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Advice for PhD: Number of Applications (Humanities)

I am currently a postgraduate whose degree is near completion, and I would like to apply for a PhD in the United Kingdom. I am a first generation student which means that I have limited awareness of ...
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When is it useful to wait for the resubmission of a revised manuscript?

I recently attended a conference and witnessed an interesting discussion between a PhD and his supervisor. The supervisor recommended his student to "wait with the re-submission until the very ...
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What does the Editor-in-chief do with the Associate editor recommendation? How much is him/her involved?

I am aware about the typical workflow of a journal. Still, I am very curious about the "last steps" before an article is accepted. Let's assume one successfully passed peer review and the ...
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Where to search for 60's Russian literature [duplicate]

I am looking for some 60's Russian literature. I have found citations of the sources, but I cannot find places to access them. The university library said they cannot help me. I would appreciate any ...
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Is it necessary to acknowledge a finished project?

After a funding project is completed (e.g., an NSF project), researchers often continue to conduct research based on that project, such as using databases, data tools, experimental material, ...
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From PhD to Assistant/Associate Professor

I am in a bit of a pickle as soon I will finish my PhD and I will need to think about the next step in the academic career. One thing I realized is that is very unclear how the scientific production (...
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I do not receive proper support from my PhD advisor

I have started my fully-funded-PhD for about 6 months in North America. When I applied professor promised me that he was going to provide me with the funding. Yet, I have not received any detailed ...
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Why some universities prefer to hire people with only one postdoc?

I am currently doing my first postdoc in mathematics and I noticed that when it comes to hiring for tenure-track assistant professor positions, some universities prefer to hire people with a single ...
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Is a mislabled reference an example of scientific misconduct?

In a dissertation, I noticed a mistake in referencing. In such a way that the material related to reference number 17 was mistakenly attributed to reference number 18 and it seems like a typo error. I ...
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How do I support my advisor on his most busy weeks?

I'm a postdoc at a US university and I have a truly wonderful research advisor. Sometimes, during our regular meetings, I find out that things are particularly tough for my advisor this week. The ...
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Is it a good idea, for a young researcher, to submit to arXiv a "mediocre" paper?

I'm a PhD student in physics, working on some projects with my advisors, which are hopefully going to be published soon. I have a profile on ResearchGate, on which I posted my theses, a poster, and a ...
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Independent researcher being solicited for an academic collaboration. What do I need to know?

I am an independent researcher and have recently been solicited from the director of a university research lab to see what potential there is for collaboration. They found some of my papers and ...
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Struggle to regain lost passion in physics

I am a PhD student currently in my second to last year. Last year something weird happened, my supervisor forced me into projects in which I was not interested. He forced me into collaborations which ...
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"Awaiting Referee Assignment" Does that mean my submission passed the first decision? [duplicate]

I submitted a paper yesterday to a SAGE journal, and it went very quickly from with journal administrator (or something like that) to Awaiting Referee Assignment. There is an editor attached to it as ...
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How to deal with collaborators prone to publish in MDPI? [closed]

I am the only person in academia doing a certain research, so several colleagues ask me to collaborate. Of course, I am more than happy to take part in multidisciplinary work, as it tends to be more ...
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Forgot to give a copy of consent form to participants throughout qualifier project and dissertation data collection. What are my next steps?

I'm a 4th year doctoral candidate who recently finished data collection for my dissertation. However, I have some bad news that wasn't pointed out to me until I trained a prospective research ...
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How to go about a career in academia when professional work is under a pseudonym? (Art Professor)

I'm an artist currently getting my MFA, current a TA, I will begin adjuncting next semester and hope to pursue tenure track/stay in academia in the future. I've hit a bit of a road block in terms of ...
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Switching PhD programs for personal reasons

I have recently started a PhD program in the natural sciences (UK). My partner is enrolled in a program at a different university in continental Europe. The timings of our offers were mismatched, and ...
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NEAR/n or W/n operators returning irrelevant results

I'm trying to conduct a systematic review. Unfortunately one of the necessary search terms is "data". I have tried constructing my terms so that any single mention of "data" ...
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Do I need to let the editor know of my first peer-review?

As an incoming physics PhD student, I've recently been offered an opportunity to review a manuscript for a journal, it's a paper that builds upon a prior work I've co-authored. While I'm familiar with ...
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Ways to successful PHD: basically just math or statistics?

Is it true that the way of achieving successful PhD goes through illustrating that you can do relatively hardcore math (or statistics as a subset of math)? Mostly in the field of economics but also ...
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Is it expected to pursue a PhD after being a pre-doctoral research assistant with a professor

Does being a research assistant but previous to being a doctoral student under one specific professor mean that you are expected to apply for a PhD with them as supervisor in the following year? I ...
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Masters advisors want me to become a Phd Student, but afraid he won't get tenure before I finish

I am a masters student in Computer Science in the U.S. I have been doing research with my advisor for the past year, and I really love the research area that I am doing, and been fortunate enough to ...
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How to detect use of multiple AI-based tools by student?

It blew my mind when I found students can use multiple AI tools to overcome the possibility of detecting the use of AI to answer assignments and test questions. I was on a family visit and sitting ...
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Can a coauthor do the presentation at a conference?

I am the first author of a research paper I did under the supervision of my teacher (note that I am a BSc student of computer science). My paper got accepted at a conference. Now I have to present the ...
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A colleague ignored my request for a favor. Later same colleague asked me for a favor. How should I respond?

