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Using Tech. Reports to 'protect' IP before presenting unpublished work in a conference
The question is in the title, really. It is similar to other questions, such as:
How much information should I divulge about on-going unpublished research at a conference?
However, I am wondering if ...
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How can I make sure I'll get credit for my work when working with unwanted and untrusted collaborator?
I am taking a course with a major final project. I was looking for a topic when my co-advisor noticed this. He suggested that I do a project related to my master thesis, and I agreed since I didn't ...
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Is it appropriate to submit a previously presented workshop paper to a peer-reviewed journal?
I have a paper that was presented at an NRC workshop and was not peer reviewed. Moreover, although this work is accessible at an NRC website, it is clear from reading the literature that search ...
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What is the difference between plagiarism and copyright infringement?
In this several times up-voted answer, it is suggested, among other things, that 'if someone using an image [...] that they do not own (it) is inappropriate and should be first reported to the PI of ...
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Is it inappropriate for an author to copy and paste from his/her original paper in an extension paper?
I am currently a referee for a paper.
One of the authors of the paper had written an earlier paper,
which I will refer to as the "original paper,"
and the paper which I am now refereeing is an ...
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How can I timestamp my paper without violating double-blind review?
I submitted a paper to a top tier conference and it did not get accepted. The paper contains an original idea, and I am afraid that the paper could get plagiarized between the time I send it to ...
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Is using the same topic title as a book title plagiarizing?
There is a well known book "Scientific topic X. Philosophical reflections." It contains a collection of articles on the topic. I am writing a paper myself. To what extent is it allowed to use the same ...
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What procedures should I follow if my preprint is stolen and published in a journal?
I am surprised by the fact that a journal published an article that I have had in arXiv for a few months. The date of publication is after the date that I posted on arXiv. The submission date in the ...
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Is it plagiarism for my thesis advisor to publish a paper using content from my thesis without citation?
I did my master thesis last year and recently I found out that a group of four faculty members in my department, including my thesis advisor, have published an ACM paper based on that. (A publish ...
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Is it OK to use the content of my own paper which is not yet submitted, in my other paper?
I have finished writing one paper, but have not submitted it yet to a journal. I am working on a related but not identical subject, though many of the definitions and theorems are same (but they are ...
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What to do when you publish a paper that accidentally included a wrong or irrelevant citation?
My paper was published and later on I found that two references were mistakenly included with the third reference, which is the correct.
My phrase looks like this:
I am worried about this (Smith ...
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Is GitHub adequate for purposes of giving a manuscript a timestamp to protect against plagiarism?
I wrote a paper that I want to put on my webpage, but that I don't want to publish anywhere. I think that I need a timestamp on it, in case someone decides to plagiarize it. Is GitHub adequate for ...
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Overlapping sentences in methodology descriptions in separate journal articles - plagiarism?
Disclaimer - I'm neither in favor of, nor endorsing plagiarism with the following question. I'm only hitting on the fact that sometimes, the interpretation of self-plagiarism can be quite stupid.
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Re-using text from a grant proposal in a paper (or vice versa)
I have a grant proposal that I'm ready to submit, and I would like to re-use a significant amount of the text (on the order of 5-8 pages) in a paper that I intend to submit to a journal for ...
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Is it plagiarism to closely mimic the structure of a table in a publication?
I am writing a paper on a topic closely related to previous literature (but in a different study population). As such, the statistical analysis is very similar to a previous publication and I really ...
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How to preempt plagiarism accusations
In 2006, when I was still in grad school, I wrote a paper that went through the usual motions: I discussed it with my advisor, I presented it at a peer-reviewed conference, and then published it as a ...
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I found out that I have plagiarism in my published journal papers, what should I do now?
I published some research papers in an ISI Journal during the past years. But due to the lack of precise knowledge of the correct referencing, and particularly due to attending an “unintentional ...
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Is it plagiarism to publish a table that was published earlier in a different journal?
I need to a include a table which contains the basic characteristics of study participants. However, in a related previous publication that dealt with a different hypothesis, the table was published. ...
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Research paper - translated plagiarism?
I'm writing a research paper in my native language, Serbian, on a specific electrical engineering and applied mathematics topic. Moreover, there are two published papers in English that hold much of ...
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How to handle not being credited for research software development in papers?
I worked for a publicly funded body. Whilst there I designed and developed a number of epidemiological surveillance applications.
I have left the organisation but since then I have noticed that some ...
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Can a new paper be published with only slight modifications to a published paper?
I have seen that some researchers in my field, that is Computer Science, do this:
They publish a paper, for example titled "The use of the Fourier transform for problem X". The paper gets accepted.
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how to find whether this paper is already available or not, if authors just changed the Paper title & author name?
I am the editor. I received a paper from some author. I need to check whether that same paper is already published in some other journal or not. For example some authors downloaded a paper from some ...
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How to respond to someone plagiarizing my work?
I have recently come across a paper that copy-pasted entire paragraphs of one of my papers which is already published in an international journal. This paper appeared in a journal which is not very ...
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How to determine similarity score of new manuscript against own yet-to-publish manuscripts? [duplicate]
Considering the ethical and professional implications of self plagiarism, it is very useful to check new manuscript against old ones (which are under review and not yet published) to decrease self ...
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reuse of text between publications (CS)
This probably depends on field, but in Computer Science it is common for people to publish similar material in workshops, then conferences, then journals. Each time it is acceptable to reuse some ...
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What to do if a referee plagiarises the result after rejecting a paper?
I find myself in an awkward situation. Nearly two years ago I submitted a paper to a reputable mathematics journal. After 15 months it was rejected with the rationale that there had been papers ...
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Is copying an image from a previous paper of mine and citing its source considered self-plagiarism or unprofessional?
Last year, I wrote a paper and it got accepted and was presented at a conference.
This year, I am writing a more in-depth paper about a similar subject; but since one of the figures in my first paper ...
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Can I use my blog posts for an academic publication?
It is not very clear in the publication guidelines of journals or conferences whether one can post some preliminary data or results online (blog, twitter, facebook, etc.), gather feedback, and then ...
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Attitudes towards self-plagiarism
I am planning to write several papers exploring various aspects of the same scientific question. Each of these papers must have an introduction which motivates it and explains the relationship between ...
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What references must be acknowledged in a paper?
This question came up from a discussion on meta.MSE.
My question is:
Do we need to search MSE (or blogs, math forums, ...) to make sure someone hasn't already proven a result when writing a paper?...
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Can I use the work in my journal/conference publications as chapters in my dissertation?
At my institution, I am required to publish four papers in addition to my PhD thesis. Of course my planned papers are related to my dissertation project, but I'm not sure if it could be considered ...
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My research work stolen and published as his own by the co-author without my consent
My research paper was stolen by the co-author and published as his own. What do I do? All the data the paper is based on is my own work. I got it accepted in another journal but now I cannot get it ...
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How to prevent plagiarism of my papers?
I have recently discovered that several of my papers have been plagiarized in order to create one paper, and that this paper has been published at a conference. I informed the organizers of the ...
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