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Near the end of my PhD, I want to leave the program, take my work with me, and my advisor says that he lost all of my drafts
First, don't walk away from years of work. Get the degree now, if you're close, rather than having to start all over somewhere else.
Second, you are publishing your work as part of your PhD thesis. If ...
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Near the end of my PhD, I want to leave the program, take my work with me, and my advisor says that he lost all of my drafts
To be honest, I think you are being a bit paranoid. If you have left any public record, you can refer to it. In particular a completed thesis, and its defense is a public record.
Your best option is ...
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Near the end of my PhD, I want to leave the program, take my work with me, and my advisor says that he lost all of my drafts
There are a few reasons what you are suggesting is, I think, a bad idea.
If your supervisor really did want to steal your work, they could just photocopy your drafts. I certainly don't carefully file ...
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Near the end of my PhD, I want to leave the program, take my work with me, and my advisor says that he lost all of my drafts
Before I really start, I'll say that I'm sorry you find yourself in such an upsetting situation.
I don't know what country you're in, or what the academic norms and legal scenarios are there, but in ...
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How can researchers effectively stay current as the volume of publications increases?
There is absolutely no need to keep up with the majority of review papers. Many of these are low-quality CV padding, especially when published in journals with very low acceptance thresholds.
I would ...
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How can researchers effectively stay current as the volume of publications increases?
If you are alone in your pursuit, then you can read the abstracts and, based on that, prioritize the papers into, say, three bins according to their importance to you. Work on Bin-1 primarily and let ...
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Near the end of my PhD, I want to leave the program, take my work with me, and my advisor says that he lost all of my drafts
You should follow your advisor’s advice to submit a thesis and make a public defense.
That is kind of the point of doing all the PhD work in the first place. That is what you do when you produce ...
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Author Affiliation for Paper Accepted After Leaving University
To answer your title question Author Affiliation for Paper Accepted After Leaving University:
Conventions vary by subfield, but typically, authors can list "current affiliation" or similar ...
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Editor is requesting for journal self citation
A reputable journal would never ask an author to add “at least 6 citations” to papers from the same journal. Making such a request is an unethical practice that smacks of the sort of thing a predatory ...
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How can researchers effectively stay current as the volume of publications increases?
It helps to think of all published literature as an encyclopaedia rather than a novel. You don't read an encyclopaedia, you keep it handy to look up things you need. It's not just the rate of ...
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How can researchers effectively stay current as the volume of publications increases?
Fifteen years ago, I did try to read at least the abstract of every new paper relevant to my work, but you're right -- it's no longer really possible. Now I rely on Google Scholar alerts, colleagues ...
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How can researchers effectively stay current as the volume of publications increases?
I'm coming from the viewpoint of a mathematician, but it seems to me like you need to specialize further. Instead of studying classic Hodgkin lymphoma, you study how metastases of Hodgkin lymphoma ...
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Is it appropriate to ask former mentors/professors to peer review a study?
You should definitely disclose this when suggesting the reviewer. Example.
We ask reviewers to declare any potential conflicts of interest and email the journal Editorial Office if they are unsure if ...
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Is it appropriate to ask former mentors/professors to peer review a study?
Certainly you can recommend them to an editor as possible reviewers so long as you make your prior associations clear. You don't make the choice, the editor does, relieving you of any conflict of ...
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Author Affiliation for Paper Accepted After Leaving University
Journals usually have the capability of providing more than one affiliation per author. Use that capability, and put "Current Affiliation:" at the start. that's a more common solution than ...
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