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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Ghosted by research colleague. How to proceed?
I am finding myself in a difficult situation with a research colleague. We worked on two projects - one currently with the journal and the other I am working on. She has gone completely silent despite ...
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Etiquette concerning Lab Findings / Results
I'm an undergraduate and was fortunate to be selected for a 12 week summer placement in a professors lab at my university.
I worked way over and above the funded hours and made some very interesting ...
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How to discuss lack of effort from collaborators with PI/advisor
I have been working on a research project with my advisor and a few other graduate students for a little over a year. After a lot of dead-ends and lackluster results, we eventually managed to salvage ...
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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 we publish a reseach paper without a professor or degree? [duplicate]
I have recently read through some research papers on Facial emotion recognition. Combining the strategies of some research papers, and my own experiments, I want to publish my own research paper ...
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The article Publishing Charge of 775$ was not settled and Now there is a debt collection payment request. They're warned of potential consequences
Recently, my girlfriend, who is a Ph.D. scholar in an institute in India, and currently awaiting her thesis submission, submitted an article to Hindawi.Ltd., in which she is the primary author and her ...
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Postdoc or permanent position
I am finishing my PhD soon and am working on computational chemistry within biomolecules.
On the one hand, I would love to go for a postdoc: to learn something and also earn a bigger penny. On the ...
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What does my experience from a master’s thesis tell me about whether research is for me?
I have just had my first experiences in research, namely six months of a master’s thesis. Along the way, especially starting out, I felt a mix of:
anxiety for not understanding the topic
internal ...
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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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Is it important to address all the suggestions by the research paper reviewers?
I am new to research and sent my first research article to a journal for publication. Today they sent me a mail saying that my "manuscript has been accepted subject to revision". For your ...
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Is it okay to reuse the structure of an old grant proposal for a new proposal?
I am currently working on a grant proposal. I have previously successfully applied for a grant from the same grant provider and thus I am now planning to use the same structure for some parts of the ...
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Advisor does not return paper
Two years ago I sent to my advisor and + 3 collaborators the paper that resulted from my dissertation. Two of them returned it within the deadline I set (30 days). An important collaborator who helped ...
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My Master’s advisor is slowly killing me [closed]
I am Master’s student and finished 1.5 years. After first year, you are supposed to start your experiments but most people start even earlier. My advisor or PI or professor ,whatever you want to call, ...
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How to come up with more research projects [duplicate]
I am trying to come up with more ideas for math research. It's hard because I don't know which problems are doable or interesting to other mathematicians. My former thesis adviser doesn't seem to have ...
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What distinguishes top researchers from mediocre ones? [closed]
I am a PhD student studying theoretical physics at a US institution. I am now beginning my fourth year in the program, and struggling to solve my first research problem. I see PhD students around me ...
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Best Way To Research On An Alien Topic?
One of the key challenges I have faced whilst transitioning to university life and further has been the independence bestowed upon oneself to find out information on their own. What is the best way to ...
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Is it possible to create a classification scale similar to Kardashev to classify scientific articles?
My idea would be to build a theoretical classification similar to Kardashev's ladder to consider what is scientific, what is not scientific or what is pseudoscientific.
The Kardashev scale definition ...
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Someone claim to "indepdently discovery the same thing (two years after me)"
I emailed an famous professor a paper (say paper B) that corrects a critical mistake in their old, well-received paper (say paper A). I invite them to coauthor. They neither agree nor disagree. They ...
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My advisor stopped formalizing my work, what should I do now?
Here is my situation:
I am a Ph.D. student in theoretical CS.
Since the start of my Ph.D. I have been sending my advisor the descriptions of my results verbally, he would usually ask me a bunch of ...
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How can I learn to trust the Ph.D program course of study again?
I am a fourth year neurodivergent doctoral candidate with an accepted Master's (both in Experimental Psychology) and have posted a decent amount on here. Hopefully, this post means that I can stop ...
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research statement/proposal for a (pure-)math-PhD?
When applying for PhD programs outside your home university, the university you apply to usually requires a research statement from you.
However, this isn't the case when you reach out for a Bachelor'...
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What would a paper proposing a new theory to explain something with several lines of evidence look like?
As an example, suppose I come up with a theory that removes the need for dark matter. Dark matter is a hypothetical substance with many different lines of evidence for its existence, but it hasn't ...
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Chances for master student from EU to stay in US as research assistant?
I'm a first year physics master student from EU currently doing a research internship at an Ivy league school in the US. It is also to fulfil the requirement of my home university to get an internship ...
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Research Associate Layoff Advice
About two months ago, I started working at a university lab as a Research Associate. The application stated that 0-2 years of experience was necessary and that training would be provided, prior to ...
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Reading takes too long (as a mathematician)
Reading a script, a book or a paper in mathematics can sometimes be so time consuming.
