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80,409 | Recently, I received to review two manuscripts dealing with similar topics. According to the JCR quality measures, the first one was from top tier journal and the second one from the last quartile (Q4). Do I have to take into account the quality of the journal when reviewing the articles? | [
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80,414 | I was given feedback by a reviewer that the article I had submitted shouldn't contain *we*-type sentences, as they made the article sound less scholarly (yes; I know; it’s a peculiarity of my field).
I want your advice on how to rewrite the following phrases to be more “scholarly” sounding:
1. >
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"text": "A few examples:\n\n1. \"From Table 1, it can be inferred that\"; \"From Table 1, one can infer that\"; \"... | 2016/11/24 | [
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80,417 | What are some reasons that lead to a university course being no longer offered?
I am thinking in particular about the course "Computational sustainability" or CPSC 530M offered in University of British Columbia.
I am guessing the following could be the reasons, but I'm not sure:
* Not enough students are interested ... | [
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"text": "The answers vary. Sometimes there's not demand, not enough registered people for the course, or no professor... | 2016/11/24 | [
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80,439 | Let say you a professor and there are lots of students, say 100 in your course. After the exam, a student whose final mark is, say 85/100, sends you an email to ask you for a recommendation letter. Assuming that you don't know him, or just remember that he went to your lecture some times (of course you can check his ma... | [
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"text": "As ff524 said, if the professor has only the grade to go on, there is little to write an recommendation letter abou... | 2016/11/25 | [
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80,450 | I am working in an experimental-physics group. They are going to publish a paper soon. So far, I see five authors on first draft (PhD student, postdoc, collaborator, collaborator, PI).
I am not sure whether I should ask my PI to consider putting my name on the paper or not. I was working on the project for only a mont... | [
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"text": "Don't ask. If they think, your name will be mentioned in acknowledgement section. They must have thought about it. ... | 2016/11/25 | [
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80,452 | My thesis was submitted, but not published by the library or online yet.
I would like to put its title on my CV. Is this OK? Or is it kind of risky? | [
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"text": "Yes, just ask your supervisor. The risk is to your university if it turns out totally bogus."
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80,456 | My question may be a duplicate of: [Sound reasons for excluding a reviewer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/27160/sound-reasons-for-excluding-a-reviewer), but it is motivated by [What do you do when you are asked to perform an official review for a journal of a manuscript written by your supervisor?](https... | [
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80,457 | It's generally forbidden to submit the same paper at two different venues at the same time. In addition, many computer science conferences have two different submission deadlines: a deadline for the submission of abstracts, followed by another deadline (1-2 weeks later) for the submission of full papers. A complete sub... | [
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80,468 | I need to write to several academics with a very similar request. Would it be disrespectful if I just copy-paste most of the body of the email, and change just the person-specific details?
On one hand, nobody likes mass-produced emails. It could be irritating for them and embarassing for me if one of them forwards the... | [
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"text": "The person-specific part is crucial to how your e-mail will be perceived. I think there are two importan... | 2016/11/26 | [
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80,472 | Can someone give me a legitimate, convincing argument as to why scientific papers should be locked behind subscriptions and paywalls? That unless you happen to be on a campus, you can't get view a manuscript without paying an often extortionate amount? | [
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"text": "What @scaaahu said is essentially true unless a journal were to be set up with such a low budget th... | 2016/11/26 | [
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80,505 | In creating a final exam for my course, I would like to use problems from a textbook that I did not assign to the course. Do I need to reference the source on the final exam paper or is it not necessary? | [
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"text": "*tl;dr*: it's **not OK**\n\n*Long answer*: I see two aspects here.\n\n1. To use someone else's work wi... | 2016/11/26 | [
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80,508 | The examiners of a friend's PhD thesis required revisions which they needed to approve before they would accept the thesis. The requirements were fairly demanding but overall reasonable and helpfully explained, and my friend wishes to acknowledge the examiners' contribution in the final submission, in anticipation of t... | [
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"text": "Peer-reviewers of academic research papers are not supposed to be authors' friends, and on many occasio... | 2016/11/26 | [
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80,521 | We're considering incentivising students to submit questions for the final exam in a large grad class (> 200 students) as we feel like the process of designing a problem and a grading rubric encourages students to study the material to more depth.
