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2017/04/20 | 2,299 | 9,520 | <issue_start>username_0: Say you come up with an idea, but X already has written about it before, even though you don't know about this.
Is it plagiarism to then publish the idea, even if during publishing you **still** are not aware that X came up with this idea first?
That is, can you accidentally commit plagiarism... |
2017/04/20 | 3,288 | 13,960 | <issue_start>username_0: Since I began my master studies (graduate school) in economics I have encountered too many false mathematical propositions. When I encounter a mathematical proposition which I think is false, I write down an argument (usually a counterexample or a refutation of a premise) explaining why the pro... |
2017/04/21 | 1,158 | 4,932 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my Masters (thesis-based) in Computer Engineering in Canada. I started my research in September 2015 and it is now the end of April in 2017 but I haven't done ANY significant research. It is very distressing and I definitely will need extra time to finish my research and graduate.
I... |
2017/04/21 | 2,604 | 10,726 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote a paper under pressure from my supervisor who gives high importance for publishing. I feel that both the conference and my paper are mediocre. What is done is done. How to distance myself from this evil mistake hanging in IEEE Xplore with my name on it forever? Is there any way? I reall... |
2017/04/21 | 2,244 | 9,098 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to a journal, and I suspect that it is handled too slowly.
* How can I decide whether my suspicion is correct? What handling times should I expect?
* Given some expected handling times, when should I act? How much leeway should I give?
* How should I act? Whom should I cont... |
2017/04/21 | 843 | 3,553 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to submit my paper to [Elsevier Optics Communications](https://www.journals.elsevier.com/optics-communications), but I'm confused about the template of the journal. According to the [guide for author](https://www.elsevier.com/journals/optics-communications/0030-4018/guide-for-authors#200... |
2017/04/21 | 756 | 3,500 | <issue_start>username_0: After months of waiting, I finally received the reviews for a letter I submitted to a IEEE journal. It’s a 3 page letter, and the first reviewer just had some clarifications regarding a figure and said the paper needed minor revisions. The second reviewer also bought up the figure that the firs... |
2017/04/21 | 889 | 3,951 | <issue_start>username_0: My master thesis dissertation is approaching, but I have a few concerns. First of all, I am not native English speaker. When I practiced my presentation on my own (I recorded my speech), it was not coherent to me. I feel that the transition between each sentence might be difficult to understand... |
2017/04/21 | 490 | 2,249 | <issue_start>username_0: I have used simple excel-style Gantt Charts to create a high level plan of tasks for the academic semester, noted the end times depending on conference and grant deadlines, and then managed my time according to the deadline. I have also added details under each task as the semester proceeds. I ... |
2017/04/22 | 974 | 4,054 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Masters student, in the Faculty of Science in Canada. I have a question to ask regarding literature review. I am doing a bit of studying to find protocols for my experiment (where I hope to conjugate a certain linker to a nucleic acid). I tried looking for papers with different keyword s... |
2017/04/22 | 1,178 | 4,895 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed my undergraduate degree in physics in a good university (outside the US). Because of financial commitments, I couldn't leave for grad school straight away. So I worked for a couple of years as a research assistant at the same university after I graduated. I did very well, got three ... |
2017/04/22 | 1,295 | 5,866 | <issue_start>username_0: My co-authors and myself have recently submitted an article (in the wider field of economics) to a journal and we now wish to submit the same article to a conference while the article is still under review at the journal. There will be no such thing as published conference proceedings and as fa... |
2017/04/22 | 546 | 2,318 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote a final exam in a course, in which the professor said that he would not test our memory and give all the needed formulae, so I didn't concentrate on memorizing them.
Would it be appropriate to politely send the professor an email with some feedback / opinion about this situation? And i... |
2017/04/22 | 3,024 | 12,757 | <issue_start>username_0: >
> I just earned a Ph.D in Mathematics, but there are no available postdoc opportunities for me. What should I do?
