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2017/03/03 | 1,440 | 6,049 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on my master thesis in software engineering. I am going to present the idea of my thesis in a hackathon (startup competition), so most probably, we will make a team and develop a minimum viable product based on my thesis.
The question is:
**Can I mention to this minimum viable pr... |
2017/03/03 | 884 | 3,586 | <issue_start>username_0: I got an offer for a tenure-track assistant professor position in USA, Department of Engineering. The university national ranking is between 35th and 65th at the US News website. I was offered a single PhD, fully supported for 2 years (partial support for the remaining 3 years) and then I was a... |
2017/03/03 | 1,345 | 5,805 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to write a research papers that applies the [ELK stack](https://www.elastic.co/products) to visualise social media data (twitter API). How can I make sure that my work was not done by someone else before? I searched in different repositories for the two titles but did not find any p... |
2017/03/03 | 1,627 | 6,261 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently received the following invitation to act as a reviewer for an unknown journal. Is it ok to just ignore it?
>
> **Subject:** Invitation to Review Manuscript for Asian Journal of
> Current Research
>
>
> Dear Colleague,
>
>
> 1. I am approaching you with the peer-review request ... |
2017/03/03 | 531 | 2,141 | <issue_start>username_0: There are many people who pursue a thesis-based master's degree but do not want to pursue academia after graduation. If people just want to have a good job, is thesis writing helpful to them? My major is electrical engineering.<issue_comment>username_1: I can think of two reasons you might want... |
2017/03/03 | 2,362 | 9,677 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm thinking of doing a maths degree at the Open University. This course
"BSc (Honours) Mathematics"
The problem is, I'm expected to do the most basic of courses, starting with "Discovering Mathematics"
<http://www.open.ac.uk/courses/qualifications/details/mu123?orig=Q31>
Considering I h... |
2017/03/03 | 1,474 | 6,336 | <issue_start>username_0: Apparently the original tone of the question offended some people so I have it edited.
My field is highly multidisciplinary and so each of prospective committee members although great experts in their own particular field, may not be greatly familiar with other parts of the project that are ou... |
2017/03/03 | 634 | 2,977 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm editing a volume and I am responsible to obtain permissions for figures and photographs the authors wish to use in their respective chapters.
Now I have an author *A* who included several of his own photographs within his chapter which is great. My problem is that most of them have been pr... |
2017/03/04 | 651 | 2,525 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm finishing my undergraduate degree this year, and I'm deciding which PhD program to attend: School A, or School B. I do have other offers, but these two stand out to me. My background and current interests are in topic X.
* School A has exactly one professor working on X, but my would-be in... |
2017/03/04 | 570 | 2,642 | <issue_start>username_0: I have two articles under review. In first round of review both got decision of "minor revision" within 3-4 months. I submitted the revised version 5 months ago but since then the status of both articles is "Under Review". I sent follow up emails but always I got response from Journal Manager t... |
2017/03/04 | 967 | 4,216 | <issue_start>username_0: I found an error in two figures of my published paper. They are part of the main results of my PhD dissertation.
I am in the writing step of my PhD dissertation, and I put the new version of those figures. However I have to cite the paper (with the error) in the volume. I am concerning if the... |
2017/03/04 | 369 | 1,502 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently finished a MSc and I was looking for a PhD. I noticed that some positions offer a PhD only through a MRes of 1-2 years, for a total of 4 years.
Does it make sense applying for another master or is it just redundant?<issue_comment>username_1: You are more likely to be able to bypass ... |
2017/03/04 | 352 | 1,458 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a submitted manuscript to IEEE transactions. The paper was under review for 4 months. Then, it has been with associate editor" for 2 week now. How this status can be explained?<issue_comment>username_1: You are more likely to be able to bypass the MSc if you have a good first degree. Whe... |
2017/03/04 | 905 | 3,990 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been in contact with a potential supervisor in one of tier two US universities before applying and all the way to receiving my rejection letter a few days ago.
