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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How do I go about writing a review?
I'm an agronomy major who's performing additional academic work as way of increasing my chances of getting into grad school.
This semester I'm going to be writing a literature review regarding plant ...
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Can I publish a review article if I only have a Master degree? [duplicate]
I read many articles about specific area and I feel like I can write a review article. So, is that ok if I only have a Master degree? can some journals accept that? (I will be the sole author)
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Algorithms and review papers
Suppose a review of algorithms used to solve a particular problem is to be written. Is it considered plagiarism or malpractice if the algorithms to be reviewed are copied verbatim?
Do the algorithms ...
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How to fill a review form
I am preparing to send a review report for the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, I wrote all the comments about the paper in Word Document when I log in to my account to ...
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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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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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my article has been evaluated since 17 months. what do you think about this situation? [duplicate]
I submitted my article to a journal on 12.01.2016. I asked many times about status of my paper. I have not received a reply from the editor even though my article has been evaluated since 17 months. ...
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Awaiting Associate Editor decision MEAN? [duplicate]
I had submitted a paper in a reputed journal in more than 2 months back. Upto one month the status was " manuscript is assigned to the editor" Now, the status of the paper is showing "Awaiting ...
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public opinion about published articles
As a young scientist I find it increasingly difficult to filter out the good vs not-so-good research publications. Especially given the number of publications that get published every day. Reports on ...
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Electronic supplementary materials for scientific journals
Journals require certain heights & widths for figures, however, since it's my first time preparing an article with Latex I'm facing some problems.
For example I have a total of 20 maps & I'm ...
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Should I write something to the reviewer who rejected my manuscript?
I have just received a decision letter for my submitted manuscript to an Elsevier journal. It was a revise and resubmit. One of the reviewers recommended rejection and his comment was just "the ...
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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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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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Is a revisiting review bad?
I need to know what it means when a paper starts with: “Revisiting [topic]”
I read enough on a topic to write a survey paper, and I want to publish it in a conference to get feedback and discuss it ...
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Include personal scripts & algorithms in scientific paper
as the title said I want to include a lot of scripts I wrote in scientific paper but how I do that do I upload them In GitHub & then cite them or include them as additional materials at the end of ...
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Can a systematic review only review one article?
I got asked to review a systematic review in a peer-reviewed Pubmed-indexed journal. However, based on the author’s inclusion/exclusion criteria, they only review one article.
Isn't that peculiar? As ...
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Can someone requests further modification after the revised deadline in an IEEE conference?
If one has an accepted paper in the conference and he already submitted the revised version. Suppose that the deadline for submitting the revised papers has been finished last week for example. Is it ...
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Reviewers and incorrect article references - Do they adjust them?
Let's say that an academic paper has been submitted and that it contains some references which are not cited correctly by the authors, e.g. volume, pages, issue are wrong.
Do the peer reviewers ...
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Can I do research in Nanomedicine provided I am a sophomore in chemical Engineering? [closed]
I want to write a Review Paper on Polymer-Based Nanomedicine, but I’am bit confused weather I should proceed, because much of the terminology used is related to Biology not Engineering.
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Should systematic reviews be submitted to journals as original or review articles?
In the Information for Authors of several (health) related journals, manuscript types may include original research and review articles, among others.
I thought systematic reviews (whether ...
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How do you organise scientific articles with and without annotations?
Like most of you, I read several scientific articles every week and annotate them on my tablet.
Do you know of a useful way to organise "clean" vs "annotated" articles in a way that is searchable ...
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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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What does a systematic review entail? In what way is it "tedious"?
I spoke with a research professor who informed me that I may be able to work with him on a systematic review. However, he warned that it can be very tedious and frustrating so I should think about it. ...
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Erratum for scientific articles
I suspect that I have found a mistake in a scientific article (within the field of mathematics). Before bothering my colleagues with questions regarding the legitimacy of the content, I would like to ...
