Questions tagged [publishability]
For questions about whether a piece of work is sufficient in significance, novelty, credibility, or scope to be publishable in an academic journal or conference.
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How can I efficiently check the originality of my work?
I have worked on many ideas where I found later that they were already published, which was frustrating. I usually look around before developing my idea, but sometimes the articles I read or the ...
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Is improving a simple algorithm without beating the state of the art still publishable?
In a particular field there are two algorithms being used:
Algorithm Simple: you understand it in five minutes, you can implement it in fifteen.
Algorithm State of the Art (SOA): requires very ...
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How to publish a paper that does not seem to be within the scope of any journal?
I have written a paper on applying a mathematical theory to a linguistic problem. I privately submitted it to several renowned professors (some of them very famous indeed) in the field of linguistics, ...
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Can I still try to publish my work if my algorithm's results are not as good as other algorithms'?
I've written a classification algorithm that does a pretty good job at classifying some datasets. However, I compared my algorithm to other classification methods, and their results exceed my results ...
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Can I publish a paper with new proof but the same result?
I found a better proof for a theorem than a proof from a published paper. Is it possible for me to publish my proof with the same theorem citing that paper?
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Will the PhD degree be retracted if the thesis is found to be not novel?
Suppose a person got PhD degree by properly submitting his/her thesis on a particular topic. Assume that neither the student nor the doctoral review committee including supervisor knows that the ...
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Is it plagiarism if I use a text I wrote myself but put on the internet before?
I just rememebered a case when I was still in school: we had to write an essay about a specific topic and one guy put big parts of his essay on Wikipedia before handing it in. When the teacher checked ...
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Are new experimental verifications of well-understood theories publishable?
As an example, consider the deflection of light by mass. This is a general relativistic effect wherein a large body causes light to not travel in straight lines. Deflection of starlight by the Sun was ...
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Consequences of publishing work using text from millions of Sci-Hub articles
I have a project that involves large-scale text embedding of biological literature. In this case, each biology article would be given a set of numbers (embedding) based on the text in the article. We ...
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Can I write a paper on a method that is novel but yields similar results compared to existing methods?
I have developed a method that gives similar results (in few cases: better) compared to existing methods and I want to publish it. Can I do this and if yes, how do I motivate it? More specifically:
I ...
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How extended must my extended paper be?
I have been approached to submit an extended version of a research paper in a journal.
The original paper is already published in a conference proceedings by publisher A.
What "degree of extension" ...
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Research paper feedback: "interesting idea but does not add scientific value"
Where is the border line between a novel, creative work and work that is of scientific value? I have received reviewer comments like:
the ideas are creative and interesting but work adds little ...
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What would be a good strategy to avoid being scooped? [duplicate]
A few classmates and I are worried about the time lag between submitting a research paper to a conference or journal and the further time lag between rejections and re-submissions during which someone ...
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How to proceed when a mathematical result contradicts existing literature?
An author has proven an interesting mathematical result, but notices that this result contradicts existing literature.
Does the author have to find an explicit error or counter-example to the ...
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IEEE conference chair asked to take down the arXiv version of the paper within 24 hours
Recently, an article by one of my colleagues had been accepted at an IEEE conference, and about a week ago, he presented it on the main track. He published a preprint of this paper (without final ...
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Is combinatorial novelty without insight useful? Who cares if we're the first to use tool T on problem P?
I'm a bioinformatician and former student of applied math. I want help to see if I should change my view).
Many academics, including all of my PI's on my major projects, justify their work by saying "...
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Why is novelty mandatory for a Ph.D. degree?
The institute I am studying at has added the following requirement recently:
A PhD scholar must publish two papers in his/her corresponding field
in SCI journals.
This means that a student ...
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Is developing a cheaper method ever considered to be originality in academic research?
Say, in a particular field of science, method A or equipment B are the standard. Now I have invented method X or equipment Y which cost much less than A or B.
What are the necessary conditions, if ...
