Questions tagged [publications]
Questions related to academic publications including online and traditional journals, books, and conference proceedings.
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Does somebody have experience with IRES and their coferences? [duplicate]
Recently I submited my research on this connference: http://theires.org/Conference2022/Canada/6/ICTTL/index.php
but after analysing some facts (eg. quick response from reviewer, lower price when ...
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Why aren't systematic reviews present in electrical engineering journals?
I am an electrical engineering PhD student (computational electromagnetics) and recently I learned about systematics reviews, which seem to be the norm in the health sciences. I tried to search for ...
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Decrease chance of academic article being sensationalized in media
I am first author on a perspective paper being reviewed. The last authors are well known and comfortable discussing the future of certain technologies that can be seen as exciting but also provocative/...
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Is it better for a PhD student not to publish than to publish in non-Q1 journals (as I've been advised)?
I've completed 2 years of my PhD and now have a few ideas which I would really like to work on and publish, but though they are novel, their scope is quite limited (i.e. they aren't ground-breaking). ...
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Finding correct articles for SLR from different databases?
I have to do a systematic literature review (SLR) as part of a university course. I have found all search terms etc, but now I have to narrow down the search to research articles. I've been stuck for ...
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Can a research paper be accepted if its results are very close to previous works but are not better than those?
There are different metaheuristic algorithms for evaluating optimization benchmark problems, some give better results than others and some don't. If a novel metaheuristic has a very close fitness ...
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How to reduce minor and stupid errors on papers
I am a math postdoc who defended his Ph.D. two years ago.
I have 9 papers and 3 of them are with co-authors. In other words, I am a single author of 6 papers of mine. Two of my papers where I was a ...
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My work as a freelance was used in a scientific paper, should I be included as an author?
I have been paid to develop a piece of code which is being used in a scientific paper. The code is an important piece of this paper, since the paper is about a specific (novel) computational method.
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How to call a paper that has been submitted to a journal? [duplicate]
For my statement of academic purpose I want to highlight that I have a work on arXiv which has been submitted to a journal. How would I call such a work? Is the term "submitted publication" ...
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What is the difference between systematic mapping study and systematic literature review?
I am trying to understand the difference between a systematic mapping study and a systematic literature review. Although I have searched about the difference, I still find it confusing as it still for ...
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Is it plagiarism to end your paper in a similar way with a similar conclusion?
I am really paranoid/scrupulous about plagiarism and I would like to ask if what I did below counts as some form of plagiarism. A while ago, I wrote a paper and basically I don't know if the very last ...
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Citing a not yet published standard
I am involved in standardization in my field and have thus insight and information about the contents of upcoming standards that are not yet published. I am co-chair of one standardization group that ...
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Research at Public University vs Private University: A perspective for a data science enthusiast!
I'm wondering about the difference between public and private universities in terms of creating research directions for its students, specifically related to machine learning and neural networks. I ...
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Responding to a reviewer who asks to clarify a sentence containing an irrelevant word
In one of the papers, I have mistakenly written a wrong/irrelevant word which makes the sentence vague. The sentence contains review of somebody else's work. The referee is confused and has asked for ...
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Validity of a publication record
Google scholar uses statistics, such as h-index and i10-index, to encapsulate the publication performance of academics.
Is there a way to check the breakdown of an academic's research record? For ...
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Is it OK to generate parts of a research paper using a large language model such as ChatGPT?
Large language models (LLMs) are complex neural networks that can capture and represent world knowledge present in the human-generated text as their weights. LLMs are trained on a large collection of ...
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Peer Review, round 1, 6 reviewer reports, what could be the reason?
I have sent a manuscript to Optica, I have published there before and in other high-impact journals. This time my submission was first sent to 5 referees (I listed three names as requested). I thought ...
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How many cites are necessary for a research paper paragraph summarizing one source (legal case)?
I'm writing a law school research paper where one of the sections describes multiple legal cases, each under a separate heading. For each case I am describing the factual history of the case, then the ...
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Can I mention that the article is extremely short in a query to the editor?
Every advice on query letters to editors on the status of a manuscript after months of silence says not to sound demanding, impatient, not to give the editor motive for disliking you, etc.
I’ve got a ...
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Re-analysis of raw data that was previously published in a thesis [duplicate]
I am in the middle of an authorship dispute and need some help. Raw data was shared with me by a Master's student, and we re-analyzed the data for the publication. I was going under the assumption ...
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How to deal with attacks focusing on minor points and subjective points in an academic debate/paper writing?
I wrote a paper that invalids a previous result. The referee heavily attacks "minor points" such as typos, misuse of jargons, overall "hard to read", and some story-telling or ...
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Trying to write several short, unimpactful papers to boost publication record
During the postdoc phase, at least in math, it's usually a very short period, like 1 or 2 years. Isn't it really important to write something and get it out there, even if it's of no real significance ...
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Changing my legal name for research
I'm in the process of applying to graduate school.
Previous to this, I published an article under the name "Usama B. Ayasrah". At the moment, I'm working on my second article. My MSc ...
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Are US researchers prohibited from sharing journal articles via university-sanctioned cloud resources?
I want to share PDF journal articles with my research team, where the team members are all affiliated with my academic institute, a US-based university. The articles are not necessarily my ...
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Is it ethical not to cite a paper because of the reputation of the journal/researchers?
The title is misleading mainly because there is not much room to write a detailed question.
