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2017/05/24 | 1,045 | 4,581 | <issue_start>username_0: What can be some possible reasons for an author to request his name be removed from an almost ready paper?
The authors consist of 4 students and our professor. A few days before the submission deadline, the professor told us to remove his name from the paper for "personal reasons". This makes ... |
2017/05/24 | 897 | 3,941 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper to a reputed journal (computer science; computer vision to be specific). While i was keenly waiting for the reviews, they were getting delayed. So I began working on an extension of the work.
During that I realized that one of the qualitative figures in the submitted p... |
2017/05/24 | 727 | 2,975 | <issue_start>username_0: If a STEM field PhD student is not able to be funded for the summer, what do they typically do? I'd imagine they can't afford to take an entire summer off from their research - or they would probably risk not graduating in the standard 5 years in a U.S. program - but at the same time it would b... |
2017/05/24 | 3,233 | 13,153 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, my state has declared graduate students as employees giving them the right to unionize. The students in the Engineering School are very well compensated. The benefits that we get are
1. Minimum stipend of 29k$ (which was increased ~3 years ago).
2. Top tier health insurance plan full... |
2017/05/24 | 745 | 3,126 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen in some faculties that I have been visiting that they give more importance to some citation databases than to others. About this issue, I have some confusions. I prefer to open only one global question here that cutting it up into smaller chunks because I believe the things I will e... |
2017/05/25 | 1,692 | 6,641 | <issue_start>username_0: I am still not sure what should be considered as "literature" for inclusion in a literature review and what are not when writing a research proposal. For instance:
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> A research proposal: 500-1000 words outlining your plans for your PhD
> Please include a 'literature review’ of works you’ve... |
2017/05/25 | 1,784 | 7,690 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked on a research project earlier this year with a group of people. The paper has been written up (not by me) and sent to the team to review it, give feedback and approve it before it is submitted for publication. I am just an undergraduate student and this is my very first experience with... |
2017/05/25 | 250 | 983 | <issue_start>username_0: Just wondering if any German speakers can tell me how a manuscript "in press" is described in Germany. Writing up a German CV but I've never come across this phrase before. It could be a direct translation but I doubt it.
<NAME> Voraus<issue_comment>username_1: You can write **"Zur Veröffentli... |
2017/05/25 | 6,787 | 28,301 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a UK based researcher in life sciences. My research is in neuroscience, mainly involving *in vivo* electrophysiology. My PhD project was a disaster for a number of reasons (technical difficulties, difficult supervisor etc) and so I finished with very few results. Through a side project I g... |
2017/05/25 | 2,593 | 9,812 | <issue_start>username_0: If this is not the correct forum for this question, or too specific, feel free to close it. I'm more or less from MSE, and this seemed like the place to ask.
There's this well-known math text called "Characteristic Classes" by Milnor and Stasheff which is regarded as a staple among topology st... |
2017/05/25 | 986 | 4,029 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in economics and working on stuff like Hopf bifurcations and limit cycles used often in mathematics.
One of the graphics that I will use for my presentation is very similar to one of the photos in album booklet (dark side of the moon) of the legendary progressive rock band ... |
2017/05/26 | 1,198 | 4,886 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm entering the last year of my undergraduate. In all honesty, I'm getting tired of it; I want to move on to something new.
For a long time, I thought a master's degree was New Game Plus (that is, just a more demanding version of a bachelor's). Don't get me wrong; I've had little to no troubl... |
2017/05/26 | 824 | 3,597 | <issue_start>username_0: I agreed to review a paper that falls within my area of expertise. However, I am not particularly familiar with one of the techniques used by the authors. On detailed reading, their use of this technique feels wrong to me, but I am by no means certain. It is not a method that I have seen applie... |
2017/05/26 | 2,160 | 9,025 | <issue_start>username_0: We received two referee reports from the editor, who made a major revision decision. One referee has a long list of comments, while on the whole it is positive towards our paper. But the other one gave only half-A4-page comment with strong criticism on the paper as well as some other works in t... |
2017/05/26 | 2,304 | 9,718 | <issue_start>username_0: Please help me. I can not tell psychologists about this because they are not mathematicians (They will not understand me)
Sometimes I don't read about mathematics for a couple of months, I do not think anything about my research and then I feel like I forget everything when I go back to resear... |
2017/05/26 | 993 | 4,526 | <issue_start>username_0: I have structured my Phd thesis as several chapters. First few chapters addresses the basics and functional aspects of the subject area and then i have 3 different chapters addressing three research questions with their own individual introduction, methodology and conclusion. My question is if ... |
2017/05/26 | 465 | 1,776 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Molecular biology post graduate from India. I enquire about PhD vacancy to various potential principal investigators (PhD supervisors) by sending my CV and cover letter. When I receive a rejection mail like mentioned below, how do I respond to the scientist? I would like to have good rap... |
2017/05/26 | 739 | 3,301 | <issue_start>username_0: I have started doing a project and I promised to report my results every week to my professor. At the beginning, he told me you should have a reasonably good laptop.
