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"Decision in process" after the median number of days from submission meaning
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 ...
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Is there a chain-of-command among authors for settling disputes in the textual content of the paper?
Such fights, while somewhat common, are foolish in my view, unless the subject is the validity of the research. Everyone should have a say. Everyone should be willing to defer to colleagues.
But "...
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Collatz conjecture proof
Sounds like you're unfamiliar with how the peer review process works.
You submit the paper.
The journal will have editors, who will usually send your paper to peer reviewers, who are often professors....
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Is there a chain-of-command among authors for settling disputes in the textual content of the paper?
In my experience, the usual expectation is that all the authors agree to all parts of the paper. Some journals formalize this with a requirement that
All authors approved the submitted version
so a ...
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High similarity index on turntin
I don't see how any of us can say. Maybe you stole it from a student at a Texas university. Maybe they stole it from you. Maybe a glitch. Maybe the conference will use a plagiarism checker like the ...
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My name was published on abstract but my name was not published on the final manuscript?
If it was the journal that made an error then they can correct it, and you can ask. But that seems very unlikely. It is more likely that the PI that submitted the paper made a change in the text of ...
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Should I provide trademarks/real names in my scientific paper?
It is perfectly fine to use trademarks in publications.
I would argue that if you compare those, you should include their names or brands etc. This is important for the reproducibility of the study.
I ...
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Request for Changes to the Author List
This form doesn't seem to apply, as the list of authors is the same. Being corresponding author has no direct connection to how much you have contributed, so you don't normally need to justify the ...
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Upon resubmission, can I oppose some previous reviewers if I stronly disagree with their comments?
Is is possible for me to contest the "reject and resubmission" decision, or request the editor to re-invite Reviewer #1 for another round of review? I just really do not understand why they ...
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What is a reviewer integrity check in this particular context?
Given the information you provided, I think that the integrity check and the message itself does not have any connection to you discovery.
You say that it is a high-quality journal. Since you had a ...
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When is it useful to wait for the resubmission of a revised manuscript?
As Nobody writes, waiting in this particular situation can go either way. Maybe you get assigned new reviewers, who may be (a) even tougher than the old ones, or (b) are not necessarily tougher, but ...
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ORCID iD Inclusion in SpringNature Manuscript Submission
The submission guidelines for JDSA ask you to include "If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s)" in the author information on the title page. I would interpret this as meaning they ...
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Should I provide trademarks/real names in my scientific paper?
In general, use whatever names are necessary to clearly present your results. Whatever you end up using, you should include all the details (brand name, manufacturer, lot number, etc...) in your ...
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My name was published on abstract but my name was not published on the final manuscript?
Assume it's a mistake and ask the editor what happened.
If it's not a mistake ... then, well, cross that bridge when you get there.
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What is a reviewer integrity check in this particular context?
Hindawi and high quality haven't really gone together the past. My assumption (since they were relatively recently absorbed by Wiley) is that there is some effort to clean up the portfolio. It doesn't ...
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When is it useful to wait for the resubmission of a revised manuscript?
For most journals this would waste time for nothing, because they'll wait for the original reviewers, even if they have to wait months.
The exception is if you're dealing with an MDPI journal, which ...
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Status "Reviewed by all reviewers" hasn't changed in 20 days
There are different scenarios that would explain this, many of which would not benefit from contacting the editor. First, you should be aware that your average journal is run on the academic side by ...
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After a successful appeal and resubmission, the same reviewer rejected our paper again, what can we do?
It is editors, not reviewers that make publication decisions. The editor could accept or reject your paper whether the reviews are positive or negative, though the tendency is to go along with ...
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Is there a chain-of-command among authors for settling disputes in the textual content of the paper?
It happened to me once: the first author (assistant professors) overruled the decisions of the other authors (full professors and postdocs). We decided to let it go because she was the first author, ...
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Editor does not respond after a month of completion of second revision
Elsevier uses Editorial Manager, for which the status remains as 'under review' until enough reviews are submitted for the status to change to 'required reviews complete'.
Since you're seeing 'under ...
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