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Why is it acceptable to cite unpublished works?

I am non-tenured and have been offered a tenure-track position at my current university, but I don't want to stay here long term. What should I do?

How do you judge the quality of a journal?

How to deal with students who lose their digital work?

Does Iran's sanction play a pivotal role in rejecting papers from a journal?

How can I ask a teacher to follow the textbook more closely?

What is a common way to tell if an academic is "above average," or outstanding in their field? Is their h-index (Hirsh index) one of them?

My collaborator has asked to be only acknowledged in a paper. Should I make him a co-author?

Why do academics write peer reviews?

What is life like for Western-raised/trained academics who are faculty in countries with extremely tight governmental control?

Researchers had a paper retracted due to plagiarism and no one at their university is aware of it

Popular proprietary program or obscure open source substitute for reproducible research?

Is it ethical to use proprietary (closed-source) software for scientific computation?

What tools do you use in academia to jointly review a thesis?

How to identify predatory publishers/journals

Should academics allow student to submit a possibly flawed paper?

How to get people to reply to emails and what to make of a no response?

What does authorship ordering really mean in field X?

What to think of zero feedback at a conference

Working towards an academic career that lets me do research in two (largely) unconnected fields—is this even possible?

Academic code copied by library author

How to handle a possibly biased editor?

Having children while at graduate school

How secure is a post doc job offer in an email from the department chair prior to receiving the official written letter?

How do some researchers consistently get published in venues with low acceptance rates?

Professor didn't write a letter because I didn't waive my right to view it. How to let him know that I have changed this?

Is there an internet Git-like repository for collaboration on a paper?

As a Muslim student, how to refuse to shake the opposite sex's hand without offending them?

When sending email to potential PhD supervisors, Is it recommendable to attach a precis of their papers?

Does emailing a journal to ask if my article is within scope hurt chances of getting published?