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Are all Elsevier journals legitimate
Actually, Elsevier is not at all a credible and reliable publishing house. If you are known to the Editors or you are paying them, you will be able to publish, or else keep things about that your work ...
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Is the journal's country important when choosing a journal for your article?
I start wondering if the country is important when choosing a journal to submit my paper? If my university and I are in country A, can I still submit an article to journal from country B? Or only &...
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Is the journal's country important when choosing a journal for your article?
Yes, you can submit a paper to a journal published in a different country. Some journals require articles be in a specific language, but other than that there are no restrictions.
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Submitting two articles to the same journal at the same time similar ideas but different surgeries?
I doubt that being the author on both papers will, in itself, have any effect. If you remove yourself from either, in other words, I'd expect the decision of the publisher to be unchanged.
But the ...
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Disagreement with advisor regarding journal choice
Are you and your adviser the only two authors for this manuscript? If not, ask for the opinion of the other co-authors. Otherwise, it might be worth asking for the opinion of someone else in your ...
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Can I use text from my conference poster in my manuscript?
I agree - this will be absolutely fine, unless the presentations given at the conference are to be published as a collective and you are required to publish in order to attend. This is more common in ...
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What is the meaning when the editor says a paper is "provocative"?
There are enough good answers here already explaining that the word "provocative" is not negative in this context and, if anything, is positive. To those answers I would just like to add ...
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What is the meaning when the editor says a paper is "provocative"?
Taking the totality of their comments, the editor would like to communicate that the paper isn't interesting/impactful enough for this journal.
Many thanks for your interesting and provocative paper
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How are academic writing conventions decided?
Suppose one would like to propose a new way of performing a specific task in academic writing, for example, a different/new way of citing. I realise this example is vague, but the example is not the ...
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How are academic writing conventions decided?
Editors in chief are the ultimate gatekeepers of how things are done in journals. If you wanted to suggest, for instance, a different citation format for a journal, or adding video highlights, etc., ...
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Can I use text from my conference poster in my manuscript?
This is totally fine. Similarly there’s no harm in using the same text verbatim in a paper and a talk you give about that paper. As long as it’s all clearly part of the development of the same paper ...
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How are academic writing conventions decided?
Convention means "the way it is usually done". As such it is pointless to try to initiate a new convention, it can only become a convention when it reaches sufficient support. So, what you ...
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How are academic writing conventions decided?
I won't make any assessment of the merits of your idea, but yes, if you want to propose a new convention (e.g., a new way to cite items) then you could publish this as an academic paper. I'm not ...
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What is the meaning when the editor says a paper is "provocative"?
No, the editor is not implying that the article angered them. In academia, provocative is usually used with a positive connotation (as in: thought-provoking, something that any academic article ...
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What is the meaning when the editor says a paper is "provocative"?
As @tschwartz points out, the term "provocative" in this context is not meant to be taken negatively. The editor finds the arguments in the paper to be thought-provoking, intriguing, ...
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What is the meaning when the editor says a paper is "provocative"?
I do not think "provocative" in this context is 'provocative' ;).
I read the rejection letter to mean: You are attacking the current consensus, and this causes me (the editor and the ...
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Help! I think I'm dealing with a predatory journal
It is not necessarily unusual for an open access journal to have a publication fee. They don't get paid by subscribers, after all. For a reputable example, see https://plos.org/publish/fees/ It lists ...
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Help! I think I'm dealing with a predatory journal
Drop contact, don't pay, don't make revisions
NOTE: I'm not a lawyer
Simply stop talking to them. Be sure you've got a copy of you asking them to withdraw the paper. Hopefully if you don't pay they ...
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Help! I think I'm dealing with a predatory journal
Read the fine prints of the "agreement" you had with them when you first submitted your paper with them.
[This is just my opinion, I am not a lawyer nor I am representing one]
I am quite ...