Is this commonly done? What are the pros/cons in the literature, or tha... | [
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"text": "> \n> Is this commonly done?\n> \n> \n> \n\nI have no sources to answer this, but in my experience, no, i... | 2016/11/27 | [
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80,524 | I generally don't have a lot of business in my dedicated office hours, but then sometimes I get a needy student who wants to use *all* of them -- every minute, of every day, in which I hold them. It gets physically tiring for me, and emotionally draining that they apparently have no capacity or confidence to follow alo... | [
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"text": "I will argue that setting limits for a particular student is acceptable and in some cases necessary. It r... | 2016/11/27 | [
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80,540 | I am a PhD student in mathematics. I felt quite lucky that I got into this program. My research is also going ok, and I got some confirmation from my advisor that I should be able to graduate in a year or two if I keep up with my work. So things were mostly good. But a recent conversation with my advisor completely cha... | [
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"text": "> \n> I wonder if it is still be possible for me to get a postdoc (possibly in one of the two places) and later ... | 2016/11/27 | [
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80,544 | In testing sessions that I proctor now, there are frequently one or more students who are not actually working on the test for extended periods of time. Perhaps they are just staring into space, or out the window, for most of the period. Or they may be holding the test paper up in the air and apparently scrutinizing it... | [
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"text": "In your shoes, I would take their names, and sort it out later.\n\nThat is, if they are included in your roster of enro... | 2016/11/27 | [
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80,548 | Some of my students get extended deadlines on assignments due to a disability. They are not required to tell me the nature of their disability (which may be physical, intellectual, or psychological), but some choose to do so. (United States faculty are legally required to grant accommodations to such students, who are ... | [
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80,558 | I was invited to a campus interview for a tenure track faculty job. The chair just told me that the dean might not be on campus on the date I chose and he/she would talk with me on the phone. I am wondering how important is the meeting with the dean? Should I reschedule the visit so that I can meet the dean in person? | [
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80,561 | Suppose that you noticed a student saying a sexist remark to you, and the student is completely unaware of it. In the spirit of fighting sexism, I feel that I should maybe say something. But on the other hand, as a person on the higher end of the power spectrum, I feel that I would be bullying the student if I were cal... | [
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"text": "I would not confront the student directly.\n\nIn the U.S., bias incidents should be reported to your universi... | 2016/11/28 | [
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80,574 | We submitted an article to a SCI journal 2 months ago. Since day 1 the status of article is "Editor Assignment Pending". In the journal introduction they have mentioned that on average 1st review response takes 70 days.
As the start of review process usually takes 5-15 days in my area of research; therefore, we sent an... | [
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80,580 | As a postdoc I joined an existing project of a PhD student. I made significant contributions to his code and developed an entire framework X in the code necessary for my research. Developing framework X took at least four months. After I finished the project and was put on a new project, he initiated collaborations wit... | [
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80,592 | I have just completed a Ph.D. in May and have some papers I wrote for classwork that I would like to use to write articles for submission to publications.
Would this be self-plagiarism? How do I handle this? | [
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80,595 | I did some research with some collaborators, and we have been writing an article ("paper A") describing the work.
A few days ago I received a request to review an article ("paper B") that covers most of our work. The authors of paper B have clearly worked independently on the same topic and beaten us to submission. (A... | [
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"text": "Your question raises several quite serious ethical questions - thank you for posting it!\n\nFrom the la... | 2016/11/28 | [
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80,598 | There is a relatively new website: <http://professorwatchlist.org/> whose [mission](http://professorwatchlist.org/index.php/about-us):
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> is to expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.
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80,604 | I create a software in order to solve a step of an specific problem. The results obtained (aided by the software) are going to be published in some journal. The focus of the publication is far away from that step.
The software may be very useful for other people because that step is involved in many common problems. I... | [
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80,618 | This semester I've been teaching a few hours for another professor (I'm a Postdoc). The idea is that I get some teaching experience while he gets a few precious extra hours for his research.
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80,624 | She is sweet and helpful whenever I go to her office to ask questions about the problem sets or discuss my exam results. I have always felt like she is very picky when grading the worksheets or exams, at least in my case. For example, she would penalize a large portion of the points for a small mistake in a problem, an... | [
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80,637 | I'm applying for a Master's program and I would like to indicate that my GPA in the last two years of college has improved greatly and that my major GPA is high. However, my official transcript does not report major GPA or the GPA in my last two years. I want to manually calculate these two GPAs using the scale and key... | [
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80,643 | I am applying to Master's program in Computer Science. In my Statement of Purpose, I mentioned the names of a few Professors with whom I would like to work. However, accidently, I failed to address those Professors with a respectful title (I mentioned A and B, instead of Profs A and B). Now that I submitted my applicat... | [
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80,652 | I had a chance to visit as an audience to an international conference in computer science. As usual, there were few keynotes before the scheduled paper presentation is carried out for the day.
