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81,261 | Recently I had a challenge in responding to a reviewer (#2) for revising our work. The reviewer asked us to refer 16 papers in multiple parts of the paper. I decided to refer some of these references about 8 papers due to the not relevancy of the mentioned references from the reviewer to the question raised by the revi... | [
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81,266 | As a relatively new assistant professor,
I'm beginning to write recommendation letters for a few students.
Recently, a student asked me to write a recommendation letter for him.
The web link which was sent to me contains text which reads:
>
> Please note that, under the provision of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordina... | [
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"text": "Legally, in the USA, students are entitled to access their educational records. (I assume that there are similar regu... | 2016/12/08 | [
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81,285 | I would like to use images from social media (e.g. imgur, Facebook, Flickr etc) for research (ie not for profit or any industrial use).
1. Would it be legal to use images (for analysis, etc), if I do not store them locally?
2. Would it be legal to create a dataset of such images, that I will later publish with my futu... | [
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"text": "In order to copy or redistribute images that you don't own, you have to comply with the terms of the license under w... | 2016/12/08 | [
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81,290 | **DISCLAIMER: As some readers have found the following question and prior title (How to best kill a manuscript as peer reviewer) outrageously unethical, I want to clarify that, by asking this question, I was simply and constructively trying to be provocative, not suggesting any means to hijack the peer review process.*... | [
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"text": "If your intention is to \"kill\" the manuscript, you should give a reject recommendation. Rejecting does not me... | 2016/12/08 | [
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81,298 | I'm a first-year undergraduate student (studying *Pure Mathematics*) at a university that has a mediocre mathematics department, in a country where there are no *really good* math departments compared to other countries abroad (as an example, there are only 2 known professors in my country that work on research in Alge... | [
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"text": "You may consider:\n\n1. Transferring to another South African school that would be of a similar level but more... | 2016/12/08 | [
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81,306 | I've noticed that - at least in the US - a book is published and sold at a non-trivial price to US residents. However, the author/publisher may also make an international version.
This version is subpar in my opinion. For example, they are cheaper, but also typically paperback, and I've seen in a science textbook thin... | [
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"text": "In some cases, these international editions are sold at a fairly steep discount compared to their U.S. versions. This i... | 2016/12/09 | [
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81,315 | I’m a foreign student currently applying to extremely competitive doctoral programs in the US. Recently, one of the professors writing a letter of recommendation sexually assaulted me. I live in a country where things like this, when reported, are usually unpunished and even more difficult for the victim. I’m currently... | [
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"text": "Would you feel safe and otherwise be able to defer to the next application period? If so, you could deve... | 2016/12/09 | [
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81,324 | The following situation occurred:
* I was asked to modify a figure (originally published in a paper) to be used in a non-further-determined publication by my professor.
* I did **substantially** modify the figure: I redrew the figure from scratch in a vector program, added colours and decoration and made it generally ... | [
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"text": "How to proceed from here?\n\nYou don't do anything. You did something small your supervisor asked for, and he use... | 2016/12/09 | [
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81,331 | In some job adverts I found something on the lines of (emphasis mine):
>
> Requirements:
>
>
> Graduate degree in X or PhD in Y with a **proven track record** in X, ideally with experience in Z. We are looking for a highly motivated scientist to join an interactive, multi-national team at the cutting edge of...
>
... | [
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"text": "For an industry position this typically means you have worked on and completed a project that involved *X*. Ideally... | 2016/12/09 | [
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81,332 | I'm in a fairly niche field that is still in the process of organizing itself. As such, there are a number of existing professional societies that are spinning off journals along with newer societies that are getting into journal publication. Since some of the [usual metrics for judging a predatory journal](https://aca... | [
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"text": "A suggestion checklist for new journals\n---------------------------------------\n\n1. check who has been pub... | 2016/12/09 | [
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81,338 | I am an undergraduate in the U.S., and my university is currently interviewing for an open faculty position. The department arranges lunches with the job candidates and current undergraduate students, where we can ask the candidate questions and get to know them. Students fill out an evaluation of the candidate followi... | [
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"text": "Assuming that the undergraduate falls within the typical range of undergraduates in the United States (i.e. 18 to ... | 2016/12/09 | [
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81,354 | Long story sort, I am a young undergraduate student (exact sciences) working on a project with one of my professors. I proposed the idea I had together with my references on him and fortunately he agreed to supervise my project, although it doesn't quite fall under his research interests and expertise(half of the proje... | [
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"text": "If the professor had concerns about your defensive behaviour, he would not have offered to sponsor your doctorate. He... | 2016/12/10 | [
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81,363 | I am taking a course this semester for an upper year undergraduate course in mathematics.
