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2017/06/08 | 1,048 | 4,438 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I have been appointed as a reviewer for an IEEE journal in CS. This journal is indexed on Scimago and its ranking is a Q3 journal.
I know that one cannot know all the topics covered in the diverse areas of CS, but as a reviewer, I have been assigned some papers that do not specificall... |
2017/06/08 | 580 | 2,409 | <issue_start>username_0: Years ago, I, as well as a team of other engineering students, conducted some pretty solid research for an undergrad project. We didn't end up commercializing it or anything, but I believe it would be a great fit for an upcoming conference.
I am no longer affiliated with the university where t... |
2017/06/08 | 2,003 | 8,393 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose an instructor shows up to teach a class and no students are present. Assuming that the instructor's institution has no formal policy on such matters, how should an instructor proceed in such a situation?
If it helps to narrow down the question a bit, assume that the enrollment is no la... |
2017/06/08 | 1,366 | 5,957 | <issue_start>username_0: In my field, computer science, employers offer referral bonuses of a few thousand dollars to employees who refer successful job candidates who go on to work at that company. My spouse works at a company that an alumnus would like to apply to. So do several alumnae and a former professor who has... |
2017/06/08 | 417 | 1,718 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Phd student from Algeria, and I received an invitation to Review for the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing. My Phd supervisor advised me to accept the invitation to review the paper, so I accepted the invitation.
Now from the title of the paper, it looks t... |
2017/06/09 | 570 | 2,495 | <issue_start>username_0: I was asked to review a conference proceedings which topics I'm not entirely interested or knowledgeable (there is an overlapping topic I'm qualified to review though). Since I'm new to the field, I searched the ranking and I found it's close to the bottom tier. The colleague who asked me for r... |
2017/06/09 | 884 | 3,862 | <issue_start>username_0: As a student, and as a tutor, I have found that tutorials for liberal arts subjects (in university) can be a bore. As a student, in large courses you mightn't know anyone in your class, you mightn't want to answer questions in order to avoid looking like a know-all, or you mightn't answer quest... |
2017/06/09 | 1,363 | 5,760 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that in the US people apply for PhD programs, with a rough a idea in their heads what interests them, as PhD's take much longer and include time to explore the subject.
How does this work for UK students? PhD's usually last for around 3-4 years, and it seems that you would have to know ... |
2017/06/09 | 636 | 2,795 | <issue_start>username_0: In computer science conferences, the following publication timeline is somewhat common for conferences:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mvO3H.png)
For those who have been involved in program committees, what gets a paper rejecte... |
2017/06/09 | 636 | 2,701 | <issue_start>username_0: A recent exciting but unpublished discovery of mine was scooped by a colleague. I am a PhD student and I shared the discovery with the colleague a year ago. The colleague is a professor who came from the research group I work in. I found out about the scoop through my adviser who attended the c... |
2017/06/09 | 3,064 | 13,453 | <issue_start>username_0: I was just looking at a different post that cites National Center for Educational Statistics about how professors of all levels spend their time. I am actually doing some research on faculty hiring practices at research universities.
[How much time do professors have to do research on their ow... |
2017/06/10 | 451 | 1,872 | <issue_start>username_0: Why don't professors give talks at seminars in their own departments? They travel to other schools to give talks, while seminars at their home departments consists of talks given by visitors. Is there a reason for this?<issue_comment>username_1: In most of the departments that I have known, the... |
2017/06/10 | 3,248 | 13,633 | <issue_start>username_0: While I read through a similar post written by [K.Grayson](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/89883/how-do-i-cut-ties-with-a-bad-supervisor), I couldn't find a response that overlaps with my case.
In all honesty, I don't know in what way to explain how the situation with my M.Sc. gr... |
2017/06/10 | 1,395 | 6,317 | <issue_start>username_0: Two years ago I read a paper in which the "Methods" section did not report enough information to reproduce the analysis presented by the authors.
I contacted the first author in order to have more information and he provided me the code he used to analyse the dataset presented in that paper.
