Questions tagged [publications]
Questions related to academic publications including online and traditional journals, books, and conference proceedings.
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Special (non-english) character in name. What to do as author? Internationalize or not?
In German, as well as in other languages, people have Non-English characters in their names. e.g. ß, the umlauts etc..
I frequently face problems when flying, opening bank accounts, etc., ...
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How to cite my own submitted but not yet published work?
I plan to submit part of my current work to conference A. I then wish to submit my whole work to a more prestigious conference B. As for the part submitted to A, there is no point of repeating it ...
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Elsevier actions following US sanctions on Iran
Elsevier has started circulating this letter as a consequence of the sanctions taken by the US against Iran to the editors of their journals:
Subject: US editors and reviewers can no longer handle ...
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What changes after peer review but prior to final submission are acceptable for a conference paper?
Suppose I write a paper and submit it to a conference. The paper gets some weak rejects and weak accepts and lots of criticism, but the conference is not that prestigious, so they accept it anyway.
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Can open-source software be peer-reviewed and published?
My colleague and I have developed a software tool and intend to release it open-source.
This tool is specifically for tasks in my field but we think it would be helpful for the wider community. Our ...
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What are reasonable alternatives to changing your name for academic publishing when you have a common surname?
I've recently embarked on my PhD studies (cancer, structural biology) and have yet to publish. Currently, there are some 200 papers in my name and several thousand under my surname. Because of this, I ...
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Is the status of conference publications in Computer Science really absolutely unique?
It has been discussed and explained many times that in (at least some subdisciplines of) Computer Science, conference publications have a special status compared to many other fields - where in other ...
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Acknowledging a reviewer from a journal from which the paper was rejected
My paper was rejected from a journal. However, remarks of one of the reviewers were useful, and I incorporated them into the next version of the paper.
Is there a general pattern of acknowledging ...
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Is there a reason to spread your research into multiple journals instead of just one?
Suppose one works in field X, and has say two or three manuscripts ready for journal submission. Journal A is a good fit for all the manuscripts, but journals B and C would be appropriate as well.
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Can I challenge a paper already published in a peer reviewed conference/journal?
I recently came across several papers in the area of Information Extraction and Data Mining which seem to have passed the review process even if they (1) use some new terminology without describing it,...
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Archiving papers, simulation and experimental data, etc?
Archiving of papers and projects is very important for most of the people, and everyone has a method of it.
I, personally, try to have different folders for different papers. In the folder of each ...
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How to make a paper anonymous for reviewers when it heavily extends on your own previous work?
I am writing a paper that continues and extends my previous paper (the usual situation), and I plan to submit it to a journal that conducts a double-blind review. It is a research that started ...
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When can I safely use CC-BY license on arXiv?
On arXiv one can license a preprint on one of the following (see also a note on arXiv on licenses):
arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute this article (Minimal rights required by ...
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Does "minor revision" mean "accepted with minor revision"?
I just received a decision letter from a journal editor (after three rounds of major revision). The letter shows that the reviewers "have asked for some other minor revisions". After getting the minor ...
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Should I use reference manager software?
Should I use software for managing my references? What is the benefit of it? I can write down the references by myself, so I'm not sure what the benefit is.
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How to shorten an article before submitting to a journal
Does anyone know a good online source for guidelines for shortening journal articles? I've just finished a paper that I'm going to submit soon, but I think it is far too long. Its current length is ...
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Is there any value in self-publishing a book as an academic?
Recently, I contacted a publisher about the draft of a book that I wrote about a year ago. I found their advertisement over the net. This is a scientific book that I have worked on for about two or ...
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What is required of a mathematics referee?
To review a paper that was submitted to a good journal, what am I required to do? Must I understand everything presented in the paper? Must I check the details and verify each argument/proof? Or is ...
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What determines the copyright year for a publication?
I wonder what determines the copyright year for a publication. I thought that the copyright year would be the same as the publication year, but seeing in (1)
put me in doubt (publication year: 2011; ...
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Is pseudonymous publication ethical?
From this MathOverflow question:
William Sealy Gosset published a result under the pseudonym Student. (Because his employer, the Guinness brewing company, did not allow their employees to publish ...
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Sound reasons for excluding a reviewer
I am about to submit a paper, and I'm asked whether I want anybody to be excluded from consideration as a reviewer. I also need to state a reason. I briefly considered listing someone who - I have ...
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Should my citation graph be acyclic?
In a recent question on how to deal with submitting several papers on similar subjects at the same time, one of the (good) practices suggested by the answers is make sure that they cite each other, ...
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Is it possible to get IRB approval after the fact?
Generally speaking, peer reviewed journals will not publish research on human subjects that did not receive IRB approval.
If a study was done without the proper IRB approval, but the study itself was ...
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Open-source the project code before or after publication?
I recently completed a part of my project and communicated a paper to a conference. Let's call the paper's title as "project x: for this and that". Now, I wish to open-source project x to facilitate ...
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Changing mailing and e-mail addresses as corresponding author--which to include?
I finished my undergrad last year and have since been working in the private sector. I'm about to submit a paper with my senior thesis results. Two questions about corresponding author information:
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Paper rejected. Should I appeal against biased reviews?