The course instructor had some experience of teaching lower year courses, and her performance in those courses has been noted as very good. This is her first time teaching an upper year course, her teaching style is minimalistic... | [
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81,366 | I received the decision letter for the manuscript I submitted to one of the top journal in the area of network security. The editor recommended the publication of article after minor revision but I disagree with few arguments made by a review and also highlighted by the editor in his own recommendation.
I know it is a... | [
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81,369 | I have had my PhD in mathematics for four and a half years now, completed two postdocs and found a tenure track job at a mostly teaching university. While I provide substantial background information below, my real, general question is:
>
> How can I identify the causes of a decline in acceptance rate of my papers?
... | [
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"text": "I feel for you. I have been in the (pure math) game for a lot longer than you, and sometimes my work is still tre... | 2016/12/10 | [
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81,373 | Once I was told that in mathematics, after one gets a PhD, it is very hard to change one's field of specialization (within maths). Is this true? What are the reasons? How common are counterexamples?
In your answers please also specify what country are you talking about, if you believe it matters. | [
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"text": "[EDIT] Just saw the comment on changing within maths. So yes, new discoveries are often made by linking appa... | 2016/12/10 | [
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81,374 | I am applying for multiple economics PhD programs in the US (Harvard, Princeton, etc), and for MPhil (research master) programs in the UK (Oxford, Cambridge, LSE). for the academic year starting Sep-2017
I want to apply for scholarships as much as possible, but I'm slightly confused by how this works. I've read some s... | [
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"text": "> \n> since the US has a reputation here in Europe to have very high tuition fees. Do I understand correctly from th... | 2016/12/10 | [
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81,378 | I haven't finished applying to one of the grad schools I'm interested in. But, one of the professors emailed me asking if I was still applying. He said I had strong letters of recommendations and told me a little bit about a project he is working on. Says he has student positions to fill. I assume he's partially intere... | [
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81,386 | I'm a fourth year student earning a degree in computer science. I have a fairly high gpa, completed two research projects, and have conducted myself honestly through my entire career. A few weeks ago, we received an assignment comprised of 3 sections. My class partner and I decided to work separately on a single module... | [
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"text": "It's hard to judge whether your specific situation constitutes plagiarism, since copying \"structure\" has room for a... | 2016/12/10 | [
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81,390 | I'm applying to math Ph.D. programs which usually give the option of uploading a sample of some original work. Very recently I have produced some of my first serious results but I haven't yet had the time to write them up anywhere near the standards of publication (and doing so isn't an option since I only have a few d... | [
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"text": "It's been a few years since I've reviewed applications for math grad school, but I don't remember ever looking at \... | 2016/12/10 | [
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81,391 | I'm an undergraduate mathematics student at a US university applying to graduate school.
I took two classes with a professor and did extremely well - he loved me, and when I asked him to write me a letter of recommendation he promised to write a very strong one. He liked me so much that he actually sent me his letter s... | [
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81,411 | What does “a few days” mean in the following context? In response to me sending a short paper to a professor for review, he said:
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> Sorry, I'll look ..but might take me a few days".
>
>
>
Is this a polite decline or is there a real good chance he will look at it? | [
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81,428 | An individual I know is in an interesting situation and I was just wondering what you guys thought about it.
This individual had an exam conflict and emailed the instructor to arrange an alternate exam time to get rid of this conflict. Meanwhile the rest of the class would be taking the exam for this course at a later... | [
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"text": "> \n> Is it not the instructor's responsibility to prepare a different version of the exam for both th... | 2016/12/11 | [
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81,448 | Most books I've seen released under a Creative Commons license also have the copyright symbol (e.g., "© 2016 by me") plus, sometimes, "some/all rights reserved" listed on the copyright page.