The individual department I applied for has seven faculty members including my potential supervisor and as I know he is not on ... |
2017/03/05 | 2,602 | 11,112 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach at a top undergraduate college of a highly ranked university in India. We have a centralized system where the syllabus is designed at the Central level (with some input from teachers) and exams are set and evaluated centrally as well. We have an attendance policy, wherein students are r... |
2017/03/05 | 1,189 | 5,498 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an assistant professor at an undergraduate college in India. I teach a rigorous compulsory course in microeconomics, requiring some intermediate-advanced math knowledge. There is no add/drop option at my University/college, nor is there an option to take a course in a later semester. I don... |
2017/03/05 | 1,878 | 7,844 | <issue_start>username_0: I know it may sound somewhat out-of-order (if not outright crazy) to suggest it, but has anybody tried to use sites like Mendeley or the arXiv or some "social media" where you can upload PDFs to spread his or hers research even before publication? Has it ever been successful?
I know many scien... |
2017/03/05 | 1,694 | 6,564 | <issue_start>username_0: If a paper has four or more authors, it is common to use the style "Firstauthor et al. discovered that the sky is blue.".
I do not like this style, as it is unfair to the other authors. In my field, authors are always listed alphabetically. So being first author is an accident of birth, rather... |
2017/03/06 | 235 | 1,043 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my journal article was submitted to a journal last year. It has been under review for more than 3 months now. I want to send them a mail asking for my article status. It is given in the website of the journal that the average time for first decision after the article goes under review is... |
2017/03/06 | 234 | 1,049 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not a professional teacher but I have students that seek me for clarification and knowledge. At times I use their personal real life experiences like how they relate to others to simplify the answer. Is it right professionally?
In the case of programming, when teaching of classes, using t... |
2017/03/06 | 786 | 3,354 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a new lecturer in a sciences department, this is my first academic position. There is no one telling me what to do which is great, but I am not sure how to maximise my chances of doing well here. What would you think is the most important actions to do and not to do in your first 6-12 mont... |
2017/03/07 | 785 | 3,382 | <issue_start>username_0: I saw the following abstract submission guidelines:
>
> * Please submit a 500-word text abstract for technical review purposes that is suitable for publication. Accepted abstracts may be published
> with the printed Technical Program for distribution at the meeting.
> * Please also submit a ... |
2017/03/07 | 260 | 944 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for useful websites like "findmyprof.org" in which I can search and find professors who work on specific field, categorized by country. The problem with "findmyprof.org" is that it does not separate European country.<issue_comment>username_1: Whenever you use findmyprof.org website... |
2017/03/07 | 1,163 | 4,842 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm not aware of any PhD candidates patenting their novel work/product. Is it not ok to patent something you worked on?<issue_comment>username_1: This will likely vary from university to university. At Carnegie Mellon University it is very common for students (and professors) to patent their wo... |
2017/03/07 | 419 | 1,973 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I got a paper accepted in a high impact journal. The acceptance letter came to me with a few reviewer comments, and it was recommended in the letter to take care of those comments. I submitted the final version with incorporating those revisions in the paper and due to one particular c... |
2017/03/07 | 1,536 | 6,515 | <issue_start>username_0: A striking difference between being a student following courses and a PhD student doing research is the independence and lack of rigid structures such as homework and exams. I started a PhD in biophysics in the Netherlands a bit over a year ago and so far it has been a good experience. However,... |
2017/03/07 | 1,452 | 6,104 | <issue_start>username_0: I am often bothered by the fact that interesting information pertaining a manuscript ends up in the supplemental information because of constraints of space, formatting and narrative. It feels like wasting hard-earned results.
I am about to submit a paper which will be accompanied by supplemen... |
2017/03/08 | 1,410 | 5,986 | <issue_start>username_0: According to editor guideline on springer website "Accept with minor revisions is actually a commitment to ultimately publish the paper, provided the authors answer the remaining concerns (which should be relatively minor) in a timely and proper way."
However, one of my article which was ac... |
2017/03/08 | 405 | 1,823 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied to a Masters program and unfortunately, I was rejected.
I intend to re-apply to another school and another program by the end of April, and I haven't had the chance to find other referees.