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After successfully publishing papers during my Post-Doc, why am I now having trouble publishing as a tenure track academic?
I have had my PhD in mathematics for four and a half years now, completed two postdocs and found a tenure track job at a mostly teaching university. While I provide substantial background information ...
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Is it reasonable to submit a paper to a journal that I have uploaded to the Arxiv 4 years ago?
I have a paper submitted to the Arxiv 4 years ago (with another co-author). At that time, the only reason that we put the article online was that someone asked us to do that in order to cite it.
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Easy proof of a big conjecture based on possibly faulty paper – what to do?
I’m a mathematician.
I noted that, by combining some results from the literature (all published) and some little effort, one obtains a proof of a big conjecture (at least in the field; it even has a ...
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How to make your small ideas into a research paper?
I am a computer science PhD student who works mostly in theory. I always have multiple ideas in my mind about the research problem I am working on and also on problems which are related to my research....
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Where can/should I, as a high schooler, publish a paper regarding the derivation of a formula?
For a high school engineering project, a friend and I have found ourselves deriving an equation for how to most efficiently configure a system.
We found an equation that, given a few parameters about ...
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Professor dismissed error I found in her work. I need more feedback, but the field is small
Background / My problem:
I believe to have found a substantial error in my professor's original research. After getting answers to my previous question, I emailed her about it, but she was ...
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Is re-discovery plagiarism?
I have a hard time understanding statements such as:
Scientist X discovered Y in 1960 and was subsequently rediscovered by Scientist Z in 1980.
How does one prove that plagiarism has not taken ...
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How to improve the quality and visibility of research?
This might sound like quite a basic question, but the answer has eluded me for the past couple of years. I'm from a computer science background, but the question is probably relevant outside this ...
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Can I do experiments on humans without a degree?
I have several ideas for research that I believe would advance our understanding of psychological priming. It won't involve anything extreme - just reading non-offensive words on a screen.
But I ...
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Puzzled with "Paper not suitable for this journal" decision for applied mathematics paper [duplicate]
Recently, I submitted a paper to a journal published by Elsevier. The "Elsevier Journal Finder" feature suggested this particular journal in #3 out of a total of 5 suggestions. A while ago, I had also ...
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PhD thesis: novelty at the time of proposal but not submission
Location: India
Field: Neuroscience
Background: A few years ago, at the time of joining my PhD, I submitted a proposal which was eventually approved by the institute and the ethics committee. At the ...
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Publishing journal articles based on dissertation
My dissertation is drafted in a paper format which consists of three papers that I am planning to publish in future. Can I submit the manuscript to journals in 'as is' condition or I will have to ...
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Can I submit the results of a poster to another conference as a full paper?
If I presented a poster at a conference that contained the results of some research, can I then write a paper using those same results and submit it to another conference as a full paper?
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Abstract appeared in the abstract book of a conference but the paper is not published, can I publish it elsewhere?
I intended to participate in a conference, I sent my abstract and it was accepted. For some reasons, I didn't go to that conference and I didn't send my final conference paper.
However, my abstract (...
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Is it common for a managing editor of a University Press to solicit book proposals from PhD students at a conference?
I am a PhD candidate in the very early process of writing my dissertation, and I'm presenting my first chapter at an international humanities conference soon. I received an email from the managing ...
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My paper was rejected, and some colleagues say this is due to the "reviewer's mindset." What does this mean?
I'm pursuing my PhD (fourth year). My institute has the following rule:
At least Two SCI papers is mandatory for awarding
doctorate degree.
I tried for publishing an SCI paper recently and got ...
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Publishing a paper in an academic conference being someone who works in the industry
I have been working in the industry of software engineering for 5 years so far. Lately, I am planning to take a PHD, I am interested in software architecture and quality, something that started ...
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How do I get physicists to listen to something that they do not want to hear? [duplicate]
I have discovered a mistaken assumption that was made three centuries ago and has somehow been overlooked since then. It is a principle that was initially and remains to this day "proven" by ...
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