During the presentation of one keynote speech, where the speaker (quite renowned in the field) made a very strong argument tha... | [
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80,655 | I graduated on time and on the top back then, but after that I had some problem with major depression and anxiety, hence I have some gap on my CV and for a while, I either couldn't work or worked below my qualification. My world literally fell apart but now I am trying to get back to my old dream. Next year, if everyth... | [
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80,661 | I am applying for a Master's in Computer Science for the program of artificial intelligence. I already took a class in A.I. but I got a "W" on it. I wasn't doing very well and wanted to drop the class, I was also taking 20 credits at the time and didn't had the time to put the extra effort.
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80,670 | I'm teaching a course where coursework is submitted online.
Recently, an important group project assignment was due.
The students are required to submit a project report,
which contains a link to a video produced by the students,
usually uploaded onto a site such as YouTube, Google Drive or Dropbox.
We had announced th... | [
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80,690 | I am applying for masters in computer science. Is a Master's at CyberSecurity possible?
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80,695 | One of my colleagues at my institution, Prof. A, is the editor of a journal, Journal X, (and I am not involved in the journal in any way). I received an email by a professor, Prof. B, who had submitted two articles to Journal X and accuses Prof. A. of intentionally delaying the publication of these articles by not hand... | [
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80,698 | I have a paper that I uploaded to arXiv and google scholar listed it as a publication.
Since then the paper has been published in a nature journal several months ago.
The nature publication still hasn't showed up on my scholar profile, which still lists the arXiv version.
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80,700 | Our paper was rejected multiple times; several months later, another group published similar results in Nature. Though some details were different, the main logic and key points of the research were the same.
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80,702 | I'm a postdoc having a difficult relationship with my adviser. Rather unexpectedly, he started literally bombarding me with all sorts of mostly unjustified accusations, including that I'm not productive enough and all sorts of personality-related complaints. I'm in the process of applying to a new postdoc. Will have th... | [
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80,711 | After one round of minor revision, my submission has now reached the "Awaiting EIC decision" stage. In the meantime I just wanted to get some insight on what this entails. Do editor-in-chiefs usually follow the recommendations of the associate editor below them who managed the review process? | [
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80,726 | I recently cowrote a paper which came out somewhat long: 40+ pages. We uploaded it to arXiv in this form, but afterwards decided that it would be preferable to publish it as a series of two papers. (It was a natural decision given the length and the fact that it naturally splits into two weakly interacting parts. On th... | [
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"text": "Option (a) does seem to be a better choice at this point in time. Later, when one of the parts are published, it... | 2016/11/30 | [
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80,736 | Ten months ago, we submitted an article to a journal, which is still under review. In the meantime, we have made a few extensions/improvements to the submitted article.
Can we submit the extended version to another journal? How can we cite the work presented in the article under review?
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80,737 | Today I had a fellow student (who is working on a master's degree) come to me and inform me that our mutual advisor (call her Professor WW) had just dropped her as a student for "personal reasons." I am a more advanced doctoral student and have some niche expertise that my advisor does not have, so I do not feel like I... | [
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80,751 | I am a first year PhD student in math. I have a course right now that is pretty challenging as expected. I get high grades on all the homework. On our midterm the highest grade was a 35 percent. I was told this is how nearly all of the exams this professor gives turn out. Is this a common thing to happen? I suddenly fe... | [
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80,755 | I recently finished my masters degree and I'm currently interning at the same university doing a research project. I'm planning to submit applications for PhD programs at other institutions and I've just finished my first application. The application includes a cover letter of 1000-1500 words. I've sent the cover lette... | [
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80,777 | I've been assigned the position of Teaching Assistant for the programming part of my university courses in Bayesian Inference, at the MS level. I previously taught a course, a few months ago, in Computational statistics. My experience doing this, with no previous teaching experience, has been not so great because of ge... | [
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80,790 | I have data from an ordinary scientific experiment. Now, in order to analyse the data, the most convenient way for me is to use some proprietary, closed-source software.
Is it ethical to use such kind of software in research?