Is it necessary to say copyright on the "copyright" page when using a Creative Commons (CC) license? | [
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81,455 | My sub-field has been haunted by the fact that for slightly over fifty years the key foundation of everything we do has been in empirical dispute. The empirical anomalies have generated tens of thousands of articles. There are over 3800 for just one anomaly alone.
The problem came about because the key work was done b... | [
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81,459 | During an intramural teaching forum, I was interested to learn from a Head of Department (HoD) that she didn't consider it her role to correct grammatical errors when evaluating coursework submissions (an essay, say) at the post-graduate level and that she limited her assessments to the content of the essay. I'm an HoD... | [
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81,465 | It seems like funding in the lab in which I am working is getting tight. Since I usually end up spending a fair amount of said funding to buy supplies for the lab and my coworkers, it’d be nice to have an accurate picture of the lab’s financial situation so that I can make more informed decisions.
I’ve pretty directly... | [
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81,472 | My field is data analysis in which i try to invent/improve algorithms to better analyze existing datasets. During my search i noticed a good medical institute is trying to solve their problem from data analysis point of view, or in other words they are working on designing methods to decipher their own data.
Based on... | [
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81,478 | Suppose there are two authors Avboyn Uunstoin and Ohaac Nektet on a research paper. Is it OK to write them as A. Einstein and Ohaac Nektet or vice versa? Similarly, if there are more authors, is it OK to write initials of some of them and not all? If it is not OK, is it wrong and unacceptable, or bad?
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81,486 | I'm a youngish (recently tenured) faculty member at a reasonably, but not extremely prestigious university in the mathematics department. While I've looked at some graduate admissions files, this is the first year I have been on the actual committee and thus been responsible for reading many files. I feel like most asp... | [
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"text": "Good question. I worked on graduate admissions at my math PhD program (at UGA, in the US) for several years, and... | 2016/12/12 | [
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81,495 | For some background, I'm a second year medical student, and I have recently been considering making medical research a significant part of my future career. I wasn't a science major in undergrad, so I don't have any research background. I have spoken to one of my professors, and I will be doing a bit of lab work in the... | [
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"text": "We need more researchers in rheumatology. \n\nEDIT: In the comments, you asked what skills you'd need to attract the at... | 2016/12/12 | [
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81,500 | In the course of my PhD I have written a few papers that I am planning on incorporating into my dissertation. I was first author on these papers and legitimately wrote and developed the high majority of the papers (as in, I wasn't just gifted "first author" status). In the course of our papers, my co-authors and I used... | [
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"text": "If those results are published, cite the publication. If those results are unpublished, you can cite the contr... | 2016/12/12 | [
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81,507 | I am an EE undergraduate senior who is about to become a graduate student next semester.
I applied for integrated MS/PhD and there are two PIs I can choose. However, the problem is that I do not know choosing which PI will benefit myself in long term perspective.
Their research fields are 90% the same. Furthermore, t... | [
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"text": "The only *apparent* difference between the two being h-index means you don't know enough about these two PIs. Work habi... | 2016/12/13 | [
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81,512 | Two out of three reviewers rejected the paper I had submitted saying that it is not of high scientific content. But the third reviewer suggested "publish after minor revision."
The paper is open for revisions. Does my paper stand a chance of acceptance after revision?
Why is it open for revisions when majority 2/3 of... | [
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81,513 | For instance, if a paper is written in Russian, and a researcher wants to use this work and cite it, does he have to learn Russian?
What's the typical practice?
Does he try and use translation tools such as Google translate?
Pay a professional translator?
Or, blindly accept the results and blindly cite the paper an... | [
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"text": "There is no general answer to your general question. It depends on a paper.\n\n**Do you have to cite it... | 2016/12/13 | [
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81,518 | A few months ago, and seven years after I obtained my PhD, I finally got tenure. Hence I have a permanent position in academia.
