Questions tagged [publications]
Questions related to academic publications including online and traditional journals, books, and conference proceedings.
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How much is practically maximum number of publications in each academic level? [closed]
I know that the number of publications is just a number, but it can be used as measure for progress in academic career.
What is the highest number of publications you have seen for
a postdoc fellow ...
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Duplicate content in multi-volume monograph
A scientist writes a multi-volume monograph reflecting his latest research results.
In the first volume a certain topic is presented but incompletely because at the time of writing the research on ...
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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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how to have publication from thesis?
I have studied for two semesters so far, I got a research proposal from my supervisor now and I am reviewing it. It is crucial for me to have at least 2-3 papers based on my thesis. I am thinking of ...
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Citing your own published research paper in a submitted manuscript
Is it ethical to cite your own research paper in a submitted manuscript? Are there any issues with this?
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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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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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Are literature reviews necessary for journal articles?
A journal states that literature reviews should be 5000-8000 words, but mine is 10k. Should I omit the literature review and only state the problem?
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Why publish in a journal instead of in arXiv or in my blog? [closed]
I don´t know what is exactly the value of publishing a high impact paper in a journal or magazine (electronic or not, open-access or not). I have several doubts about the benefits of publishing on a ...
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Research that was released to the press early, which remains credible?
The words science by press conference are pretty much universally used in derision. Wikipedia has a list of results that where rushed into a press conference and later turned out to be erroneous. ...
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Making my advisor publish manuscript
I gave a manuscript to my advisor while ago but he doesn't read it, what is the best action to do cause I need to publish it fast?
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What is considered plagiarism when writing a literature review paper
Taking someone else's experimental data and passing it for your own is objectively wrong. I would not argue with that. But what about when you are writing a review paper about some topic that doesn't ...
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Which well reputed journal should I publish my CS research that is free to publish? [closed]
I am a current high school student will to pay up to $200 if need be. I just want to ensure I am publishing in a good journal not one that is a scam. I was considering arxiv but I am seeing that it is ...
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How to know the ranking of the scientific journal (class A, B or C)? [closed]
I want a website that gives me the recent ranking (according to classes A, B or C) for journals.
Thanks
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How to formulate a REVIEW paper in true sense? [closed]
Many thanks in advance for taking time to read this question.
Recently, as a group of students, we reviewed a certain topic in Machine Learning. The supervisor asked us to prepare a survey paper on ...
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Difference of difficulties between fields of research
Is it true that research (Ph.D...) in some fields requires more work and are harder than others ?
For example to publish an article in computer science is it more difficult than to do in ...
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Correcting mistakes in my first article!
I published my first article in a journal, and for a final (typographic) revision, the editor sent me a mail with some remarks and said:
"Please insert the corrections directly onto the pdf proof ...
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What is the correct time to contact the Editor for a decision when the revisions are elementary
I received a review for my manuscript 6 months after submission.
The reviewer pointed some minor corrections like grammatical errors, missing brackets and so on.
Though I submitted by revisions to the ...
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Asking to review my research paper
I recently wrote a research paper and want to submit it to a journal but as I wrote it on my own and it's my first paper, I would like someone (a faculty member or a PhD student) to review my paper ...
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Is it acceptable to use newspapers and periodicals (e.g., the New York Times, China Daily, etc) in journal articles? [closed]
Here are some sample sources: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201902/28/WS5c7720fda3106c65c34ebd70.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/15/magazine/china-s-leap-to-american-campuses.html
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Is it appropriate to include benchmarks in a CS research paper? [closed]
I am planning to write a CS research paper on a new data structure I've discovered. Is it appropriate to include benchmarks comparing its performance for certain operations against that of a similar ...
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Waiting time for editor's decision for an article with status "Reviews Completed" for 4 months?
The academic journal paper I submitted to a Q1 Springer journal has been in the position of "Review Completed" since February 6, 2023, and is still in that status as of today, June 21, 2023. ...
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How many publications are required to get a postdoc in plant science? [closed]
It is my humble question to all of you: how many publications are required to get a postdoc in plant science? I have seen researchers with plenty of publications not get any postdoctoral funding, but ...
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PhD program and article publication without supervisor name [duplicate]
Can a PhD student publish an article without the name of the supervisor? if even the supervisor agrees with that?
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Best tips for writing sessions [closed]
I've got a fair amount of writing ahead of me in the coming months and I'm here to ask you all for some strategies for grinding some good writing. I know only of the pomodoro technique, which ...
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How do I know if I should write a paper or an essay instead of a post on Facebook or a personal blog?
I find it difficult to put in words what I observe. However, I will do my best to describe my confusion clearly, although if I could truly describe it clearly, probably I would have already found the ...
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Can a university project be turned into a publication?
I am a Control engineering student and I am actually pursuing a Master's degree in this field. In my academic career I am often involved in projects which can be about optimal control, reinforcement ...
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I have published my thesis in scholars press as a book as adviced by my collegue. Can I publish papers now? Or should I cite it?
