Questions tagged [publications]
Questions related to academic publications including online and traditional journals, books, and conference proceedings.
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Does the NSF commonly ask for removing acknowledgments?
How frequent is the following scenario?
A researcher on an NSF grant posts or publishes a paper which is thematically unrelated to the NSF grant, but acknowledges the grant for financial support. ...
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Submitting to Journals - impact factor versus subject specialism
I am coming to the end of my PhD in which I have been working under an NDA and not yet published anything directly from the thesis itself. Pretty soon we will be able to publish the work, and I am ...
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Should i restrict the scope of my work according to the conference theme?
I'm writing a paper for a good conference in computer science with specific themes in Data mining. I checked their scope of topics and their programs for the last 3 cycles of the conference, and i ...
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How do I know what I burn for? About to get a PhD, but lost my drive
I am a few months away from completing my PhD (nanotech/chemistry), I'm "just" writing my thesis. But I somehow feel like I have lost my motivation and I am confused about my future. I began the PhD ...
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Should I use a ISBN or DOI?
I will soon end my work on book about a statistical computing environment and its use in my field. It will require the reader to use the electronic copy alongside with the particular software open in ...
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How Reproducible should Data and Analysis Methodology Be?
My question might be a stretch given my lack of formal experience with writing and publishing research papers. But one thing I've noticed in my line of work and reading published papers is that the ...
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Can pre-print be published as "working paper" after the peer reviewed and revised manuscript has been accepted for publication by the journal?
A colleague wishes to publish a pre-print as a "working paper" after the revised manuscript has gone through the peer review process and accepted for publication.
The rationale is that firstly, ...
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Have you ever experienced that "accept but needs final editing"
I have submitted my article to springer journal. We re-arrenged the manuscript that was requested by reviewers. And we submitted again. 50 days later, the decision was "accept but needs final editing"....
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Will the publications on Open Acess journal (like Hindawi) harm the PhD application to economics or finance departments in USA (or MPhil in UK)?
How will the departments view the PhD, PostDoc, and AP applicants with SJR tier Q3(4) publications and/or publications on open access journals?
Personally I believe that at the specialization level ...
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Is it in poor form to write a paper on the same two texts that someone has already written about in a published article?
I have a proposal for a comparative literature paper that I hope to publish and/or include in some form in my dissertation. I’m discussing a wide variety of texts in my article, but the primary focus ...
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Does suggesting potential reviewers for one's submitted paper increase the likelihood of the paper being accepted?
Some journals propose authors to suggest potential reviewers for their submitted papers.
Is there any research/study/survey that tried to quantify to what extent suggesting potential reviewers for ...
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Publishing a letter: how much extension can I ask for?
I am attempting to publish a letter in a IEEE journal. The journal gave me 2 weeks to address the comments. It also mentioned that if I need more time, I should let them know as soon as possible so ...
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Problem formulation, definition, or statement
When writing a technical report in computer science (Bachelor level), what is really the correct expression out of these:
Problem formulation
Problem definition
Problem statement
Do they mean ...
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Should I write a monograph for myself?
My dissertation is going to be a thesis by publication. I am going to publish a couple of papers and put those into one document with a couple of leading words (another 20 pages or so) and this is ...
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Why do many papers not have proper PDF metadata?
Of course, this varies depending on your field etc., but at least for computer science seems to be true, there’s even a paper about this problem.
By proper, I mean even basic things like a title (so ...
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How to find an author biography as mentioned in papers?
Some papers include the authors' biographies. Given a researcher, how to quickly find his biography mentioned one of their papers? Is tedious to have to go through their papers one by one to try to ...
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Dataset of retraction fines per publisher
I read in the Nature comment Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors authored by David B. Allison, Andrew W. Brown, Brandon J. George& Kathryn A. Kaiser and published today
Science relies ...
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Registering systematic review in Prospero
I have recently submitted a systematic review (SR) to a journal. One of the reviewers pointed out, that my SR was not registered in Prospero, an international prospective register of systematic ...
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"Competing interests" not disclosed? retraction?
I have recently come across this paper in Nature Communications: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17419-7
From the authors’ affiliations and corresponding email it seems like all authors are ...
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How to see submitted manuscript status as co-author for the IEEE Access journal?
The IEEE Access journal's submission has been changed to https://ieee.atyponrex.com. However, I cannot see the co-author's submitted manuscript in this new system. I would appreciate it if someone ...
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How to mark paper as mainly my work before moving institutions
I have a paper that has some important work. I recently graduated and am about to work at a top 5 tech firm's AI research division. As part of the interview, they seemed really excited about this work ...
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What are some of the research styles and research routines of successful researchers?
I am Phd student in CS with less than 15 published papers from which none is at a top journal or conference.
My typical research routine comprises of reading papers with potentially improvable results ...
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Can you submit for journal publication an institutional working paper?
Journals are nowadays fairly open to preprints before submission (e.g. Nature policies here https://www.nature.com/nature-portfolio/editorial-policies/preprints-and-conference-proceedings). However, ...
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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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How to correct citation count of a given paper in Google Scholar?
