New answers tagged paper-submission
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Discrepancy in Article Processing Charge
It means the journal staff have not updated all relevant sections of their website, most probably because the process takes time, or because they've forgotten that so-and-so not-very-visible webpage ...
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What is the consequence of not mentioning an in-text citation in Bibliography
It is unlikely that it will affect the review, and not especially likely that it will be noticed. But you will have a chance to make a correction/addition before publication.
Few papers are published ...
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Submitting a paper as a nonacademic practitioner in a field
There's actually three questions here, so let's take a look at each:
The question you asked: How do I publish as a non-academic?
The question you implied: How do I publish a paper refuting another?
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Submitting a paper as a nonacademic practitioner in a field
In many fields, an M.S. thesis is not that significant. When done from a university perspective, it is unfortunately quite frequent that important considerations obvious to a practitioner are left out....
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Submitting a paper as a nonacademic practitioner in a field
The OP didn't mention a field, so I'll share what I know from math, since that's my area. In mathematics, there are a lot of master's theses online. We do not have a culture of building on the ...
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Submitting a paper as a nonacademic practitioner in a field
There is no requirement to be a member of academia to publish "academic" papers. If you write a valid paper that improves upon or corrects an earlier paper and do so in an "academic ...
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Is there a general guideline to conjure up a mathematical expression to convey a system?
The craft of converting vaguer qualitative notions into precise ones is precisely the history of modern science. We can assume that quite certainly smarter members of society, especially in "...
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Is there a general guideline to conjure up a mathematical expression to convey a system?
You misunderstand the purpose of using such mathematical expressions rather than "just literature". Such expressions are both compact and precise, whereas literature is often at least a bit ...
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Is it good idea to divide a paper in pure mathematics?
The general (headline) question's answer is "it depends". It depends on the paper and on the journal. However, it is a good idea to follow the advice of reviewers and editors.
So, in this ...
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I submitted a paper and later realised one reference was missing, although I had written the authors in the body text. What could happen?
All of the above are very good answers. I would add that this type of problem, if not caught by the editor or reviewers (a real possibility), would be addressed during copy editing. I have had an ...
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First paper submission reproducibility AAAi25
These answers are all wrong.
In OpenReview, when you edit your submission, under "Reproducability Checklist", there is a small text that states "Authors are required to complete a ...
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First paper submission reproducibility AAAi25
You are running up against the deadline.
The checklist appears to be supplementary material and you have until August 19 anytime on earth to submit it together with your code.
You should address these ...
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I submitted a paper and later realised one reference was missing, although I had written the authors in the body text. What could happen?
This is not a big deal.
I've personally submitted a paper with all references missing (too much LaTeX, too little experience) and all that it led to was a polite email from the editor, slightly longer ...
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I submitted a paper and later realised one reference was missing, although I had written the authors in the body text. What could happen?
As a reviewer in math, I've asked authors to formally cite references before. This is not a big deal.
I'd consider this a minor error. It's common for referee reports to contain lists of minor ...
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I submitted a paper and later realised one reference was missing, although I had written the authors in the body text. What could happen?
Relax. Small mistakes occur on a regular basis.
You can fix this during the revision process.
In the unlikely event your paper is accepted as written, this mistake would be caught and fixed during the ...
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Paper rejected as out-of-scope after submitting a minor revision
Obviously, the editor did not do the editor's job well and you are rightfully upset. You can complain about the editor to the owners of the journal. For example, Elsevier has a complaint site. If the ...
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How do journals treat papers that have been transferred to them by a sister journal?
What is the journal processing steps after transfer of a submission already reviewed by PNAS? Do they send for review again?
Well, like with all such transfer processes I've seen in different ...
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How to make a case based on factual evidence that my colleague's writing style for submitted manuscripts has got to be overhauled?
One resource you could point them to is a book called The Chemist's English, written by Robert Schoenfeld. Schoenfeld was an editor of the Australian Journal of Chemistry, and adapted several of his ...
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How to make a case based on factual evidence that my colleague's writing style for submitted manuscripts has got to be overhauled?
Readability is a well-studied field.
Simply put, yes, there are objective metrics that you can use to show your co-author's writing style is bad. Just open up Microsoft Word, head over to the "...
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How to make a case based on factual evidence that my colleague's writing style for submitted manuscripts has got to be overhauled?
Choose your co-authors carefully, and lay down working requirements if needed
Firstly, you get to decide who you co-author papers with, so you don't need to convince him of shit. The notion that you ...
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How to make a case based on factual evidence that my colleague's writing style for submitted manuscripts has got to be overhauled?
I'm going to have to suggest that your quest is fruitless in the time frame available. If their writing style is so cramped as to be painful, it is not going to be changed by any means in the short ...
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