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2016/02/27 | 1,820 | 7,963 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Masters student in math, who loves teaching, and rather than go on for a PhD would rather teach at a community college. I've noticed in many of the schools to which I am applying the they emphasize the need to understand diversity and teaching to diverse ethnic, economic, and ability pop... |
2016/02/27 | 795 | 3,647 | <issue_start>username_0: I have not published a scientific paper before. I am trying to understand the publishing process.
As far as I understand, no changes are made to the manuscript by anyone other than the author(s) until the paper is accepted, and only after the paper is accepted, copy-editors do formatting/gramm... |
2016/02/27 | 983 | 4,364 | <issue_start>username_0: A practical question:
I have now read a few times that to get a PhD position in the US you need 3 reference letters.
I assume most people apply for more than one position, so you need those 3 letters for every position.
Also, there are a lot of applicants.
So how does one get a professor to w... |
2016/02/27 | 1,213 | 5,341 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a mathematics student and have been extensively reading textbooks cover-to-cover in my own time. Thus, my transcript does not say that I have (for example) taken differential geometry, even though I know diffgeo as well, if not better, than if I took the course.
How would you suggest that... |
2016/02/27 | 3,086 | 13,090 | <issue_start>username_0: I currently have a (graduate) professor who clearly does not understand the material she teaches at the level required by the course. This normally would not be a problem - I'm fine with educating myself via textbook - but unfortunately her inaccurate knowledge also extends to grading. I have n... |
2016/02/28 | 568 | 2,637 | <issue_start>username_0: If a company or any external organization collaborates with a University to fund research - perhaps even open a lab - who owns the intellectual property (IP) of anything that results from that research? Is it the company, the university, or both?
Do cases like these affect IP ownership:
* the... |
2016/02/28 | 440 | 1,828 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received an acceptance email of my article from editor in August-2015 and I was told that my article will be published in their issue of XXXXX 2015/2016. Meanwhile one issue of the journal is published in january-2016 without my article and the next issue is expected in May-2016. Now I a... |
2016/02/28 | 1,970 | 7,226 | <issue_start>username_0: I came across an article by X and Y that is a nearly 100% self-plagiarised from an article by X several years earlier. A couple of words were changed, but that is it. The figures and tables are the same and so is the list of references. The titles are different. The publishers of the two journa... |
2016/02/29 | 576 | 2,367 | <issue_start>username_0: My university sent out the GHC 2016 emails recently. I have always wanted to go, because every year I see every single one of my female CS friends go there. The vast majority of them are sponsored by their companies, so they don't really have anything to present. My question is, is attending GH... |
2016/02/29 | 487 | 2,221 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been applying to some summer programs for undergraduates recently and I am seeing that some of them do not send rejection letters or emails, and instead only notify accepted applicants. I was wondering how wide spread of a practice this is in academia, meaning do graduate schools do this... |
2016/02/29 | 1,237 | 5,365 | <issue_start>username_0: Okay yes I know another 'I'm a bad candidate help me' post sorry.
I was in grad school years ago but I quit because the program wasn't good for me. The exact program doesn't matter. It was a small one on the USA west coast though, and for MS not PhD.
The problem was the people in the program ... |
2016/02/29 | 996 | 4,132 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student of Physics in Spain. This year I have to prepare my bachelor thesis and I also applied for a fellowship with the same advisor to do further research on the same topic.
I wasn't awarded the fellowship and I told my advisor about it but he wrote me an email a few da... |
2016/02/29 | 1,644 | 6,885 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a PhD in physics / applied math and have just started writing the theory section. A large-ish part (5-10 pages, estimated) will be setting the scene with some theoretical tools that I am using but did not invent. These tools will eventually be used as the basis for analysing data.
I... |
2016/02/29 | 3,807 | 16,232 | <issue_start>username_0: Sleep deprivation is a common problem among college students that has become so serious that universities in the US have taken measures to help their students overcome it.
