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Should abstract contain citation, if current research is an extension of the another research?
Yes, you need to cite whatever you use, whether quoting or summarizing. Otherwise you open yourself to possible charges of plagiarism (or self-plagiarism).
This would be especially true if it is ...
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Is it bad to get 40% on TurnitIn?
It doesn't look like either you or your professor are mistaken on this point, but it bears repeating: TurnItIn and related software are not plagiarism checkers, and 40% is not the amount of plagiarism....
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Is there any way to find the most-cited papers that match a keyword?
Not in Google Scholar. PubMed does not either. Both Scopus and WoS allow you to do that though. I'm not sure about other search engines or databases.
There was a similar question a few years ago: Is ...
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Is it bad to get 40% on TurnitIn?
40% for me would be a reason to check the Turnitin report, which of course shows how they arrive at 40%. In your case I'd then see that there is no problem (assuming that there isn't;-). I'm well ...
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Is it bad to get 40% on TurnitIn?
If the words of others are in quotations and properly cited and the ideas of others, when paraphrased, are properly cited, it's not plagiarism. Your professors know that.
However, a "cut-and-...
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Is it bad to get 40% on TurnitIn?
A TurnitIn similarity score should only be used to decide whether or not it is worthwhile to look at the entire report. So as long as your teacher isn't incompetent, they might be mildly suspicious of ...
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Is it bad to get 40% on TurnitIn?
40% is very high for body text, but that should exclude references and quotes for the obvious reasons you mention.
There are options in TurnItIn for excluding the bibliography and quotes from the ...
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Is 18 references in a 18 page article too little?
There is no "right" number of citations for a paper, only the number that you need in order to appropriately position the paper with respect to its background.
There is especially little ...
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Best methods to send citations to co-reviewers
DOI: https://www.doi.org/
DOI is the most convenient way to share citations. It retrieves documents very quickly using only a web browser. No user account, special software, or fee is required.
It ...
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Best methods to send citations to co-reviewers
There's lots of software dedicated to this use case: letting multiple reviewers work on a single systematic review. I don't have much personal experience with such software, but Rayyan might be ...
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Best methods to send citations to co-reviewers
Are your co-reviewers using citation manager software as well? You should be able to share a curated list between different types of citation software. For example, Zotero accepts imports from ...
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Reference formatting without impacting its discoverability by services like Google Scholar
I know a few papers that cited my work but was not discovered by google scholar and not credited in my google scholar profile. Often adding DOI helps.
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Reference formatting without impacting its discoverability by services like Google Scholar
The doi number seems to help. So does putting a version on Researchgate or Academia. But nobody really knows.
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How do I start a priority dispute?
You write:
They have written several additional papers since, all of which ignore
my work, including one whose preprint cited my work, but whose
published article does not.
If you insist on pursuing ...
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How do I start a priority dispute?
Your arXiv submission establishes priority for whatever you put in the submission before they published it. There is nothing to dispute relating to priority. You already have it.
Getting citations ...
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How do I start a priority dispute?
There are several good responses, but I'd like to give you another perspective.
Such a situation is very upsetting, indeed. And it happens surprisingly often.
It may be that:
they have been ...
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How do I start a priority dispute?
Unfortunately, this happens quite a lot. At least they cited you, even if not for the best reason. Some actions you could do:
write to the authors, and make them aware (nicely and politely - they are ...
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How do I start a priority dispute?
It sounds like your work was cited and a work based on it has been more influential in part because the people involved are known.
That's kind of where it ends. I'd go with your advisor on this one. ...
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How to cite oneself as co-author without all names, for graduate school CV application?
There are two basic ways to do this, based on just how many names there are:
Choose a citation format that shows all the names, then highlight your own name with a bold or underline, e.g.:
Skywalker, ...
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Citing general information about visualization in related papers
Create a data table from these papers and use it as supplementary material
It sounds like you are in a situation where the academic papers at issue are data-points for your own observation and ...
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Citing general information about visualization in related papers
how do I cite this information?
Cite? Isn't it your own observation? If someone else has made the same observation, you can cite them in the standard way, of course. If not, just make the claim and ...
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Is having the same reference twice a mistake?
If it's exactly the same reference, it's a mistake, but a minor (and relatively common) one. The same reference should be cited twice instead.
Arguably it's a mistake the publisher should catch before ...
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Author's last name is misspelled online but not in the PDF. How do I cite the paper?
You should use the actual name which appears correctly in the paper. You should also contact the journal so that they can correct this so that people searching for the paper will be able to find it ...
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Author's last name is misspelled online but not in the PDF. How do I cite the paper?
I should be able to find the paper with the information in your citation. Your citation should also be factually correct.
Check whether you can find the paper without problems using the correct name. ...
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Author's last name is misspelled online but not in the PDF. How do I cite the paper?
Are you sure you have it right. It seems to be consistently Buek online over several papers. The name seems to be an Anglicization of V. Bužek, a Slovak name, to avoid the diacritical.
If this is ...
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Reference "private" lecture notes available for members of a different university
You mention that these materials are lecture notes. Lecture notes are not typically original, novel research, and generally cover what is considered to be common knowledge in the field.
So, my ...
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