When I re-apply, should I simply email my previous referees and request for another reference ... |
2017/03/08 | 599 | 2,270 | <issue_start>username_0: We are two students in computer science doing our term project for B.Sc. in computer science.
Now I wonder if it is alright or advisable to make inline hyperlinks in the report e.g.
>
> We look at the [specification](https://www.altera.com/content/dam/altera-www/global/en_US/pdfs/literatur... |
2017/03/08 | 1,011 | 4,335 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is about submitting a paper to a venue (journal or conference) when some of the authors of the paper are also members of the program committee (PC) of the venue (i.e., they will review papers for the journal or conference). I call this a PC paper.
In any modern conference or journa... |
2017/03/08 | 4,649 | 19,505 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a lecturer of a computer course in a university. Two months (almost 20 hours) of lectures have already finished. Very recently, I planned to get some feedback from my students on my lectures.
* I asked a couple of questions such as 'how motivating the course is ...', 'how do you rate your... |
2017/03/08 | 881 | 3,688 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a physics student in the UK.
A university (university A) has made me a PhD offer. The email from admissions was very clear that there is a 30-day time limit on this offer. As it happens I am likely to accept the offer, but do wish to take advantage of these 30 days. This is because my par... |
2017/03/09 | 1,243 | 5,314 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm interested in working with Professor X for my Ph.D. My first meeting with X went very well. I like him and I get the impression that we would work well together in the graduate school environment. Moreover, the research is in a field that I am extremely interested in and I think it would be... |
2017/03/09 | 523 | 2,423 | <issue_start>username_0: When some function library licensed under BSD is used in simulations, should it be acknowledged in Bachelors/Masters Thesis, which have no length restrictions?
In this particular case the functions are implementations of commonly known algorithms like k-nearest neighbors, A\* and such. Similar... |
2017/03/09 | 1,431 | 6,434 | <issue_start>username_0: At first glance seems more interesting to submit your work to a conference, but a lot of people are still interested in workshops.
Which is their motivation?
I have also heard that to use your new material in a workshop paper is "a waste". How true is that?
Which are your criteria to choose y... |
2017/03/09 | 794 | 3,144 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a typical student in a 3rd world country working to pay for college. My monthly tuition is about 300 USD. Internships average pay is 450 USD for 30h/week of work...
As I get to end of my bachelor, i'm required to write a dissertation, and when i start looking for articles and references ... |
2017/03/09 | 2,709 | 11,836 | <issue_start>username_0: A colleague and I are both PhD students. We have conducted a project together that is unrelated to our respective theses. The project involved a bioinformatics analysis of public datasets, so we are not presenting any new experimental data (i.e., there was no overhead associated with the experi... |
2017/03/09 | 2,614 | 11,468 | <issue_start>username_0: I have to write an abstract for a grant proposal's cover page.
Is there any shame in strategically copying/pasting *entire sentences* from the body of the grant proposal and arranging them coherently to form the abstract?
------------------------------------------------------------------------... |
2017/03/09 | 469 | 1,679 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider the chart below:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/C1eQA.png)
When writing *percent* in the title, and *%* on the axis marks, is this redundant? Is the word *amount* preferable?
I haven’t seen this addressed in any style guides such a... |
2017/03/10 | 6,518 | 28,111 | <issue_start>username_0: >
> Why would a student go to a lecture at all if everything was in the
> book already? The lectures make sense if and only if the lecturer
> tells more than in the book(s) and in more detail (or at least, in a
> better/more clear way). [not my comment]
>
>
>
Especially in light of the ... |
2017/03/10 | 372 | 1,701 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it ethical to "group review" a un-published manuscript sent out for review?
For example, you received a manuscript for review and you shared it with your lab group or group of colleagues, with the permission of the journal but not the permission of the authors. Is this ok?<issue_comment>us... |
2017/03/10 | 814 | 3,542 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible/ethical for PhD students to collaborate with a professor from different institution on a topic different from their dissertation research without telling their advisors.