I thought my laptop could support the project.
Yesterday, I realized that my laptop has a 2G graphic card and the project needs... |
2017/05/28 | 2,336 | 10,169 | <issue_start>username_0: What should a faculty supervisor do about a PhD student who does not seem to be trying to make their work better? Let's assume the supervisor has given detailed and specific instructions, which the student agrees to follow. But the student either does not finish the instructions or includes man... |
2017/05/28 | 1,471 | 6,716 | <issue_start>username_0: Every time I get a new research student, I ask them what they want to do after they graduate. I want to help them achieve their goals. Invariably, it goes like this.
Me: What do you want to do after you graduate?
Student: I don't know.
Me: Make an appointment with career services. They are e... |
2017/05/28 | 335 | 1,213 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m not familiar with German academic system.
I got a name card from a German professor and found that his title is as
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> Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. X
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When I am writing a mail to him, can I starting the mail as follows?
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> Dear Professor Dr.-Ing. habil. X, […]
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2017/05/28 | 1,982 | 8,551 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible to pursue a research career inside a university without teaching duties?
I don't like to teach, I love research and I love being affiliated to a university.
The universities I am interested are based in Europe, UK and USA.
Thanks<issue_comment>username_1: Some universities in ... |
2017/05/28 | 2,862 | 11,533 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be graduating with a degree in Software Engineering. I have a 4.0 GPA at this institution (not counting the 3.85 GPA I transferred in with). The institution is awarding me Outstanding Scholar for my degree program/campus/year.
I am seriously considering not walking in graduation. Being ... |
2017/05/28 | 956 | 3,903 | <issue_start>username_0: I am done with my MS in EECS from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and I currently working full time in a good company on OPT.
I will be defending my MS Thesis in coming December. Moreover, when I contacted one of the well-renowned Professors in my department he expressed his interest in ... |
2017/05/28 | 627 | 2,572 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting my final year of my PhD and am starting to look into postdocs. I am interested in how much of a lag I should expect between getting my PhD and starting a postdoc. For context, I'm in the United States in biology. I would ideally like to defend my PhD and move for a new postdoc pos... |
2017/05/29 | 700 | 2,969 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a scientific article. In the **"materials and methods"** section I must specify the hardware I used, namely an *HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC* (I also specified the details of its features).
Now my doubt:
Should I use bibliographic citations (such as when mentioning a software, boo... |
2017/05/29 | 893 | 3,768 | <issue_start>username_0: Our team finished a paper 3 months ago. However, we use a result from another paper in a very top journal (one of the best). There are quite a lot misprints and somewhat mistakes. We can fix most of them but one inequality which they didn't have explanation why this inequality is true. We have ... |
2017/05/29 | 662 | 2,504 | <issue_start>username_0: It was late at night I sent an email to my professor. due to time differences, it was early over there. After sending an email I slept and my professor responds me and askeS me to skype in 2 hours. I slept and I didn't even open the email. How can I ask a meeting?