I am currently working on a (Maths) paper. While doing the literature review, I first found something ...
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Data availability statement for a mathematics paper
I am submitting a mathematics paper and was informed that I need to add a "data availability statement." However, this isn't a paper for a medical journal or anything that analyzes data. ...
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Publishing when a co-worker cannot be co-author
I've worked with a student who produced some very valuable results. This would be a great paper to publish. The work was my idea and I provided a lot of guidance to the student. Also, the ...
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Publication during my intermediate work
I work on wireless communication topic for my thesis and want to published some my intermediate work on my thesis.
There are conferences, Workshops, posters, magazines (did I miss something?). All of ...
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Can my advisor change the ordering of authors in a paper already under review?
When I was a student, I wrote a paper and submitted it to a journal. Having graduated, I am working for a company and am very busy. Recently, we got a revision for the paper and my prof asked me to do ...
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Revision for the fourth time with major revisions disguised as minor revision
I sent an article to a journal of a reputed publisher. After about six months and 3 revisions, of which 2 were major and 1 was minor, I re-submitted the article. However, after the third revision, I ...
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Advice on choosing a pre-print server (Social Sciences)
I have submitted an article to a journal for peer review. The journal allows the manuscript to be submitted to a non-commercial pre-print server at any time. I am new to publishing, and am wondering ...
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What is your affiliation when publishing as a student? [duplicate]
As a professor/postdoc, when you submit an article to a journal you note your department, school, and city:
Department of History, Barnett College, Fairfield, New York
But when you are in a PhD ...
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How do you indicate changes (deletions specifically) in a manuscript without using tracked changes or strikethrough?
I have a manuscript accepted with minor changes. I had to delete and rewrite some texts as the reviewers suggested. The journal specifically asked "Please highlight the changes to your manuscript ...
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Explaining why an approach is undesirable in a paper
A section in a paper I'm authoring goes something like the below:
We want to do x. Upon first inspection, x could be easily done using approach A.
A, however, has the drawback that <elaboration ...
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Cumulative Thesis/Dissertation
I am writing my PhD thesis now and my supervisor said it can be in the cumulative way because I've got enough papers, 3 in sum. So now I look for publisher permission to reprint the papers. My ...
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How to cite GDPR and AI Act?
How to properly cite these two sources?
In the AI/ML literature I am finding many non-homogenous citations of these two documents, with some of them wanting to specify a chapter and others the whole ...
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How long does it take for a manuscript to get accepted in the International Journal of Surgery? [closed]
I sent my short communication almost a month back, but have still not received a response. There's a high chance it might get rejected, and my colleagues are asking me to submit it to another journal. ...
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How should one react and respond when reading questionable publications in highly-regarded conference proceedings?
I am writing to ask for the community's advice in both reacting (regulating my own thoughts) and responding (whether worth the time to respond at all) to situations involving questionable publications....
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Asking Editor to remind reviewer about my paper
I have a paper in submission and only managed to revise it after more than 8 months when I emailed the editor a reminder about my paper. I have re-submitted my paper about a month ago but from the ...
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Is US scientific output decreasing (as of 2022)? If not, why not?
Inspired by this article in Nature.
After a steady increase, numbers peaked in 2016, when more than one million students — undergraduate and graduate — were enrolled to study in the United States. ...
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If I publish a 22,000 word article in a journal, can I call it a monograph? It seems too long to call it an article
If I publish a 22,000 word article in a journal, can I call it a monograph in my CV? It seems too long to call it an article.
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Preprint got published on Authorea without sending it to review (desk rejection). Is this how it is supposed to happen?
I just submitted a manuscript to a journal that uses the ScholarOne Submission system. There was the option to agree that the manuscript will be published as a preprint on Authorea. It says:
New! ...
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How does “reproducing other labs' results” work?
I don’t understand where "reproducing results from other labs" fits into the running of a given research lab.
(I'm not in academia, and I confess I only consider this function in the context ...
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Talked about novel idea for a paper in class. A mistake?
In a graduate course (master's level), during topic assignment for coursework, I mentioned that I came up with a research idea of my own. The professor asked me to present it in front of the class. ...
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What if you used an older paper and based your model on it, but authors published a newer paper with modifications you neglected?
Is it ok to form a model based on several papers and omit something from newer papers? Of course, not that someone else proved what you're researching, just that authors said that something was ...
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Publishing a paper as an independent researcher, without funds
I have written a small paper that I have written in the field of computer science. I've had several people read it, and one recommended that it's of enough quality they think I should be able to ...
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what does means Paper status: Finished? [duplicate]
I submitted my paper to a journal. After 6 mounth with status: under review, yesterday the status changed to "paper status: Finished". I don't understand what does means by this?
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Scientists sets up a delayed encrypted message with a smart contract, containing a world-class discovery. Will he get Nobel prize post-mortem? [closed]
It is broadly known that sometimes it happens scientists are not well rewarded during their lives, especially when their work does not fit the modern society needs, or simply if it is well ahead of ...
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Unresponsive/unhelpful supervisor with publication
I'm a recent master's graduate and I've been working on a journal article based on my master's thesis findings. I have never published before so I am entirely new to the process. My supervisor has ...
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Coauthor removed from the manuscript
I was in a manuscript which was not accepted in the first journal. They resubmitted it to an other journal and left me out without telling me a word. They reproduced my data with the protocol I gave ...
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