Questions tagged [withdraw]
Questions about withdrawal of books or papers from journals and conferences or withdrawal during admissions process to academic programs. This tag is not about withdrawal from academic programs. Use the quitting tag for that.
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How can I withdraw a publication from a predatory (fake) journal and resubmit to a legitimate journal?
I have published a paper in a fake journal. I want to withdraw the paper from that journal.
After successful withdrawal from the fake journal, can I can submit the same paper to a legitimate journal?...
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Withdraw manuscript from peer review after finding a major error
I just received a major revision decision (1st round) for a manuscript I submitted to a reputable journal. After looking into one of the reviewer's comments I found a major error in my analysis. The ...
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Is it ethical to withdraw a paper after acceptance in order to resubmit to a better journal?
I think the title asks the question, but once again in more words:
Suppose you submit a paper to a journal and it is accepted by the journal. By this I mean that the journal tells you that they have ...
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Author wants to withdraw or insist on re-reviewing at proof stage of publication
I am editing a small scholarly journal published by a learned society. One of our authors, after his manuscript was finally accepted for publication and he had signed and returned the publishing ...
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What to do when you have accidentally submitted an article to a predatory journal
I'm an inexperienced researcher and I made the stupid mistake of submitting my article to a predatory journal. I realised the journal was fake when they failed to provide the reviewers comments.
I ...
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Withdrawing conference paper (after acceptance) due to budget issue
I'm wondering if it is ethical to withdraw an accepted conference paper because the registration fees exceeded my budget?
The fees were only announced after the paper submission deadline thus I didn'...
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Is it reasonable for an author to withdraw an accepted paper because they have since done better work?
I submitted a paper to a good journal, it was refereed, and after a year it got accepted for publication.
But now that a year has passed, I no longer find the results or methods of that paper to be ...
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What should advisors do if one of their PhD students has to withdraw?
Unfortunately, there are circumstances when not everything goes right in a student's PhD career, or there can be personal circumstances that require doctoral candidates to withdraw from a PhD program ...
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Should I withdraw my paper if I find another paper published with the same idea?
I submitted a paper and it is currently under review (submitted on 10th March and conference is on 15th October, I'll be notified on 15th July). However, now, in May, I see a paper has just published ...
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How to withdraw your paper from an open access journal where it has been accepted?
My paper got accepted in a mediocre open access journal. However later I found out that its publishing fees was too high.
What would be the correct way of asking a withdrawal of your article from ...
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Is it bad to withdraw a manuscript one day after its submission?
I submitted it yesterday, after sending it to a repository. Then, a colleague gave a quick read and found some narrative issues, i.e., our abstract seems to be claiming something we did not do and we ...
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How do some Ws on transcripts affect PhD admissions in mathematics?
I am a senior who is graduating in December with a Bachelor's Degree in Pure math. I would really love to apply to the PhD program. However, I have been really depressed because even though I have a ...
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Do I need to wait for a journal to "consent" to paper withdrawal before submitting elsewhere?
I have a question about submission elsewhere and journal's "consent" of paper withdrawing.
Recently I have withdrawn a paper of mine from a journal, which I want to submit elsewhere. Since I knew ...
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One of the coauthors withdraws their authorship after submitting a paper
Is there a problem to change (reduce) list of authors of a paper after it has been submitted to a journal? I am one of the (ten) co-authors of this paper. After the review and changes we made in the ...
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After the passing of my supervisor, the department forces me to start again from zero. How to respond?
I have had a very rocky PhD candidacy. My first supervisor left academia half way through my candidacy; the replacing supervisor passed away a year after that. So two and a half years through a three-...
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Can a (predatory or fake) journal refuse to withdraw a non-published paper, even though the journal is to blame for withdrawal request?
Synopsis: Can a fake journal keep the copyright of a submitted (not published) paper, despite the authors' request to withdraw it (because of the journal not keeping its full-waiver promise and also ...
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Can I withdraw an accepted paper if the fees are higher than expected because the proof is longer?
I have received the acceptance of my paper from Editor board. However, the print charges is much higher than I expected. My original manuscript contained only 12 pages but the proof (final version), ...
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Should I withdraw my paper because review is taking too long?
I submitted an article to a prestigious journal JCR Q1 about 20 months ago. It took more than 6 months for them to send the article for review. But it was worth it. The reviewers did a good job and ...
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I got into grad school, now I need to retract my commitment
I got into a fully funded PhD program and accepted it. Somewhere along the line, my decision to attend grad school changed. My problem is that orientation week is in two weeks and I have not retracted ...
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How to withdraw a published paper when former boss seems to be raising ethical and data integrity issues with the editor?
Recently our group published a paper in an important open-access publication. During my work, I was subordinated to a person who left the research center six months before I finish the study, but ...
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Should I withdraw a paper if the Editor-in-Chief doesn't like it, but the reviewers think it's great?
This is a long story. I am a mathematician. A couple of years ago I submitted my paper to one of the best journals in my field. After 8 months of waiting, I finally recieved a response, and it was "A ...
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A year + for first review, one referee report in, want to withdraw paper
A paper of mine has been under review for more than a year now. About 6 months ago I heard from the journal that one referee report is in while they are waiting for the 2nd. The editor promised he ...
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What are the consequences of withdrawing an abstract from a conference?
I have submitted an abstract for a conference using some preliminary results. I read all the advice about how to write an abstract with no results and I didn't lie in my abstract—I just presented the ...
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How would you write to your in-class team, that you are going to drop the class, leaving no hard feelings?
We have a project to do with them but I don't have the time and am not sure if this email is appropriate for them. What do you think? I would greatly appreciate your advice.
Here is what I am thinking ...
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Ramifications of withdrawing publication offer (question from student editor)?