I didn't know he would ask me ... |
2017/05/29 | 490 | 2,100 | <issue_start>username_0: Just to explain my question a little bit. I know that if you owe the school money they are allowed to withhold your diploma and transcripts. My real question is if this is the situation and the college happens to change requirements for the degree before you fulfill your debt can they revoke th... |
2017/05/29 | 904 | 4,197 | <issue_start>username_0: The title is a bit vague by design. What I was actually wondering is, what happens if 1 out of 3 reviewers decides that the paper should not be accepted, but the other 2 reviewers find it interesting and suggest for it to be accepted? Must all 3 reviewers suggest that it is accepted or is that ... |
2017/05/29 | 447 | 1,928 | <issue_start>username_0: About 10 months ago, I submitted one little article to a journal and six months ago I received the acceptance. I uploaded the latex file and since then I didn't hear anything about it being published.
Today it appeared a new issue of the journal so I must wait at least another 3 months.
This ... |
2017/05/29 | 819 | 3,281 | <issue_start>username_0: In Chile, we score from 1 to 7 (this is a legal normative), where 4 is the minimum grade to pass. Thus, the passing grade corresponds to halfway point (50%) of the grade span (from 1 to 7). However, it is common practice to require a minimum score of 60% to pass (e.g. 6 points of 10). This crea... |
2017/05/30 | 2,542 | 10,196 | <issue_start>username_0: During last 3 years I have published 17 articles, but I have only 15 citations (excluding self citation), which I find disappointing.
My articles have 100s of downloads almost every month. They seem to be in high quality journals: 2 articles are in Q1 journals (i.e., a journal that is among th... |
2017/05/30 | 445 | 2,118 | <issue_start>username_0: Does presenting at conferences increase the number of citations to the work presented at the conference?
I am limiting the scope of this question to disciplines where conference presentations are not publications and are not usually cited.
Statistics or evidence of some kind would be apprecia... |
2017/05/30 | 968 | 4,040 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering how much influence a professor at a competitive university in the UK has in PhD admissions, when he/she really wants to work with somebody.
I am mentioning UK specifically, since the PhDs here are shorter and its maybe clearer what exactly the student will want to work on for h... |
2017/05/30 | 394 | 1,766 | <issue_start>username_0: The journals I am talking about are those accepted by Scopus etc, Elsevier journals for example.
From my personal morals, I consider it my right as an author after a submission to a journal to have full access to:
* all my submitted documents during the review process
* all reviewers' commen... |
2017/05/30 | 1,100 | 4,866 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing my master thesis in mathematics and for those who are more familiar with the subject, I am more into analysis whereas my supervisor is more into computational sciences. My project is on an application of analysis and there is also a numerical component.
I will soon submi... |
2017/05/30 | 861 | 3,659 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student who has been accepted into mathematics department at UCLA.
In my application for the last semester I gave my grade point average as 9.5/10. I was taking two courses and was hoping that I would get a 10 and a 9, making the average 9.5.
But unfortunately the grade... |
2017/05/30 | 476 | 2,147 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a postdoc and I have never submitted a research proposal.
There is a funding project at my current University open to postdocs. I have a list of past winners and I'm tempted to ask for their proposals to give me some guidelines in writing mine. Obviously I can just ask and I know that pro... |
2017/05/30 | 499 | 1,754 | <issue_start>username_0: A friend of mine is defending his PhD thesis in the Netherlands this week.
It is a custom to formally address them directly after the defense ceremony, where we use the Dutch term *"welzeeredelgeleerde heer"*, which is something like 'very honourable well-learned gentleman' in Dutch and it ve... |
2017/05/31 | 1,873 | 7,446 | <issue_start>username_0: I have the following degrees:
* PhD in Information Technology (Computer Science concentration)
* MS in Systems Engineering (MSE)
* MS in Engineering Management (MEM)
* BS in Computer Science
What would a proper e-mail signature look like?
Examples:
```
Dr. <NAME>
PhD IT, MSE, MEM
```
or
... |
2017/05/31 | 736 | 2,970 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been a postdoc and including occasional lecturer for the last several years. A former student just invited me to his graduation. Would someone at my career stage at an American research university typically be expected to wear academic regalia at a graduation ceremony? I have not seen an... |
2017/05/31 | 467 | 1,819 | <issue_start>username_0: Reference books, technical manuals, MIL standards, etc., prefix every paragraph with a short subject identification statement. For example, paragraph 1.3 in the 16th ed. of the *Chicago Manual of Style* (CMoS) begins,
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> 1.3 ***Rectos and versos***. Publishers refer to the ...
