Questions tagged [publications]
Questions related to academic publications including online and traditional journals, books, and conference proceedings.
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Electronic journals with 'print on demand'
We're thinking of starting a journal for undergraduate research. I'm vaguely aware that some electronic journals have a 'print on demand' capability, so that someone who wants a printed bound copy ...
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Common file-formats for writing research papers
This is a rewrite of a question that was perhaps-naively posed. I rephrase...
What file formats are ok/good/ideal/common/long-term-viable/archivable/useful for research papers?
And, also, there's ...
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Writing papers in language X and translating to English vs. writing papers in English to begin with?
I'm working with a group in China, and we were discussing the following question, which I would like to ask here too:
Question: Is it better to write a paper in Chinese, then translate it into ...
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What will happen to non open-access publications in the UK after 2014?
The UK recently decided that from 2014, all research papers supported by public funds must be published in open-access journals.
For instance, the Research Councils UK announced a new policy stating ...
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Is Lambert Academic Publishing a reputable company?
I was contacted by the Acquisition editor of Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP) to publish my bachelor's thesis as a printed book. Is LAP any good? I have no idea about it; I have just heard that it's ...
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What does first authorship really mean in field X?
In my field (theoretical computer science), authors of any paper are always listed alphabetically; our papers don't have "first authors". (Well... hardly ever.) In most other disciplines, ...
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Where to publish Ph.D. related articles in the IT field
I am currently working on my Ph.D. with topic “Research of the current methods and technologies for web sites and web application development“. I have some articles that I would like to share(and also ...
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How much tweaking of figure design (not content) can I postpone until the final figures are requested?
I have finished all of my manuscript revisions except for some minor details in the figure.
As I understand it, once the manuscript is accepted, a final draft of high resolution figures will be ...
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What are examples of appropriate journals to publish new mathematical conjectures?
The paper I want to publish is just a conjecture.
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Why doesn't citation of a book give specific pages?
In papers or books, citation to another book usually doesn't contain the specific page, section, chapter of where a result is borrowed. If the book is really thick, and the readers may have different ...
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Should I worry about a referee who recommended rejection being offended if my paper is accepted?
After submitting a paper for review, I received a letter from the editors containing a negative report and informing me that their (editors') decision was to reject the paper. Although the paper was ...
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Research publications for Masters by Research
I do have little research experience on "Web Security" and I made some inventions in that. I have patented my inventions and now when I was trying to apply for Masters by Research in Information ...
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How to efficiently get multiple outputs for a given set of inputs?
Background: I was reading about Google's Hybrid approach to research. This prompted me to think about how in academia I try to get multiple output from the one set of inputs. For example, I might try ...
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What are the minimal screen parameters for tablet bought for reading papers
Kind of related to my last question: Is typical ebook reader with pdf support enough to read scientific papers (but I guess that this is distict enough).
What are minimal sreeen parameters for ...
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What is an "author's novelty file" in journals?
Recently I submitted a paper in a journal then after a few days I got following comments:
Your submission of the manuscript has been unsubmitted. This is because your "Author's Novelty File" was not ...
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Is typical ebook reader with pdf support enough to read scientific papers
I am considering buying either an e-book reader or a full tablet. My main motivation is to read books and scientific papers and I really don't need all the extra stuff tablets can give me.
My only ...
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What category does a collection of mathematics tricks come under?
I am currently researching on Recreational Mathematics - Mathematical Tricks and I have come across this article:
Ten Amazing Mathematical Tricks
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This article is of free style and does not follows ...
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Separate books from papers in bibliography of a paper
Is there some automatic way to single out the books in bibliography of a paper in IEEE format?
For example, write some program or use some functionality of some editors to find out the books ...
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What are refereed and non-refereed journals?
What does it mean by publication in refereed and non-refereed journals? Are these terms applicable to conference papers too? Is there any relationship with peer-review?
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Publishing paper using an open-source software
Can someone publish a paper on the mathematical model of the open source software i.e. parameter analysis of the model (i.e relevant to specific area) which is the backbone of the software.
Is it ...
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Site with statistics of publications/citations per country?
I'm looking for a site (other than Scimago) that presents statistics of published papers and/or citations per country. However, I need more detail than that presented in Scimago. Ideally, I would like ...
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Why is Paper Publishing and getting a patent completely unrelated?
I know that not all, but many papers (that are accepted and published) are based on ideas that can be patented as well. So, why is that there is no system in which a person can apply for a Publishing ...
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On citing books as references in papers
I am an undergraduate student with no experience and no guidance from any teacher whatsoever.
I have done research on Recreational Mathematics (Maths tricks). I have a lot of new tricks to introduce, ...
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When does one go for an invited paper?
I have little understanding about invited papers, but as far as I know, I think these are non-peer-reviewed papers presented at a conference.
Now why and when does one go for an invited paper? Is it ...