As a particular example, the curriculum of Ateneo de Manila University was planned taking into consideration what would c... |
2016/02/29 | 335 | 1,433 | <issue_start>username_0: While my Elsevier in-press article shows up on the journal website, it has not yet appeared in Google scholar after a week. Is this normal and part of the process? If not, what's wrong with it?<issue_comment>username_1: Google Scholar updates on its own unpredictable schedule, based on whatever... |
2016/02/29 | 5,001 | 19,980 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm dealing with a student essay that references three books in support of a claim. None of the books referenced have authors listed, and, based on the contents of the student's essay, I can't find any information on these books online. I'm fairly certain they don't exist, but I'm not sure what... |
2016/02/29 | 3,995 | 17,898 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently attended an average international conference in Computer Science. This was the first time I actually attended an international conference.
The level of English that I heard during the talks ranged from average to extremely bad (ignoring the native speakers/people that lived a long t... |
2016/02/29 | 955 | 4,271 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for a faculty position. One month later they asked my references for reference letters. I have not heard from them for a few weeks. I have not been asked for a phone interview yet. Is it appropriate to touch base?<issue_comment>username_1: I don't think it's unreasonable to touch base... |
2016/03/01 | 1,485 | 6,262 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied to graduate school (masters programs) for an engineering major. It is not the most common type of engineering like electrical (my undergrad field) or mechanical. I applied to about 9 schools and heard from the 4th one today (accepted in all 4 so far). Three of these four are top 10 pr... |
2016/03/01 | 1,270 | 5,442 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a student who has handed in a term paper from another class, only changing the title page, and he claims that he only put the due date for the current course's term paper on the cover sheet of the old term paper to remind him of when the new term paper was due. He claims he was then cutt... |
2016/03/01 | 1,168 | 4,863 | <issue_start>username_0: I really like the institution where I'm working on my PhD, and I enjoy the city that I live in. I have shown that I am a strong research, and I am really starting to make a name for myself. I was wondering if people ever really get recruited for a tenure position at the institution where the re... |
2016/03/01 | 614 | 2,662 | <issue_start>username_0: Some journals such as the *IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems* (randomly picked) require a biography and sometimes also a photo of the paper authors.
Currently I have the case that a co-author working in the industry does not want this. He says (and I can totally understand ... |
2016/03/01 | 823 | 3,516 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a final year PhD student in a EU country (in bologna). I have already completed my MSc and Advanced studies diploma (MPhil eq.).
I am self-funding my project and I have been doing research since 2013. Some time ago, my supervisor was sincere with me and told that he is very overloaded wit... |
2016/03/01 | 429 | 1,733 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently doing my MS thesis and I have to include an appendix to describe a mathematical subject. However, I added extra details in that appendix and it is now too long.
My Prof. suggests I better not include it "at all", or if necessary just make it shorter (though he admits that it is... |
2016/03/01 | 2,710 | 11,826 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach physics at a community college and have been on a number of hiring committees for tenure-track jobs. Usually we interview about 6 people for such a position, and of those, usually something like 3 of them show a lack of knowledge of the subject in the interview. When I say a lack of kno... |
2016/03/02 | 896 | 3,297 | <issue_start>username_0: How much weight does a department's hiring committee give to the prestige of a candidate's PhD program when looking to hire tenure-track professors?
Does someone coming from a top 5 university with a short publication record have a better chance than someone from a ranked ~50 school with a bet... |
2016/03/02 | 2,329 | 10,024 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a female student in some huge and popular university in my country.
I have a supervisor who is much older then me. He is a very respected person in our community.
We worked together a lot, it was fine. We communicated about personal issues as well, but nothing sex-related and/or inappropr... |
2016/03/02 | 517 | 2,219 | <issue_start>username_0: Being updated with new ideas in many research fields is impossible, seen the diversity of research topics and the strong relations that exists between them. Most of the researchers in the world, are needing to interact with many fields and to be up to date with the trending ideas in each one of... |
2016/03/02 | 3,940 | 16,181 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an Advanced Level math teacher in my country. I teach two courses Pure and Applied. Its duration is 3 years. At the end of three years, there is one exam for the whole three years. Only 1200 students are selected for universities out of 50000.
