Questions tagged [research-process]
Questions directly focused on PERFORMING academic research. Do not use this for questions about publishing research. Read the tag wiki before applying this tag.
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In group meeting, one colleague presents my ideas as if they are his original ideas
This is a follow-up of Someone claim to "indepdently discovery the same thing (two years after me)"
Long story short, I'm now working with Jason, in a large team.
I chat with Jason once a ...
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Is it common for community colleges in the US to have IRBs?
I'm coming to the end of my PhD in a social science field, and given the unlikelihood of landing a research-oriented position at really any university, I'm finding myself in the position of having to ...
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More than two years in a journal
My paper is undergoing its third revision in a journal, primarily focusing on applied mathematics. There are some technical parts in it, but nothing really out of reach.
The time line is something ...
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Can IRB approval be reversed?
If you get the written IRB approval of the school/site for research
and you conduct the research with all participants' written agreement, can the school revoke agreement to research after you are ...
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Should I switch labs to work on a topic that interests me more or stay with great current PI?
I am doing research now as a sophomore majoring in molecular biology and biochem. I am in a lab and my current PI is awesome and she is so supportive. However, I do not like the science practiced in ...
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Can a modification of an existing method be still named original resarch
I have found a method in Computer Sciences that I have modified to solve some subject related problems. Are those tweaks of existing methods still be considered as original research? Or is it just ...
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Would applying for a tenure track position while I am a visiting instructor look bad to the institution and my colleagues if I am not selected?
I am a fourth year doctoral candidate in an Experimental Psychology program at an R2 and am completing a visiting instructor appointment at a small liberal arts college (SLAC) right now. I had seen ...
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Can an author change the title of a paper to be published again in a special edition of a journal?
I've been involved in a paper that got accepted in a journal and has been published. Apparently, the paper has been selected to be part of a 'special edition of the journal'. The first author took the ...
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Advice for PhD: Number of Applications (Humanities)
I am currently a postgraduate whose degree is near completion, and I would like to apply for a PhD in the United Kingdom. I am a first generation student which means that I have limited awareness of ...
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On the merit of text-to-speech system during manuscript writing [closed]
Background - I am an educative staff in an university. In my country, there is not a tenure system, but I can work here until the specified retired age. I am suffering from every kind of ...
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Forgot to give a copy of consent form to participants throughout qualifier project and dissertation data collection. What are my next steps?
I'm a 4th year doctoral candidate who recently finished data collection for my dissertation. However, I have some bad news that wasn't pointed out to me until I trained a prospective research ...
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How to deal with collaborators prone to publish in MDPI? [closed]
I am the only person in academia doing a certain research, so several colleagues ask me to collaborate. Of course, I am more than happy to take part in multidisciplinary work, as it tends to be more ...
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Do you any have access to Computer Science Review Elsevier Journal MS word Template?
I'm in the process of submitting a paper to the Computer Science Review Elsevier Journal. I've gone through their "Guide for Authors," but I'm finding it a bit challenging to discern the ...
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Copyright on a research photography
I was part of a research group in a research institute I called 'X'. In this research we used a very interesting, colorful technique so I take some pictures for myself that are very artistic. Now I ...
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What do you say to check-in or passport control when going on fieldwork/research leave?
I am going on fieldwork to UAE in a couple of days' time. I'm researching parts of the local music scene in Abu Dhabi/Dubai. What is the right thing to say to check-in/passport control? Does one say ...
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Extending the PhD Project into Post-Doc
I am an early career researcher about to finish my PhD in six months or so. My area ispolitical science, and I study a very interesting conjunction of a few research areas. I found a good post-doc ...
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research internship visa in france for PhD student with no master's degree?
I am a PhD student in Chile, now in my 3rd/4 years. I have been awarded an international internship funding by my scholarship agreement (provided by the chilean government). I have an invitation of a ...
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What are some methods to find a research gap?
I have read over 50 articles on a topic I am writing about but do not see any research gaps. I have spent a lot of time reading the introductions of papers, since it is there that I found the most ...
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Is what I did common? Could it cause possible issues? Retook my Ph.D program's equivalent of some Master's courses I took and they count as electives
I'm a fourth year Ph.D candidate in the US studying Experimental Psychology at a regional college. I also got my Master's in Experimental Psychology back in December 2020.
My Ph.D program accepted my ...
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Changing Subfields after PhD in psychology
I am trying to understand the degree of difficulty that a psychologist might experience changing subdisciplines (excluding clinical/school/industrial-organizational). For example, could someone who is ...
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Applied Mathematics to Neuroscience Transition?
I am currently studying Applied Mathematics in a university in Bangladesh. I have always been deeply interested in psychology and neuroscience. I want to complete my degree in Applied Mathematics and ...
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How do I get published as a student in Biblical Studies?
I am a newcomer in research studies within Bible and Theology fields. I want to publish my own articles but do not know where to begin. How can I get my papers published formally? I am only a MA ...
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Can i define a new problem other than existing problems in a field and propose a novel method to solve it?
I am putting my effort into proposing a novel method to solve a set of new problems in my field which have never been defined and solved before. These problems are almost similar to existing problems ...
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What to do when professor doesn't want to work with you anymore, but you want to submit past work done with him?
During the penultimate semester of my undergrad studies, I had approached a professor with a research idea, which he approved and both of us started working on it. We made substantial progress, but ...