After a few months in this new position, I find myself thinking of quitting academia. I do not know if this is because of my new status but I am quite discouraged and not motivated to do rese... | [
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"text": "It's hard to give concrete advice here because this is a very personal thing. First: It is quite common to feel empty whe... | 2016/12/13 | [
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81,526 | I'm a Master's student right now. Due to previous incidents ([What can I do if a student in my lab threatens to tell lies about me, and my advisor doesn't want to fire her?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/72933/what-can-i-do-if-a-student-in-my-lab-threatens-to-tell-lies-about-me-and-my-adv)), I'm clinical... | [
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"text": "There is only one suitable course of action I recommend, as an advisor and a physician. Stop with an... | 2016/12/13 | [
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81,571 | Applying for 2018-9 admissions (Missed [2017-8 admissions](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/81540/)). Got [master's applied math. Want PhD in pure math](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/42304/).
How applicable is the following ([source](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/20323/))
>
... | [
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"text": "If I see you have been involved in lots of supervised research projects on your CV/statement, but that none of your... | 2016/12/14 | [
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81,581 | A few years ago, I reported a student for academic dishonesty (in a graduate-level mathematics course, they were copying solutions off the internet, nearly verbatim). After acknowledging their wrong-doing with the Academic Integrity office on campus, they were allowed to drop the course.
The next year, the student re... | [
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"text": "The best option is: Don't write the letter. In a case like this, I would outright refuse to provide a recommendation.... | 2016/12/14 | [
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81,583 | Crossref, e.g., charges thousands of dollars to assign DOIs, but are there any free DOI registration services? In other words: Is there a free service that will generate DOIs for me? | [
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"text": "As the official [DOI FAQ](https://www.doi.org/faq.html) mentions, you need to go through a recognized registration age... | 2016/12/14 | [
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81,604 | This was a few years ago now. My PhD program had two exams. The first I passed with high marks the second I failed.
I did not really know who to talk with about this. It is common in my program for people taking their exams to fail on the first attempt. However, the nature of the way this news was conveyed by the grad... | [
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81,610 | I am an undergraduate student of a fairly small university (around 8,000 undergrads) and I'm not getting any response from my Department chair when I ask for some help with changing around my classes. Currently, for next semester, I'm registered in a specific class at a certain time (we can call this class A) and I wan... | [
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81,614 | I have been working for a year and a half in a lab doing research in applied computer science. Ever since I was a kid I had dreamed with being part of a lab and do research. However, I have now experienced what I believe a great majority of research is like. Particularly, I feel that everything is about funding and the... | [
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"text": "In the US labs that require funding to operate, tend to have PIs that are pretty focused on keeping the funding comi... | 2016/12/14 | [
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81,625 | I have a paper accepted by a journal of Elsevier, and it went under production for 3 months. Yet the production team has not been able to fix certain problems with typesetting which appeared during the proofreading. After the first month, I received the proofreading notification. The first production of my paper was re... | [
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"text": "You could try contacting the editor in chief of the journal to see if they could get the problem fixed. This w... | 2016/12/15 | [
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81,633 | I am getting my phd degree (in a STEM field) at a Top 20 department in a year or two, and I truly love my field, but I’m not sure if I should try for jobs at academia.
The thing is, I feel that I am way too competitive. I know this isn't a healthy attitude, but I cannot stop comparing myself with smarter people consis... | [
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"text": "I think it would be very unusual for a highly competitive person to wind up in a department where he i... | 2016/12/15 | [
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81,637 | I am a student of Pure Mathematics and wanted to work in Linear Algebra,Abstract Algebra etc.. I entered a PhD program in 2015 in a University.
My adivisor wanted a scholar to work in the field of Graph Theory.
My advisor works in the field of Cryptography and said previously that though he could not publish anything... | [
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"text": "> \n> Can I leave him? But if I join somewhere else they will ask me what I\n> was doing in these two years, what sho... | 2016/12/15 | [
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81,638 | I am a PhD student in computer science. My advisor keeps telling me I need to read papers, but I find most of them really long and boring, no matter what field they are in (but especially if there are a lot of math equations). Usually my mind starts wandering after one or two pages.