Are PhD students limited to exclusively work for their advisors or it is legitimate for them to do research ... |
2017/03/10 | 1,719 | 7,092 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been asked to write a paper for someone else at my school and it has made me question whether I'd be doing a horrible thing by agreeing. I have done it and accepted pay before now. My papers are generally relatively good. A sizeable portion of my income in high school came from papers I ha... |
2017/03/10 | 1,030 | 4,338 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in a very unique situation. I have ideas of something potentially valuable for science and I want to get it published but I haven't been able to go through the peer-review process, yet. That is why I'm thinking about simply putting all I have on the Internet and leaving it be there to see w... |
2017/03/10 | 634 | 2,694 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reviewing a manuscript which cites a study I published (yay!), but appears to misinterpret the results (rats!). This misinterpretation does not invalidate the manuscript under review, which is otherwise quite good - it occurs in the discussion section as somewhat of an aside, and does not ... |
2017/03/10 | 1,621 | 6,976 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is partially related to [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/85891/how-do-teachers-learn-to-grade).
By trying to understand which one is the correct way to grade an exam I came out with this doubt. Should each exam be considered as independent or should a ... |
2017/03/11 | 474 | 1,899 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the working hours per week for full time PhD students in Germany? Also, how many holidays are granted in a year? How is the work-life balance for full time PhD students? Thanks!<issue_comment>username_1: You are typically paid for 50 or 65% to do work on some project, but that just mea... |
2017/03/11 | 1,717 | 7,156 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in answers to this question particularly as it pertains to mathematics.
To be more specific, I am interested in using the passive voice in mathematical proofs as I feel that this reinforces the objectiveness and universality of the proof as opposed to the specific instance of t... |
2017/03/11 | 5,719 | 15,425 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently stumbled upon this paper on arXiv:
[Stopping GAN Violence: Generative Unadversarial Networks](https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02528) ([mirror](https://web.archive.org/web/20170311232135/https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02528)), which is a parody/joke paper.
Is it ok to upload joke paper... |
2017/03/12 | 1,354 | 5,469 | <issue_start>username_0: For my masters degree in computer science, I'm currently working on a paper on ransomware. Goal of this paper is to focus on academic writing and citing sources correctly.
### Trustworthiness/Quality of sources
As I wanted to show what kind of business ransomware is and what amounts of money ... |
2017/03/12 | 914 | 3,953 | <issue_start>username_0: Barring any extremely unfortunate disaster, I am five weeks away from a final defense and a Ph.D.
At this point, we are in the re-write stage ("of my unforgivably horrible and weak thesis") but it is expected to work and be ready for my final defense in a month.
Prior to the thesis, my advi... |
2017/03/12 | 6,606 | 26,545 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm relatively new to teaching (I was just hired as a tenure-track English professor at a local community college and have been teaching for just about 2 years). I recently received an email from a male student (he is in his mid-50's), and he addressed me as follows:
>
> A great morning to yo... |
2017/03/12 | 895 | 3,642 | <issue_start>username_0: My advisor asked me to publish in an SCI-indexed journal with better impact factor (say more than 1). I found a journal with impact factor as 1.2. But the journal says that its present impact factor is based on 2015 journal citation report (JCR). It does not mention anything the year 2016. I co... |
2017/03/12 | 1,221 | 5,081 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to give a presentation of my research soon at an undergraduate conference. I have read that it is best to begin a presentation with the ‘thesis’, i.e. a brief explanation of the topic of my research.
However, I’m rather stuck as to how to explain it simply. It seems like it won’t ma... |
2017/03/13 | 1,704 | 7,042 | <issue_start>username_0: I have started writing my thesis, to be finished in the next coming months. Basically, I am revisiting my early papers and reviewing the problems that I solved three years ago to put in my paper. However, I come across some of new ideas, which I did not have before, because my knowledge was ver... |
2017/03/13 | 2,860 | 10,927 | <issue_start>username_0: I used to use this website to get the research papers that are not freely available online. So, passing the right name of any research work for this Russian website will derive the paper directly to your browser in Pdf format.