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2017/06/01 | 865 | 3,956 | <issue_start>username_0: I gave my supervisor a paper draft today. They told me that I need to cut out the 5 pages of appendices that give all the equations (along with references of their original sources) needed for reproducing the results found in the main text.
My supervisor's argument was that papers should not ... |
2017/06/01 | 4,391 | 18,877 | <issue_start>username_0: I am supervising a research group. Each year, our institution offers several four years postdoc positions, and one year ago I told a friend of mine to apply to it because we work in very similar fields and I thought there would be a lot of synergy. She got the position, but after these 12 month... |
2017/06/01 | 792 | 2,891 | <issue_start>username_0: My idea is learning new methods/fields by reproducing someone else results, and I would like to pick nice/good papers to learn from.
If we define reproducibility as starting from the same samples/data, use the same methods, get the same results I would like to know papers which has already been... |
2017/06/01 | 3,079 | 12,837 | <issue_start>username_0: In a few days I'll be attending my first academic conference in Spain. I'll be going alone and this never became apparent to me that it might be a problem until I spoke to a few people about their experiences at their first academic conferences.
The most common word that arose was 'miserable'... |
2017/06/01 | 2,596 | 10,079 | <issue_start>username_0: *I am not sure if this question should be asked in the academia.SE. But, I don't have a clue either for other forums.*
Today, I received an e-mail(*in my academic id*) from Kazakhstan saying that they would pay me **USD250** per review of the research projects submitted to `National Center of ... |
2017/06/01 | 559 | 2,344 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm not in academia anymore, but spend quite a bit of my time reading papers and using the findings as part of my job.
Today I picked up a paper that contained a couple of emoji-type icons in the figures. It was to show which of two conditions was preferred. There's a smiley face next to the d... |
2017/06/01 | 1,558 | 6,593 | <issue_start>username_0: I read that whatever you publish before beginning a tenure-track job does not count towards tenure, so it might be wise to wait with those publications until a tenure-track position is reached. (I read this in the book `The Professor is In`, by the way)
On the other hand, I would imagine that ... |
2017/06/01 | 4,506 | 19,289 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a new and junior group leader. I therefore work quite closely with my (also new) MSc students.
I try to let them work and figure out things as independently as they can, but have my door open so they can ask me for help. When they do, it will often be about scripting.
In these cases I s... |
2017/06/01 | 851 | 3,766 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to submit a manuscript that, if accepted, will be included in my Ph.D. cumulative thesis. The cumulative thesis will be composed of two papers: the first one has already been published in the same journal to which I am going to submit the second one. So, in the best case scenario, I ... |
2017/06/01 | 4,227 | 17,107 | <issue_start>username_0: I've recently been told to read an article for my research, but do not speak the language it is written in ("Drei Vorträge über Diffusion, Brownsche Molekularbewegung und Koagulation von Kolloidteilchen", Smoluchowski).
It's fairly heavily cited, so I imagine that someone somewhere will have t... |
2017/06/01 | 3,972 | 16,449 | <issue_start>username_0: **Summary:** Supervisor is verbally abusive on a regular basis. He may be trying to sabotage me by delaying the annual report on which my funding depends. Should I quit or stick it out?
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**Details:**
I enrolled in the Mathematics department at a local university in June of last year. Now,... |
2017/06/02 | 828 | 3,449 | <issue_start>username_0: I have had a video conference with a university research center in the U.S. The interview lasted for about an hour and the professor told me that they would like me to come to campus to visit their center. I was told about the salary and it is lower than the average post doc salary that is foll... |
2017/06/02 | 419 | 1,791 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my Master's thesis.
I find it unprofessional to prevent the first page of the chapter to take headers and footers.
Should the first page of a thesis chapter have a header and footer?<issue_comment>username_1: Many universities have quite specific requirements for formatting and ... |
2017/06/02 | 194 | 784 | <issue_start>username_0: I just applied for and got shortlisted for a Skype interview. In a mid size University and Department in Germany (in Physics), how many people are generally shortlisted for postdoctoral positions?<issue_comment>username_1: I cannot tell for this particular case, nor for that matter for a typica... |
2017/06/02 | 1,083 | 4,161 | <issue_start>username_0: Please Note I am asking how to cite a paper under blind-reviewed in **an accepted paper, NOT a new paper to be submitted.**
Chronologically,
* First, I submitted paper A that requires double-blind review.