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After four years, I have finally limped and hobbled to a Mathematics Ph.D while working full time at other places - and at the ripe age of 40 at that. It is my second ... |
2017/04/23 | 502 | 1,896 | <issue_start>username_0: I have completed my PhD 10 years ago, and back then I was not sure if it was ok with my home institution to have it in arxiv. I then realized it's fine and it would actually be good as my institution never cared to set up an open database of their own PhD theses. My question is: is there a way ... |
2017/04/23 | 1,502 | 6,266 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:** I did PhD in pure math, then postdoc in medical imaging for 2 years. Because of funding running out, I started a postdoc in France in mesh processing since last 6 months. I'm somewhat proficient in Matlab, which is the only language I'm comfortable in so far. I want to work in R... |
2017/04/23 | 1,246 | 5,379 | <issue_start>username_0: I visited a school for a tenure track position and the chair informed me that I am a finalist for that position. While, I still have interviews at other schools remaining, other candidates seem to have finished their interviews.
The chair asked me whether I would take an offer before visiting... |
2017/04/23 | 873 | 3,755 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote a speculative paper, outlining an approach to make data analysis more efficient. I am a physicist and the idea is described in words and with a few schemes. I don't have the programming skills to show that the idea works.
In terms of etiquette, would it be OK to publish the paper on ar... |
2017/04/23 | 903 | 4,040 | <issue_start>username_0: It is a requirement of my PhD to publish a certain number of papers. And for the papers to count, they need to be available online. I have deadline in my PhD study.
I have three papers accepted in one journal. It will take time to be online.
I can access my papers through ResearchGate but cou... |
2017/04/24 | 763 | 3,354 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to do an internship in a theoretical physics area for a year before applying for PhD. My current masters' thesis advisor (who is a hardcore experimentalist) warned me that I might not actually learn anything new in a theoretical intern, and that I will only end up solving some tex... |
2017/04/24 | 645 | 2,855 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in engineering education in Canada. One of our biggest challenges is to instill the students with a desire to become "lifelong learners". This isn't just an academic ideal, either - we are required by our accrediting body to ensure that students learn to learn, and engage with learning t... |
2017/04/24 | 673 | 2,948 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing my masters thesis in computer science. I've heard that one should avoid writing "I".
In cases where one describes what was done and it doesn't matter who did it, I understand why writing "I" should be avoided. I, however, wonder if it is ok in the following case:
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In... |
2017/04/24 | 1,375 | 5,914 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in the process of applying for a PhD programme. I have sent off my application and it has been deemed satisfactory from an academic standpoint i.e. my degree transcript and CV. I am now only waiting for the awarding of a studentship (funding) from the college I have applied to. L... |
2017/04/25 | 866 | 3,849 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written two papers, let's say X and Y, about a concept, let's say A.
X is about other overview of concept A and how it can be improved in general.
Then I have another paper i.e. Y discusses about relationship of A with reference to one particular topic.
As both papers are literature... |
2017/04/25 | 1,146 | 4,955 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been invited to interview for a lecturer position (AFAIK, equivalent to assistant professor elsewhere) in the UK, after being pre-selected following a Skype interview. This means that the department is probably reasonably interested in me as a prospective hire. I have been a postdoc for ... |
2017/04/25 | 777 | 3,648 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering if there is a difference between the lit review of a dissertation and that of a journal article. I tend to think that a dissertation will contain more extensive background information, meaning that part of the challenge is showing that you know all if the information and can comm... |
2017/04/25 | 2,780 | 11,993 | <issue_start>username_0: In teaching university level Computer Science, I find many students struggling because they lack basic problem solving skills. Having them do more practice problems does not help as they get stuck at those or somehow hack together a solution to some problems but cannot generalize to other probl... |
2017/04/26 | 1,313 | 5,984 | <issue_start>username_0: When experiments are performed and reported in an academic article, I learned that reproducibility is important. I am implementing a system where I stand between the choices to use GPU acceleration to perform certain calculations, where reproducibility **can not** be guaranteed, or to perform t... |
2017/04/26 | 2,274 | 6,478 | <issue_start>username_0: A smart researcher is using a reference manager (zotero, endnote) for citing papers. To import papers into the reference manager is a tedious task.
