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Questions related to academic publications including online and traditional journals, books, and conference proceedings.
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Skipping same old introductions
I’m working in the area of adversarial examples against neural networks. A standard research paper generally starts off an introduction with something along the lines of the below, but probably with a ...
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Most part of my result is as same as orginal version. Can I make a paper? [closed]
I am a PhD student in mathematics. Recently, I could extend some old result to higher dimensional. I want to make a paper. But I doubt that is a good result or not, because most part of my proof is ...
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Looking for an endorser to publish on arxiv.org as well as other suggestions [duplicate]
My grandfather, a long since retired professor, recently finished a very long in the making paper, which tries to cover a lot of ground around physics and general nature science. He is very old-school,...
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Ethics of not including a contributor as coauthor?
Someone (call him Peter) contributed to part of a paper I've written.
This occurred over the course of numerous emails (we've never met in person). I am including those results in the paper, and ...
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Does the journal editor have authority not to publish my article after clear acceptance?
It is to ask that I sent my original article in some journal, reviewers asked me to make some amendments which I did on time. The editor then sent me an email with their decision of acceptance.
Now ...
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Revising thesis into a publication : Can I use the same language or must I paraphrase?
I'm in the process of revising my MA thesis for a publication. I am not clear whether I can just copy and paste information from my thesis and do minimal revisions, or I should paraphrase my thesis to ...
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Article re-submission - PI is not responding to requests
I, a PhD student, was first author of an article with several co-authors under a PI. We submitted the article to a journal and it was rejected. Is there a common practice for resubmitting work? Can ...
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Rampant sharing of authorship among colleagues in the name of “collaboration”. Is not taking part in it a death knell for a future in academia?
I am a final year PhD student in chemical engineering. Since the start of my PhD, I was clear on one personal philosophy. I will put my name only on those papers where I have made substantial ...
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How to properly credit other people when writing a text book?
In many textbooks, authors usually write about other people's research results without the type of detailed and extensive citations typically seen in a research paper.
Often times without any credit ...
asked Jul 29 at 18:42
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Does publishing on Arxiv diminish chances of publishing in a journal/conference?
If I publish a paper on Arxiv, does it diminish my chances of getting published at a reputable peer reviewed journal? Does it diminish my chances of presenting my paper at a reputable conference?
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Copyright issues of using free clipart
I'm a master student in psychology. A year ago, I downloaded a lot of free clipart online to create my study stimuli. For example, some clipart are from this website: http://clipart-library.com.
I ...
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Alternative to google scholar in China
Are there any valid alternatives to google scholar?
I am currently living in China. almost the whole internet is blocked, including Google. I tried to bypass the firewall, then google scholar tends ...
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What steps would an amateur scientist have to take in order to get a scientific breakthrough published? [duplicate]
I would like to know from an academic standpoint on what steps that an amateur scientist would have to take in order to get his/her scientific breakthrough published in a major academic journal/...
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How to avoid theft of potentially patentable IP when trying to obtain a Ph.D?
When I was fresh out of college, I worked with someone who had their Ph.D who I'll call X. They told me that they had lunch with a person from Facebook who had told them about a Novel Algorithm ...
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How I do politely indicate that I am expecting my name to be added to the paper
I am composing this question on behalf of someone but as a first person. I am a postdoc at a top university in the US. I had recently been requested by my PI to help with setting up experiments and ...
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Preparing two PhD simultaneously?
I was enrolled in a PhD at the Faculty of Science, and broke up "temporarily" after 4 years due to a horrible Professor, and restarted a new PhD at the Faculty of Engineering.
For the 1st university, ...
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Should I worry because I don't have Publications Yet?
Publish...Publish, I am worried about publications as I don't have any yet, I just have few in masters, but was not a good quality, now in Ph.D., I am working on a new topic and to get a significant ...
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Co-author wants to remove herself in author list after revisions
I am a graduate student (biological sciences) and had a collaborator and a co-author who wanted her name removed from the list of authors after she is not satisfied with the revisions made.
Just to ...
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Can a cat be a co-author in academic paper? [duplicate]
One of the most famous cat physicians must be F. D. Willard, who co-authored many physical papers.
My question is simple:
Is it academically correct to have a cat/dog as a co-author of a paper, in ...
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Should I write a non-academic white paper?
I have a B.S. in computer science, and I have an idea for a computer security white paper. It essentially builds on top of another white paper's security mechanism. It would propose an alternate ...
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What is the purpose of publishing in such journals?
I have always been wondering why some mathematics professors choose to publish problems in journals such as Crux Mathematicorum, Mathematical Reflections etc, which only focus on elementary ...
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How to correct errors in proofs of an accepted paper
I have a paper which has accepted in a journal published by Springer.
Today I have received the proofs from the production team. After checking the proofs carefully, we have detected some typos and ...
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License to tie to an extended version of an accepted paper while submitting to ArXiv?
We recently submitted a paper to an IEEE conference, where it was presented and appears in the proceedings. We now wish to submit an extended version of the same work onto ArXiv.
In addition to ...
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Can you switch the co-first author position after the article is published?
Can you switch the position of the first co-first author with the second co-first author of an article after it is published?
Full story: During my PhD, I published two articles, both as the first ...
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Communicate Author or Publisher for asking detail?