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Is there any reason to get paper reprints of your articles?
Is there any reason to get paper reprints of your articles? Some journals charge for reprints others give them for free. Should I save the trees and not ask for the free ones? Are reprints so ...
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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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Should I respond to emails (resembling spams) asking for my papers?
I started to get emails like this:
From: Firstname Middlename Lastname <someotherfirstname0000@hotmail>~
Title of paper.
I need the article to study.
thank you!
Firstname ...
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Does Impact Factor reflect the quality of a journal?
Is the impact factor really useful for judging the quality of a journal article?
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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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Can I show my co-author the final version of an accepted publication I reviewed?
I was reviewing a journal paper recently that is closely related to work a colleague and I are doing. We are currently in the process of writing up our paper, and I plan to cite the paper I reviewed ...
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Should writers give credit to reference librarians?
The reference librarians at my school are often very helpful. If I tell them my topic, they will help me find many resources which I might not have otherwise found and generally tend to save me a lot ...
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Requesting raw data from previously published research
I am working on a mathematical model to help explain some experimental results and generate new hypotheses. Unfortunately, I have neither the resources nor interest to gather experimental data, but in ...
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How can I get involved in grant proposal reviews as a graduate student?
I need to get some more experience with writing grant proposals, and I know that professors are often invited to review them. How can I get involved in it while still being just a graduate student?
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How long should I register a domain name that will be referenced in scientific publications?
I have a website (with data and modeling interface) that will be referenced in a series of scientific publications that are beginning to be published.
Currently the website is along the lines of ...
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What figure formatting can, should, or will be done by a publisher?
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When preparing a final version of a figure, it appears that some changes could be more easily made in a graphics software (gimp, inkscape, scribus, adobe) as opposed to R. Such changes ...
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Should we reply to the editor after a paper has been rejected and we don't plan to revise/resubmit?
After receiving a rejection (not revise and resubmit) decision from the editor/associate editor of a journal, should we write an email to thank him/her for the time, or just do nothing? I imagine one ...
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Can co-authoring a paper as a new grad harm my reputation/career?
To be specific, I just graduated with a Bachelor's degree, and my final project supervisor has asked me to co-author a paper with him about the subject of the project I did with his supervision.
I'd ...
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arXiv preprint and final paper differing by sections and appendices
Because of the style of a journal, and the space limit, I was asked to remove a section and all appendices.
While I have no problem with that, I want to preserve it in the arXiv preprint.
So:
Is ...
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How does one submit an article "informally"?
Although I have read a lot in my area of interest (plant taxonomy and botanical nomenclature), in am no academic of it, having only a Bachelor of Translation degree.
It has taken me two years of ...
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Why do Math journals provide you with LaTeX class files and instructions and they also advise you not to spend time typesetting the paper?
This is what I don't understand. Journals provide you with LaTeX class files and instructions and they also advise not to spend time typesetting the paper into the exact format of the journal. What ...
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Professors and Liberal Arts Colleges
In general, do professors work at liberal arts colleges because they do not want to have to face the pressure of writing a lot of research papers? Instead they want their evaluations to be skewed ...
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How active should professors be in writing papers with their students?
In recent months, I have found myself getting involved in varying degrees with the papers being written with members of my group. Some of the papers—by the more senior and experienced members of the ...
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How to salvage a rejected paper when you don't have time to correct it?
I just submitted a paper to a conference. The reviewers gave me their responses only two days before the deadline to resubmit the paper. They seemed to indicate that my paper was on topic, and had ...
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Releasing one version of a Scientific Paper under an Open License
I am going to release a Technical Report that will be archived and made available online by the university's library. An abridged version of the work was accepted by a peer-reviewed conference and ...
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How to publish an academic book but make the PDF freely available online?
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I like the idea of writing an academic book.
It currently looks better on a CV when applying for jobs, grants, promotions, etc. than a blog post, or a website.
Libraries and people ...
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How to evaluate an open access journal? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you judge the quality of a journal?
How to evaluate the genuineness/authenticity, impact, significance & reputation of an open access journal? The prestigious ...
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Is there any disadvantage to having open-access publications?
Is there any compulsory rule for researchers to have publications in restricted access publication platforms? What if one has majority of his publications in open access journals?
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What metrics are used to judge a mathematical journal's quality?
The metric I see most on the internet and on journals' home pages is the 'Impact Factor'. Are there any other metrics that are considered as important as (or more important than) the Impact Factor?
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Etiquette and guidelines for sending pre-published work to other people?
So I've just written up a report that could eventually turn into a publishable manuscript, but since I'm new and this would be the first paper that I've ever written, I'm definitely going to need ...
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What are the factors one needs to take into account in order to choose an appropriate mathematical journal?
Several months ago I submitted a paper to a journal. The area covered by the journal is the same as the one covered in the paper. However, I waited several months and finally the paper was rejected by ...
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