Is there a web based tool that could automate some of it. Consider a block of text with references below (emailed as free text by a colleague) an... |
2017/04/26 | 1,713 | 7,298 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm hoping trying to register for a course I need that is currently full, and am told that I can try contacting the professor for permission to enroll. Under what circumstances are such requests typically granted? More students = more work for the professor, so I'm trying to figure out why a pr... |
2017/04/27 | 396 | 1,718 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently submitted my first paper to a philosophy journal. After about a month,
the status switched from "Awaiting Reviewer Scores" to "Awaiting recommendation". Then a few days later it switched back to "Awaiting referee assignment" again. Thus, seemingly, the review process ended only for ... |
2017/04/27 | 2,337 | 9,828 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a senior grad student struggling with existential angst. I'm fed up with my advisor, to the point of fantasizing about quitting my PhD. I likely don't want to become a professor. But at the same time, I still love my field of study (in the biosciences), I like research, and I have a postdoc... |
2017/04/27 | 776 | 2,975 | <issue_start>username_0: Lets say I have published paper A in a journal.
I am now ready to submit a new paper, paper B.
Paper A is cited in Paper B.
Since B is related to A, I will probably submit it to the same journal. **Would this help the journal's metrics?**
Or, lets say paper A currently has no citations. **... |
2017/04/27 | 1,045 | 4,657 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm thinking about applying to a PhD program in computer science this coming December and I'm wondering a couple things about getting letters of recommendation.
For some background, I have a BS and a thesis MS in computer science, and I've been working in industry for a while now, but not tha... |
2017/04/27 | 398 | 1,612 | <issue_start>username_0: In a course I am not doing as well as I wanted and I asked the professor for extra credit but he refused saying his goal is to see how well we do compared to our peers. Giving extra credit to one student will make his grade not directly comparable to the others.
On the other hand I am absolute... |
2017/04/27 | 2,748 | 11,285 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in Mathematics. I have found one advisor in my local University who does not know my research field at all, but has allowed me to choose my own problems and solve them independently.
Initially, I was quite happy as I didn't need to switch places (which I don't want at all). ... |
2017/04/27 | 2,297 | 9,738 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in some kind of conundrum. Currently I am a grad student in Germany. Things are reasonably fine, but because of some bad luck I am not 100% confident that I will finish my thesis at the end of this year (as planned). I might need some more months (maximum 3, I hope), which in the worst cas... |
2017/04/27 | 2,007 | 8,469 | <issue_start>username_0: When applying for a Master's, I know that extra-curriculars and part-time work barely count for anything in your application. However, say I have an average GPA but my CV shows that I was busy with several other non-academic activities during my degree, wouldn't that show that my GPA is not an ... |
2017/04/27 | 367 | 1,565 | <issue_start>username_0: A few weeks ago, I finished my undergraduate research project. I had 2 supervisors for the project: One supervisor signed off on everything I did and gave me the opportunity to work on the project. He was my official supervisor. The second supervisor oversaw all of my work, assigned tasks, and ... |
2017/04/27 | 1,006 | 3,662 | <issue_start>username_0: Assuming someone has a PhD, MD, CISSP, CPA, CFA, MS, etc. etc. What's the proper way to order them after their name and is the comma needed after the last name? (i.e. <NAME>, PhD, MD, etc. or <NAME> MD, PhD, etc.)<issue_comment>username_1: I don't think there's a clear consensus on this (the be... |
2017/04/27 | 2,003 | 9,162 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just received a decision letter for my submitted manuscript to an Elsevier journal. It was a revise and resubmit. However one of the reviewer asked for an executable file in order to check my results. (I felt distrust from his comment..)
This is regarding a computer science paper on tes... |
2017/04/27 | 971 | 3,745 | <issue_start>username_0: My field is theoretical cosmology. I use [the arXiv](https://arxiv.org/) to find virtually every paper I read. Most preprints are updated with their peer-reviewed, published versions so I don't have concerns about their scientific legitimacy. However, when I've had to work on assignments or pro... |
2017/04/28 | 614 | 2,725 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently studying electrical engineering and considering on getting both a physics and math minor. I'm wondering though, is it possible to get a Ph.D. or a Master's degree in Physics or Math when I only have the minor and not a real degree?