My advisor thinks I should read one... | [
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"text": "My suggestion would be that for the time being, you take a different approach to looking at papers. Skim a cou... | 2016/12/15 | [
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81,642 | According to [SHERPA/RoMEO](http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/), many journals permit post-review preprints to be uploaded immediately to an author's "personal website", but apply an embargo period to "open access repositories" ([example](http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php?jtitle=ocean%20and%20coastal%20management&issn=0964-... | [
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"text": "The [2009 blog post](https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/self-archiving-repository-goes-online) you linked to make... | 2016/12/15 | [
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81,657 | I have a good job and salary now. And I want to quit my job to take a Ph.D. degree, which means my income will be cut in half. Should I mention that in my personal statement to prove my dedication to academia? Would that be like I am looking down the academia as I quantify the benefits academia brings me with the money... | [
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"text": "In my opinion no. You should mention your current work and any relation it has to doing a PhD, and that ... | 2016/12/15 | [
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81,659 | I have been told that triple (or more) majoring and/or taking numerous minors is seen as a bad quality when applying to graduate school. Can anybody explain we why they do not want academically oriented students that like to learn stuff? | [
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"text": "It seems to be a common fallacy among undergraduate students that completing more majors and/or minors means that y... | 2016/12/15 | [
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81,664 | I wonder how it is perceived if a student does not attend the course in which attendance is not taken.
I am a PhD student and I skipped most of class in two courses. Now, both of the instructors are mad at me. In one course the professor gave me an F on an oral exam because I could not explain one point in a chapter, ... | [
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"text": "To begin with, start going to classes. Your professors have assumed that you are an adult, mature enough to unde... | 2016/12/15 | [
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81,671 | I am struggling finding proper references for the known facts that are mentioned in my thesis.
For example: foundation of Cartesian coordinate system introduced the grid system for data visualization techniques.
How can I possibly find a reference to support that claim?
What is your best method for finding reference... | [
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"text": "Although the question is a bit vague, I try to give you an answer from my experience. There are often state... | 2016/12/15 | [
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81,672 | I have been given a great opportunity to work as a research assistant. I will be working under this researcher (and her team) for about 5 months. I was only suppose to start in mid-January. But she said she would like to hire me as a research assistant for the next few weeks (full-time). She said she will be paying me ... | [
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"text": "From my experience doing research assistant work at a state university in the US, and from speaking with peers in ... | 2016/12/15 | [
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81,687 | Aluke and Bob have co-authored a paper together. The contribution (data collection, analysis, writing) was 100% Aluke and 0% Bob, except that the original idea was initiated during a conversation between Aluke and Bob. Bob acknowledged several times in private that he did not contribute to the project, but he claimed c... | [
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"text": "Wow, what a difficult position to be in. If Bob contributed 0%, Aluke has every right to exclude him from the author ... | 2016/12/15 | [
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81,696 | Can someone please clarify for me if there is a difference between an explanation and an interpretation in scientific discourse?
Whenever I am writing up results, I am careful to distinguish *observations* (which I associate with results) and *interpretations* (which I associate with discussion), because results are ... | [
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"text": "**Disclaimer: Opinion**\n\nFirst, I believe your description in what goes into Results and Discussion aligns ... | 2016/12/15 | [
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81,698 | Our university doesn't announce any rank and it is not present in our transcripts but I know that my rank is 7 out of 60 in my department. Can I mention this rank? Since I dont have any proof of my rank I am not sure if I can mention it or not. | [
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"text": "If you can't prove it, I wouldn't put it in your C.V.\n\nFor one, anyone reviewing your application will have no w... | 2016/12/15 | [
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81,718 | I am completing a PhD in area of "applied" mathematics (although technically this general area is very broad and sits in between both pure and applied ends of the spectrum).
I am applying for some one-year post doctoral positions at another university. These positions are not attached to any specific member of academi... | [
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"text": "In mathematics, your situation is very common. A lot of people don't have any papers written and are still complet... | 2016/12/16 | [
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81,724 | When I was an undergrad student I used to procrastinate a lot. I managed to get things done in the nick of time by staying up all night before exams, and so on. Not very different from what Tim Urban talks about [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arj7oStGLkU). That's why I know this is not my problem any more. Duri... | [
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"text": "> \n> I find myself on the brink of burnout. What are effective strategies to avoid burnout and optimize time manag... | 2016/12/16 | [
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81,731 | This question comes in two parts.
