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Will submitting to mediocre journals (MDPI) hurt me in the long term?
The reason you publish is to get your name out there and improve your CV. The reason we publish is to get knowledge distributed. If the data you are talking about publishing isn't exciting but shows a ...
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Will submitting to mediocre journals (MDPI) hurt me in the long term?
Short answers: Yes. Publishing in well recognized, low-ranking, or even predatory journals hurts severely your CV in any decent research university.
Longer answer: I don't think that MDPI is "...
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Will submitting to mediocre journals (MDPI) hurt me in the long term?
Research isn't done until it's published. My first publication was a herp review note as a masters student. I wrote it and submitted it on my own. Then, brought it to Edward O. Moll, full professor ...
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Will submitting to mediocre journals (MDPI) hurt me in the long term?
While I wouldn't overestimate the influence of a first, small MDPI publication, I suggest to look for alternatives first. There are often smaller journals in the field, having a lower IF, but a better ...
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Will submitting to mediocre journals (MDPI) hurt me in the long term?
I would go for the MDPI journal in this circumstance, it does at least get peer reviewed so they're not a true predatory journal. Certainly in my field, conferences are not peer reviewed and ...
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Will submitting to mediocre journals (MDPI) hurt me in the long term?
you can go for Scientific Reports! A little bit more expensive and as long the resulst you present are scientifically sound and technically correct you do not hav3 any impressive innovation or novelty!...
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Will submitting to mediocre journals (MDPI) hurt me in the long term?
Others have provided some very valuable comments you should reflect on.
My view is that you've already answered your own question. If you consider journals from this publisher to be 'mediocre' and you ...
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Will submitting to mediocre journals (MDPI) hurt me in the long term?
It appears to me that you actually don't have enough data and interpretation of it to publish anywhere, MDPI journal or not.
I agree with some of your friends who suggested to present your preliminary ...
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Will submitting to mediocre journals (MDPI) hurt me in the long term?
You are overthinking the situation. You have never published before so why are so concerned with IF? If you can publish something then publish because your work doesn't exist until you do. Get your ...
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Will submitting to mediocre journals (MDPI) hurt me in the long term?
They have drastically increased the impact factor of several of their journals by adopting the "guest editor" model where someone you respect asks you to submit, often offering you discounts ...
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Will submitting to mediocre journals (MDPI) hurt me in the long term?
I have several publications in MDPI and also peer review for them. I also have many publications in society journals, and these society journals are considered high quality in my field (Nutrition ...
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Is it a good idea, for a young researcher, to submit to arXiv a "mediocre" paper?
It seems like you're trying to think through (a) can it hurt to put this on the arXiv; and (b) can it help.
Can it hurt
An arXiv submission with your name on it is likely to show up in various ...
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Seeking Guidance on Comparing Algorithm Performance Metrics in Research Compilation
Note that speed for a given data size/implementation/system is, while common, quite useless. There are many factors influencing the performance including the quality of the implementation, platform ...
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Where to publish research if I do not want a peer review process?
Self publish
There are several open-access and open-source initiatives and websites. You are now able to self-publish at different websites.
Open access publishing
You could upload it on Zenodo and/or ...
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Where to publish research if I do not want a peer review process?
This already has a lot of suggestions but if you have research you are thinking about making publicly available without peer-review, consider https://www.journalunpublishedresearch.com/.
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Will submitting to mediocre journals (MDPI) hurt me in the long term?
I analyzed some data with my advisor for a collaboration, and it ended up in the highest impact factor MDPI journal. If I could take it back, I would. Not only I feel like I don't really need the ...
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Will submitting to mediocre journals (MDPI) hurt me in the long term?
I've encountered two schools of thought. One, you start where you want to end - i.e., early in your career you aim to publish as high as possible to set the standard. Obviously this isn't always ...
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Where or how do you ask for peer review?
Peer-review without special circumstances refers to the process of publishing an article in a journal or at a conference. The editors or organizers will then arrange for peer-review for some of the ...
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Seeking Guidance on Comparing Algorithm Performance Metrics in Research Compilation
It is always ethical to extend existing research and to use publicly available information. If you avoid such things as copyright infringement (and plagiarism) then you should be fine. Just cite what ...