I used this website for the last 2 years when I was doing my Maste... |
2017/03/13 | 1,771 | 7,426 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is motivated after reading a pop-science book from a famous researcher about physics and some implications. I find the content *very* amusing but I was utterly frustrated at the lack of *any* scientific value.
In particular, the book is about some *plausible* explanations about s... |
2017/03/13 | 637 | 2,245 | <issue_start>username_0: I've read [a blog post](http://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/how-to-write-doctoral-dissertation-in.html) written by <NAME> saying that for a philosophy dissertation to be considered good, at least in American universities, it should be between 200 to 250 pages long.
We could respond, ... |
2017/03/13 | 5,332 | 22,569 | <issue_start>username_0: Some background: I’m a TA for a low-level course at a major university on the US east coast. This is my second time TAing this course: the first time, I did it under a professor who has taught this a ton of times and knows his way around very well. This time around, the instructor is a second-y... |
2017/03/14 | 1,854 | 7,585 | <issue_start>username_0: I was reading a note of <NAME> on inequality which is written for International Math Olympiad (IMO) participants. Although he writes that “target readers are challenging high schools students and undergraduate students“, it appears to be quite advanced.
It occurred to me to ask, do these IMO p... |
2017/03/14 | 451 | 1,985 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not sure if this question is too specific. Please feel free to mark it as such if it is.
I have come across a PhD advertisement that says "upload a curriculum vitae including a brief description of your research interests".
Does 'brief description of your research interests' means SOP? I... |
2017/03/14 | 813 | 3,855 | <issue_start>username_0: The educational system in which I have studied focuses on **teaching the theory/abstract theoretical courses before the applications**.
For example, I spent the first 1-2 years of a 5-year engineering program only studying Mathematics, Physics and other basic courses before even getting any h... |
2017/03/14 | 1,569 | 6,371 | <issue_start>username_0: Are Ph.D. dissertations always required to include new discoveries? I was wondering if a dissertation could, instead, consist of a reorganization or reformulation of known material. Inventing new things is not my strength. But I think I'm pretty good at organizing information and making it clea... |
2017/03/14 | 1,772 | 7,767 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working as a graduate teaching assistant for a semester-long introductory physics course, aimed primarily at Biology/Pre-Med undergrads. The students usually have a short quiz every two weeks in a discussion section, along with two prelims (mid-terms) and one final exam. The TAs ... |
2017/03/14 | 1,247 | 5,190 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been led to believe that it's much easier to get money (assistantships and fellowships) as a PhD student than as a master's student, and so it's cheaper to go straight to a PhD program if you know you want to get a PhD. This is supposing that you spend the same amount of time in grad schoo... |
2017/03/14 | 1,126 | 4,524 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been advised that it is a good idea to read papers written by a potential supervisor before having an interview with them for a PhD position.
I can make sense of the summaries and introductions, but that is all.
* Do supervisors ask applicants about whether they have read their papers... |
2017/03/14 | 918 | 3,596 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm looking for a PhD position. Of course I'm reading and following the papers of the field to get to know the community. Is there a tool to visualize a citation/co-author network (or at least a database I could visualize myself)? I have looked into tools like CitNetExplorer and VosViewer. Csau... |
2017/03/14 | 947 | 3,744 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first-year PhD student in statistics, but plan to apply to computer science graduate programs in the fall. Two of my recommenders, however, are professors who I would like to advise me if I were to stay in my current program. Because I have a limited computer science background, there is... |
2017/03/15 | 933 | 4,043 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be going to a career fair tomorrow where no company with my undergraduate engineering specialty (it is a rather distinctive field) will be there. Therefore, it would be very hard to obtain a summer internship from one of these companies. However, I will attending graduate school in a mor... |
2017/03/15 | 681 | 2,782 | <issue_start>username_0: The main purpose of this question is to collect some advices to efficiently proofread my own mathematical paper (when there are two authors or more, it is easier since one is supposed to read what the others write). When we write mathematics, there are a lot
of not so minor mistakes we can mak... |
2017/03/15 | 889 | 4,012 | <issue_start>username_0: While I was an undergrad, I wrote a paper on topic A with my advisor. Currently, I'm working in a research institution with an Economist whose work mainly lies on topic B. However, I've come to understand that I do not like A or B, but I'm more interested in topic C, and I've done some independ... |
2017/03/15 | 1,720 | 7,325 | <issue_start>username_0: A colleague of mine and me are organizing a 3-day preparation course for undergrad students to prepare them for their upcoming lecture about computational physics (the course in about 1.5 months).
