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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I'd like to conduct a personal research project as a master's student. What progress should I make before bringing it to a professor?
Last semester in my master's program, I came up with an algorithm that I thought was an interesting improvement on another algorithm we learned in class. I brought it to my professor, but he never ...
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Where do i find trusted scholarly articles for historical events
As a new hobby, I am wanting to read more and stick to the facts only.
I recently became interested in the public education system and many sites and YouTube videos claim that the modern American ...
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Is it OK to spend most of the Ph.D. period in designing & programming systems (vs experimenting and creating experimental results) [closed]
My PhD. in data science in EU requires mostly a system to design and to develop using some programming language, eventhough it introduces some novel approaches that I showcase through use cases. I am ...
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Found paper that is identical to what I was working on
So, I'm about 2 months away from submitting my PhD Qualifying Report (QR).
I've spent the last 2 years (part time) doing a thorough literature review and writing significant amounts of software to ...
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PI asked me (undergraduate research assistant) to be involved in hiring other undergraduate/graduate student workers
I am an undergraduate student research assistant in the US and have been working with my PI for less than a year. Recently my PI asked me to help her in hiring other student research assistants. Not ...
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What to do if my former master’s advisors gave my PhD topic idea to other students?
At the beginning of the year, I sent an email to my former advisor to ask him for advice on PhD topics. I sent him several ideas, one of them was a four pages research proposal (with methodology and ...
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What do you do when you're stuck at a problem?
I'm pretty sure almost all mathematicians have been in a situation where they found an interesting problem; they thought of many different ideas to tackle the problem, but in all of these ideas, there ...
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After almost three years of research, I am at my wits' end. What should I do now?
After I got my masters, I started my PhD project three years ago. My start coincided with the start of the pandemic. I spent many many months all on my own with little to no help and no equipment at ...
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What happens if another PI puts me on their payroll?
I’m fairly new to the research world and currently working with a university research institute. My PI put me on a project for a lab he is collaborating with from another research institute. The work ...
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Is a pilot study sufficient for a PhD in Psychology?
My original PhD plan was to do a pilot study, followed by a main study based on the results of the pilot study. However, the complexity of the project is growing, and I've realised that I probably can'...
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Research papers/articles comprehension
I am new in the PhD field (hydroinformatics). I have a question: How can I understand a research paper thoroughly? I am perplexed about how the authors got the results. How can they calculate it? How ...
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Is describing a different method in the same format as a published paper considered plagiarism?
I've honestly been losing a bit of sleep over one of the sections in my materials chapters because I think it has some similarity to text from a published paper. To compel myself to write this section ...
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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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How to measure the quality of a research idea? [duplicate]
I am at the start of my PhD. For the last four months, I have been studying the existing literature on the topic given to me by my advisor.
I want to know, how do I find a research idea on which I can ...
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Correcting mistakes in PhD thesis that examiners missed
I finished my thesis defense and my examiners recommended minor corrections, all of which are based in the lit review and results chapters. However, after they approved the corrections I made, I ...
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Do you know any system in which a PhD Student can apply for their own reserch grant? [closed]
I would like to ask about any funding for PhD Students to buy lab equipments, reagents etc. Because I know a lot of scholarships and travel grants for PhD students, but no research grants.
I know PIs ...
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Is it normal for a PhD thesis' methods chapter to show a high similarity index on iThenticate?
I'm just about to submit my thesis to the library and after putting my entire materials and methods chapter to iThenticate, I found quite a bit of overlap with previously published papers from my lab (...
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If I have done my Masters in Philosophy, can i submit a research paper in International Relations subject?
I have done my Masters in Philosophy. I am seeking enrolment in PhD international relations.
Meanwhile can i write and submit a paper in International Relations subject without having done a master's ...
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Advice to coordinate a long-term research project [closed]
I have been granted a five-year project to conduct my own research. The project not only covers the salary but also offers a budget to hire personal assistance and purchase lab equipment. It is an ...
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How exactly should I change research groups during the PhD? [closed]
I am a PhD student in physics at a US university. I am currently in my third year and I do not feel that my research interests are perfectly aligned with that of the group. Besides a mismatch of ...
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What should I do if I feel that a senior academic is trying to take advantage of me?
A while ago I asked a senior mathematician a question. He made some suggestions for some papers to read and had a broad outline for what steps might work. Then I read those papers and proved a theorem ...
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How to find research gap? [closed]
I would like to know if there is an easy way to find the research gaps and the new possible development track in the subject, apart from reading hundreds of articles.
Indeed I would like to elaborate ...
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What does it mean when I am told "your field might be related to my field"?
In various conversations with my mathematical colleagues, I noticed that the expression "your field might be related to my field" should not always be understood literally. Namely the other ...
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Correspondence piece in Nature
I recently had an opportunity to publish a "correspondence piece" in Nature journal. The piece is still under development. I just wanted to ask, if publishing a piece in Nature journal is ...
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My co authors backed out after paper acceptance, how to proceed
My paper was accepted in an open access journal, I am the corresponding author, but soon after acceptance my co-authors refused to pay their part of the article processing charges (APC) and sent me ...