I asked a colleague to give me a short tour of their lab to see how they have established it. Later, I followed up saying I was still interested in visiting their lab. They told me that they would ...
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Government Job Hiring Process

I was recently contacted out of the blue by one of the national labs about a social science research position. I met with three members of the team shortly thereafter and they pitched the position to ...
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Authorship: PI has put themself first and others alphabetical. Is this reasonable?

I’m looking for some thoughts on authorship ordering (social sciences). As a post-doc I was tasked with writing a research report. I have drafted the full original report manuscript. The report ...
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ORCID iD Inclusion in SpringNature Manuscript Submission

I am currently preparing a paper for submission to the International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (JDSA) by SpringNature. I have filled out all the required information in the submission ...
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Should I submit my math subject GRE score? (Engineering undergraduate applying for Applied Math MS)

I scored 740 (63 percentile) in the math subject GRE. I am applying for a masters in Applied Math in the US. Given most unis have the GRE requirement optional, would submitting the score affect my ...
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GRE mathematics subject test

I received a scaled score of 480 and it seems it is not a nice score for GRE mathematics subject test. Should I include it or should I not include it in my application for masters in astrophysics in ...
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How much does pre-PhD work affect chances in seeking academic jobs?

I have completed the third year of my PhD studies in Electrical Engineering. So far, I have published a few conference papers during my PhD. However, I had several good journal and conference ...
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How do I form a great relationship with my advisor? [duplicate]

I'm currently doing research work at a university for two years before I begin my doctoral studies. I just arrived here around 3 months ago. From what I've gathered, my advisor is genuinely a very ...
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ChatGPT-alike for local abundant PDFs

I have a lot of PDF files collected using such tools as Mendeley or Zotero (thousands of files). I want to use ChatGPT-like to ask questions based on these PDF files (for example: "What is the ...
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Upon resubmission, can I oppose some previous reviewers if I stronly disagree with their comments?

I submitted a manuscript to an Elsevier journal. I was given a major revision after a two-month review period. The comments from the two reviewers are positive and constructive. It took me a month to ...
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Referencing for an unknown source

I copied a work from an uploaded copy and the references were incorrect. how do I get the correct reference for the work?
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Submission was sent back to me by the journal, for these reasons. What do I do

A Table of Contents must be provided for reviews as required for the journal. Please use the correct structured abstract format required for the journal (Ethnopharmacological relevance, Aim of the ...
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What is publishable in Academia [closed]

I am a PhD candidate who is working on something new to me in a similar but different field as my educational background. So I have received some guidance to start with what my supervisor knows well. ...
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Applied to Ph.D. position in Norway; process has taken 5 months so far [duplicate]

So I applied to two positions in Norway, and the process has been slow. I know it would be slow but not this slow. For the 1st position: I knew it would open because of a professor who was interested ...
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How do you write out mathematical formulae in a thesis [closed]

I am writing out my thesis at the moment and I am using Machine Learning Algorithms. Let's say I am using Support Vector Machine. I am not necessarily re-inventing the algorithm nor am I implementing ...
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Google scholar not updating PDF link to published conference version from older arXiv link

One of our paper was arXiv'd before getting accepted at a conference. The conference has its own publishing site where all the accepted papers are publicly available. For our paper, Google Scholar has ...
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"Gold" open access restricting use of accepted manuscript?

We have had a paper accepted with Mathematische Annalen (Springer). As my university has an open access agreement with Springer, the paper will be published as (gold) open access, with a Creative ...
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Request for Changes to the Author List

I need to change the corresponding author in my paper. The journal asked to submit a form which is about changes in the author list. The text is as follows : Do I still need to submit this form. I ...
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Is downloading articles from SciHub legal in some jurisdictions?

I read this comment: The statement at the very beginning ("Downloading articles from SciHub is illegal.") seems problematic. This likely depends on where you are. Nick 2 days ago This ...
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Medical Withdrawals and Grad School Admission [duplicate]

I am an undergraduate student studying mathematics and I am planning to apply for PhD programs after my graduation. However, I have 11 W's on my transcript currently, and I worry how it will affect my ...
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Would it be ok to mention in the post-doctoral application that my co-author is also applying for one of the two positions?

I have been applying for some post-doctoral position in mathematics. Recently, I have came across two post-doctoral positions in the same department and in same research projects. On similar areas, I ...
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Contacting Academic about Industry Problem

I am on an R&D team in industry with no formal connection to anyone in academia. However, a professor wrote a paper on implementing idea A. I have an idea B that extends idea A, but I am unsure ...
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Changing the role of Corresponding author in a Journal for APC charges

I wrote a research paper while i was doing my Postdoc at a university. Later I submitted one of research paper after the completion of my Postdoc. I submitted my paper to IEEE Access which charges APC ...
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Being in "1 Reviewer(s) invited" state for 4 months, What should I do? [duplicate]

I have submitted an article in a math journal, the status has remained at "1 Reviewer(s) invited" for the past 4 months. In an attempt to understand the reasons behind this delay and seek an ...
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Preparing CS Grad Application As An Interdisciplinary Studies Major

I started my Bachelor's as an international student in Electrical Engineering. Later, I switched my major to Computer Information Science (because I loved working with C and Assembly language ...
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