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

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how one is not accused of plagiarism when including an article in a MSc thesis?

Many journals have specific policies that allow the submission of material that has previously appeared in an MS or Ph.D. thesis. This is an exception to the general rule that submitted manuscripts m …
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When are authors on publications in Google Scholar clickable

You might think that Google Scholar would show you the list of all publications by authors with that same name, but there are so many name duplications that this isn't done. … If you have a public author profile, then it should be possible for anyone who accesses one of your publications to click on your name and get to that public profile. …
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How can I finish my PhD?

You may or may not have already ruined your chances of completing the degree by missing time limits established by the department. You may or may not have ruined your relationship with your advisor. …
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Can I write the same text in method section in two different project?

Reusing the text from a previous paper in a new paper is a form of "self-plagiarism" that publishers are increasingly unwilling to accept. It's true that this was a relatively common practice in the …
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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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What is the difference between this "book" and a research paper?

Springer publishes books as well as journals. This particular item is a reference book published by Springer. You can certainly cite chapters of a book like this.
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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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Can I copy the "background" and "related work" part of my published paper?

Another legal reason for publishers requiring you to rewrite this material is that the copyright holder on the previous paper (which is most likely the publisher, not you!) might object to another pub …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why don't publication venues systematically make the LaTeX source of papers available?

I think your question is actually about why publishers don't make the LaTeX source of papers available to readers rather than why publishers don't accept submissions in LaTeX form. You might want to …
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