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Help! I think I'm dealing with a predatory journal
I think they can not charge you when you have not signed a contract for publishing. Sometimes when you publish in non-predator journals they charge you for color figures in the printed version. Also ...
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Submitting to Call for Submissions After Deadline
If it's a week after the deadline you can probably still make it. Three months - probably not. They'd be pretty deep into the review process already, and your paper would hold up the special issue.
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Potential Internet blackout in Russia: could academics in Russia submit a manuscript to an international journal by postmail?
Disregarding the premise of the question, most journals in the disciplines I am familiar with do not consider any submissions that do not pass through their submission system. Accepting submissions ...
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How can I withdraw a published paper?
Bryan Krause already gives the right answer, namely "what you want to do is not possible". To explain why, you should not consider a journal as a collection of websites that can come and go, ...
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How can I withdraw a published paper?
If it's already published, you can't.
Typically when you publish a paper, you sign some rights over to the publisher: you give them permission to put your work into their compilation. This comes ...
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Timely review process by reviewers
My feeling is always that the review process needs to be enhanced. You should, for example, set an "accept the review request" deadline, e.g. three days. If no response is given, it should ...
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Potential Internet blackout in Russia: could academics in Russia submit a manuscript to an international journal by postmail?
The NY Times paper is behind paywall so I could not read it. However, I maintain contact with friends and relatives in Russia and as of 26 Apr 2022 there are no issues with email, general web browsing ...
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Unexpected email from Computational and Applied Mathematics registering me as an editor and then sending me a paper to review - thoughts?
Nobody seems to point to the automation logic behind this procedure.
Suppose that you were not registered as a potential reviewer in the system. The editor sends you an invitation to review. Say you ...
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How long does it usually take for journals to resolve 'expressions of concern'?
I am not aware of any comprehensive study that can authoritatively answer the general question
How long does this kind of issue usually take to resolve?
across all fields. (There likely is field ...
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Unexpected email from Computational and Applied Mathematics registering me as an editor and then sending me a paper to review - thoughts?
I want to echo what avid said but also emphasize that, in my experience in a different academic area, this is very normal. I would estimate I get an email like this one preceding a review request in 1/...
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open access vs journal meaning for authors
The usual pattern is that authors pay for open access publication. The money comes from their institution's funds. If it's not open access, you should not be paying.
"Green" and "...
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open access vs journal meaning for authors
Most journals require some fees for authors. For most open access journals the fees can be quite high. Journals have expenses and the author generally shares those. But open access journals don't give ...
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Unexpected email from Computational and Applied Mathematics registering me as an editor and then sending me a paper to review - thoughts?
As far as I understand, you have not been registered as an editor:
[...] you have been registered by our editorial team as a user on the Editorial Manager site [...]
They wanted to send a paper to ...
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Unexpected email from Computational and Applied Mathematics registering me as an editor and then sending me a paper to review - thoughts?
You (almost certainly) haven't been added as a member of the editorial team. You have simply been added to their database as a potential reviewer - an email like this is sent automatically when this ...
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Are there any good math journals where the editors are champions of publishing short mathematical discoveries?
There are great math journals that regularly publish short papers. The American Mathematical Monthly is one such.
However, you’re asking the wrong question, which is based on the premise that good ...
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Are there any good math journals where the editors are champions of publishing short mathematical discoveries?
Without examining the premise of this question, here are a few reputable journal that welcome very short notes (some already mentioned in other answers):
The Comptes Rendus - Mathématique are a peer-...
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Are there any good math journals where the editors are champions of publishing short mathematical discoveries?
I think you have to find a professional mathematician to take a quick look at your work. The busy editor of a prestigious journal won't do that for you. I suggest you start with a teacher (if you're ...
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Are there any good math journals where the editors are champions of publishing short mathematical discoveries?
If your main concern is the shortness of the article, there are journals accepting also quite short papers, as Comptes Rendus Mathématiques or PAMS (Proceedings of the American Mathematical society), ...
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