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I like papers about simple ideas. (I am writing one right now, hope others like it as well.) They are far easier to communicate and understand than complex ideas. Then again, the question is why nobo …

First of all, you are absolutely right that you need to cite the paper. Citations should not be to "previous work you based your work on" but to "the state of the art" - whether or not you explicitly …

Beware that your proposed course of action can backfire. That lower tier journal that you submit to instead of addressing the reviewers' concerns may very well invite the very same reviewers as the or …

Don't do this. Here is some random data with 21 experiments A-U, each one repeated 3 times. In both cases, the experimentwise means (indicated using red crosses) are identical, but the within-experim …

Details are omitted to conserve space. Terse. Because you don't want your explanation to cause you to go over the page limit.

First off: if you are not a full time student, it's natural that you will take longer than others (who I presume are full time students). Don't feel too pressured by this. Second, if you are involved …

Submitting your manuscript to the journal the original conjecture was published in is probably a good idea. After all, if the journal published the original conjecture, then the conjecture is obviousl …

In general, yes, absolutely. People expand on previous research all the time - whether their own or someone else's. Of course, you will need to cite and refer to your earlier publication. The question …

Other people on the author list have spent weeks interviewing people in African refugee camps, juggling noxious chemicals in a lab and/or digging through prior publications. …

Yes, this is completely OK. You are not bound to perpetuate typos from earlier versions just because reviewers did not find them. It's always good to indicate that typos were cleaned up and similar, …

Even if you graduate without publications, that is still better than quitting 80% through. Finishing the Ph.D. shows that you persist in face of difficulties. That is a valuable skill. …

@posdef's comment is already very good. I would definitely suggest contacting the authors and trying to get exact agreement also on the details that they didn't describe in the original paper. The or …

Be very careful about this. Many such emails are automated spam: people automatically scrape recently published papers and automatically generate such "invitation" emails. This mainly tries to get you …

If the median is 10 days, that means that half of decisions take longer than that. Plus, among the half of decisions that get taken in 10 days or less are presumably all the desk rejections that happe …

I used to be a "don't break the axis" purist. I like to think that I have learned better. Nowadays, whenever I know that zero does not make sense for the data I am visualizing, I don't hesitate to bre …