Is it likely at all to be admitted into a gradu... |
2017/04/28 | 523 | 2,345 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been alerted to a mistake in a (mathematical) paper that I published about 8 years ago, during my PhD. The error is relevant, in the sense that it affects one of the claims made in the main result, but does not invalidate the rest of the paper. After some effort, I now also know how to c... |
2017/04/28 | 332 | 1,471 | <issue_start>username_0: Does a bad credit score affect my chance in applying for a postdoc in math? In my case, I have a credit card that had the bill sent to the wrong address and this impacted my score with all three credit agencies.<issue_comment>username_1: It depends on the position and organization you are apply... |
2017/04/28 | 334 | 1,588 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just received a decision letter for my submitted manuscript to an Elsevier journal. It was a revise and resubmit. One of the reviewers recommended rejection and his comment was just "the contribution isn't strong enough". I don't really know how to respond to his comment. Should I write ... |
2017/04/28 | 591 | 2,568 | <issue_start>username_0: I've just sent out job applications last week and only a few days later received a phone call for a phone interview at one school. I am interested in another school that the chair of that school is on my doctoral dissertation committee.
I've expressed my interest in a faculty position to him af... |
2017/04/28 | 3,554 | 14,732 | <issue_start>username_0: **Imposter Syndrome and depression:** I feel pretty depressed that I am not as "qualified" as a close family member. In particular, this family member has undergraduate and graduate (PhD) degrees from Ivy League schools in mathematics. Whenever I try to solve a problem, this family member does ... |
2017/04/28 | 1,105 | 4,401 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a template from a senior student where every response to the reviewer's question begins with thanking the reviewer. For instance,
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2017/04/29 | 916 | 4,040 | <issue_start>username_0: Nowadays, there were many data published online and with papers, such as PLoS journal. I am wondering can I use those data to perform my analysis and if so, do I need permission of those authors to publish my results? Thanks.
Edits: The data I am trying to use is the supplementary data that pr... |
2017/04/30 | 3,915 | 15,677 | <issue_start>username_0: In U.S. colleges, in quantitative fields of study like engineering and mathematics, how do instructors curve their courses? That is, how do instructors decide, in a given course, how many As to award, how many Bs, how many Cs, and so on?
I do not ask the opinion-based question of how an instru... |
2017/04/30 | 1,463 | 6,360 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that we have to be meticulous in pure mathematics courses, and I appreciate that. Comparing a particular course I took recently to the other pure math courses I've taken before, it appears that the marking has been unnecessarily severe. I had assignments which weighed 25% of the total ma... |
2017/04/30 | 1,538 | 6,711 | <issue_start>username_0: I've already got a little experience doing self-led research but not in doing setup for the domain in which I work. I really enjoy talking with my supervisor about actual research *topics*, but I don't enjoy the workflow he suggests.
For example, there is a particular software development tool... |
2017/04/30 | 486 | 2,137 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been asked to peer review a paper related to my field of expertise. My educational level is MSc, however I am published. I am referred to as Doctor throughout the request email even though when published, this is not how I refer to myself by any means. This has occurred before and I resp... |
2017/05/01 | 818 | 3,433 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a foreign PhD student and have had extreme difficulties in the last six months due to the university school administration not providing the documentation required to get a residence permit in time to start working on the date agreed to by said administration. This means I had to wait for a... |
2017/05/01 | 540 | 2,411 | <issue_start>username_0: Typically, for PhD students who are in their third or fourth year, is it worth pursuing poster submissions at relevant conferences?
Obviously this is a somewhat subjective quantity, but is it generally considered appropriate for researchers who are not new to their field to pursue such publica... |
2017/05/01 | 3,754 | 15,488 | <issue_start>username_0: As a teacher, I've often had students say that they turned in an assignment, but that because I don't see it, grade it, and return it back to them, that I must have lost their papers/assignments. I tend to be disorganized at times, so it's hard for me to confidently say that I really haven't lo... |
2017/05/01 | 648 | 2,798 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed that many, if not all, journals have two main type of papers:
1. A short self-contained original research article of 10 pages or less, focusing on a particular result that does not provide enough material for a full-length contribution.