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Section in review paper with same citations leads to plagiarism
I cited a review article which divided a specific architecture into two categories. For each category the authors of the review paper cite a number of different related paper and explain them.
My ...
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On scientific questions and proofs [closed]
For what purposes do scientists make questions and prove them? What questions are allowed in sciences? If a person proves a question and they want to publish it, what are the criteria for the ...
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How can I tackle self-doubt while writing my first paper?
I finished my Bachelor's degree this year. I worked on some research with my advisor and after a few months, we decided that there's enough interesting research to be able to write a paper. This will ...
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Structured plagiarism by using similar citations in a paragraph
I cited a paragraph of an article, which classified some model according to different categories. For each class it contains related work from the literature. Is it plagiarism that some citations ...
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Example of widely accepted and later refuted proof [closed]
I'm looking for an example of the following situation:
Proof of some statement that was widely accepted for a noticeable amount of time (say, at least 10 years).
The proof was later refuted (i.e. the ...
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The name on my article doesn't match my national ID name, and it has already gone into production [duplicate]
I have submitted an article to the International Journal of Surgery, and it has gone into production. Just as I was signing the licensing agreement, it caught my eye that the name I had put in as the ...
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Independent research [duplicate]
I'm considering taking up freelance journalism full-time, while also hoping to publish research on cultural studies in established journals. I have been published on a research website before, and ...
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Equivalent to agile software development but for research?
In software development, there are many development methodologies with a focus on speed/efficiency: Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Kanban etc.
Are there similar methodologies in scientific research? (something ...
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Finding correct articles for SLR from different databases?
I have to do a systematic literature review (SLR) as part of a university course. I have found all search terms etc, but now I have to narrow down the search to research articles. I've been stuck for ...
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Can a research paper be accepted if its results are very close to previous works but are not better than those?
There are different metaheuristic algorithms for evaluating optimization benchmark problems, some give better results than others and some don't. If a novel metaheuristic has a very close fitness ...
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Funding on research collaborations
I am currently a graduate student, and I have an idea for research that connects to something I worked on during my undergraduate studies. Given that my supervisor agrees, I want to know how funding ...
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What is the difference between systematic mapping study and systematic literature review?
I am trying to understand the difference between a systematic mapping study and a systematic literature review. Although I have searched about the difference, I still find it confusing as it still for ...
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How to find the work/application related to a paper?
I am doing my PhD research on AI. One paper I read was very interesting for my research, and I feel I should compare my result with theirs.
Datasets we use are different for testing and the only way ...
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Is it OK to generate parts of a research paper using a large language model such as ChatGPT?
Large language models (LLMs) are complex neural networks that can capture and represent world knowledge present in the human-generated text as their weights. LLMs are trained on a large collection of ...
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Was imposter syndrome common in the previous decades among PhD students?
As its quite apparent from many online discussion forums and also in-person conversations, a lot many Ph.D students seem to have impostor syndrome, of course in varying degrees. We hear statements ...
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How many cites are necessary for a research paper paragraph summarizing one source (legal case)?
I'm writing a law school research paper where one of the sections describes multiple legal cases, each under a separate heading. For each case I am describing the factual history of the case, then the ...
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What was wrong in my reply that my research guide changed his mind?
During my masters I spoke with my research guide and he seemed to be interested in taking me as a PhD student afterwards. I joined a job and want to start my PhD after a year.
My research guide mailed ...
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Back Date publication [closed]
I finished a research paper 2 years ago, and it was related to the covid pandemic. I didn't try to publish it because my father passed away and I stopped research work for a long time. Is it possible ...
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How can I get around the 10000 search result limit in PubMed?
I'm working on a project to analyze PubMed abstracts over a given period. I'm using the PubMed API (Entrez) to get PMIDs over a given period. I'm submitting queries looking like this:
2001/06/03:2001/...
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How to overcome the difficulties of starting of a PhD?
I have started my PhD this fall in the USA. Before starting the PhD, I worked as an RA and published a good amount of papers. Now my current lab is totally different from my previous lab. As I have so ...
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Can I include a solution my advisor came up with in my PhD thesis or be a co-author for a paper?
I'm a PhD student in math and currently I'm stuck at a problem. But my advisor has some idea and it seems to me that he might even solve it soon.
Earlier I had an idea which seemed to be working, but ...
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Recommendation for getting into a different field in Computer Science as first year CS master
I am currently co-supervised by 2 profs and my Master's thesis would be on the intersection of both their work: along the lines of compiler, programming languages and machine learning.
However, I'm ...
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Publication during my intermediate work
I work on wireless communication topic for my thesis and want to published some my intermediate work on my thesis.
There are conferences, Workshops, posters, magazines (did I miss something?). All of ...
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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 we consider the Stack Exchange Q & A process to be research? And can we refer to it on our cv/resume, etc. especially for admission & funding?
I have seen a definition of research in the Cambridge Dictionary. It says:
a detailed study of a subject, especially in order to discover (new) information or reach a (new) understanding:
Here we see ...
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