Two of my works have been recently cited by the same paper. The citation count of one of them was updated properly in Google Scholar, but not for the other one. What is weirder is that the references ...
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Do Editorial Articles get indexed in SCOPUS and WOS?
I am editing a couple of special issues for two reputed journals that are indexed in SCOPUS, SCI, and WOS. Currently, I am writing the editorial articles for both of these special issues. Since these ...
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About Consent for publishing in conference
I'm a first year PhD student. I never have any record of publication or conference paper before.
In my PhD, I worked as a coauthor for the post doctoral fellow's paper. My post doc work 24x7 sundays ...
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Error in my thesis contact information -
Having published my thesis on researchgate, I have noticed that the contact email in the text is incorrect. Some people have already downloaded it and may have even tried to contact me. My email in my ...
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How do advanced search options work on Cambridge Core?
I am trying to conduct a publication search on the Cambridge Core database but do not understand how the logical operators and quotation marks work on that site (and even if they do).
Here's an ...
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Can published papers from non-international journals decrease the level of a CV?
Consider a PhD candidate that still does not have publications in international journals but has some papers in local journals (peer reviewed but non-listed in international rankings) from their ...
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What are 'Article Influence' and 'CNCI' and how to obtain them?
I've been asked about my Article Influence and my Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI). I have several doubts regarding this:
Are they metrics that can be calculated for each article, or, on ...
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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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Writing abstract
I want to submit an abstract for a call for papers for a good journal in my field. I don't have the paper ready yet, but I have a vague idea for a paper that I would like to propose to the journal ...
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Is it a problem if I add my journal paper manually in Google Scholar?
Today, my paper was published and it got a DOI number. However, it does not appear in Google Scholar.
After searching the web for the answer, I found that it takes a long time for the paper to show up ...
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Could not having formal research products affect my MPhil application?
I graduated with a BS in Economics in the Dominican Republic. There are barely any local research opportunities there and I haven't been able to work on any as I've focused on my current job. My job ...
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Can I use tables to contain my figures in word, while submitting it as a manuscript?
Because it is difficult to make a figure description stick to the figure in word (slightest motion of figure within the document messes-up a lot of text, especially near the figure) I decided to ...
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Some of the values in Table is wrong in my published paper
In my survey paper (50 pages), I directly quote the results of performance from related papers. However, several numbers are wrongly recorded. My survey focuses on the introudction and summarization ...
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What is a Good Alternative to the Word "Novel" in Engineering Publications?
When writing papers for engineering conferences and journals, it is important to highlight how one's work is novel/new.
I often find myself repeating the word "novel" is sentences such as:
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What is the meaning of the two numbers in the paper identifier of EDAS?
I have submitted a paper to a conference via EDAS. The conference asked me for the "paper number" in its own registration form (independent from EDAS).
On EDAS my paper has an identifier ...
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How to add link to "Linked Data" in researchgate for a published paper?
It seemed to have been possible to add a tab called "Linked data" to the profile page of a paper published in a journal in researchgate. This data is essentially a zipped file containing ...
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How does semantic scholar extract topics?
I am looking for detailed information about how S2 extracts topics from documents. The only information I have found is this, from the FAQ page:
"We use machine language techniques to analyze ...
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Chances of publishing paper(s) in last year of PhD
We have a recent rule in our institution that at least two papers need to be published in SCI journals for being awarded a doctorate degree.
Students were well aware about the rule since the first ...
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How to avoid giving honorary authorship to advisor who has not contributed?
I am just about finished with my PhD. During the past year or so, I managed to develop my own little spot of theory. I have done this almost entirely independently. However, my advisor typically adds ...
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Should I put details in the scope and limitations if it is already mentioned in the objectives?
Should I put details in the scope and limitations if it is already mentioned in the objectives?
For example, we have already mentioned that we will be analyzing trends in the data. Should we also ...
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Am I allowed to submit a paper that is currently in the works of being published to my school's graduate research symposium?
I want to present my research at my school's yearly graduate research symposium. I got accepted and will be submitting a paper and a pre-recorded presentation. I am excited and happy to be ...
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How can one obtain translations of foreign research papers?
Recently, I've found a Danish scholarly article on industrial foundations. As far as I know, the article is only available in Danish. Unfortunately, I'm not able to speak or read this language.
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Arxiv Journal Ref field updation guidelines and examples for published Conference papers
ArXiv has a section called Journal Ref where a researcher can add a publication reference for their paper published in a journal or proceedings. For a journal the rules and example provided is clear, ...
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An article not presented in conference but published in conference special issue
Although an article was not presented at the conference, this article published in the conference special issue of a journal after reviewing and editorial process. Considering whether the authors ...
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Can I publish a yellow paper written when I was employed?
I am a developer graduate in Artificial Intelligence. I wrote an interesting draft document seeking feedback from fellow developers, and data scientists.
The paper was about stream reasoning and how I ...
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Appendix in APA paper: Can a document in an appendix span multiple pages?
I need to put a multiple-page document in an appendix of my APA paper.
Is it ok to have an appendix span multiple pages?
If so, after the first Appendix A page, do I title subsequent pages as "...
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