... |
2017/06/10 | 1,337 | 5,891 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for undergraduate studies and there is one question that keeps returning to my mind. Lots of novel degree programmes started to emerge within universities (at least where I live). For instance, one started offering a course in "Quantum Engineering", another one in "Nanostructure En... |
2017/06/11 | 1,104 | 4,614 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written a paper jointly with my supervisor. He will be presenting our research as a part of a keynote lecture on an international conference. The lecture is in his name, but a part of that lecture has to do with my research. In fact, he will mention my name on one of the slide as an ackn... |
2017/06/12 | 472 | 2,051 | <issue_start>username_0: Who/what determines the order of articles appearing in an issue of an academic journal? Does the editor or the publisher decide this? A few examples reveal that it is not alphabetical by author or title. Is order determined by time (i.e. when each paper is accepted), or does the order indicate ... |
2017/06/12 | 782 | 3,328 | <issue_start>username_0: 8 months ago, I have submitted my paper to the top journal in my field and finally it got accepted. Unfortunately, I have found one wrong table entry (Experiment Section), which is not a logical value at all. More precisely, I was copying from my raw data (in cm) to the paper (in mm) and I forg... |
2017/06/12 | 746 | 3,359 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently had to make a questionnaire for my research. For this questionnaire, I tried taking some ideas from other examples for the questions. Another student was working on the same topic and did her questionnaire before mine, but didn't publish any results yet. After comparing my questionna... |
2017/06/12 | 817 | 3,497 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to send a draft of mine to a specific professor. I would be very interested in his comments, however, I am not a student at the moment, so I am not at his institution nor at any other.
Is there any way for me to send him my draft in an email and introduce myself, without sounding ... |
2017/06/12 | 792 | 3,257 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my manuscripts was prepared for submission to a [CORE](http://core.edu.au)-A conference in Computer Science. There are only 2 days due for submission of the paper. As usual, I usually get my paper reviewed by one of my colleagues. However, I was surprised by his remark that the manuscrip... |
2017/06/12 | 418 | 1,600 | <issue_start>username_0: In a table, I would like to use abbreviate the word *number*. The column heading is namely:
>
> Number of items
>
>
>
In [what is the correct abbreviation for the word “numbers”?](https://english.stackexchange.com/q/43095/236922) both "*No*" and "*#*" are suggested as abbreviations.
The... |
2017/06/13 | 498 | 2,105 | <issue_start>username_0: I used a number of figures from journal articles in my master's thesis. I cited the sources in all cases, but didn't ask permission (I didn't know at the time that I was supposed to). Many posts on this site recommend asking permission to be "better safe than sorry". In my case, the thesis is a... |
2017/06/13 | 1,693 | 6,533 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking into options to submit my research paper to this conference:
- <http://www.icbdr.org/> or - <http://www.iccbdc.org/index.html>
Both of the links indicate that after acceptance, the paper will be published in ACM library and indexed in Scopus and EI. But after I discussed with my c... |
2017/06/13 | 601 | 2,656 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently accepted to review an article for a journal. I actually reviewed the very same article for another journal from where the submission was rejected. This is a rather common occurrence however, as I was looking at my notes from the previous review to see if the authors have addressed th... |
2017/06/13 | 713 | 3,257 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a 2nd year graduate student (biological sciences). I've been developing a new research tool, which builds upon a system developed by a different lab. However, I've had issues replicating the previous system, owing partly to a scarcity of certain details that would be useful for someone who ... |
2017/06/14 | 1,085 | 4,226 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated with engineering degree. I (along with 2 other) had done project on SDN, and we have a research paper to publish. But our project guide(, and former project guide ) is forcing us to mention add their name as first, second author and all fee should be paid by us.
Paying fee is not ... |
2017/06/14 | 523 | 1,842 | <issue_start>username_0: Is this the correct [APA form of citation](http://www.bibme.org/citation-guide/apa/) with two publishers in different locations?
<NAME>., & <NAME>. (2013). The labour markets of emerging economies: Has growth translated into more and better jobs? Geneva. UK: ILO-Palgrave Macmillan.<issue_comme... |
2017/06/14 | 4,635 | 19,550 | <issue_start>username_0: I saw [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE8UhcyJS0I) about the *busy beaver function* and looked at the applications section of the [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver) about the *busy beaver function*.