I told (Privately) two of my students that the... |
2016/03/02 | 564 | 2,121 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any research/study/survey that looked at how much publishers charge authors if they want to make their books (textbooks or research books) open access?
I am most interested in the field of computer science, and English-speaking venues, but interested in other field and languages as we... |
2016/03/02 | 1,446 | 6,162 | <issue_start>username_0: A relatively old professor from another institute "forwarded" to me, using his work email, a work-related message he had received on his Gmail account.
However, he actually saved the entire Gmail webpage and attached it. A saved Gmail webpage may contain personal information and should not be ... |
2016/03/02 | 182 | 737 | <issue_start>username_0: I am the second author of three, and the only one who does not have an active membership. I have little need for the other services provided by IEEE, as I already have access to XPLORE through my work.<issue_comment>username_1: Nope, and I doubt anyone would notice or care.
Everyone can be a m... |
2016/03/02 | 929 | 4,107 | <issue_start>username_0: My mathematics department (a research-oriented department at a non-top school in the United States) has recently made a postdoctoral offer to a strong candidate, and I very much hope the candidate comes.
I have learned that the offer doesn't include any money for travel. Since his eventual suc... |
2016/03/02 | 691 | 2,887 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student in Computer Science (in the U.S). I did my undergraduate study in India.
My fundamentals in Math and CS importantly are shaky. I often feel insecure in class where my peers seem to understand in depth about fundamentals that I have been taught differently (now I think ... |
2016/03/02 | 521 | 2,316 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a student at a university of around 20,000 students (using the semester system, just to be clear) and it's currently summer/fall registration planning time, a time for me which is more stressful than any of my classes, with all of the various requirements that must be met, especially since ... |
2016/03/02 | 566 | 2,372 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate interested in applying for graduate school in a physical sciences program. I have a good relationship with a few of my professors (it's a very small department). I would like to ask if they would be willing to write a letter of recommendation for my application.
There is ... |
2016/03/02 | 603 | 2,630 | <issue_start>username_0: Do I need to name a source (a website for example), which lists grammar rules for a language? I would like to know if this is considered one of these goods, which cannot be owned and thus needs no quotation.
For example a website lists prepositions, which cause a specific casus in a language. ... |
2016/03/03 | 397 | 1,936 | <issue_start>username_0: I am researching on spinlock synchronization method used in parallel applications. Unfortunately most of the standard benchmarks in the parallel computing area use another type of synchronization method called mutex locks. I am thinking to replace mutex locks in these benchmarks with spinlocks ... |
2016/03/03 | 900 | 3,554 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm not sure whether this is such a great question, and I'm not looking at illegal ways, but is there any way to obtain textbooks for free (legally)?
Answers very much appreciated.<issue_comment>username_1: Here are a few ways that you should look into:
* Check your university library
* If yo... |
2016/03/03 | 937 | 3,992 | <issue_start>username_0: As the title suggests, it's not a usual practice but should one do it? All I know that one can study for an exam and simply write the answers needed in order to succeed, no one tells us to include the names of authors of the ideas we memorized to write (except rarely).<issue_comment>username_1:... |
2016/03/03 | 3,144 | 12,601 | <issue_start>username_0: I hear a lot of people brag or complain about how many hours they have to work for their PhD. Is this the norm? And if so is this really a wise choice to make? Do students really 'work' during this period of time (as would be expected in a corporate office), or do many also spend their time goo... |
2016/03/03 | 1,312 | 5,649 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that as a student with dyslexia you get all kinds of benefits such as extra time for work, exams, access or licenses to spell checkers, etc. (Never used or been offered any, not that I needed it.) However, I cam imagine that by the time you graduate you would be expected to have a compet... |
2016/03/03 | 439 | 1,907 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote my bachelor thesis but now I saw that from one source I mixed up a term, instead of term that was used I accidentally used a different one. this happened because I translated that from a language. And I saw that I put my quotation marks at the wrong place, I quoted only the last half of... |
2016/03/03 | 801 | 3,296 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a few papers, one of which is on a topic that, after thorough checking, has not been researched from this particular angle before.