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80,792 | Was it ever possible for anyone to finish writing a master thesis in 10 days? I've been struggling for a long time now to focus on my writing due to several personal problems and I'm running close to my deadline so I'm starting to freak out. I welcome any suggestions at this point. | [
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80,799 | I graduated with a 2.98gpa in computer science with a minor in math. I am currently employed as a software engineer and I am wanting to go back to school for a masters degree. I would really like to Perdue a professional engineering masters and take the PE(professional engineering exam) after I graduate.
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80,814 | Current scenario (A):
1. Submit a paper for free. No matter the quality of the paper, submit anyway. What have you to lose?
2. If your work is accepted, pay to actually confirm the acceptance of your work, and present it to the world.
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1. Submission fees: Anyone who wants to submit to a confe... | [
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80,824 | It has been approximately 2 years that we are trying to a push a paper(CS) to get it published. We think, the work is/was a novel that focused on the development of a new dynamic system that works under uncertainty constraints. However, it gets rejected every time and the most frustrating thing is that the reviews we g... | [
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80,842 | I recently started a postdoc in France. I am not French, do not speak any French yet, and I am new to the culture.
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80,847 | Currently I am searching for a regular postdoc position. I visited a potential advisor some time ago. I had a good impression of the advisor except for one thing: he introduced one of his current postdoc to me and half-jokingly threatened to fire the current postdoc (said in my face and to the face of that postdoc) if ... | [
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80,849 | In a paper, I should refer to an existing algorithm in different parts of the paper. There is no name for this algorithm. For the firs time I wrote "*the Algorithm proposed by (Xia, et al. 2008) .....*", but I don't think it is a good way to use this method any time I want to refer to it. I may name it Algirhtm A, or A... | [
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80,856 | * Can one submit a rejected manuscript from one Elsevier journal to another relevant/similar Elsevier journal after apply the given feedback from the reviewers?
* Is there any minimum wait time?
* Is it recommended to do so?
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80,880 | I will try to keep the situation short, but I am currently not on the best of terms with a graduate school professor.
The term is over now and I have been on good terms with her until today. As part of this course, students must attend an extra set of lectures outside of class and write a very brief report (mainly as ... | [
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80,881 | On the meetings of the American Mathematical Society there are many parallel sessions subjects of some of them overlap sometimes.
My question is whether it is OK to present the same talk on two parallel sessions if I believe that the subject of my talk is close to both of them.
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80,888 | I wonder if the following bibliometric index exists.
If a paper cites *n* other papers, then give a weight of *1/n* to each.
Then one can sum up these weights for each paper/person to get an index.
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80,889 | From my experience (in Europe), I have often seen that professors give their research highest priority and see teaching only as a necessity that gets a low priority. I feel that this is due to the fact that having many strong publications has a direct benefit for the professor:
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80,898 | I am taking an abstract algebra course and I am really interested about the topic. So much so that I spend most of my time reading supplementary materials. I consequently know a lot more theorems than the ones covered in class.
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80,906 | I am a physical science PhD student and after completed my PhD I would like to work as a postdoc in a second, specific, university's research group.
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80,908 | This question is not really about *who can be considered a coauthor* of a given journal paper —or maybe it is, after all— but rather about *how to specify the different roles, levels of implication or contributions of each of the coauthors,* in case this would mean to be done.
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80,911 | I'm from Venezuela, and of course I got all my education in that country. I need help with converting degree titles into their US/UK equivalents.
For example, in the US/UK you have the B.Sc. grade, and I understand it goes after high school (if I'm correct). Here, Bachelor means graduated from high school.
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80,926 | I have the option of graduating from my university (U.S.) a semester early, and if I do so, I would receive the lowest honors designation of cum laude. However, if I do not graduate early, I will be able to receive the highest honors designation of summa cum laude. How important is this designation for graduate school ... | [
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80,936 | I am a postdoc in mathematics (US) in the process of applying for tenure-track positions. The job market was very competitive and I only ended up with one interview so far. But I found out that for the position that I am being interviewed for, there are several other interviewees, and one of them is a tenured professor... | [
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80,951 | I am teaching part time at a community college (in the US) and I have one student who is about 16, I think he is a senior in high school (at least he is about to graduate HS in the spring). He is currently applying to MIT, Harvard, etc... and he is taking my differential equations course. But he wants an extension on h... | [
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80,957 | I am writing a review article and have come across a number of references which were published verbatim in their entirety in more than one place (same author(s) and the same content; [Duplicate Publications](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicate_publication)). All of the publications in question are before 1970 and m... | [
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80,965 | By chance, I am reviewing now the paper which I recognised as a paper of my colleague. We are from the same institution and I am surprised that I got this paper to review, but, on the other hand, I am lucky to see it before it's published. My colleague mentions in this paper the methodology like it was his idea but act... | [
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80,980 | I'm an senior math major in undergraduate planning on applying to around a dozen schools' PhD programs in math. I think the rest of my application (grades, advanced classes, research experience, letters of recommendation, general GRE scores) is fine, but I am concerned somewhat with my subject test scores. Due to finan... | [
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80,984 | When I was hired to a math department (in the US) my field was among the favorite directions in the department. Few years later the department decided to put more attention on some other areas of math.