Sometimes it takes me hours to read a single page, because something just makes no sense.
But I find reading ...
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How can I include an invitation to an Isaac Newton Institute program to my CV?
I would like to know how to include invitations to highly-regarded research programmes in a CV such as the ones being held in the Isaac Newton Institute. These invitations are commonly paid. That is, ...
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Am I betraying my professors if I leave a research group because of change of interest?
I am an undergraduate and have been doing some work that is part of a program being done by a research group of this department for around 6 months now.
However, I have developed new interests and I ...
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What are the purposes of Xivs?
A colleague of mine tend to upload her researcher paper to chemrXiv just the day she submitted it to the journal.
What is exactly the purpose of that and is it always permitted?
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Seeking Research tips: approach to researching homework and classwork tasks [closed]
I am a teacher and wants to look onto a case of my students failing to follow up on homework and classwork tasks. I want to study the fact and issues regarding their failure in completing their ...
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Is it okay to reuse some literature/information from a previous research proposal for a new proposal?
I am currently working on a research proposal and have come across a problem: This research proposal builds on a previous research proposal of mine. I am a historian and it deals with the same topic ...
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can one hypothesis be derived from another hypothesis?
I have a theory and hypothesis indicating that X leads to Y. The analysis proves this wrong, I want to say that it is possible to reformulate theory and hypothesis and show that Y leads to X. Can I ...
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Is it dishonest to not list papers published in predatory journals when e.g. applying for a job?
Will someone be considered dishonest if they do not list papers published in predatory journals? I'd like to know in the following scenarios, when
applying for a job
listing on, e.g. a personal ...
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Overwhelmed by scope of undergraduate research project - how to salvage a good result?
I'm currently in the final semester of my engineering bachelors degree.
Right now I'm working in a lab with the former supervisor of my bachelor thesis which I successfully defended in late march.
My ...
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Do we need to have strong foundation for research in the future?
I have done my PhD in theoretical computer science two years ago. I am currently working in a teaching university in India. I have done PhD on problems related to algebra and also during postdoc. I ...
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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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Studies of the impact on research of measuring research output via publication statistics?
Are there any studies of the impact on research choices (i.e. which research topics do researcher choose, how likely they are to collaborate with others, whether they go to public or private research ...
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Is this citation for reference correct? (APA 7th edition)
Is the citation in APA 7th edition format correct for this technical report?
Citation:
Servan-Schreiber, D., Cleeremans, A., & McClelland, J. L. (1988). Encoding sequential structure in simple ...
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Review paper in PhD
I'm a first-year PhD student, and while I have an idea of what my research will involve, my path isn't very clear yet. My supervisor suggested that I work on a review paper as an achievement for the ...
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Are there any high level knowledge scanner websites for scientific research?
For instance, I'm imagining a website where you could type in a query, like
Does exposure to sun cause cancer?
And it would lead you to a page which had an either human curated or automatic overview ...
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Have you used online participant recruitment services such as Prolific and MTurk? Which service do you use? [closed]
I am looking to get feedback from people who have used online participant recruitment services such as Prolific and MTurk for participant recruitment. We have been using MTurk, but I am looking to get ...
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Struggling with publishing as an unsocial person
I struggle with people, communication, and trust. I managed to publish a few papers as a PhD student (with the guidance of my PhD advisor, obviously), but since then I've failed to publish a single ...
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How can one demonstrate that he has research potential to the admission committee for PhD admission?
Pleas forgive me if I am at the wrong place as I am asking on behalf of a friend from his account and I don't have much experience in higher education.
So here's the story. My friend went to ...
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Earn doctorate by writing thesis by yourself? [duplicate]
Perhaps this is a ridiculous question, and I couldn't find any previous asker, so forgive me.
Is it possible to earn a doctorates by writing a thesis by yourself and then submitting it to a university?...
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On the merit of text-to-speech system during manuscript writing
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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Conflicted on authorship possibly not included in journal publication
Approximately a few months ago, I was an intern in a research institute. One of the supervisors in a department became a PI of a project which seems to have huge implications. He needed help in ...
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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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As a PhD student, which conferences should I attend?
I am a PhD student around midway to the end of the program and I often find myself doubting about which conferences I should attend.
I find many conferences that have to do in some way with my field ...
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Advice New Research Assistant: Potential Termination?
For some context, I have a Bachelors in Biology, and the pandemic forced me to pursue an online graduate program in another field, but I've wanted to get back into bio research for some time and gain ...
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Is it case study or narrative research? We are using interviews and diary studies [closed]
How do I know if my study uses the case study approach or narrative research approach?
What factors do I have to take into account to differentiate between the two?
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How to use Stack Exchange for research-level questions
I'm a first-year PhD student in Quantum Cryptography. As such, I frequently have to deal with mathematical problems that are quite difficult for me. That's perfectly OK: research's precisely about ...
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