My question is where can I publish this without going through peer reviewed academic journals? I only have my undergrad, and am looking to publish the work... |
2016/03/03 | 1,764 | 7,306 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been reading about several cases in which a co-author submitted a paper without the consent of another author (for example in [What to do after I was named as co-author on a paper, without my consent?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49573/what-to-do-after-i-was-named-as-co-... |
2016/03/03 | 447 | 1,935 | <issue_start>username_0: In single blind paper submissions, reviewers can see the author names and affiliations. Suppose two papers are submitted in a conference, one of them is fairly well written and the other one is a low quality paper. Also, one or two authors are common in both the papers. If both the papers go to... |
2016/03/03 | 597 | 2,581 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a student of computer science amd I've written a reseaech review article on Fibonacci Sequence which will be published next month in a math journal. All I wanted to know is how will it help in my academic profile and what affects will it make in my CV?<issue_comment>username_1: Any work of ... |
2016/03/03 | 1,530 | 6,711 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been searching and applying for funded PhD positions in Europe specially in Germany for a long time to no avail. I think, what pushes my applications back the most is the lack of proven prior research experience and also academic references. Each time I spend a good time researching the ... |
2016/03/03 | 854 | 3,546 | <issue_start>username_0: There was a weekly quiz in a TA discussion section I led today. During the quiz I was writing things I planned to talk on the board and didn't pay attention to students.
Then one student suddenly said to public "Frank, we're not allow to use note in the quiz right? These(point to a region that... |
2016/03/04 | 370 | 1,640 | <issue_start>username_0: I joined a university in US for master's program two months ago as a GRA and it turns out my adviser had a lot of expectations from me, which are beyond my reach. He wants me out, though he hasn't explicitly made such a comment and I am also finding myself a liability for a program I don't dese... |
2016/03/04 | 1,418 | 5,750 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a master’s student hoping to shift into a PhD. The thing is, I hate the lab work. I love all the literature review, designing experiments, troubleshooting problems and data interpretation.
Is there some sort of work around or is this just part of paying my dues?
The most likel... |
2016/03/04 | 464 | 2,063 | <issue_start>username_0: If a paper was published with an author's name without that author's consent, what can be done about it?
It there a way to disassociate oneself with a published paper? is retraction the only way?
If the paper is retracted, does it still stay online and is associated with that author's name?<is... |
2016/03/04 | 1,833 | 7,974 | <issue_start>username_0: I refereed a manuscript and recommended a major revision. Now, almost three years (!) later, the manuscript has come back to my desk. The editor told me to treat it as a revision and not as a new submission. However, since I don't remember the details, I'm re-reading the entire manuscript.
I'm... |
2016/03/04 | 540 | 2,466 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in Western Europe doing a Master's degree, and I expected the education quality to be much higher then what I've seen in my previous school which was in the Middle East, but some professors here still do this (taking exam and exercise questions from the internet) and they don't seem to unde... |
2016/03/04 | 969 | 4,097 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a tenure track faculty in a college and I plan to look for a position somewhere else. A problem is that, I can not get a teaching letter from my department (in fact I would like to keep my search confidential). Teaching letters are required in my field and I am wondering what sho... |
2016/03/04 | 2,017 | 8,531 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received feedback from reviewers on my latest conference paper (this is in Computer Science).
It was an acceptance, which is nice.
I feel I really need to consider in depth the reviewer feedback.
I have consciously noticed I have a emotional reaction.
Which is not rational, practical, ... |
2016/03/04 | 1,056 | 4,416 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first year math phd student. I could get a scholarship from my government and notified the director of graduate studies of my department (which is now my provisional advisor) that I wish to decline my TAship position for the next term. He advised me to think more about it and told me to ... |
2016/03/04 | 941 | 3,962 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd like to understand scientific journals' pricing model.
