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Questions related to academic publications including online and traditional journals, books, and conference proceedings.

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Why do papers found online often not say their publication date?

Many of the papers that you can find on the internet are what are called "preprints". A preprint is a manuscript prepared by the author (usually before the paper is submitted for publication, but it …
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Publication Strategy for book manuscript

With book proposals most authors submit proposals to several publishers at once and then negotiate with those that are interested in the book project. There's generally no clause that says "You canno …
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Deletion of author when submit the revised version of the submitted paper

Is this third author willing to give up authorship? If so, the third author should contact the editor and explain that they want their name taken off of the revised paper and explain why. In my expe …
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What do you call an academic who puts their name on an article they didn't write?

Phrases like "guest author", "honorary author", or "courtesy author" have been used to describe this practice. References: See use of "guest author" here: Legal Remedies for Medical Ghostwriting: …
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Where do English/History or Humanities professors post their research publications?

Furthermore, it's quite common for the web pages of faculty members in these disciplines to list their publications. Thus I'm surprised that you say you can't determine what they've published. …
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Why are some research papers scanned with OCR instead of actual PDF?

In many cases, even through the early 2000's, publishers produced print journals using older type setting systems and did not produce PDFs of the papers for online publication. Once the papers were t …
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Why do tenured professors still publish in pay-walled venues?

Even if a faculty member has settled into a tenured full professorship they still typically have annual evaluations for the purpose of determining pay raises, and having publications in highly ranked journals …
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Change formatting vs. looking wrong

These kinds of issues are normally fixed later in the publishing process. If your paper is accepted you'll be asked to submit a final version of your paper in LaTeX. A professional type setter will …
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Sharing research results in platforms that may soon disappear

Publishers of subscription journals can participate in backup schemes that archive the journal content and will make it available if the journal publisher goes out of business. See the CLOCKSS projec …
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23 votes

How can I prove my publication list is mine?

When it comes to hiring a faculty member, you can expect that members of the search committee will look at a candidate's papers. Since the published paper typically shows the affiliation of the autho …
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Is SPIE proceedings publication a real scientific publication?

Here are several answers: Will tenure and promotion committees consider these as publications? … Probably not at the same level as publications in top-tier peer-reviewed journals, but they probably will be considered as conference proceedings papers. …
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Should results of a journal paper always be reproducible?

It is important to run multiple indepemdent replications and statistically analyze the results rather than simply running the simulation once and reporting that result. It is also important to save t …
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Preprint services other than arXiv (for other fields)

Optimization Online is a preprint site for papers in optimization: http://www.optimization-online.org/
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What determines the copyright year for a publication?

It's a common thing for publishers to set the copyright date as late as possible so as to get an extra year of copyright protection. It's quite common to see books that appear in print in stores in th …
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Coverage of Web of Science

To answer the question directly, No, you can't get Web of Science to index your other publications. … Furthermore, their citation counts won't include citations that occurred in publications that they don't index. Other services have different policies on this. …
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