I received a rejection letter from a relatively high-impact journal based on the feedback from three reviewers. After I reviewed their comments, I feared that their comments were biased and am not ...
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Are there resources for learning how to write a scientific paper?
I have very little formal training, but I believe I have some ideas to share. I have surveyed the terrain of ideas I need and have the complete picture in some haphazard form in my head. It is seeming ...
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What are the moral and legal consequences of "not thanking" government for not providing viable grants?
Recently, on various social platforms, an image containing an unusual acknowledgement in some paper have been circulating. This is about the following paper RF fingerprint measurements for the ...
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Submitting multiple distinct papers to the same journal
I've recently submitted three papers to the same top journal over a period of two weeks. Can this fact alone impact on the chances of any of the papers being accepted? There is no overlap of content ...
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Should I withdraw my paper because review is taking too long?
I submitted an article to a prestigious journal JCR Q1 about 20 months ago. It took more than 6 months for them to send the article for review. But it was worth it. The reviewers did a good job and ...
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Does the second round of reviewing process typically take a longer time than first round?
I would like to firstly state that I do understand the essence of the reviewing process in scientific publications.
I have submitted my article to a material-science relating journal. The first round ...
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Is it mandatory to have published papers while applying for PhD?
I've heard from people saying that while applying for PhD, you need to have past experience in researching something and should have international publications. I was like more concentrated towards ...
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Proper way of responding to reviewers' comments
I need to resubmit a revised version of my paper to a journal. While submitting, I was asked to provide a list of responses to the reviewers' comments. I've started wondering about an accepted way of ...
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What percentage of links posted in published articles are dead?
Is there any research/study that looked at the impact of the percentage of links posted in published articles are dead? I am trying to know to what extent dead links are an issue. E.g. on Stack ...
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Conditions for uploading IEEE publications to ArXiv
Having a paper accepted at an IEEE conference I would like to upload it to ArXiv. From the FAQ:
Can an author post his manuscript on a preprint server such as ArXiv?
Yes. The IEEE recognizes that ...
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Writing Thesis: Copying from published papers [closed]
I'm aware that some institutions offer something that is called 'Thesis by Publication' (sandwich thesis) but that's not available to me. I'm trying to work out what pitfalls there may be to simply ...
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Co-author blocking publication
This question is somewhat inspired by the question in When is a supervisor unable to request paper retraction if a paper gets published without her consent?, although I've no reason to suppose that ...
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"With editor" status for 2 months: is it normal? [duplicate]
I'm a bit worried because one of my papers have been more than 2 months "with editor" status. It's a science journal (field: drug residue, food), from a famous editorial and impact factor 3.3. I'm ...
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Is it proper to cite something when using it just as an example?
In academic writing, is it proper to cite something to provide it as an example of something else? For instance, we have lines like this in a number of our papers:
Many research endeavors, ...
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How do I convert my PhD dissertation so that it can be published as a book?
I have just completed a PhD by research, which I think has some merits in being available as a book (This is, of course, my personal opinion). The research cuts across several fields (e.g. sociology, ...
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Uploading a revised version of published journal article on arXiv
I uploaded a pre-print of an article on arXiv 1 year ago. The article was accepted in SCI journal and currently available online. However, I found a typo mistake in one equation and want to add more ...
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How to respond to allegations of misconduct in authorship dispute?
I was working on a problem in the field engineering. I have used one approach and it turned out that it does not work well. After that I got into conflict with my supervisor, and realized that it will ...
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Should I mention (double-blind) submitted conference paper in CV?
I am from computer science field specifically from Computer Vision field. I need suggestion if I should list my paper which I submitted but not yet got any acceptance/rejection. I am more confused due ...
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Active or Passive Voice in International research journal, within the field of microorganism?
I have been composing the International journal for microbiology research. I learn that research journal should consist of active voice not passive, but I find that the previous researchers for ...
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Number of publications needed to get into a computer science PhD program?
I've looked at the resumes of the type of candidates that get into computer science PhD programs at the top few universities (e.g. Stanford, MIT etc.) and a lot of them seem to have multiple ...
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How much code to include in a Physics paper?
This question is related to Physics research papers, particularly one that will be coming up for my ongoing PhD research (4th paper in all).
A core part of the research is developing, testing and ...
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How to select a journal for publishing when my priority is to publish soon?
I am a PhD candidate in a small country. I have two Master degrees, one from an American university. I am also an experienced professional and an expert in the subject of my PhD studies (in my country,...
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Can I mention brand names and their products in my research/technical paper?
I want to write a paper on Mobile Screens in HCI, as phones are getting uncomfortably big for users, I want to provide some solution to the big screen phones or how logically state that how small ...
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Slow Response from Journal: Should I withdraw a paper?
I submitted a paper to an Elsevier journal in August and the status has been "with editor" ever since. I was concerned that it had not been sent for review for 4 months and I sent inquiries twice ...
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Adding co-authors after acceptance
I am writing a paper, need some review. I want to send it to IEEE, without the name of my co-authors. I might get acceptance. I need to know, in that case, will I be allowed to add my co-authors or ...
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