For example, in the case of Nature, one single article bought as a unit costs $32.00. But a personal subscription is only $199.00 for 1 Year (51 issues, Print and Online). That is 6x digital articles cost slightly less than all articl... |
2016/03/05 | 506 | 2,096 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been admitted as a grad student to a US university. There's a preevent for admitted students, which seems to be a weekend of introductions and minor social events (I don't have that much information yet).
Is it worth traveling from Europe to such an event? Do you have a feeling for how im... |
2016/03/05 | 825 | 3,763 | <issue_start>username_0: Today in developed countries technology and innovation has reached its optimum level. But in least developed countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, etc, the scenario for research is different. Here the education syatem is also in learning phase. Few university exists and barely research oriented act... |
2016/03/05 | 902 | 3,967 | <issue_start>username_0: I am having a one-week research visit in a far east country.
I was asked by the head of the hosting group to give a presentation. I have never done this before, hence I am quite confused about the content of this presentation.
To provide you some extra context: I am the first member of our gr... |
2016/03/05 | 354 | 1,340 | <issue_start>username_0: This is related to [Co-author does not want biography+photo in paper submission](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/64288/co-author-does-not-want-biographyphoto-in-paper-submission) but specific to Elsevier journals. In the mentioned question, answers showed that for IEEE they have a ... |
2016/03/05 | 854 | 3,706 | <issue_start>username_0: In a course we have a lot of hard homework. We are allowed to share solutions etc, as long as each student's doesn't just copy but understands what he/she writes.
Is this acceptable to hire a tutor help me solve the homework I can't solve?<issue_comment>username_1: >
> We are allowed to share... |
2016/03/05 | 613 | 2,547 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm trying to follow some of the best practices of the "open science" movement. In my thesis, I've performed all of the analyses in R (a non-proprietary, open-source program for analyzing data), and my datasets are in the non-proprietary CSV format.
I would like to be as transparent as possib... |
2016/03/06 | 671 | 2,718 | <issue_start>username_0: Today I ran across the wording *"post-print version"* of an article (on *ResearchGate*). I'm aware of terms *pre-print*, *in preparation*, *under review*, *published*, etc., but I have never seen the term *"post-print"* before. **What does it mean and what else should we know about it (i.e., wh... |
2016/03/06 | 860 | 3,658 | <issue_start>username_0: I know there are already a lot of "should I quit my PhD" questions on this site. But I have a specific dilemma and I'd like to get some external thoughts.
After my Bachelor in mathematics, I didn't hesitate and started a PhD in pure math. After 7 months in the program, I'm having second though... |
2016/03/06 | 1,906 | 8,461 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is whether anyone has advice for dealing with difficult students. Specifically, if a student is taking up your time/mental energy and you can no longer justify this investment, how do you distance yourself while still remaining supportive?
Apologies in advance for the length of thi... |
2016/03/06 | 426 | 1,919 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering the qualitative difference between a printed journal publication and E-journal? Whether both have same impacts. I understand that impact varies from journal to journal and publisher to publisher. But I am talking about the reputed publishers only e.g. Springers, Elsevier etc. I w... |
2016/03/06 | 1,850 | 7,598 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently doing some research for choosing a topic for my M.Sc. thesis.
A week ago I sent an email to an external professor (I mean, not one in my University) asking about whether we could discuss about the topic I chose. The mail was (I believe) properly structured - not spammy and pers... |
2016/03/06 | 924 | 3,850 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm going to a conference in a few days. Among the presentations I'd like to listen to, there's one paper that is nicely written but is extremely flawed methodologically. In short, the authors violate at least three assumptions of causal inference like it's no big deal - and they don't even dis... |
2016/03/06 | 661 | 2,644 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a working student (working in software engineering) and this year I'll be completing my CS Bachelor's degree in Italy. I am doing the online degree as I can't attend lectures, due to my job.