2. Full-length original research article of mo... |
2017/05/02 | 1,704 | 7,061 | <issue_start>username_0: I got accepted to a top PhD program. I did not expect this to happen, but I am quite happy about this. A certain professor A voted for me (e.g I was accepted to a program because he liked me during the interview and voted for me). He expects me to work with him when I arrive. But, I am not sure... |
2017/05/02 | 1,671 | 6,929 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not a people person, and therefore I usually work alone. I'm quite content with this, and I have actually been able to achieve some wonderful results (to me, anyway) working this way. However I worry that nobody else will really care about my research.
Are there examples of modern day ma... |
2017/05/02 | 2,276 | 9,655 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm supposed to present a poster in an well-rated Computer Science conference, or rather in a workshop within that conference. This is the first time this workshop will have posters (the larger conference has had them for a while). However, I've not received any information about the logistics ... |
2017/05/02 | 1,213 | 5,098 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm approaching the end of the first year of my PhD and I really am struggling to find what my research question is. I'm slightly panicing that I don't know what I'm doing yet and I get very little support from my supervisor.
I've spent time exploring the literature and I have a few broad ideas... |
2017/05/02 | 1,123 | 4,399 | <issue_start>username_0: 1. Assume I attended someone's seminar talk which I liked a lot. Also I heard that yet another expert X also said that the talk is interesting.
Is it ok to say to the lecturer that the expert X and I liked the talk, or should I not mention another's opinion?
2. Now assume the opposite situatio... |
2017/05/02 | 612 | 2,325 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing an MLA research paper for a school assignment. When citing a source in-text, is it appropriate to use an acronym? For example, I'm citing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Would it be acceptable to cite the source as (CDC)? If I'm citing the source at multiple points i... |
2017/05/02 | 654 | 2,548 | <issue_start>username_0: I am submitting a revision to paper I submitted to a IEEE journal.
1. When I wrote out the letter addressing the revisions, I included some graphics in my comments as well. But when I look at the ScholarOne website, it seems like the letter to “Respond to Decision Letter” is a text only forma... |
2017/05/02 | 1,113 | 4,958 | <issue_start>username_0: During my PhD I had an awesome collaborator that taught me a lot in an area that my main advisor had no experience at all.
I have a paper draft with him that's getting more than 3 years to get published. He is extremely perfectionist and always wanted to add one more little detail here and the... |
2017/05/02 | 1,836 | 7,614 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a desperate situation. I made a mistake and committed academic misconduct.
I have submitted my article to two journals in parallel, let's say in j1 and j2. Once I received acceptance from journal j1 I wrote a withdraw email to j2.
However, after the article came online it was found by... |
2017/05/02 | 1,301 | 5,640 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a hard problem in computer science. The problem is NP-complete. Untill now, the fastest algorithm for this problem runs in $O(3^n)$ time and I came up with an algorithm with a time complexity of $O(2.82)^n$. Yet the paper, in which I described my approach, was rejected in three ... |
2017/05/02 | 1,057 | 4,651 | <issue_start>username_0: I've just started to apply for faculty positions and received an invitation for a phone interview scheduled for next week. I am not in rush at the moment to accept a faculty position.
Earlier this year I had a friendly conversation with a chair at a school who I had an opportunity to work wit... |
2017/05/03 | 902 | 3,814 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student, and I am applying to be part of a cohort of graduate student researchers who will be using data from a national survey (that everyone in my field wants to get to) to answer policy questions. The dataset will most likely be a part of my dissertation.
The application requires... |
2017/05/03 | 451 | 1,915 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper revision (1st revision) to an Elsevier journal 3 months ago. The problem is that last week they apparently changed the journal's editor-in-chief. My paper status was previously "With editor: 50 days", and now it has been reset to "With editor: 2 days". What happened to the r... |
2017/05/03 | 117 | 470 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently got a paper published in IEEE, but on IEEE Xplore it is listed to be in *volume pp, issue 99*.
