Questions tagged [publications]
Questions related to academic publications including online and traditional journals, books, and conference proceedings.
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Conditions for publishing scientific articles
Does sharing part of the results of a study or scientific article affect the publication of this article in the future?
I am asking this question because I wrote a scientific article in mathematics ...
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Are journals supposed to avoid publishing papers from persons of notorious reputation?
As a recent example, Vladimir Putin's daughter continued publishing papers in Western journals after the start of the Ukraine war, despite being under sanctions in the US:
U.S. and Swiss scientific ...
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Tricky situation with affiliation [closed]
I would like to hear an advice for a slightly complicated situation.
I'm currently a postdoc working on a revolutionary project during the last year. During this year, my boss gave me a real hard time ...
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How to find all the books in which a given essay is published?
It is fairly common for a journal article in humanities to be published afterwards in a book by the same author or in some collection edited by someone else.
Is there an easy way to track where a ...
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Can I publish a paper during my PhD study without notifying my supervisor?
I have been working as a reserach assistant in an american university during my PhD study. My supervisor stopped my assistanship during a summer semester during my PhD. This was one semester before my ...
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Does generating a DOI for my thesis using ResearchGate prevent me from publishing it afterwards in a journal?
I'm considering generating a DOI for my thesis, but I wondered if this would be a problem if I wanted to write a paper out of it.
Theoretically, the paper would not be exactly the same as my thesis, ...
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Can I publish my research article in a journal AND as a chapter in a book?
As I understand you cannot publish your paper in two different journals, I was wondering if the same rule applies to chapters in books. My research (52 pages long) was summarized into 20 pages to fit ...
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Does it make sense to send fanmail to scientists whose works I enjoyed? How to make it make sense? [duplicate]
While writing my PhD I've come across some writings that were OUTSTANDINGLY well written, handy and helpful.
Obviously I cited them, but as I understand, thesis citations aren't counted by various ...
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If you introduce an abbreviation/acronym in the abstract, should you reintroduce it in the introduction to be safe? [duplicate]
For instance, say I introduce the term "macular degeneration" in the abstract and follow it with (MD) to establish the abbreviation. Should I just use (MD) from then on, including in the ...
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Do I have an obligation to tell my brother that his paper may not meet the standards of a "legitimate" research article?
My brother has written a paper which is essentially a survey of different techniques to accomplish a certain security related goal. He has also managed to present it in some conference.
Unfortunately, ...
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What are the chances of acceptance after being asked to submit a revised version? [duplicate]
I received the following response from a journal editor: "The reviewer(s) would like to see some revisions made to your manuscript before publication. Therefore, I invite you to respond to the ...
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Two-author paper with thesis mentor, but the idea is entirely mine
I recently defended my master's thesis in artificial intelligence. Among other things, I invented a new algorithm that I would like to publish. The domain is natural language processing, with papers ...
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Does publishing in Russian journals or collaborating with Russian researchers on a paper harm my reputation? [duplicate]
Ever since the escalation of the war in Ukraine in 2022, numerous institutions have reacted to the event in different ways. Some cut partnerships with Russian scholars completely while others took a ...
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Is it true that people willingly provide their articles that were published in journals?
I live in a third world country. I barely make ends meet so I cannot afford to go to college. However my passion for academics never died so I kept self learning with online materials. However beyond ...
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Why are some mathematics papers seemingly so bad?
I am a PhD student in math beginning to do research. My advisor has given me a paper they want to generalize. It's pretty long with many dense, technical parts, and so, so many typos. The entire paper ...
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Can I write an original article/paper (as a sole author) based on a commentary I co-authored?
A while back I co-authored a commentary with a colleague. I would now like to write an original article/paper, as a sole author, based on the commentary I co-authored. Basically, I want to extend the ...
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How do journals remain objective, if they are for-profit entities (with for-profit interest)?
How do journals remain objective, if they are for-profit entities (with for-profit interest)?
Occasionally, something being for-profit is seen to influence the goals and interests. This creates some ...
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Are solo papers worth it in ML/AI?
I recently finished my MS in CS and I wish to join PhD in the field of AI (Computer Vision).
I have one first-authored paper in CVPR-W and after that, I started working alone due to "free-time&...
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Should a thesis cite a published paper that originates from the thesis Itself?
I find myself in a complex situation involving citations between a published paper and the thesis from which it originated. Here are the key details:
I submitted my thesis for examination and, during ...
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Advisor does not return paper
Two years ago I sent to my advisor and + 3 collaborators the paper that resulted from my dissertation. Two of them returned it within the deadline I set (30 days). An important collaborator who helped ...
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The UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings
I am planning to apply for a Ph.D. in management, and I am using The UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings to create my university list ( I only selected the journals related to my field). I ...
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In CS fields, are extended journal versions of conference papers considered separate contributions in academic research when taking a job?
Recently, I've noticed many top conference papers in the CS field have extended versions submitted to and published in reputable journals. (At least in mobile computing)
While such extended versions ...
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What to write under name on paper if not affiliated to any university
I recently published at a prestigious conference and I am a solo author. I also do not affiliate to any company or university at the time or during the writing of the paper(I will start my PhD in Fall)...
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What happens to a paper with a mathematical notational error, but has otherwise correct prose and results?
I was part of a paper where the section I wrote for my contribution (as an undergrad) was edited by the person mentoring me. The prose for this section explains things correctly, but the mathematical ...
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What should be my response for a rebuttal on double blind citing my own work as "similar"
Case in Hand:
I submitted a paper to a Q1 Conference (I'm in CS, so conferences have a strict baseline for us) and recently got it back for a rebuttal that I need to submit in 6 days.