I would like to continue my studies with a Master's Degree in CS so I googled a bit and found out... |
2016/03/06 | 998 | 4,400 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just been offered a spot in a 2-year full-time masters program at a university in the US. It is very research-focused with a requirement of only a few courses. In the admissions letter they also offer me a full research assistantship (RA) for up to 12 months and say that graduate student... |
2016/03/06 | 286 | 1,265 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it ethical to withdraw a conference long version paper after being accepted as a short paper?
Just recently we got an accepted short paper at a decent Computer Science conference. However, we submitted as a long paper and there is not a single instruction cautioning us that the PC could dem... |
2016/03/06 | 2,785 | 10,838 | <issue_start>username_0: **My "problem":**
I am from Austria and currently in the process of applying for a PhD position in Brisbane, Australia. My supervisors said that I might be eligible for an
[APA (Australian Postgraduate Awards) stipend](https://www.education.gov.au/australian-postgraduate-awards) which is supp... |
2016/03/06 | 947 | 3,453 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a big push in the PhD program I'm headed into for candidates to apply for NSF grants (in fact, one of the required classes for the first year is a class on writing grant proposals, and as a final project, every candidate submits an NSF proposal). I'm assuming this is the same for any S... |
2016/03/06 | 399 | 1,625 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interviewing for employment in academic labs as a computer scientist, one of which a childhood friend is in and has some position of seniority. According to my friend who has spoken with the PI on the spot, the PI loves my letters of recommendation, my CV, my cover letter, etc. and the PI ... |
2016/03/07 | 478 | 2,150 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering how it is treated if a post-doc researcher writes a recommendation letter for someone applying to get PhD admission.
Will the selection committee evaluate it properly?<issue_comment>username_1: Academic rank varies by country. But I would expect in most places a letter written b... |
2016/03/07 | 1,109 | 4,915 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently discovered that a paper I reviewed a while back and rejected as a result of major methodological flaws had been resubmitted to another journal and published without addressing any of the significant errors that required the paper to be rejected in the first place. Is there anything I... |
2016/03/07 | 1,242 | 5,731 | <issue_start>username_0: I am second author of three on a recently published conceptual paper (i.e., no data). The first author is a a student I co-supervise, although the paper did not stem from his thesis but is a contribution we were invited to submit for a special issue. Authorship order accurately reflects paper c... |
2016/03/07 | 776 | 3,201 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper to a conference in theoretical computer science in China, whose deadline was today 06/Mar/2016, 11:59 EST. It is not one of the mainstream conferences, but I have heard some serious computer scientists advertising it. In some conference ranking sites, this conference is... |
2016/03/07 | 720 | 2,977 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my PhD and presenting a paper at a conference, which I have already done a few times. However, I just saw an email from the organising committee asking if I am willing to chair one or more sessions. How should I decide whether to accept this offer? What are the reasons to accept, and... |
2016/03/07 | 1,161 | 4,859 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is related to [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/7493/how-to-deal-with-advisor-not-allocating-time-to-me?lq=1) one and [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/5839/supervisor-keeps-showstopping-defense-with-nit-picky-grammar-errors?lq=1) one. My Master... |
2016/03/07 | 753 | 3,120 | <issue_start>username_0: A really cool professor is invited to give a seminar in my department, and I would like to ask him/apply for a postdoc position in his lab. I do not know, if he has any openings, but I do have a meeting/lunch scheduled with him, since my project is related to his research interests. I want to k... |
2016/03/07 | 518 | 2,280 | <issue_start>username_0: In this fall 2016 I have applied for graduate admission (PhD, Physics) few universities and I have received an admit from one of them. The university gave me a deadline (April 15) to accept or decline the offer.
On the other hand, I emailed the other few universities(my priority university se... |
2016/03/07 | 696 | 3,133 | <issue_start>username_0: My advisor has suggested that I should send a poster version of an already accepted full paper to the same conference. He suggests that I should do this because he thinks this will trigger more discussions about this work and make it known by more people. The intention is good, but I have a con... |
2016/03/08 | 1,180 | 4,844 | <issue_start>username_0: There's a department at my university where the head of department is routinely put as author on papers he didn't contribute to, and where researchers from overseas who had no input (but who provide funding to the department) are put on papers.
