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Why don't high-ranking journals go solo?
There are so many debates and criticisms around the topic of publishers, who are accused of charging excessive fees for access when all the work of the journal is done for free by academics. But why ...
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Where to publish comments on a scholarly book?
The past year, I've been reading a mathematical manuscript from a well-known university on a particular well-known, graduate curriculum subject. The manuscript language is not English. One can imagine ...
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Do published papers have to contain original work? [duplicate]
Can I turn my MSc thesis into a paper and can the paper get published if it does not have original work?
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Commercial publication of your PhD thesis
I'm wondering what it is like to publish a PhD thesis commercially?
Has anyone done that before? What would the contract be with the publisher regarding sales profits?
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'Introduction to Subject X' & Guide books : How do they influence the academic reputation?
Many professors publish introductory books on their subjects, for undergraduates or sometimes books for a non-academic audience. something like "Introduction to Art History" or a 'guide book' to '...
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Do Nature journals wrongly claim copyright in their published pdfs?
I just noticed this and I'm slightly confused by a small detail.
The Nature Publishing Group states in its Publishing Licences page that the copyright on articles remains with the author:
NPG does ...
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Not publishing an author photo on Elsevier journals
This is related to Co-author does not want biography+photo in paper submission but specific to Elsevier journals. In the mentioned question, answers showed that for IEEE they have a policy where a ...
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How to publish my PhD as a monograph when examiners are unable to oversee the process?
Before my viva (as they call it in the UK) one of my supervisors strongly hinted that one of my examiners would likely be interested in supervising me with the writing of a monograph. Three months ...
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Dataset of retraction fines per publisher
I read in the Nature comment Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors authored by David B. Allison, Andrew W. Brown, Brandon J. George& Kathryn A. Kaiser and published today
Science relies ...
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Does a preprint include revisions made in response to peer review?
This is related to but not answered in this question about the difference between various stages of a manuscript in the publication process.
After an author has submitted a manuscript to a journal ...
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Do (scientific) editors complain with the publishers about user experience?
This recent question on the Elsevier online submission system prompted this question to me.
It seems like there are lots of outstanding examples of bad usability and overall negative user experience ...
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Why do some journals allow their papers to be open access for a short period of time after publication?
Some journals upload their accepted papers for public viewing shortly after the papers were accepted, examples of this include J. Math. Phys and Cell Systems. What's the reason for doing this if the ...
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I submitted my paper in a hijacked journal [duplicate]
I encountered a huge problem, I submited my paper in a faked journal. I sent them several times about the result of reviewing process. The email answer was:
Dear Author
Please clarify what ...
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Should a full manuscript be available for a book proposal?
I've been given some conflicting advice about preparing book proposals and manuscripts for academic presses. I'm aware that writing books is a lengthy process etc; however, I've also been told by a ...
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Is it worth submitting papers to "graduate" peer-reviewed journals?
I am a first year PhD student in the social sciences at a Canadian institution, and I'm wondering whether it's worth submitting a paper to a "graduate" peer-reviewed journal. This would be my first ...
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How can I judge whether an alternative "impact factor" is from an accepted and genuine source?
So I was wondering whether the SJIF (Scientific Journal Impact Factor) calculation was authentic and accepted.
How can someone identify whether an alternative impact factor is generally accepted and ...
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Is there a way to check to which scientific journals a specific library has access?
Is there a way to check which journals are available in a specific library/university? For example, my university library has access to some, but not all, the scientific journals related to Machine ...
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Publishing and Self-Archiving
Recently I had a paper accepted by a major journal in discrete mathematics. Now the paper is going through the final stages of publication. The publisher sent me a link in which I have to specify the ...
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How can I tell if an unsolicited offer to publish a book with Springer is legit?
Our team had a paper recently published in Energy and Buildings, and one of us (not the main author) received last week an email from someone claiming to be an editor with Springer.
According to this ...
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Ways to get free and legal access to research papers as a researcher
I’ve discovered that website like ResearchGate offer the possibility to ask the paper editor to provide his paper for free. Many are collaborating.
Are there any other ways for researchers to obtain ...
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How much does it cost the publisher to publish an academic article?
I am interested to know the cost of publishing an academic article. I do not mean in the simple sense of "what does a given journal charge an author to publish?" or "what does an association or ...
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Can I add more corrections to page proofs? [duplicate]
After my paper was accepted, I was sent page proofs with few corrections to some words and some references. Is it possible to add something to this page proofs. I want to change wording of a line that ...
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Is it possible to change something on a research paper between the period of acceptance and publishing?
My paper was accepted in peer reviewed journal last week and is about to be publishing. Last night I thought the solution makes better sense if I change the definition of one of the variables. This is ...
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Do I need to do revision on my accepted paper?
I just received an email of my paper which was submitted to a conference.
The paper submission webpage has the following type of status:
active (under review), discuss, withdrawn, rejected, ...
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How to automatically extract submitted/accepted dates of many journal papers?
I am doing a research of the processing times of papers published in journals in my field. I have noticed that the metrics that the journals advertise (e.g. the Elsevier journal insights) do not ...
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Are reviewers impressed by a quick response to a request to revise and resubmit?