I have trouble finding out an expression in a theorem (click here to the problem)of a paper by Yann Bugeaud (page 12) , and I tried to contact the author through his e-mail but he didn't reply (don't ...
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Does observational data need further proof?
Within fields like animal behavior, data is often collected through observation of the subjects, either in the wild or captivity.
Can a paper be published purely based on observational data, with no ...
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Adding an affiliation to an accepted paper
I am the corresponding and the first author of a paper which has been accepted for publication in a journal published by Springer.
I have an important question that is I would like to know whether I ...
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Showing research to professor who is not my advisor
I am a PhD student in mathematics. I am going to participate in a conference. I want to show my research to some great mathematcian who is a specialist in the area that I am working on.
A friend of ...
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Can I buy individual access to SpringerLINK?
My institution has access to a very limited selection of ebooks published by Springer-Verlag. Is it possible to buy individual access to their whole collection myself? I'm a PhD student in case that ...
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Multiple journal submissions
I was a junior researcher and I submitted a paper to journal A. After not having any response from journal A, I submitted my paper to journal B. After some months, journal A mailed me to say that my ...
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Situation of degree awardence for inventions appearing as reinventions [duplicate]
Assume the following situation
A professor invented a novel piece and kept it immediately in arXiv.
A PhD student did the same invention at almost same time and hence hoping to take PhD after ...
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choosing workshops/conferences to attend and publish research
I have been able to attend a few different conferences and workshops during my limited time being a masters and PhD student. Some to present my research and some just to watch presentations.
I have ...
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Life cycle for Physical Review Letters [duplicate]
What is the average time does it take from the time you submit your paper to the time is it published in Physical Review Letters?
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How should I interpret a promising preprint that was never published in a peer-reviewed journal?
There have been a couple of occasions in my research in which I've come across a preprint that is several years old and is very relevant to the work that I'm doing.
Often these preprints have very ...
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What is the name for the copies of a paper that you receive once it's been published?
After an article has been accepted, all edits finished and finally published, some (many?) journals mail 10 or so printed copies of the completed article to the author. Not full copies of the entire ...
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The status remained “awaiting for reviewer selection” after 5 months since re-submission [duplicate]
Anyone give me some advice:
I have made a major revision after receiving one very positive feedback and one very negative feedback for my manuscript. Then I revised and resubmitted. It is almost 5 ...
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Have there been attempts to get around “DeWitt clause”-like license restrictions?
(This is a complementary question to: Has the DeWitt Clause, which prevents publication of named DBMS benchmarks, ever been successfully defended in court?)
Several commercial database vendors ...
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Top CS PhD programs, do I stand a chance? [closed]
I'm an American EE/CompE undergrad at a mid tier(top 200) smaller state school with a 3.96 GPA. I am the first person in my family to attend college, so you can imagine that getting advice on grad ...
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How to deal with slow peer reviewing process [duplicate]
I submitted a short (10 page long) manuscript to a math journal. It has been 9 months. Almost 4 months ago I emailed them to see what's going on. Their response was: "Your paper has been sent out to ...
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Personal contribution in N-author articles vs single author articles
In a given field there are essentially two types of articles, N-author articles and single author articles. Related to this fact, I wonder how a committee when evaluating someone for a tenure ...
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Focusing on one specific academic field? [closed]
This question has already been asked, albeit not so much, in this thread. This, however, still gets me thinking. I am an early career research (not even done with my PhD yet). A PhD candidate told me ...
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Will addressing reviewers comment and accepting drawback of work take back my acceptance?
Recently I got a paper got accepted by a well-known conference (computer science). I am about to submit a camera-ready version of the paper for the conference proceedings, trying to incorporate the ...
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The content of my manuscript is too complicated to be rewritten in the format of a journal. what should I do?
My manuscript is actually a new theory, consisting of four chapters, 15,000 words, so it cannot be rewritten in the form of a journal. If I delete some of the content to fit the format of a journal, ...
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Can I post my manuscript to Academia, arXiv, personal website, and submit it to a green Journal at the same time? [closed]
If my manuscript is accepted and I post my preprint on the arXiv, that will be fine. However, if I submit my manuscript to a "Open Green Access" journal, at the same time, I post my manuscript on two ...
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How to deal with the fear of missing out?
I will be soon starting my Ph.D. but have already experienced some of the research environment. I have chosen to work on a field in machine learning that is becoming increasingly popular. Every time I ...
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Should I include code in my research paper?
My paper is about a specific application of blockchain. I've developed a basic prototype for it and so far, I've described it in detail, and put screencaps of the interface for it. Should I also ...
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How can one prevent thief of academic work and get recognition/listed as a co-author? [closed]
There was a problem in my first lab (I suspect but do not know for sure) that my first PI gave some of the results of my project’s work I found for her to another student to present at a small school/...
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Ways to demonstrate (“show-off”) contributions as an undergraduate in research
I am an undergraduate CS student at a US college. Before this summer, I contacted a professor in Game Research and was offered the opportunity to work with one of his PhD students. Currently, I am ...
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How to indicate that a drawing has been re-adapted and expanded or integrated from another published illustration?
I've got this illustration of a block diagram published in a book. It's quite a basic concept of surface metrology but I've been inspired by it, I've redrawn the diagram using LaTeX with another ...
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addition of physical address upon paper acceptance
A paper was reviewed, sent back for revision and resubmitted. Is it allowed to add a new address (current) when a paper is just accepted?
