Questions tagged [review-articles]
"Survey" or "review" articles are academic publications that organize and summarize the current state of research on a given topic in a novel way that integrates and adds understanding to work in the field. For questions related to the peer-review process, use the 'peer-review' tag instead.
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Is it normal that a peer reviewer would ask for an executable file in order to check my results?
I have just received a decision letter for my submitted manuscript to an Elsevier journal. It was a revise and resubmit. However one of the reviewer asked for an executable file in order to check my ...
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At what stage of research career one can write a 'review article'?
At what stage of research career one can write a 'review article'?
Obviously a graduate student in the beginning stages cannot/may not write one. But how experienced does one need to be before ...
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How to effectively address conflicting suggestions from reviewers
A bit of background, I am doing research in atmospheric physics and detection systems
Recently, I received a paper submission back with revisions suggested by a couple of reviewers. For the most ...
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Why are review articles cited more frequently than original research articles?
Review articles generally receive more citations compared to original research articles.
In my mind, it should be the other way around, as journal guidelines generally solicit researchers to cite ...
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Should a graduate student accept random offer to be a reviewer for IEEE Transactions paper?
I have been asked by a well-established professor to review a regular paper submitted to IEEE Transactions, however, I am concerned as in the email, he titled me "Dr. Monkia" although I am still being ...
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How to write a survey paper?
I want to write a survey on one emerging research topic in wireless communications (It can be applied to any field!). There are almost 500 papers on this topic as published or in early access. And the ...
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Is it convenient to ask the journal's editor for two additional days to complete a review?
I am assigned as a reviewer of an article for IEEE TNNLS (computer science), but unfortunately, I would be super busy during the week of the deadline. In fact, I need to submit a paper and also two ...
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Is it okay to keep on updating a published paper online?
Suppose someone publishes a survey paper in some journal on a topic where a lot of work is still going on. A lot of new interesting works are expected to be published every year on this topic. Is it a ...
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How to resolve: Reviewer #1 says remove section X vs. Reviewer #2 says expand section X
I am experiencing conflicting reviews with my manuscript that recently received its reviews. The reviewer #1 wants me to delete the analysis X for the clarity and focus of my MS, while reviewer #2 ...
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When writing a review article, is it okay to cite recent preprints?
I am currently writing a review paper (for the first time) on an emerging topic, and the problem is that almost all the sources that I found regarding this topic are preprints on arxiv.
I wanted to ...
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Potential Plagiarism of Published Papers when writing Survey Paper
I am in the process of writing a survey paper, and found one conference publication A that I will cite. Additionally, I found a journal publication B that I almost would have included in the survey, ...
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How to identify the publications that cite two specific papers?
Finding the citations of any particular paper is straightforward.
But how do you identify the set of publications that cite two specific papers?
The reason I am asking this is because I am trying ...
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Suggesting my own paper when serving as a peer reviewer
I am reviewing a survey paper in a good journal, where the paper missed important papers in the field including my previously published articles. I plan to suggest a rejection due to this serious lack,...
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Can I write a systematic review as an undergraduate and get it published in a journal?
I am an undergraduate of Animal and Environmental Biology. I don't have much research experience, but I have taken some courses on research writing and have assisted some senior students in their ...
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Can I write a systematic review by myself?
I am a nascent academic in a medical field. I want to start publishing early, even before my master's. I see people like me do a lot of systematic reviews, though they collaborate with one or two ...
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Is it okay to incorporate a block of citations from a review paper into my own paper?
I'm currently writing a paper on a certain topic for which a review article was recently published. Of course, I want to contrast my new approach to existing techniques. For that purpose, I have ...
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Is it accepted to cite an entire issue of a journal?
There exist review journals that every now and then publish a thematic issue on a given topic. For example, Chemical Reviews does so: one thematic issue (see e.g. this one) includes an editorial and a ...
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What is the difference between a review paper and a research paper?
I have been working on a review paper. After publication, how will it add on my academic research profile? When I will apply for MS or PHD admission, will it count as publication?
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How valuable/impressive is a review article written by an undergraduate?
I am the Graduate Coordinator of my department at my state research university. I am currently evaluating several PhD applications for a prestigious internal fellowship. The catch is that, while I ...
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Can literature review be a research paper on its own?
I am thinking about starting a research to publish in a peer reviewed journal. However, I wonder if a literature review is a research paper. For instance, if I wrote a paper about EU-Russia affairs in ...
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What should I do about my supervisor's high demand?
My research area is Computational Biology. My work involves in silico methods, I do not carry out any wet lab related experiments. My supervisor wants 4 chapters (apart from introduction and ...
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How to handle citing duplicate publications?
I am writing a review article and have come across a number of references which were published verbatim in their entirety in more than one place (same author(s) and the same content; Duplicate ...
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Is there a way to find review articles by the keyword?
When I search for papers using some keywords in academic databases (like Google Scholar), there are lots of papers, but I would like to read literature reviews first because I’m new in that area. (By ...
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Updating a review paper after several years by publishing a new review paper
Six years ago, I published a review (survey) paper about a topic in my field.
Since then the literature (and the topic) has evolved substantially, so I think it’d be worthwhile to update the review ...