What does that mean?<issue_comment>username_1: This simply means the volume, number, and pages have not been assigned yet. When your paper is selected for an issue, these will change.
Upvo... |
2017/05/03 | 868 | 3,784 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd like to move out of my comfort zone and do research on a topic that I know very little about, but is closely related to topics I have published papers in. Specifically, I have an idea from some of my previous papers that I think can be applied to this new area.
The trouble is, I don't know... |
2017/05/03 | 552 | 2,390 | <issue_start>username_0: Many journals maintain a preface in their print versions (usually available online) where they list those people who acted as a referee for the current issue.
Does this compromise the anonymity of the peer-review process? As an author you could get a good guess who reviewed your paper from suc... |
2017/05/03 | 3,689 | 15,328 | <issue_start>username_0: I know the title sounds terrible, but it's not as bad as it sounds so please hear me out.
I am an undergraduate and have set up an independent study for this fall about topic X. The professor doesn't work too much with topic X, and she has told me that she may need to review the material a lit... |
2017/05/03 | 1,327 | 5,782 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been asked to review an article for an academic journal for the first time. The accepted answer to [Scope for the role of peer reviewer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/498/49583) as well as [this post](http://www.phd2published.com/2012/05/09/how-to-write-a-peer-review-for-an-academ... |
2017/05/03 | 930 | 3,803 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a situation where my PhD funding runs out in 5 months and I need to have secured a job regardless of whether I have submitted due to having a family.
Although I think I may be close to submitting by then, it may take longer. Is it worth applying for postdoc positions or would universi... |
2017/05/04 | 858 | 3,602 | <issue_start>username_0: In the comments to one of the answers to [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/88952/should-a-peer-review-for-an-academic-journal-include-a-recommendation-for-accept), the asker points out that he is asked to submit his review of a manuscript for publication via email and... |
2017/05/04 | 564 | 2,467 | <issue_start>username_0: In one part of my paper, I give a reference to a one-page article published in Science from (AAAS).
There are some quantitative statements in this one-page article. However, I could not find any reference for these quantitative results presented in the article.
There exists a DOI number of th... |
2017/05/04 | 402 | 1,564 | <issue_start>username_0: I wonder whether we can withdraw a manuscript after its acceptance but before it has been published online.<issue_comment>username_1: It may depend on the tacit agreement between the journal and the author(s) that you agree upon when submitting the manuscript.
However, if you motivate soundly ... |
2017/05/04 | 483 | 1,784 | <issue_start>username_0: French higher education system is quite singular: besides traditional universities (following Bologna Process scheme with Bachelor (3 years), Master (2 years) and PhD (3 years)), there are so-called [*grandes écoles*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandes_%C3%A9coles) – mostly in the business a... |
2017/05/04 | 563 | 2,508 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper for an English class on a topic that I know well. for this paper, there is a minimum requirement for cited sources but I did not meet that requirement and was able to meet the length requirement for the paper.<issue_comment>username_1: Ask yourself: why did the Professor pu... |
2017/05/05 | 864 | 3,662 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m a PhD student travelling to the US for a conference and my supervisor has contacted a former colleague to arrange for me to visit his lab. Under the current circumstances, I only have 2–3 days available for the visit, which means I won’t be able to do any meaningful lab work. They do some i... |
2017/05/05 | 797 | 3,419 | <issue_start>username_0: So far, my master thesis had an initial plan, and I would keep in contact with the PI as I need. However, now that the academic course comes to an end, all the students in the lab (3) we have to finish our projects. He is also applying to grants that have tight deadlines and supervising 1 PhD t... |
2017/05/05 | 5,713 | 23,508 | <issue_start>username_0: Here is what I feel whenever I find something interesting and feel like pursuing it :
1. Oh so I like **X** (Computer Graphics), let me read up papers/books about it.
2. Ok let me begin with reading up **Y** (OpenGL)
3. But **Y** needs **W** (Linear Algebra)
4. Well reading up **Z** (Probabil... |
2017/05/05 | 1,075 | 4,924 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm heading a group of engineering students (from different fields) which need to build a robot (which performs tasks autonomously) as part of their courses.