This course takes place at a German university.
The third day of this course will involve a "do-i... |
2017/03/15 | 1,087 | 4,470 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a postdoc and will soon be applying for a faculty position in computer science. I am inclined to not ask my postdoc host for a reference letter when applying.
The reason I don't want to ask my postdoc host for a letter is because I have been a postdoc for less than a year and ha... |
2017/03/16 | 666 | 3,011 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was applying for PhD I was considering Germany, UK, Austria and Switzerland in my search for a position. So far, I found that each university/region has their own policies in application submission process.
For instance, I found that most of the Swiss universities ask for a direct recom... |
2017/03/16 | 1,049 | 4,546 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a certain undergraduate course in computer science is given at a university which has a mandatory project part, requiring teams to be formed of two people. Student A forms a team with another student, B, but the cooperation is very difficult. Student B never shows up to work on the firs... |
2017/03/16 | 1,973 | 8,363 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently reading a textbook, written by a professor from an elite university, which I was finding to be very informative and well-written. Excited to learn of other works or talks by this individual, I searched for him on Google, but was extremely dismayed to find the results page full of... |
2017/03/16 | 948 | 4,018 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 29 year old with an Undergraduate degree from Berkeley in Biochem. I graduated in 2012 with every intention of applying to PhD programs after taking a year or two off to work.
Due to some health issues and the economic slump I was unemployed for awhile. Now I've been working in the Bio... |
2017/03/16 | 501 | 2,108 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible to bring my spouse along for overseas academic conference? (My spouse will not be attending the conference. Airfare and accommodation for my spouse will be paid by us.)
The intention is for my spouse to visit the country and for us to do some sightseeing together during weekends... |
2017/03/16 | 522 | 2,037 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a Canadian grad student about to publish my first paper. However, I **really** dislike my real legal name, to the point where very few of my real-life friends know my real first and last name. This is mostly because I come from China, and my legal name is a difficult-to-pronounce... |
2017/03/16 | 2,420 | 10,517 | <issue_start>username_0: Very much as the title states; what should I expect being my supervisor's first PhD student?
I understand that there are likely both pros and cons to this - however I'm looking to hear the experience of others, and how this compares to experience of those who have had a supervisor with previou... |
2017/03/17 | 701 | 3,052 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied to 4 US PhD programs and I've received 3 rejections and 1 waitlist.
I also applied for a scholarship for $25,000/year x4years and just found out that I got it.
I'm thinking that I should update the school I'm waitlisted at because the scholarship could probably help my chances of ge... |
2017/03/17 | 159 | 714 | <issue_start>username_0: I know there are plenty of grants out there but there must be an easier way than filling out form after form online?<issue_comment>username_1: No. There are no such a services in covering this task. Even if there any, I will not use it since applying for a scholarship require high motivation fo... |
2017/03/17 | 987 | 4,097 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a particularly unusual problem that puts me in a bind. I am a first year Masters student at my faculty, and recently my supervisor have pushed me to "update" her previous student's unpublished paper (few years old, so need to find newer papers to cite inside and format it properly for su... |
2017/03/17 | 394 | 1,736 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to elsevier and it got major revision. I proceeded as per the suggestions and submitted revision. After few days the status changed to "Under Review". Now the status is still under Review even after 45 days. Can I ask the editor for a status update or should I wait further?<... |
2017/03/17 | 438 | 1,907 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen people listing "memberships" on their CV. Do you have certain rules of thumb for what to list? I have some myself, which are basically memberships that have happened automatically, when I have been invited to give talks - like, come give a talk, and please join our "board of associa... |
2017/03/17 | 648 | 2,800 | <issue_start>username_0: The university that gave me an offer only gave me two weeks to accept the offer. I asked them for an extension, and they only gave me a week more. I have still yet to hear from the other universities I applied to; since it is only mid March. I am quite confused as to what I should do, I don't w... |
2017/03/17 | 957 | 3,982 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it polite when my professor keep opening my office door without knocking at the door whenever he wants to ask anything?