My colleagues believe that if you submit your manuscript revisions quickly, reviewers will be impressed by your confidence about the issues raised.
However, I think that a quick response is not ...
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Are academic questions (used in textbooks etc.) owned by the publisher, or is anyone able to use them in their own content?
I am wondering whether mathematical and scientific questions (or any type of question to be honest) is considered to be owned by the publisher? For example, if I see a math question in a textbook, am ...
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What does assigning the copyright of a paper mean?
I have been reading that a publisher called WIT Press has the following copyright agreement:
http://www.icsis.org/WITcopyright.pdf
It has one part that says:
We will not withhold permission for ...
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Will I be paid a percentage of the fee that readers pay to download my article? [duplicate]
I am a fresh PhD student and I have a question regarding the scientific publication process.
Let's say that I have submitted a paper to a certain journal in Springer, Elsevier etc... and it has been ...
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Advantages to article submission in LaTeX from the publisher's side
Many journals in my field accept both Word and LaTeX formats for article submission. From the publisher's point of view, what are the advantages of using the LaTeX format for submission?
Do ...
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How can I lookup the registering info of an ISSN number?
While applying for an ISSN, applicants are asked to provide publisher name, country/city, contact info and editor name. How/where can I look up an ISSN number to get these info?
Of course for a ...
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Can you get statistical data on research paper submissions and publications?
For a class project in machine learning, I am considering building a set of predictors where the feature set includes information about the topic, keywords in the title, the authors, the date, etc., ...
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What can cause the date of submission status to change without a change of status "under review" for Elsevier editorial systems?
I have a paper submitted to a journal of Elsevier.
From "Manuscript Submitted" to "with editor" took one day; then it was "with editor" for five days, and then "under review". One and a half months ...
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Is there any general consensus that either Elsevier or Springer is viewed as more prestigious for publishing in engineering?
What (if any) is the general consensus out there regarding publishing in one of these journals vs the other?
I am a mechanical engineer, specialising in fluid flow and heat transfer, so would it be ...
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If no revised date is mentioned in the paper, does this means the paper is directly accepted by the journal?
When I am reading papers, sometimes I see statements like
Manuscript received October 29, 2012; accepted March 16, 2014.
Does this implies that the paper is directly accepted?
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How do I know the impact factor of a certain journal is true? [duplicate]
I am new in publishing, I have never published a paper, and nowaday there are too many online journals. That made me suspicious about their reputation, and it is not easy for me as a beginner in ...
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Why are (galley) proof requests given such a short deadline?
Often the publisher requests to get the proof within 24 hours when it's ready. What are the reasons for making this so short? Do they want the authors to not make too many changes?
EDIT:
The email I ...
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How can we find who owns an old book's copyright?
How can we find who owns an old book's copyright today, especially if the publishing company who printed said book no longer exists? This would also apply for other (non-book) publications.
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Journal employees offering free publication in return for co-authorship and citations: is it a scam?
Some of my colleagues and I got offers from employees of some reputed journal (not from journal itself), to publish our research paper for free, if:
We include their name as co-author
We use 60%+ ...
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Is it a good idea to cite paper from publisher listed in Beall’s list
While writing the literature review for my paper, I found another paper which is closely related to my research. Unfortunately, the paper’s publisher is on Beall’s List. Hence, I wonder if citing the ...
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Is it bad practice to submit the entire manuscript for an initial book proposal to a publisher?
In a previous book I wrote, I submitted the entire manuscript along with a couple page proposal to a few different publishers. Both editors never responded to me.
In my current book, I sent the ...
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How to judge the quality of my own paper?
I am a B.Tech student in my final year, and am interested in publishing a paper. I have read a few articles in IEEE transactions and ACM transactions on my topic of interest, Software Engineering, and ...
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Why are some journal articles so expensive? [duplicate]
Why are some journal articles so expensive, such as this article that costs more than $12.55 per page to purchase?
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Independent publishing of paper resulting from a project
[To clarify I am in an European university, have never published anything]
As part of my Masters curriculum in Electrical Engineering I had to do a research project during the semester along with the ...
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How much do Springer-Verlag authors make per book sold?
How much do Springer-Verlag authors make per book sold?
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Have most journals recently stopped providing off-prints to authors?
I've recently obtained my PhD in mathematics and started a post-doc this year. I have 5 published papers, across a wide spectrum of journals (in terms of quality, from very good to mediocre). However ...
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Do authors always have final approval over what gets published?
After reading this answer, and the subsequent comments, I found myself wondering if it is a rule for publishers to get author approval after edits before publishing a paper? I would assume so because ...
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Author's email address in a published paper is not working
I have stumbled upon a paper that is very related to my field of research and after reading and discussing it with my supervisor, I found some issues in the paper that I need more information about, ...
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What precisely does "ISI-indexed publications" mean?
I'm currently looking at the requirements of a (Comp. Sci.) job that seems to only take into account "ISI-indexed publications". I'm vaguely aware of what ISI is and so forth, but I'm struggling to ...
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How is a new academic journal born?
We have witnessed (heard or read) about the birth of new academic journals many times. I have a vague idea how that happens:
A scientist or a group of scientists recognize the need for an academic ...
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