There are 10 students in this group and they are divided in three or four subgroups which work on different engineering aspects. As the ... |
2017/05/05 | 850 | 3,712 | <issue_start>username_0: When applying for academic jobs, it is common to apply to multiple positions and use essentially the same cover letter for all the applications. The danger is that you might forget to change some of the details from one cover letter to the next. I realized that I have done this recently. How ba... |
2017/05/05 | 2,161 | 9,060 | <issue_start>username_0: I am half way through the first year of my PhD (physics) and I find myself faced with the following problem related to research discipline and learning new techniques while doing a PhD. The problem is probably specific to my personality, but I am hoping that some people can relate and provide t... |
2017/05/05 | 948 | 3,969 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a computer science graduate student (Master degree), I have done my thesis defense, and it is accepted. So, the problem is that I want to publish a paper based on my thesis but the advisor wants her name to be the FIRST name! Claiming that she has done enough work to be as first author. So,... |
2017/05/06 | 1,874 | 7,787 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a physics graduate but have written a number theory paper as a hobby. A couple of professors have read it briefly though it is not their field they gave positive feedback and suggested I send it to professors working in this area.
I sent it to 8 professors and none has replied to me. I aske... |
2017/05/06 | 1,821 | 7,636 | <issue_start>username_0: More generally, what "workflow" do people suggest when dealing with web articles in research?
I used to always save useful articles as PDFs to my Documents folder, and maybe copy and paste useful information I found to a word processor document. I have realized this is inefficient for a number... |
2017/05/06 | 248 | 1,142 | <issue_start>username_0: For the publication of a paper each of the joint authors needs to sign a publication agreement with the publisher. Instead, only one author can sign as an 'authorised agent for joint authors'. Ignoring the specifics of this particular publisher, how does an author become an authorised agent gen... |
2017/05/06 | 950 | 4,082 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m writing an academic paper for a B.Sc.
We only have the professor and a PhD student from another university plus random friends and volunteer collaborators helping us. We were not specifically assigned a TA for our project. I think that it would be much better if we had a PhD student as a ... |
2017/05/06 | 2,360 | 9,374 | <issue_start>username_0: It has happened on several occasion now, that I read a paper, understand 95% of it, but there are some niggling details which I simply don't get. I ask around, I ask my advisor, and nobody is able to help (either because they don't get it themselves or they are too busy, which is completely und... |
2017/05/07 | 541 | 2,315 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a fresh PhD graduate looking for a job. Is it a good idea to write directly to professors/group leaders, asking if there are any job openings in their group? If yes, how long/detailed such email should be?
I haven't published any papers during my PhD so I feel that my chances of getting a... |
2017/05/07 | 1,311 | 5,605 | <issue_start>username_0: Do publishers care if a book manuscript was freely posted online (e.g., made open-access with a CC license) before submission to the publisher?<issue_comment>username_1: The question is probably too broad as every publisher may act differently, and also differently in different cases, but I hav... |
2017/05/07 | 1,679 | 6,593 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student in computer science. I'm currently working with 2 co-authors in revising a paper for resubmission (I'm not the main author). They act very respectful and open to criticism, but they seem to dismiss my concerns without realizing that they are doing it. I'm going to use a fictio... |
2017/05/07 | 470 | 2,073 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to apply for a PhD position in Computer Science but haven't decided yet which country to study in. So far I found interesting universities / research groups in Germany (where I am currently studying), Denmark and Sweden but the structures of PhD programs seem to differ widely. The... |
2017/05/07 | 412 | 1,730 | <issue_start>username_0: As supervisors, many times we are asked to write recommendation letters.
In my case, I have been recently asked to write one for a student, who is looking to enroll in a Ph.D. program.
Due to the short time working under my supervision and the lack of results, it is not easy to highlight their ... |
2017/05/07 | 404 | 1,736 | <issue_start>username_0: Is publishing a single page erratum to arXiv an acceptable practice? And does it violate the copyright of journal who published the original work?<issue_comment>username_1: Maybe it's not exactly an objective answer for your question, but it's the closest I could find by now (a feedback in the ... |