The issue is R2 ...
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Acceptance criteria for top conference
I am a PhD student at a University that isn't top rated in my field, and have only published once before and wasn't even cited. I want to submit what I believe is a really great paper to the top ...
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Is Long 'Last Review Activity' an Indicator that Editors Might Review the Paper Themselves?
I am a novice in the academic publishing process and have recently submitted a paper that is crucial for my upcoming PhD applications. I'm trying to understand the current status of my submission ...
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Article Suddenly Open-Access
A few months go I published an article in an American Institute of Physics journal in the traditional subscription format. While this journal offered an open-access option with an agreement with my ...
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Potential Manuscript Withdrawal Due to Extended Review Timeline?
I submitted my research paper (which I conducted under a collaboration contract between multiple institutes) to a journal with an expected timeline of 48 days from initial submission to publication. ...
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Is it fine to prefix a salutation like Dr. Mr. Ms. Prof. etc. with name in authors' names in research papers?
My question is about rules or formats regarding writing names of the authors under the title in research papers sent for publication in academic journals.
In most of the (research) papers published in ...
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Using a publicly available dataset in my paper
I would like to publish a journal paper and an ArXiV preprint, where I validate my results using the dataset available here (scroll down to the Files section).
I would like to submit my paper to IEEE ...
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Should I include in my CV a conference abstract presented by a collaborator of mine?
I found some very similar questions, but not clarifying my doubt. I'm a co-author of a research work in space engineering, used to write my M.Sc. thesis, that has been presented at an international ...
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Is it possible to create a classification scale similar to Kardashev to classify scientific articles?
My idea would be to build a theoretical classification similar to Kardashev's ladder to consider what is scientific, what is not scientific or what is pseudoscientific.
The Kardashev scale definition ...
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Copyright-free maps for journal figures
I am writing an epidemiology paper for an academic journal, and would like to have a figure showing the map of a geographical region of interest.
My current map was generated with OpenStreetMap data, ...
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Someone claim to "indepdently discovery the same thing (two years after me)"
I emailed an famous professor a paper (say paper B) that corrects a critical mistake in their old, well-received paper (say paper A). I invite them to coauthor. They neither agree nor disagree. They ...
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Abbreviating authors' names in a paper
I'm writing a rebuttal to a paper that was recently published. Since I refer to the authors very frequently, I've abbreviated their names to WW for their last names Williams and Wang (I made up these ...
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My advisor stopped formalizing my work, what should I do now?
Here is my situation:
I am a Ph.D. student in theoretical CS.
Since the start of my Ph.D. I have been sending my advisor the descriptions of my results verbally, he would usually ask me a bunch of ...
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Impact of publishing in a Q2 journal on academic reputation and opportunities? [closed]
Recently, I submitted a paper to a journal, attracted by its quick decision-making process. After submission, I realized it's ranked as a Q2 in its field. While I had made sure that the journal was ...
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How long should it take for minor revision, in pure mathematics?
I received a minor revision from a good (in my opinion) mathematics journal. I submitted the revised version. Since then, it has been more than 2 months, but we have yet to get a decision. Maybe the ...
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Why does the PRL length limit not apply to large collaborations?
Usually, a Letter in PRL is limited to 3750 words. Yet frequently papers from large collaborations at CERN papers exceed this limit by a lot. One example is the recent record-setting paper with 5154 ...
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Can I put a paper from a non-indexed conference to Google Scholar?
I have a paper published in the proceedings of a student conference that is not indexed. Is it possible to add it to my Google Scholar profile? Can I submit it to Arxiv and then add to the Scholar ...
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Journal refuses to cancel submission
Quick one, I have submitted a paper for review to a springer journal (no need to name shame the specific journal here, but clearly it has a major publisher behind them), after 4 months, there hasn't ...
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Can I submit a paper to ACM (proceeding) journal as for normal journal?
Is it possible to submit and publish a paper in the Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL) without attending any conference? Is PACMPL a journal that just publishes scientific papers ...
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Academic affiliation when changing universities
I am an incoming student at University A. Currently, I work as a research assistant at University B, but will be leaving this position within the month. Likewise, my affiliation with University B (...
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Getting scooped and is it appropriate to volunteer to write a highlight?
To solve a long-unknown crystal structure, we were scooped by another group using the same state-of-the-art technique. A peer-reviewed top journal article was published online in the past few days.
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Appendix vs Supplement
I'm surprised that this hasn't been asked before. What's the difference between Appendices and Supplements?
Also, btw, what is the most widely approved version of "Supplements"? Is it "...
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What is meant by "Selected papers will be published" in conference proceedings?
Let assume that a submitted abstract accepted and then presented in a conference. In some conference they say that "selected papers will be published in proceeding". What they mean by term &...
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Are rebuttal papers too narrow in scope to get published, and is there an alternative?
When reading a recent philosophy paper I spotted what I believe to be a subtle error in one of the assumptions their main argument relies on. I am not exactly an active participant in academia, so I ...
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Former collaborator asked for my current affiliation for co-authorship, but not sure if I want to put it
I worked in a research institute a few years ago. Since then, circumstances of life led me to work now in a small consultancy.
A former collaborator reached out saying they're publishing a paper for ...
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I have found that academia is not for me. Expected last year of my Ph.D soon. Any advice on transitioning out?
I am an upcoming fourth year Ph.D student in Applied Experimental Psychology with an accepted MA in Experimental Psychology who has realized that academia is just not for me. The notion that all of my ...
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