* Then, I cite it in another paper B. (In paper B, I explained that paper A is not avai... |
2017/06/02 | 1,286 | 5,300 | <issue_start>username_0: My professer, regrettably and very suddenly, passed away yesterday. He was my mentor for my graduation thesis. His teaching capabilities were not great, but he was a great man. Always helping out with everything he could and very supportive. I have very fond memories of him.
I have to hand in ... |
2017/06/02 | 509 | 2,023 | <issue_start>username_0: I was talking to a potential PhD supervisor about doing a "PhD" in his institution (in Germany). In several occasions he mentioned in an "emphasizing manner" that they award "Dr. rer. nat." in contrast to other doctoral degrees (like "Dr. phil." / PhD).
In my environment/institution (also Germ... |
2017/06/02 | 697 | 2,276 | <issue_start>username_0: I need to use a formula, found in a book "A". The book itself refers to an academic paper from the 50s, "B".
So when I use the formula, who should I reference?
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> We use the formula given as *g = 4x^2* ("A", 2001).
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> We use the formula given as *g = 4x^2* ("B", 1950).
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2017/06/02 | 602 | 2,780 | <issue_start>username_0: Imagine that we have achieved the goal of a grant before the money runs out. Should we use the rest of money to make the research more advanced even though it won't be useful in the direction of the proposal?
For example the grand is for computer science research with a specific application to... |
2017/06/03 | 491 | 1,767 | <issue_start>username_0: I was filling IEEE Xplore membership form. In the form, there was a field "Suffix", the values for this field are I, II, III, IV, Jr., M.D., P. Eng, PE, PhD, Sr., V.
Which one does best describe me? Currently I am a Research/PhD scholar in a department of information technology.<issue_comment>... |
2017/06/03 | 672 | 2,905 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate at a research-intensive university and I have received funding with other students to do research. The other students involved in the project are all undergraduates. I'd really like to talk to people outside of the project who do research - not necessarily to 'network' in a... |
2017/06/03 | 404 | 1,686 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently writing an article and wonder if I could copy text from various articles. Is this appropriate?
I checked similar review articles and found they copied the abstracts for similar works, but can I copy the an introduction from another article to complete my introduction?<issue_comme... |
2017/06/03 | 181 | 794 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes for different purpose like taking new courses or job they tell to send a CV through email. But what should I write in body when I attach my CV?<issue_comment>username_1: You should
1. Say why you are sending the CV.
2. Thank them for considering your application (or doing whatever th... |
2017/06/03 | 1,000 | 3,458 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there any (accredited/recognized) academic institutions with a significant part of their activities - administrative and academic - held over a body of water (sea, lake or river), on some floating platform?
[](https://i.st... |
2017/06/03 | 423 | 1,943 | <issue_start>username_0: In virtually every letter of recommendation I've seen, the final line is something to the effect of "Please feel free to contact me if you have any other questions".
But how often is it to actually *get* contacted? I've never actually received any follow up before, but virtually all the stude... |
2017/06/04 | 1,046 | 4,484 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a teacher in a private school and was asked by the school to develop lesson plans for an existing text book.
Eventually that's going to be a manual for the teachers to use for that specific text book.
I am paid for my time doing this, however there are more things I was asked to help with ... |
2017/06/04 | 228 | 979 | <issue_start>username_0: My professor gave me a project and I have completed it successfully. Now he has told me that he will get funding for my project.
I am so excited about that. How can I write a thank you letter?<issue_comment>username_1: If I'm understanding you correctly, you worked on a trial project, it went ... |
2017/06/04 | 934 | 3,813 | <issue_start>username_0: Under which circumstances can a scientific publication have a dedication?
It is not uncommon for theses (Bachelor, Master, PhD, ...) to have a dedication. Furthermore, some big publications in high impact journals happen to have a dedication.
