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Questionable peer review practice in top-tier journal
I can only speak from my own limited experience as an editor. Reviews are really just expert opinion. Just because a reviewer recommends rejection doesn't mean the editor has to act on it.
At some ...
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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 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 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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Questionable peer review practice in top-tier journal
It's common practice in a lot of fields to publish rebuttals to other specific papers. E.g. "Comment on Spiderman et al.: Why two webs are better than one". The comment is also a peer ...
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Questionable peer review practice in top-tier journal
Journals publish what they want, and they can be pretty corrupt institutions. The problem for science is that your work on the article is wasted, because the paper was not corrected, and your ...
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Supervisor refuses to be included as a co-author in PhD student papers?
This shouldn't be a problem. If an editor asks, just say that the supervisor agrees that whatever contributions they have made don't rise to the level of authorship.
It shouldn't harm your chances, ...
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Showed my CV and resume to screeners. Things are not looking good job prospect wise. How can I salvage my situation?
Your many questions here, including this one, indicate that you are very anxious about things, including your own abilities. I think that that anxiety is holding you back. I can't say whether it is ...
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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?
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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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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How to publish independently in top journals?
They accept articles (and are lenient) to manuscripts that are from a lab whose PI has good relations with them.
How would you know? Do you have insider information as to how the journal makes ...
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Limitations on naming a framework in an academic setting
You can pretty much name your tools whatever you want to. There is, for example, a group out there that made a methylome database and analysis pipeline and naturally chose to call it "MethPipe&...
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Articles on Medium and Resume/CV
I'll state upfront that my field isn't computer science but mechanical engineering. So take everything with a grain of salt.
A resume should be short. Nobody wants to read them to begin with, and ...
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Questionable peer review practice in top-tier journal
If we read through what you're saying the complaint isn't legitimate. The journal is obviously PNAS, so carefully read the title: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
It was founded as a ...
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How to explain typical number of publications during a PhD in a grant application?
I know at least the University of Michigan has some statistics on this. It may take some digging for others though. The doctoral exit survey graph below reflects data for students graduating between ...
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More than two years in a journal
Waiting 1-2 years, even for the first revision, is not unusual. I understand your impatience and frustration, but you cannot do much now. Writing to the editor is OK after some time; journals usually ...
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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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Limitations on naming a framework in an academic setting
Doing occasionally nigh-unspeakable things to a tool/method/...'s name in order to arrive at an interesting acronym is a proud(?) scientific tradition. See for example this list of (mostly NMR-related)...
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How to publish independently in top journals?
The short answer is to do the kind of work that these top tier journals respect and publish. There's no easy formula, there's no recipe other than to publish that kind of work.
If you want to publish ...
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Advisor-student collaboration (or lack thereof) and paper authorship in mathematics: how does it work?
As a preface, which might help explain the phenomena you observe, "grunt work" tends to have low status in mathematics. A solution to a problem that uses a large amount of "grunt work&...
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Advisor-student collaboration (or lack thereof) and paper authorship in mathematics: how does it work?
In pure math and some parts of CS there is a parallel, but the "do some calculations" part is, perhaps, more challenging than you describe. If an advisor suggests a problem (not a ...
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Advisor-student collaboration (or lack thereof) and paper authorship in mathematics: how does it work?
Just as another anecdotal data-point: (in the U.S., in math, at an R1) I view my job as PhD thesis advisor to be that of coach/mentor/educator/protector.
The "protector" part of my ...
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How to publish independently in top journals?
I'm not sure your question is entirely fair. You seem sure that only papers from "friendly" PIs and labs are even considered. I don't doubt that there is some bias at the top, but why are ...
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Is failing to cite similar work in a conference submission considered unethical?
On the surface there's nothing outright unethical about not citing a particular related work, assuming there isn't plagiarism involved. No-one is expected to cite every single prior paper on a topic. ...
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Limitations on naming a framework in an academic setting
Given your comment, I think you are free to name it as you please. An abbreviation or acronym that is (still) very offensive to some would be an exception, though standards change.
But, giving a name ...
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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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Questionable peer review practice in top-tier journal
Embrace post-publication peer review. Write your issues on those questionable parts of the manuscript on pubpeer. People actually read it. And reputable authors respond there. This helps science ...
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Questionable peer review practice in top-tier journal
Is it a fair assessment that this journal seems to be using a "good ole boys" system for evaluation rather than taking reviewer reports seriously?
It is not usually provable in any ...
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