Since the door closed, I am supposed to hear knock before breaking into, or rather, busting into the room. Is it polite?<issue_comment>username_1: Ethical yes. Polite no, ... |
2017/03/18 | 978 | 4,082 | <issue_start>username_0: In choosing between PhD programs A and B (for pure math in the US), some professors have remarked to me that A is favorable because it is more selective and consequently has stronger students than B. Is this a factor I should consider? Both institutions have several of the top researchers in my... |
2017/03/18 | 675 | 2,815 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m trying to submit a preprint of my paper to the Arxiv as an independent researcher. My academic background is in theoretical physics; I have a PhD in physics, did a postdoc, published several papers in Physical Review and PRL before taking a job in industry. I’ve been working in industry eve... |
2017/03/18 | 572 | 2,446 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a lectureship in Engineering at a research intensive [Russell Group](http://russellgroup.ac.uk/about/) university. The position involves both research and teaching, roughly 40% research, 40% teaching, 20% admin.
I need to provide three references. I have references which are... |
2017/03/18 | 3,090 | 13,471 | <issue_start>username_0: I am new to research and I have yet to internalize the concept of journals and their utility in archiving scientific literature.
Almost all the papers I have read recently are from this website called [arxiv](https://arxiv.org/). Arxiv calls itself to be a preprint archive. Anyone can upload a... |
2017/03/18 | 794 | 3,425 | <issue_start>username_0: Should I cite a paper that I deem of bad quality just because it is among the only two papers that use the same methodology I'm using in my research?
I'm writing a paper that uses a relatively new computational tool. There are ONLY two studies that use the same tool in similar research context... |
2017/03/18 | 1,459 | 6,247 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a first-year master's student in a field of study with a strong international focus. The school's program that I am enrolled in is ranked in the top ten for the major, and the school is located in an ideal location. However, I have serious doubts about my program, and I am a disi... |
2017/03/19 | 2,795 | 11,961 | <issue_start>username_0: **This is a follow up to the question [Is it possible take take part in a research project if I'm not a part of a university?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/306/is-it-possible-take-take-part-in-a-research-project-if-im-not-a-part-of-a-unive)**
I'm a student who has not yet enter... |
2017/03/19 | 711 | 3,139 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently studying in an undergrad programme in the social sciences/humanities in North America, and I am debating whether I should pursue the honours degree option (which would require me to take additional coursework, choose a concentration, as well as write and present a honours essay).... |
2017/03/19 | 1,218 | 5,031 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose the first paragraph of a paper submitted to a journal says "We prove that the Riemann hypothesis follows from Catholic doctrines concerning sacraments [etc.]" and the referee's report accompanying the rejection says "The author's purpose is to prove the P =/= NP conjecture . . . " etc. ... |
2017/03/20 | 1,241 | 5,249 | <issue_start>username_0: My professor that I've worked for, and other professors that I've met in undergrad, often complain about how it is "publish or death" situation in their department. Specifically, they have told me that they feel like they are under heavy pressure to publish, often having to work for late nights... |
2017/03/20 | 1,344 | 6,092 | <issue_start>username_0: Update: Mars 29
Thank you everyone for your time and efforts to help me with the revision. The article has been resubmitted yesterday and accepted this morning. Without your help, I don't think I can do this. Except your suggestions for this revision, the more important thing I've learned from ... |
2017/03/21 | 1,049 | 4,373 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the process of selecting an appropriate journal for my article. I short-listed a few journals based on topic coverage, IF and speed of the review process.
I am confused: should I select a journal with higher IF (2.3) published by a non-reputable publisher (MDPI) or should I publish in ... |