I am wondering what might be the practical consequences of this decision for me. E.g. whether my research will be co... | [
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81,000 | Can people who hosted talks at your university provide some tips on purchasing food and drink for the event?
We have a visitor from another American university and I am tasked with buying "food and drink" for about an audience of 30 - 50 people. We are located relatively close to Starbucks but far away from the neares... | [
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81,005 | I am a woman currently on the market for tenure-track positions. I will not disclose my department since I think this is not relevant, and I am about to describe a particular department in detail.
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81,013 | I've sent an abstract to a prestigious conference in my field, which has been accepted as a poster presentation. How should I ask them to reconsider my poster as a talk?
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81,019 | Is it okay to cite a TED presentation or a video lecture or something similar? If so, how to cite that video for your paper/thesis? | [
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"text": "A quick google \"apa cite video\" would give you lots of advice, such as <http://www.easybib.com/guides/... | 2016/12/04 | [
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81,043 | I have less than a week left in my PhD submission - it's due by 9th of December. This is almost the end of my fourth year and I have been able to edit it several times since I completed the first draft.
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81,045 | I've been reading conflicting advice on SE about the placement of an illustration (figure, table, algorithm). My questions are thus (refer to Section 3.3.1 in the attached figure):
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81,056 | I am trying to assess how much public funding private universities in the United States receive.
I found a study that partially answers the question:
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81,059 | I have a B.E Civil Engineering and M.tech Environmental Engineering degree from India. Also I have 2 years of teaching experience in an Engineering college in India. Currently I am residing in US. Is it possible for me to get a teaching job in community colleges? How should I prepare myself to get a teaching job here?
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81,061 | Assume that I am an computer science undergraduate, and I am interested in how studying distractions influence exam scores in the long run, i.e. do you gain a tolerance by studying with distractions eventually?
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81,063 | I submitted an article around 11 months ago to a SCI journal and another article around 5 months ago in another SCI journal. The second article cited the first article which was under review for 6 months at the time of submission of second article. Recently, we got acceptance letter for 2nd article while 1st article is... | [
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81,071 | I'm specifically talking about Ph.D. programs. One of my letter writers is a well-known professor in the field. I did a 5-month research project with him last year through a fellowship from my university, and he knows my research output well, but is a bit scatterbrained. The project in question was considered "graduate... | [
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81,073 | I am applying for grad school and a bit confused about taking references. Should I take a reference from my employer where I had worked on an unrelated field for one and half year? Or Should I prefer taking it from academia from a Prof. with whom I have worked on unrelated field again. | [
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81,082 | I helped my friend, who never used LaTeX before, to convert her PG Diploma essay from a Word document into this system (for a molecular biology class). I convinced her that, with some learning, she could later produce better essays with LaTeX in shorter time, focusing on the content without *worrying about the layout*.... | [
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81,101 | I'm currently working on a Spanish paper in MLA for an undergraduate course and have stumbled on some confusion for my Works Cited for which I can find no definitive answer. MLA says that I should use the header "Works Cited" before my citations, but does this still apply for other languages? Should I put "La bibliogra... | [
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81,126 | I had submitted my first manuscript to my supervisor in 2013. He checked it after one year and finally submit it to a journal in Jan 2015. After one major revision, it got accepted with a minor revision and due date was 30th June, 2015. I modified and corrected the manuscript. But my supervisor was so busy that he coul... | [
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"text": "\"Dr. X:\n\nYour inattention to this matter is impacting my career. Can we please submit this paper?\n\nThan... | 2016/12/06 | [
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81,129 | This is somewhere in my conclusion. I do not want to expand further; just state it without sounding boastful.
>
> My undergraduate result shows that I am diligent, intelligent and
> focused.
>
>
>
Does something like the following make me seem unsure?