However, what about regular journals? Can I includ... |
2017/06/05 | 1,108 | 4,899 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a journal article to *Forum: Qualitative Sozialforschung/ Forum: Qualitative Social Research* back in September-October 2016. By February 2017, I received an R&R. April 2017, official acceptance. We were in the midst of the final edits, but I couldn't fully understand the editing re... |
2017/06/05 | 5,307 | 21,725 | <issue_start>username_0: Last week, because of a subway delay due to bad weather I arrived 15 minutes late to class to find out my professor had left 10 minutes before because nobody else had arrived.
Was it okay for him to do that? Would it be rude to complain about this matter?
We are just **4 students** between mi... |
2017/06/05 | 2,554 | 10,954 | <issue_start>username_0: I have attended several lectures in analysis, linear algebra and "higher mathematics for computer science students" in two universities in Germany. None of the professors giving these lectures provided lecture notes. Therefore the students had to copy what was written on the blackboard while at... |
2017/06/05 | 2,817 | 12,135 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an issue with my Masters' dissertation. I was supposed to complete it for May, however when I submitted my proposal on February 24 but I had no reply about confirmation until I emailed my tutor multiple times and she only responded on March 20. So, because she took nearly a month to appr... |
2017/06/05 | 546 | 2,395 | <issue_start>username_0: I was sure my application was going to get accepted but unfortunately, it wasnt.Should I email my research supervisor to explain to him that I will not be his future student? Is there a way that he could fight for me?
**Added information in comment:**
To be honest, my supervisor received an e... |
2017/06/05 | 642 | 2,828 | <issue_start>username_0: I wonder how to politely handle the following situation as a PhD student. Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks in advance for any help you could provide.
I was working for almost one year in modelling some results on the work of another PhD student visiting us. He is supposed to be first... |
2017/06/05 | 672 | 2,808 | <issue_start>username_0: I seek advice from mathematicians.
Sometimes I come across a topic I partially understand in my research, but I understand enough to get my work done. Yet I want to know *everything* about the topic, even if it isn't beneficial to my work. I can not get rid of universalism. For example, I thin... |
2017/06/05 | 552 | 2,228 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to a prestigious control journal. The editor provided the following review:
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> The decision is that your contribution cannot be accepted for publication in [the journal] in its present form. It needs substantial revision in order to possibly become publishable. Overall th... |
2017/06/06 | 1,017 | 4,245 | <issue_start>username_0: I think the question is fairly clear. Someone could have idea A, and write paper A, but then instead of submitting paper A to multiple journals, he or she might re-write the thing into a paper B, but the basic idea is still idea A.
Say the idea is amazing. He or she could then submit paper A t... |
2017/06/06 | 339 | 1,370 | <issue_start>username_0: In many journals, authors who have never published anything before are required to have two or more "referees" in order for the paper to be reviewed. Who are these referees, and how can one "find suitable ones"?
Also, how does one go about finding referees when one is not in academia (i.e. doi... |
2017/06/06 | 447 | 1,824 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the best options for publishing an original piece of research for someone who is not in academia? The main issues are:
* zero prior publications, i.e. no reputation whatsoever in the given field,
* no contacts, i.e. no-one that can step in as a "referee" or a "supervisor",
* no academ... |
2017/06/06 | 453 | 1,819 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in publishing a statistics textbook (e.g. through Duxbery, Springer, etc.). I do not have PhD in Statistics, nor am I employed in university or college as an instructor/professor (but I have BS and MS in Statistics).
Do I have to have PhD and/or have career in academia to publi... |
2017/06/06 | 526 | 1,868 | <issue_start>username_0: Why do some people use middle name for their first name like attorneys? And is this ok in the academic venue?<issue_comment>username_1: >
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Perhaps they don't like their first name, or maybe there's already a we... |
2017/06/06 | 1,004 | 4,283 | <issue_start>username_0: It's common in my field to have articles with many (>>6) authors including several "co-first authors." For example:
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> <NAME>\*, <NAME>\*, <NAME>, <NAME>, ..., <NAME>
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When citing a paper with many authors in APA style, one w... |
2017/06/06 | 1,059 | 4,736 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a year or two away from a PhD in differential geometry. I love doing research, and I would like to make my career doing research in some form (preferably mathematical), but I have no idea the jobs that are out there for pure mathematicians, or what skills are required in order to... |
2017/06/07 | 513 | 2,351 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to a special issue of a very reputed computer science journal. Now as per the original timelines, the special issue was expected to be published by this month with two cycles of revisions. However, there was an extension for a month in submission deadline.
