me wonder whether there should be a specific journal/database that is dedicated ...
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Taking a long time to graduate from my MSc. How this is going to impact my PhD admission?
I enrolled in a master's program in computational mathematics, I completed my courses in a year and a half and got 3.98/4.00 CGPA (ranked 1st in my batch) then, I waited for some time to find an ...
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Are we allowed to use the figures of a published paper in our poster/oral presentation at a conference by citing the source of figures?
Is an author (coauthor or corresponding author) of an already published paper in a journal (IOP and Elsevier) allowed to use figures of the (already-) published paper in their poster or oral ...
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How can I find data on grant applications and awards from US government sources?
In academia, one of the best ways to get funding for projects is to write proposals for research projects.
However, there is not much transparency in the process. For intellectual property reasons, ...
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Publishing undergraduate research
I am an undergrad physics major and I have been involved in something that I (and my supervisor) want to get published (I am the first author and my supervisor is the only other coauthor). This is a ...
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I published an article developing and applying a method that I thought new. Someone had developed it before, outside of my applied field
I am writing my PhD thesis now. It comprises, in particular, one published article in a Q1 journal. This is a compilation thesis, and thus articles are pasted directly. For context, we apply machine ...
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Best way to write an equation while explaining something in a paper
I have found it difficult sometimes to write properly an equation in the middle of some explanations on a research paper, for example:
This can be rewritten by a change in parametrization a = m as,
E ...
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How should I paraphrase a paragraph with several primary references?
I have a question about in-text citations. I have read different answers and want to be sure about it: when I paraphrase a text from paper A, I should cite the author; if there is a reference in the ...
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I was excluded from an article - what can I do?
Prior to starting my Ph.D., I initiated a project with my former boss. We both wrote proposals and secured funding from an international foundation for a two-year period. The following year, I began ...
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Does using methods from one research domain to another research domain counts as scientific contribution?
If method A was developed and published in XYZ Conference or Journal and then method A was used to address problem B, can it be regarded as a contribution to the research community?
For example, can ...
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Can I make a paper as OA after final files submission?
Yesterday I submitted a paper to an IEEE hybrid Journal without choosing the OA policy. However, I found that my institution has an agreement with IEEE and it is possible to publish the paper as OA ...
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Is it okay to just present (without paper) research that is subject to an already finally submitted, but still unpublished conference paper?
I will try to make my question as understandable as possibe.
In the course of a project I belong to as a consortium member, I did research on a particular topic and submitted my findings in form of a ...
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Researchers "forgot" to cite their previous relevant work
I found two papers related to my current research (A published in 2021, and B published in 2023). More precisely, all authors of paper A & paper B are from the same institute. Actually, one person ...
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Revised manuscript for a long time [duplicate]
We have submitted a review to high-impact factor journal in Elsevier, and after 15 days only, the reviewing process has ended with major revision. We addressed the suggested point carefully and the ...
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If research papers include images, do they need to state the source of the image?
Images are the main component of the raw information in papers related to image processing. Many of the research papers implement the proposed work on images like Lena, Barbara.
I understand that ...
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How should I interpret a desk rejection whose reason seems paradoxical in view of the journal's publication history?
I am trying to be a researcher in a field of economics but with emphasis on philosophy. The field of philosophical (argumentative) economics is, in my opinion, not in the limelight these days; however,...
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Disadvantages/risks of publishing new raw data as one of a group of instructive examples while planning to publish a full analysis of the data later?
We have a few 2D low energy electron diffraction LEED images (field is Physics/Surface Science) that are currently not yet published, the analysis is not complete nor their implications fully explored....
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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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Potential Plagiarism of Published Papers when writing Survey Paper
I am in the process of writing a survey paper, and found one conference publication A that I will cite. Additionally, I found a journal publication B that I almost would have included in the survey, ...
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