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> I like to believe I am diligent, intelligent and
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81,133 | Last semester I've retaken a course and went through the exam. It was a sit-down exam and all students were present. All students are required put their possessions (phones, cameras, etc.) in their bags and put their bags in front of the room.
The students were not allowed to take the question sheets home.
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81,140 | **Within academia, I am wondering how statisticians use the titles/description of "statistician" versus "applied statistician."** Also, what is the difference between an "applied statistician" and an academic researcher whose work focuses on or involves the application of (relatively) advanced stats to questions in the... | [
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81,141 | I would like to do a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences. I love doing research but I'm not sure that I want to become a professor and stay in academia. I would, however, like to commercialize the research I would do and start a company. I think that a PhD would provide crucial research experience, networking opportunities ... | [
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81,145 | On my web page, I ask students who want a letter of recommendation to talk with me about it. I also ask for specific information, such as what classes they took, how they distinguished themselves, etc. The purpose, of course, is to write strong letters for the good students and to encourage others to ask someone else.
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"text": "I would just be honest. You teach many students and this particular student you taught a long time ago. Thei... | 2016/12/06 | [
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81,161 | I am an international student who is thinking of applying to a Ph.D program in economics at some top 30 economics departments in the U.S. I have a bachelor's and a master's degree in economics. My GRE, both verbal and quant, puts me well above the 90th percentile. My TOEFL is very high. I have three outstanding recomme... | [
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"text": "Broadly speaking, your more recent work will matter far more than your past work. You'll see this as a common theme in... | 2016/12/06 | [
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81,163 | I am working on a research project that the university and my PI talked me into applying for a research grant through the university, and I got it. I'm happy that they considered my part of the project worth the award, but now I have concerns and want to decline it, mainly because of the presentation requirement.
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81,168 | In one of my undergraduate courses, I found that one of the required texts was particularly well-written. It is a textbook about computer architecture, and I found that it explained intricate technical concepts in understandable language, and it managed to exemplify and summarize often difficult concepts quite nicely. ... | [
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"text": "Sure. Writing a book is a huge amount of work, and everyone likes to hear that their work has been useful to s... | 2016/12/06 | [
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81,170 | I have a published a conference paper (in 2014) that has been used recently by a master student (whom I do not know) to write a paper for a master's class discussing a paper. In his work he cites my work and the title he put on researchgate.net is: *Analysis Report on [my work]*.
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"text": "Ignore it. There are lots of bad papers out there that will never be noticed and/or cited -- and given t... | 2016/12/06 | [
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81,177 | I am going to be finishing my PhD at a top-10 ranked US institution in the next 6 months in a biosciences related discipline. My advisor (and the lab in general) is extremely well known and well respected. I have been very productive in my current lab (10-15 papers in high-impact journals, many additional manuscripts i... | [
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"text": "Massive productivity trumps essentially all considerations. If you're at one of the best universities ar... | 2016/12/06 | [
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81,207 | On my letters of recommendation, I was asked to rate if a student was
* Top 1-2%
* Top 5%
* Top 10%
* Top 25%
* Top 50%, or
* Not in the top 50%
The student got an A in my class, and scored in the top 25% of students, class-rank-wise. But I am afraid that if I rate them as "top 25%," and they are applying to a top pr... | [
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81,208 | There's a popular math textbook I enjoyed a lot when I was a grad student. Recently I noticed an extension to one of the many interesting exercises provided by the textbook. I'd like to communicate this idea with the textbook author (single author).
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81,230 | There is an opening for an assistant professor position at a US university, that I really want to apply to. However, it is a Catholic university and the application requires a "Statement of Contribution to Mission." I have read the university's mission statement which, besides the usual academic missions, includes quit... | [
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81,238 | I'm an English major and planning to apply to graduate schools. My freshman year I originally planned to be a bio major due to pressures from my family. I had to take chemistry and biology, which soon enough turned into a disaster. I dropped chem, but since I needed enough credits to be considered full time, I was forc... | [
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81,243 | This might seem like a small problem, but one I've been thinking about lately, and was hoping for some insights. I joined a new lab around a year ago, and while things have mostly been going great, my lab colleagues are really not the brightest group. They are wonderful people to work with (and friends in a non-work se... | [
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81,253 | I recently got a paper rejected. I do not plan on appealing, I definitely see that some elements of the paper need improvements.
Nevertheless, some of the comments from one reviewer are factually inaccurate.
For example, I cite Paper A, where claim X is made. This reviewer says (repeatedly, in three different comments... | [
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