I submitted the ... |
2017/06/07 | 656 | 2,713 | <issue_start>username_0: When one cites an article which appeared online-first in a journal of mathematics, but which is not in print and has no volume number yet, I have read that one can just use the DOI instead. But do you think that in this situation it is appropriate to add the link to the arXiv version anyway?<is... |
2017/06/07 | 562 | 2,400 | <issue_start>username_0: [Wikipedia](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist) says that New Scientist publishes articles which are not peer-reviewed.
But I found no information about "Scientific American" (SciAm) and "Popular Science" (PopSci).<issue_comment>username_1: From the Scientific American [website](http:... |
2017/06/07 | 548 | 2,238 | <issue_start>username_0: I appreciate the technical answer to this is "zero", but in reality, there is probably some room for pragmatism.
I have identified a senior academic, who in two published books has copied and pasted short sections (up to a paragraph) without citiation, or copied and pasted verbatim without us... |
2017/06/07 | 890 | 3,696 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to study "Bioengineering and bioinformatics" for the next 5 years and plan to pursue a scientific career afterwards. My family does not have much money to support me studying in cities like Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, so I chose a university with the best cost/prestige ratio(Mordovi... |
2017/06/07 | 1,403 | 5,591 | <issue_start>username_0: For the first time, I've been asked to referee an article for a journal, and a prestigious one. I work in Maths, so the article has been online as a preprint on arXiv for some time, and it was on the top of my reading list anyways. I feel very confident that I can referee the article, that's no... |
2017/06/07 | 1,366 | 5,236 | <issue_start>username_0: Assuming that Adam conducted an interview with <NAME> and Adam is the only source.
1. **Should I source the direct quotation separately?**
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> The chocolate rain machine was invented by <NAME> in 1980 and was regarded by Doe as "the most significant invention of the 20th century" **(Adam, 20... |
2017/06/07 | 2,142 | 8,975 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently a Lecturer in Computer Science at a (medium ranked) institution in the UK and I've been given the opportunity to join one of the (top ranked) universities in Australia.
While I do consider the above to be very good news, I'm a bit uncertain what to expect in terms of the differe... |
2017/06/07 | 669 | 2,915 | <issue_start>username_0: N is the first author for a paper (PhD work) and there are three co-authors, B, C and D.
B and C are from the same department and the author D is from different department but they are all from the same institution. B had the biggest contribution in terms of the experimental work and N spent ... |
2017/06/07 | 549 | 2,172 | <issue_start>username_0: I just finished my 2nd year in a social science program and decided to stop. I received an MA at the end of this school year. I have decided to leave without finishing, however I do not want to leave the program without a job offer. So I hope to search for jobs (while completing an MS degree, w... |
2017/06/07 | 782 | 3,317 | <issue_start>username_0: I received my rejection letter today and I was devastated. I was shocked because I have finally found a supervisor who saw my passion in the field and didn't care about my low GPA and lab members who were welcoming and offered to help me through my project. The committee believes that my GPA an... |
2017/06/07 | 1,873 | 8,156 | <issue_start>username_0: The Dean of my faculty recently made the suggestion that we change the graduate student office spaces to a "hot-desking" or "hoteling" model. This is only being suggested for office space, **not lab space** which obviously has certain safety/operational requirements that would preclude this mod... |
2017/06/08 | 841 | 3,624 | <issue_start>username_0: After having submitted my Ph.D. recently, I am working on a first solo paper (without my advisors). I have some interesting results, but, I have difficulty in formalizing some of the mathematical arguments. I tried to send the manuscript to some mathematicians for comments, and they said they w... |
2017/06/08 | 858 | 3,526 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking at organizing a small conference next summer and I would like by all means to avoid concurrent dates with any major or highly-overlapping conference on the same or related topics. I thought that it would be really useful if there was an online directory where I can check a calendar... |