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What is the difference between a literature survey and a conceptual paper?
What is the difference between a literature survey and a conceptual paper?
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On writing critical review: is there any threat?
During my research on a specific topic, I found two interesting papers by same authors. So, I decided to implement their proposed idea but it was not possible. At first, I thought that I was wrong but ...
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Refuted papers: do they belong in a literature review?
I'm writing a detailed review article (for submission for publication) that aims to survey the various proposed explanations for a particular biological phenomenon. I'm aware of one explanation (that ...
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Survey or original article: Which one is more important to get postdoc or tenure-track position?
There are two main opinions about originality and contribution of ISI (journals which are indexed and listed in JCR report by Thomson Routers)* survey/review journal articles compared to original ...
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How can I efficiently update a literature review (that got outdated due to being rejected three times)?
Two years ago a colleague and I conducted a full-text analysis-based systematic literature review regarding a specific topic in information systems. We’ve done it in the time span of three months. ...
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What are the differences between these kinds of articles: original, review, letter, and short communication?
I am interested in knowing, what are the differences between Original Paper, Review Paper, Letter and Short/ Rapid/ Brief Communication paper?
Thanks to everyone for reading and taking the time for ...
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What is the relative prestige conferred by an invited review article vs a research article?
What exactly is an "invited review article"? I have the opportunity to be an author on one of these, but I have no clue how this looks in comparison to research articles. (I am referring to invited ...
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Who gets to write book reviews for academic journals?
Some journals publish reviews of newly published books in their field. It's not clear how authors for these reviews are typically chosen. Can you apply for writing a review? Or should you do just like ...
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How to disclose in a review of an edited book that one was offered a chapter?
Some time ago, I attended a conference. The organizers later compiled an edited book with the revised presentations of the conference. I was also offered to contribute a chapter. But after the sending ...
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How is the Journal for an Annual Review Chosen
The review in question that got me thinking about this is the The Review of Particle Physics by the Particle Data Group. It's a biannual review of all particle physics results and is meant to be the ...
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Are there any implications about review paper acceptance if the proposal has been accepted?
So I recently submitted a proposal to a prestigious review journal. To my excitement, the proposal was accepted, and the journal has invited us to write a full review. Now the official policy of the ...
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How important are review articles to secure a tenure-track position?
My field is chemistry and I have had successful postdoc experiences for four years. Next year I want to apply for a tenure-track assistant professor position.
My supervisor says review articles are ...
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Review paper very similar to mine
I have published a review paper a few years ago in an important journal which was recently (last month) cited by a review paper related to the topic (published in another journal).
However, a ...
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Include article in bibliography I didn't cite
Say I gained knowledge from a review article. However, I don't cite that review article. I do cite articles cited by that review article, but not the review itself.
Should I still include that review ...
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Is it a good idea to turn my PhD thesis' introduction into a survey paper?
The goal of my PhD was to design a particular device. Such a ldesign requires many considerations, because the structure has many "moving parts" and available upgrades.
The topic has been ...
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Is searching in article references considered a systematic way of literature search?
Doing a systematic review, either quantitative or qualitative, requires developing a well-defined protocol as a method of conducting it. This includes defining the search methods used in the ...
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How to respond to reviewers that ask you to "look again at your results" without providing further details?
Recently my research paper got major revision in which one of the reviewer ask me to look again at the results I have derived without pointing to any specific item of results. I have double checked my ...
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Do I publish a paper independently or ask a professor to mentor me?
I am an undergraduate studentcurrently in my 3rd year. I have worked on a project for the last year. I was thinking of writing a review paper about the topic. It was a graded project in my curriculum ...
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Including own review article in Thesis?
I am currently writing the introduction to my PhD thesis and have one specific doubt about how to include or cite a review article that I have published with jointly with my supervisors.
In my ...
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Postdoctoral grants for writing review papers
I am a PhD student in Bioinformatics at a big university in Canada working in the area of molecular biology and computational models. Due to the nature of medical research, we often approach very tiny ...
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Does it look bad to cite a single review paper repeatedly for many different things?
I am limited to a set number of pages for a research paper I am writing. One trick that I thought of was to find large 'review' papers that talk about a lot of things.
For instance:
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How to check how fast the review and publication process in a journal
I am trying to decide on the journal where I want to submit my article. Besides the ranking of the journal, what I care is the speed with which the journal review articles. OK, I do not accept a super-...
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Do you have to be invited to write a review?
I am interested in writing a review on a topic that I am very interested in and am very well informed about. I would like to ask how does one go about doing this?
I was told that you have to be ...
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Are review articles the result of original observations?
I am about to submit a PhD thesis by published work. The university guidelines states that "the content of the papers should be the result of original observations". I would like to include a review ...
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Affiliated institution wants to remove name from already published paper?
We have published a review article, years ago, and since then all of the authors left the institution. Now the institution has suddenly woken up and realized that the authors did not get permission ...
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Am I allowed to publish reviews submitted for courses in open-access journals?
Question is rather self explanatory.
I understand that the article was submitted within the context of a course within the university, but it is nonetheless my intellectual property. I also ...
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