I am the editor of a student-edited journal at a graduate school. We extended a publication offer to an author that has published with the journal in the past, and with whom I do not wish to burn any ...
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How to withdraw from an application process in a polite manner?
Say a candidate has met with a potential PhD supervisor and it was rather evident that he would be willing to take on the candidate. You have emailed a lot and met in person a few times, but nothing ...
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What should I do if I want to withdraw my paper from a journal but they ignore my request?
I submitted my paper seven months ago and it is still under review. I sent several emails to the handling editor but I didn't get any response except every time I sent an email the status date was ...
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Is it legal to withdraw a signed offer letter from grad school?
I am asking for my little cousin who is going to graduate school this year.
He has just signed an offer letter with school A, but just yesterday he got a better one from school B (may know school A ...
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Withdrawing an article out for review when another journal posts a call for papers for a special issue that is right on topic?
I've recently sent out an article for review. I've been in email contact with the editor from journal #1 from the start, and was quite up-front that I wasn't sure whether or not my article would be a ...
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The editor of a jounal asked me to withdraw the ArXiv version of a paper and only upload it after acceptance. Is it possible to do that?
I submitted a paper to Elsevier recently. The editor told me that its similarity tool found more than 80% of word coincidence and sent me the report. I realized that the test actually referred to the ...
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How can I withdraw a published paper?
When I submitted my paper to a journal in November 2021, I saw that it was indexed by SCOPUS, but in 2022 I noticed that it is no longer indexed by SCOPUS. Therefore, I want to withdraw my published ...
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Withdrawing a paper after acceptance modulo revisions?
I have seen the questions here and here, but my reasons for wishing to withdraw are utterly different than theirs, so I don't think they're especially relevant.
I work in mathematics, say in field A. ...
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Should I withdraw my other PhD applications when I have a secured funding and a supervisor but I am waiting for the faculty decision?
I'm applying for PhD studies to a university in Netherlands, the procedure entails that you should contact a professor and obtain a letter of acceptance. I have already secured funding and now found a ...
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How to revoke my old paper from a fake journal (waset.org)? [duplicate]
It was like more than 6 years ago, I was an undergrad senior in a south asian university, we did not have much internet connectivity back then.
I wanted to publish something on a journal/conference ...
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What to do if predatory journal won't withdraw paper after acceptance? [duplicate]
Last year, I’ve started an independent research in hopes to be published one day.
Fast forwarding a year (a couple of weeks ago in fact), I have finished my manuscript in which I was planning to ...
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How can I withdraw a manuscript that is placed under-review?
I have a manuscript that is placed under review for a month now and during this month I have discovered that there are a few things I want to change/add in the manuscript and I don't want to publish ...
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What I should write to a professor to decline a PhD offer, while I have accepted it months ago?
In Dec. last year, I got admitted to CUHK as a PhD student, and have chosen my 'future advisor', with whom I had been emailing for several months. Three months later, I recieved HKPFS (Hong Kong PhD ...
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Should I withdraw a paper from arXiv if it does not contain any new research?
I had submitted a copy of a reading-cum-review project to arXiv in my undergrad sophomore year without really thinking of the consequences. The paper was announced and eventually moved to the General ...
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How do I withdraw a paper from a journal after it was accepted but before it was fully published?
On the advice of a senior colleague, I decided that I do not want to publish the paper anymore and with that journal. I wrote the editor several times; he has received the emails, but refuses to reply....
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Upcoming dismissal as supervisor no longer wants to supervise me - should I just withdraw?
Basically my PI dropped this on me last week and said that my work is not up to PhD standards. It's pretty frustrating because it seemed like I was on track to graduate this year. That said, my PI has ...
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What to do about fee from publisher for withdrawing unpublished accepted manuscript?
I had sent my manuscript mistakenly to two different journals and both journals are ready to publish (not yet published) my work which is not possible. So, after knowing their impact factor I ...
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When editor does not respond to the request for withdrawal
I submitted a manuscript to a journal, but due to some issue with that I asked the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor to withdraw the manuscript from further consideration.
Despite several emails, ...
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Is it possible to cancel paper submission after one week?
I submitted my paper one week ago to a journal and I want to cancel my submission. Is it possible?
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Misleading statement on duration of review process and withdrawal of under-review article
We submitted an article to a SCI Elsevier journal. The Elsevier website has clearly mentioned that submission to first decision takes 4.5 weeks, submission to
final decision takes 4.7 weeks and ...
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Can I withdraw from one conference and attend another one with the same abstract?
A few weeks ago I submitted a two-page abstract to a conference in environmental sciences/ecology/biology. I haven't received the decision yet – poster or presentation. A few days ago I found out ...
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Will withdrawing from a graduate program, affect my future admissions applications?
I am in an MS program at a big university in the US, where I pay my own tuition.
I am not happy with the quality of education I am getting at this university.
I am thinking that after this quarter ...
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How valuable is being in an A+ rank CS conference with a short paper?
My paper is accepted in an A-rank conference in computer science as a short paper. I need to reduce it to 6-pages instead of 10-pages.
All the reviewers said the paper has all the required elements to ...
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Is there something like withdrawal charges?
I have served as a reviewer for allied academies and decided to submit an article myself, but couldn't find any info regarding APCs.
After some months I was told that my article is accepted and I have ...
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What to do when a manuscript is still under review after 14 months? withdraw?
I have submitted a manuscript to a journal, but after 14 months they have not given me any answer while I have sent email to them many times. Now, What can I do?
(I only received a revision 12 ...
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Mental Illness as a cause of academic disruptions [duplicate]
I'm an undergraduate mathematics major and I also struggle with PTSD and depression. A lot of the trauma is triggered by being in a close-spaced classroom environment which makes attending classes ...
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