As a pragmatic matter, how should a PhD student ... |
2016/03/08 | 1,353 | 5,866 | <issue_start>username_0: My advisor is a full professor nearing retirement age. Although he does not seem to be planning to retire anytime soon; he has this "been there/done that" attitude toward publications. He says that he has published enough significant work to be happy and that he only wants to publish breakthrou... |
2016/03/08 | 1,489 | 5,985 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a situation. I have got GRE score of 324. My academics are pretty strong as well (5.1/6.0). I am applying for MS to US universities. In the process of gaining letters of recommendations, I do not have too many options. One of the professor at our department has pre-written letters, becau... |
2016/03/08 | 1,825 | 7,793 | <issue_start>username_0: He's clearly a very nice man, but his delivery is reasonably monotonous, and his lecture material is reams and reams of definitions and rules.
I make sure to attend every lecture, and try my best to concentrate, but do find I have had to use other sources (generally online) to be able to answe... |
2016/03/08 | 256 | 1,078 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a little bit hypothetical question… Let's assume I finished my PhD in math in my country but I am dissatisfied with it (assume I live in a developing country). Also I have enough money and time. Can I apply for a similar PhD program in an another country? Is it theoretically possible?<i... |
2016/03/08 | 770 | 3,228 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished an integrated masters program in physics last summer, and I plan on doing a PhD on the coordination of autonomous agents, particularly in the field of automated vehicles.
I was excited after having a discussion with a top professor in the field at a university I wanted to go to. I w... |
2016/03/08 | 591 | 2,596 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just submitted my review of a manuscript to a journal, which allowed me to see other reviewers' comments once I submitted mine. I have points of disagreement with this other reviewer, but I am sure this is normal. What alarmed me was that, his/her review comments ended with a suggestion ... |
2016/03/08 | 528 | 2,352 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing my Bachelor thesis (it has to be around 20-25 pages long in case it makes a difference) in Biophysics and I want to put some images at the very beginning as a way of introducing and making clear the physical processes and systems that I'm going to consider through the whole thesi... |
2016/03/08 | 1,803 | 7,798 | <issue_start>username_0: Around a year ago, I reviewed a paper for a journal. The originality of the paper was questionable, and content and presentation were severely lacking throughout. Consequently, both another reviewer and I recommended rejection and gave detailed explanations with which the associate editor agree... |
2016/03/08 | 822 | 3,340 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background**:
I'm in a precarious situation.
I'm currently in the sixth semester of a ten-semester (five-year) combined bachelor's/master's program in engineering. So far I've had two relevant industry internships and have been getting stellar grades, but I lack research experience in my fie... |
2016/03/08 | 272 | 1,172 | <issue_start>username_0: I met an important scientist in my field in a scientific meeting last week. We agreed that I should write a project draft and send it to him, so we could set up a collaboration. Because I want to take as much advantage as possible from this opportunity (I am a PhD student), I want to be very ca... |
2016/03/08 | 640 | 2,910 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the difference between an academic department and a program in U.S. colleges and universities? I am attempting to model the relationship between Departments and Programs. Thanks!<issue_comment>username_1: I am not sure everyone uses the words the same way, but here is the difference at ... |
2016/03/09 | 899 | 3,868 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to write: *"A recent study ..."*,
The particular study I want to cite was published two years ago. I don't think that this is very recent in terms of journal appearances. But it is the *most* recent I could find compared to similar studies, which is what I want to emphasize.
But what ... |
2016/03/09 | 1,750 | 7,646 | <issue_start>username_0: I happen to have worked on a Mathematical topic. The story is complicated.
It was not my original idea. My professor had already worked on it for a long time, intermittently. In fact, when we started out, I did not understand the concepts that well. Over a period of time, I picked up and manag... |
2016/03/09 | 755 | 2,869 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing an article for publication in **English**. It is necessary to include references to articles written by Russian authors in **Russian** language. Do I have to translate their names and titles of their articles to English or I can leave their names and titles of the articles in origi... |