---------------------------------
1. If I am a lecturer in a field (say, Data Mining) and quite stuck in my research, am I allowed to make exam questions (for undergraduate & graduate students) related to my research hoping that some answers may give me ideas?
2. If I am allowed to do... | [
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"text": "I find the whole idea as proposed in the first point quite underhanded. Just announce that you are looking for ideas ... | 2016/12/16 | [
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81,737 | We submitted an article to a SCI Elsevier journal. The Elsevier website has clearly mentioned that submission to first decision takes 4.5 weeks, submission to
final decision takes 4.7 weeks and acceptance to citable online takes 7.2 weeks.
After 60 days of submission I sent an inquiry email and editor replied just ... | [
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81,745 | I'm a PhD student. Just before starting my PhD I wrote up an expository paper about the basics my domain of study, in a peer-reviewed journal for graduate students, with almost no new results (the only new result is from my master's degree thesis, which is not published anywhere, and it's not groundbreaking by any mean... | [
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81,746 | currently I'm applying for a specific university I had an exchange program couple years ago, and I asked one specific professor about a recommendation letter, also stated I had the desire to work alongside her as her assistant (being a TA or RA). I'm still waiting for the results (fall 2017), but I would like to ask he... | [
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81,753 | More and more journals require authors to make their data available, as an increasing trend to open science and reproducibility. If I want to use some data openly accessible that is linked to a publication, do I just need to cite the data source in my manuscript or will I also need to contact the authors to let them kn... | [
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81,755 | As a part of my post-doctoral project, I am working on some problem. Apart from my post-doc mentor, another junior member had been added to the project to assist me and been given the position of ``Junior Research Fellow'' (JRF). Initially, I thought that a proper person who would be able to learn the methods of my fie... | [
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"text": "The authors of scientific papers should have had an intellectual contribution in the resulting publication. You can n... | 2016/12/16 | [
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81,773 | I submitted a philosophy essay to a professor for his 2nd year class that was almost the same as an essay I submitted to a TA for the same professor's 1st year class.
I thought that I had authorization from my professor but I recently discovered that I needed permission in writing. It's been almost 4 years now and I g... | [
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"text": "In theory, you could get in trouble for this, but the risk is very low. Universities generally retain the authority t... | 2016/12/16 | [
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81,778 | A lot of universities say "Cannot submit this work in whole or in part to another class without prior written consent by the instructor."
What is an example of a situation where a student would get consent for this? | [
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81,781 | Do universities keep work done by students for later research and/or plagiarism detection by future students (eg. self-plagiarism)? | [
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81,788 | My friend, a graduate student answered an exam question (in Data Mining field) with a method she's going to propose in her thesis, which has not been published yet as it is still unfinished. The (soon-to-be) thesis itself propose a single new method.
What caused her anxiety:
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81,796 | A friend of mine finished his PhD and joined our group, on a project closely related to his PhD work. After three months, we submitted an article which includes significant amount of work from his thesis and also the work done the last three months in our group.
But his PhD supervisor got angry and said he can not ad... | [
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81,802 | I have to submit my dissertation through Turnitin. I am planning on publishing the dissertation on my website a few days after submitting it through Turnitin so future employers can see what kind of work I produce.
I was wondering if posting it online after submitting it through Turnitin would cause any problems? The ... | [
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81,808 | In a particular field there are two algorithms being used:
* Algorithm *Simple*: you understand it in five minutes, you can implement it in fifteen.
* Algorithm *State of the Art (SOA)*: requires very specific mathematical knowledge to understand and is hard to code. Beats *Simple* by a big margin, both in terms of sp... | [
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81,809 | I'm working as a software developer right now and am applying for PhD programmes in robotics and environmental conservation. I've put in my notice at work recently and should finish working there mid-February, about a month after the PhD application deadlines. I am quitting for a number of reasons, one of them includin... | [
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81,810 | If all goes according to plan,
I will be teaching a new course in the next academic year.