I was unaware that scholar press have a bad reputation. I wanted to gain the copyright as I was afraid it will be misused. So I published it as book. Now I came to know they are not genuine publishers....
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Are theses perfect? readers opinions on honest mistakes? (whatever degree)
I used to have a big concern for a little statistical mistake in my thesis (which wont be published), and now I have overcome that fear.
During that time of fear, my parents told me that all the ...
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The status of "Editor assigned" did not change for 4 weeks [duplicate]
I submitted the manuscript to a Springer medical journal. One month later, major revision was suggested. Then I re-submitted the revised form. One day later, the status changed as "editor assigned". ...
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What does it means figures are in contents?
I am going to submit the paper to a journal. They required that the figures and tables are in contents. That means I will write text and add the figure after text, Is it right?
Thanks
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How many research papers are downloaded by each major economic sectors?
I am interested in knowing who downloads academic papers.
In particular, ideally, I wonder if it is possible to have a kind of matrix with:
in row, research areas (e.g. computer science, epidemiology,...
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Work that I reasonably do without publications post Ph.D? [closed]
I'm a fourth year student in an Experimental Psychology Ph.D program with an accepted MA also in Experimental Psychology from a different program. I'm posting here since I'm about to graduate in May ...
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Accuracy differences for artificial intelligence paper [closed]
I read a paper about Rumor detection and they used BERT as an unsupervised language representation, fine-tuning it using a small dataset, and combining it with a supervised learning model to provide ...
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Is simulation a necessary part of writing a research paper? [closed]
In fields like machine learning, where the validity of your solution is measured on the basis of the accuracy of your model, it is important to have a simulation i.e. write and run code to implement ...
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Unconventional fonts [duplicate]
Most articles and books are written in the conventional fonts like Computer Modern Roman, Times New Roman, etc. which are similar to each others. Why aren't more fonts used?
I wrote my course this ...
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What should I do if the author didn't do what I asked them to do when I reviewed their paper?
I had reviewed a manuscript two months ago.
Though the manuscript was interesting and well written there were some minor flaws.
I had pointed to the author the flaws and asked them to correct them.
I ...
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How can I publish a lot of papers quickly and easily, so that I can qualify for a researcher visa?
Can you give me advice, how can I publish easily and quickly in a number of papers?
I'm not really a scientist, I'm a web developer, but I really need to build a publication list. I need to publish ...
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Is there an academia-specific convention for possessive nouns?
I am fairly certain academic papers do not use apostrophe " ' " for contraction, like "won't", but what is the academic way (in engineering) to do this. For example, " A humans walk cycle " , it is ...
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I downoaded articles from libgen (didn't know was illegal) and it seems that advisor used them to publish his work
I did download some articles from libgen and by then I didn't know it wasn't right to do so, well some people say that there's no problem but honestly I think it is and I'm scared for what this ...
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Must one state min/max values in addition to mean(+-std) when writing a publication?
Is it 'a must' to state min/max values in addition to mean(+-std) when writing a publication?
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How come old people (60+) still are contributing to top papers in journals like Nature? [closed]
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04877-w
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lander
Eric Lander is 65 years old and he was Science Advisor to the President and was Director of the Office of ...
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Is this kind of email formal or beneficial to use in a submitted manuscript? [closed]
Is this kind of email formal or beneficial or even acceptable to use in a manuscript: [email protected]? [email protected] or [email protected]? which is better? can it increase the acceptance rate?
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Is co author second author in a two author paper
I did post doc in a university where i did experiments. Later after i rejoined job, i worked on it for 2 years, developed analysis methods and together with prof through communication by mail send it ...
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How to transfer citations from a wrong paper to right paper?
Suppose there is an Arxiv paper that has got 100 citations, this paper is also published in a journal X.
But suppose I prove this paper wrong/incomplete/show many claims are false. I wrote the new ...
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Does the font matter when putting a manuscript on arXiv?
I have a research paper that I want to upload on arXiv. Almost all the papers I have seen on arXiv are written in Times New Roman. I understand scientific papers are written in that font mostly. But I ...
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Submitted paper to journal, one referee report OK, other terrible and IMHO ignorant, wrong. How do I proceed?
One referee report is awful. Comments are basically two types:
Please re-invent the wheel and write a primer to the whole field.
Must supply more basic background to the field (analogy: paper is ...
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Early-stage recruitment as assistant professor in future at Caltech [closed]
In academia, usually we have to do postdocs before getting recruited as an assistant proffessor.
However, recently I've seen a spectacular exception who already got an offer for assistant ...
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After successfully publishing several good papers during my PhD, why am I getting so many rejections after my PhD? [closed]
When I was pursuing my Ph.D. degree, I published 4 first-authored studies and 1 third-authored paper. All first-authored papers were published in decent journals, not the first-ranked journals but ...
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List of rejected computer science papers [closed]
I am developing an algorithm (using deep learning) to automatically review computer science papers and decide if they should be accepted or rejected, and I need a list of rejected papers (including ...
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