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Should a review paper contain any original (previously unpublished) research?
I am writing a review paper together with two colleagues of mine, to be submitted to a prestigious journal in our field (we already got editorial approval of our proposal). We have contributed ...
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review a review paper with unpublished data
I am reviewing a paper, which is a review paper. The paper seems good, but the authors included many their own observations, which are unpublished. Is it good for a review paper to include may ...
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How to not get lost during bibliography research? [duplicate]
After a phd and a 1 year boring job in a private company, I finally found a postdoc position than looks very interesting to me.
I am very excited to perform research again, but I would like to avoid ...
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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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Accepted paper at conference but not presented
I have wrote a paper almost a year ago which it was accepted by a peer review in a conference. However, I never got to present it there due to excessive fees of the event. I want to cite this paper ...
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How to find a scientific review of a theme?
I'm trying to search for a scientific review article of determined theme. That is, I'm not searching a single scientific article containing an analysis of a determined theme, I'm trying to search a ...
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Is it advisable to cite a lot of commecial product web references in a survey paper?
I'm currently writing a survey on a specific topic in biomechanics. In one of the sections, a tabulation of tools with columns name, type, description, and study is included.
The plan was to cite the ...
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Does a literature survey/review paper require a 'Conclusion' section?
It is clear how a conclusion is necessary for an original research article as it summarized the main aspects of the procedure, experimental results, or inferences drawn from the results. But in a ...
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Should one cite a dictionary for every technical term?
The paper I am working on contains many medical terms -- particularly pathologies -- to which I write the description of each one along with related literature for their causes in a table. For this ...
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Including publications on CV if none are peer-reviewed
I'm updating my CV and need advice regarding publications. I am formerly a Professor of Human Services and Counselor Education. I am not currently in academia, but am a licensed counselor in private ...
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Identifying assumptions in a research article
Sorry if this is a very basic question but I have to clear my head.
When reading a research article, how can I identify the assumptions it makes? Can I "assume" any non referred part/sentence to be ...
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Registering systematic review in Prospero
I have recently submitted a systematic review (SR) to a journal. One of the reviewers pointed out, that my SR was not registered in Prospero, an international prospective register of systematic ...
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Where to get Review articles?
I am wondering about review articles. Where to get them? Google scholar or Researchgate or other such sites does not provide any option to separate out the review articles. It is very hard to look ...
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Valuation of existing Systematic Literature reviews before starting a new one
I will start a systematic literature review of my research topic. Before embarking on this venture, I searched for already existing systematic reviews, mapping or survey papers but I have not found ...
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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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How can writing a Review Paper possibly help in the CV of a undergraduate student?
I'm a student of computer science amd I've written a reseaech review article on Fibonacci Sequence which will be published next month in a math journal. All I wanted to know is how will it help in my ...
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"Educational review articles": How find these
Every once in a while I come across some really well-written review articles. They do not review a field of study and provide insane amounts of references to previous work; rather, they review a ...
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Is there a template for academic paper changes report?
After updating the academic paper as per reviewers comments, one needs to submit the updated paper in parallel to a report of what did he change or why didn't he change. Is there any template for such ...
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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 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 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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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 possible to do a literature review in the IMRaD format?
The IMRaD format (Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion) seems to be the gold standard in publishable scholarly articles in certain fields. I am wondering if I could get my literature review ...
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Resources of APIs for automated paper citation aggregation
I'm looking to do an extensive literature search.
I would like to start with about half a dozen or so survey papers in the field, and look at their bibliography. Then, I would like to go through each ...
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How to deal with low quality software project that needs to be evaluated [closed]
I have evaluated a software project which has been created by a consortium of top scientists in the field. However, the project itself it doesn't really work, and has only been developed as a proof-of-...
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Short summary of other works that cite/build upon your publication
Researchers (in particular, in mathematics), in general, clearly write their paper in the hope that their results will be built upon and cited by other members of the community.
Nowadays most ...
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