Although I do have some experience teaching an existing course
which was previously developed by my colleagues,
this will be my first time preparing and teaching a new course from scratch.
I have done some thinking about my new c... | [
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81,830 | We want to establish a journal. Also I want to add the journal to various indexes. What are the main steps /guide to building an academic journal? What should be done to enter the SCI/SCIe/SSCI index. What is the difference between ISBN, ISSN, DOI numbers. I'm not interesting basic steps like deciding topic, name ,revi... | [
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"text": "This question is indeed rather broad. The specific questions you ask are at once basic and easily researched (you can ... | 2016/12/18 | [
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81,831 | I have googled and it is possible to create rss feeds for categories; nothing about rss feeds for authors.
Is there a way to automatically follow a large number of authors on arxiv? | [
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81,832 | I am currently a first year graduate student in a pure math PhD program in a top-100 university studying topology. I declined offers from top 20 schools to attend this school because I liked the professors at this university and the location of the school was good.
After going to a couple of conferences and talking to... | [
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"text": "1. Get your feet wet in applied math to make sure you'll like it. Apparently there is no applied math program ... | 2016/12/18 | [
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81,851 | My story is that the research in my department did not match with my background. I worked hard and my GPA is 3.5+, but the research topic was hard to develop. Unfortunately, I was dismissed from the program but was approved to get a master's degree before I leave the university. I do not have any misconduct.
Now I am ... | [
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81,861 | I hear a lot about good note-taking strategies vs bad note-taking strategies, and I have seen a lot of research papers on different styles of note-taking. What I haven't seen though is any study that has asked if we should even be taking notes in the first place.
Specifically I would like to know the long-term effects... | [
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81,863 | Where am I supposed to report a broken DOI? To <https://www.doi.org/>, to the DOI registration agency that issued the DOI, to whoever is responsible for the website to which the DOI points to, or to somebody else?
For example, <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0364-0213(90)90002-E> is 404:
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81,874 | In Germany, acquiring your doctoral degree usually involves the following steps (in that order):
1. You hand in your thesis.
2. The examiners review your thesis.
3. You defend your thesis and possibly take an oral exam (usually on the same day).
4. You publish your thesis (or provide proof that you already did so).
5.... | [
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"text": "The [*Promotionsordnung*](//portal.mytum.de/kompass/rechtsicherheitswesen/promotionsordnung) of my alma mater says thi... | 2016/12/19 | [
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81,883 | I am in the last year of my PhD (neuroscience/biomed research) in Italy and I have applied for an interesting postdoc position in Perth, Australia, at a neuroscience research centre affiliated with the UWA.
The call that I have applied for is describe as “founded”, although without any hint about the actual salary. D... | [
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81,890 | I am doing a double degree (bachelor of electrical engineering - bachelor of math) and I am in year 2 (my double degrees takes 5 years). My final goal is to enter electrical engineering graduate school. I love math and I am getting excellent grades for my bachelor of math degree but since my goal is entering electrical... | [
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81,899 | Lately I have been thinking about what is the right way to cite other papers (i.e., what to put in the bibliography entries, in the section which is typically called "References"). As many papers are available online nowadays, it seems to me that bibliographic references should include, whenever possible, a link to the... | [
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81,901 | I have graduated with a PhD in pure mathematics about 18 months ago and right after my graduation, I started working for a private college, teaching some low level courses such as College Algebra and Calculus. I have not done any research since my graduation but I always feel that my life is incomplete without research... | [
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"text": "The proximity of a large university can be a big plus. Here are some things you might find helpful:\n\n* Get i... | 2016/12/19 | [
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81,902 | For submitting papers to Elsevier journals, they instruct you to prepare Latex files using the Elsarticle class. This class has huge margins (as other questions have also touched upon), to give space for reviewer comments, etc.