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How to edit the pre uploaded full text article on ResearchGate
I found my article pre uploaded on ResearchGate.
But the fact is, I updated it and republished it in the same journal and it has same DOI.
I want to delete the older version of the article from ...
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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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On abandoning a nearly completed research project
A few years ago, I spent some time working on a research project with a professor in a field (Statistics) that is completely unrelated to my current research (CS Theory). Ultimately, we were ...
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Tenure Track at a Small Liberal Arts College, but bad at research, how do I improve?
A lot of posts like this are from graduate students or undergraduates. I'm tenure track at a Small Liberal Arts College (SLAC) and been through a couple of postdocs, so I know what Math research is. I ...
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What is important when creating a set of research notes
In the process of trying to improve my efficiency I came across this question (which recently appeared in the active section): What are the efficient ways of keeping track of research literature?
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Should I go to an average university for summer research
I am an U.S. undergraduate in math and computer science at a university that is very good (top 5 in some rankings) in electrical engineering and computer science. I am planning to apply for PhD at ...
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Do you need permission from the gov't of a town to conduct a questionnaire survey there?
I'm conducting a study in which people from a particular town will fill out an opinion questionnaire (Likert scale stuff, questions about road signs). I was going to do this in front of a grocery ...
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Expectations for authorship as a PhD student creating a novel dataset
I am a PhD candidate in strategic management and entrepreneurship developing a new dataset for my dissertation on entrepreneurial ecosystems. I will compile extensive firm-level data on startups and ...
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Can I go for PhD ( in person ) and master's (online) simultaneously in different subjects?
I have just started my PhD program in Nanoscience in the United States as an International Student. I have a master's degree in Physics and have decent skills in Python too. I have practiced several ...
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One year into PhD, feeling lost and inadequate, Help!
I'm 22, and I'm one year into my PhD in History. I immediately started my PhD after finishing my master's, working with the same supervisor. Throughout the years, I've started to become more and more ...
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Feeling stressed and incapable at the beginning of my MSc, how can I handle that?
I just admitted and enrolled in a thesis-based master of applied science program in electrical engineering a month ago.
My supervisor sends me different papers sometime to read and I also schedule ...
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How to manage stress during a PhD, when your research project involves working with lab animals?
I'm a first year PhD student in cognitive neuroscience, and I've been working/studying in this institution since my last year of master's degree.
My PhD project is the extension of my master's thesis ...
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What is the procedure for working together with PhD students of another working group?
I recently started a PhD in Germany.
To broaden my knowledge in my field (Computational Sciences), I thought it might be a good idea to visit from time to time the institute from which I received my ...
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What if I have no students when I do a research? [closed]
Now I am a Ph.D student in China. I will get my degree at 2023.12 (if fortunately). But I only have three papers. I wish a school with a good platform. Now I find a school with title "211", ...
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What could happen if my university loses its R2 status?
This post is a bit of a follow up to my prior post on the Clinical Psychology Ph.D program losing funding and (eventually) getting cut sometime in the future. From what I'm reading about public or ...
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Is it possible to participate in Physics research during a gap year?
I recently finished my Bachelor's in Physics, graduating this past May. I have always had grad school as a goal. Currently, I am looking to do a Master's program and then hopefully move on to a PhD ...
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Can my former RA use my idea to publish a paper?
I partnered with my former professor to establish a social research-based organization. We had a plan to pursue a federal grant. In pursuit of the grant, we brought some volunteer RAs on board to help ...
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How to come up with ideas that will actually be worthy of a paper?
I'm a researcher (completed PhD) in CS. I have a very clear pattern: I can certainly come up with "punchy" sounding ideas, but they are suitable to write up a small workshop paper about but ...
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Paper submitted to a Nature sub-journal with 3 weeks without updates, what can it mean? [duplicate]
I'm a postdoc working in the field of cancer genomics. Recently I submitted my work to a Nature sub-journal. It quickly went from "manuscript submitted" to "editor assigned" and &...
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What to share in a research grant/fellowship application
My question - Is it safe to add the phd dissertations topic including problem statement and objectives in research proposal in a research grant .Or do we need to add only a portion of it.
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Do most conference papers get written last minute?
When I began my PhD (in a STEM field; somewhat relevant), I had heard from a few people that most papers in my field get written at the last minute. I kind of took that as a personal quirk that those ...
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Pursuing a less exciting PhD research topic at a top-ranked university VS doing more interesting research at a lesser-known university?
I'm currently in the process of applying to different PhD Programs, and I have a very specific topic/theme in mind that I would like to work on and that resonates deeply with my personal mission, ...
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Is it better to prepare for a phd, before pursuing one, while working in industry
Is it unusual in mathematics to do a PhD in a unrelated area then youre diploma thesis.
Not completely unrelated, as for instance financial mathematics would be to abstract algebra, but such that it ...
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How do I know which research directions are the most "fundable"?
I am interested in doing math research that will be fundable. I don't work on anything fancy or prestigious like the p-adic Langlands correspondence though. Should I try to move in a direction where ...
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When do I start looking for post Ph.D jobs?
I know I made a decent number of posts, but this particular will actually be the last one I'm going to make for a while. For those who didn't see, I'm a fourth year Ph.D student in an Experimental ...
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Ethically correct way to involve student in research and publication
My collaborator has a PhD student (just starting their 2nd year) who as part of their project runs computer simulations, as directed by their supervisor. These brought up a result that is (1) ...
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