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How to publish independently in top journals?
This is and remains a complex issue. As said by others, writing and positioning a paper is a skill which takes a lot of practice to develop and where an extra set of eyes can help a lot. Even after ...
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About Hindawi Publishing Group and its merging with Wiley
@Anyon's answer is pretty good from a big picture perspective. I will say, from my personal experience, the papers I have read from Hindawi almost as a rule are...not good. I think Wiley will have an ...
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Can I publish a part of my master thesis without having my master thesis supervisor as a co-author?
Your prior advisor can't unilaterally rescind your master's degree. So that concern is not realistic.
I'm not sure why your old supervisor would be mad at you. Did you leave on poor terms, or was she ...
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Can I publish a part of my master thesis without having my master thesis supervisor as a co-author?
From what you say, it seems your former supervisor contributed ideas, analysis and supervision (among other things). These would definitely be enough for an authorship, as long as she also approves ...
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Can I publish a part of my master thesis without having my master thesis supervisor as a co-author?
The fact that the other person is your supervisor isn't the important point. If another person contributed enough to the paper to rise to the level of authorship then they need to be an author and to ...
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How to publish independently in top journals?
Although I acknowledge that a second-year Ph.D. student may not be prepared to publish independently, the underlying question is still valid. Contemporary scientific publishing has significant ...
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Supervisor refuses to be included as a co-author in PhD student papers?
she has been giving me ideas and directing my research & polishing it.
This is sort of the point of mentorship, right? To me, authorship is warranted with contribution to the manuscript itself. ...
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Can I decline a professor's request for video conferencing?
You really need to assess if it's worth the effort on your part, because this will be extra work, but technically you could fake an average or even an upbeat attitude.
You just need to pretend for the ...
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Questionable peer review practice in top-tier journal
There is a lot to be said about the specific venue you are discussing (the topic is covered in this answer)
However, you are probably missing one important aspect of peer-review (as performed in many ...
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Can I decline a professor's request for video conferencing?
I agree with arp and Jeremy Dover - even in a video call, you are not obliged to be visible all the time. I have already attended lots of video calls where the participants did not switch on their ...
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Can I decline a professor's request for video conferencing?
If you are fine with the voice component, and video is the only concern, you can suggest that for security reasons you do not have a camera on your computer, or that you have it permanently disabled. ...
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Can I decline a professor's request for video conferencing?
You can meet them halfway -- accept the video call and do not turn your own video on. If called on it, you can come up with a harmless lie, like "if I turn on my video the audio often gets ...
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Can I decline a professor's request for video conferencing?
Addressing your literal question: yes, of course you can decline. It's 100% your decision whether to have a video call with a professor (or anyone else), and any decision you make is 100% valid and ...
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Can I decline a professor's request for video conferencing?
---tl;dr---
Simply answer you are available for a phonecall, without video. There are thousands of good reasons for that and you do not need to explicitly mention any.
If the professor is a decent ...
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Can I decline a professor's request for video conferencing?
Yes, you can decline the request. However, just like you can decide to only work with people who are willing to communicate solely through text, the professor can decide that they prefer video and are ...
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Can I decline a professor's request for video conferencing?
Try to put yourself into the Professor's (let's call them X) position:
X makes a completely valid request that indicates that X is interested in working with you. You deny this request and force on X ...
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Supervisor refuses to be included as a co-author in PhD student papers?
I admire your supervisor and want to point out that they are modelling good professional ethics. At my institution (Australia) we have a research integrity code and mandatory training in this for all ...
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Is 18 references in a 18 page article too little?
There is no "right" number of citations for a paper, only the number that you need in order to appropriately position the paper with respect to its background.
There is especially little ...
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Supervisor refuses to be included as a co-author in PhD student papers?
Have you discussed why your supervisor does not want to be included. It can be an honest ethical assessment of her input, which she judges too limited to be coauthor. Perhaps you could also check ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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No pagination in Elsevier journals
You absolutely need page numbers so that your article can have a sentence or more quoted. Our journal retains them, even though they are a pain. Some journals just number everythign from 1>x, which ...
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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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