I have large, landscape figures which fill whole pages. Do I need to reduce the size of the... | [
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81,909 | Can an editor make substantial edits to an author's book or paper and publish them without the author's permission? | [
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81,927 | We are in a physics department. My supervisor, upon reading a Physical Review Letters (PRL) paper, concludes (and claims that the paper also concludes) that the classical central limit theorem (CLT) is false under the (usual) assumptions stated. He insists on this result and wants me to say/imply that in my manuscript ... | [
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"text": "> \n> (1) Would you say that my supervisor is scientifically incompetent?\n> \n> \n> \n\nIf he says the CLT as st... | 2016/12/20 | [
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81,933 | I have two articles published in a conference proceeding which are not accessible on the Internet. The publisher published three selected articles in SCI journals, but the rest of the articles are not available online on any kind of platform except for the list of titles, which was published at the time of the conferen... | [
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81,952 | For an assignment, I was supposed to do some tedious calculations and essentially compute a certain number of *things* and then just list them as answers, one after another, without the calculations. There were about 15 of these things that I had to list.
I did this, and then misplaced the paper on which I had written... | [
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81,963 | I just graduated college in May, and I spent my entire college career convinced that I would never study again. I had a plan for my future, and it involved working- no more school. I had considered grad school, but never very seriously.
Now, however, I am very much considering a grad or PhD program. Unfortunately, be... | [
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81,974 | Thanks all for your kindly replies. This is my first time to post something on this website and I also read some other posts. I realized that I didn't get the purpose of this website. So I revised my post.
I am a 3rd year PhD student with Mechanical Engineering background. I have two advisors. One of them is a resear... | [
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81,975 | I'm in junior high, and earlier this year, we had a science fair. My science project was mostly experimental pure math, and came in first overall in our grade.
Today, I was doing some research on a related topic, and came upon a published paper in a moderately respected journal. This paper had the same title as my sc... | [
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81,981 | I'm in the field of engineering, electrical engineering specifically. I find myself with several technical reports and notes I've written over the years, and some colleagues have asked me for these. I think these may be beneficial to others, too and I'd like to make these publicly available somehow.
I've refrained fr... | [
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81,983 | My question is very similar to [this one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/41803/is-copying-equations-plagiarism), but I'm curious about algorithms. The accepted answer states that:
>
> Mathematical equations are not normally considered subject to plagiarism ...
>
>
>
I am wondering if the same would ... | [
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81,988 | I am thinking about applying to graduate studies in physics related Phd or master degree in the US, but my GPA is very low, 2.4/4.0 to be specific.
I wonder if there are respectable universities in the US that can accept such low average?
Notes:
-I have some experience in research from my undergrad.
-I had my Undergra... | [
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82,002 | I want to get access to a paper which hasn't been published by the scholar and I decide to write an email to him. What is a proper way to ask ?
My intention is to help myself formulate the scope of my next paper in the same field. | [
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82,003 | I was recently talking to a professor at a top university seeking advice for graduate school applications. The professor happened to mention that departments in the US have funding concerns when it comes to international students because they aren't eligible for government funding from agencies such as NIH or NSF. More... | [
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"text": "> \n> Can international students be paid through NIH/NSF grants that are awarded to the PI\n> \n> \n> \n\nYes. Intern... | 2016/12/21 | [
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82,027 | I am a college student in Rajasthan. I had a chance to address a large group at a college function, and in my address I said unfavorable things about professors in the college. Since then, I believe their behavior towards me has changed, and that they are personally targeting me.
I want to know what steps we can take ... | [
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"text": "**Disclaimer** \n\nI am not a lawyer, and this is not a legal advice.\n\n--\n\nAlthough student-teacher relations... | 2016/12/22 | [
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82,031 | A colleague of mine identified a research gap / problem and reviewed a manuscript of mine addressing said problem. Otherwise, he/she had no other contribution to the conceptualization and execution of the solution and to the writing of the paper.
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"text": "Identifying a research gap and reviewing a manuscript does not seem to warrant authorship to me.\n\nThings wo... | 2016/12/22 | [
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82,034 | I have a beginning PhD student who wants to enroll in a more prestigious PhD program elsewhere. He has done good research work here, both with my group and with a group at the university he wants to join. He is currently supported from my grant. He also wants to switch fields to something he always wanted to do.
In hi... | [
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"text": "I think you probably are overthinking this somewhat. I have written a number of letters for students in similar situat... | 2016/12/22 | [
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