I concluded that there is zero practical or even theor... |
2017/06/15 | 679 | 2,997 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my first article to a journal and the journal indicated that it was now under review.
Now, I want to withdraw my article. The journal has a lower impact factor than a different journal, and I want to submit the manuscript to the other journal with the higher impact factor.
* Is ... |
2017/06/15 | 430 | 1,735 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the process of applying for a Junior Professorship (W1) in mathematics in Germany, and according the the job listing, the required application documents include a CV and a list of publications (among other things).
What should I include in the CV? Personal details, such as date/place ... |
2017/06/15 | 991 | 4,184 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been working on an article, and for ease of collaboration among co-authors and advisers I have used Google Docs thus far, so I'll likely need to do at least a little post-formatting once in `.doc` format. In addition, I use linux and LibreOffice when I have to, and I generally dislike usin... |
2017/06/15 | 1,437 | 5,917 | <issue_start>username_0: Does it help their tenure case to write an expository textbook? I'd be surprised if it does, seeing as writing a textbook on, say, quantum mechanics, is not original scholarly work.
So why would a professor, say an aspiring full professor, write a textbook? Money?<issue_comment>username_1: > ... |
2017/06/16 | 1,150 | 4,608 | <issue_start>username_0: A student has plagiarised her assignment. The lecturer gave all students a lecture on plagiarism at the beginning of the semester. The student maintains she was absent that day but the university does not keep records on attendance. However a copy of the lecture is on BlackBoard. Her excuse is ... |
2017/06/16 | 1,332 | 5,852 | <issue_start>username_0: A paper that I have just had published in a journal is already starting to generate interest. I am allowed to upload a copy to Academia.edu as long as it is not the copy-edited version (peer review came up with very few changes). On the one hand I want people to read it – and this will also pro... |
2017/06/16 | 524 | 2,237 | <issue_start>username_0: Today I received my first rejected paper.
The committee of 2 people left some good points but at the end they didn't get the point of my theme. It took me 3 months to write this paper for the Requirements Engineering Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.
I talked to 2 PhD students and they said t... |
2017/06/16 | 302 | 1,294 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my article to a journal on 12.01.2016. I asked many times about status of my paper. I have not received a reply from the editor even though my article has been evaluated since 17 months. what do you think about unethical situation?<issue_comment>username_1: If they're not answering ... |
2017/06/17 | 421 | 1,735 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I have recieved few emails from conference organisers to become a member of conference technical program committee. Three of them are international conferences and going to held in China and Thailand.
I am a fresh PhD is it good to participate in low quality conferences as TPC membe... |
2017/06/17 | 744 | 3,204 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a lot of respect for my supervisor; I get very good feedback from them, they are very knowledgeable in their field and I feel that they want me to do well in my reseach. When I submit written work, my supervisor adds comments and then returns, which I think is fairly standard procedure.
... |
2017/06/17 | 342 | 1,514 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently published my first research paper and have already received a request to review a manuscript. The journal's impact factor is low, but it is open access, and the paper's topic is relevant to my field of study. What factors should I keep in mind when deciding whether to accept or ... |
2017/06/18 | 636 | 2,490 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a math thesis.
I want to provide a result in chapter 2, but formally prove this result in chapter 8. This is because I am introducing a bunch of definitions in between these chapters and they cannot be moved in front of or within chapter 2.
Can I say something like, "as we will s... |
2017/06/18 | 1,650 | 6,907 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a CS undergrad in my senior year(last week!). I've been working as a part-time research assistant in a research institute. I didn't think twice when I took the job, as I just thought it would be fun, and because it's not a school, I never thought I'd continue my research in this field after... |
2017/06/18 | 542 | 2,298 | <issue_start>username_0: Do advisors typically fund PhD students for travel to events other than academic conferences? Examples include:
* Seminars at other universities so the student can promote their
research
* A Technical Program Committee (TPC) meeting
* An industry conference where the student hasn't publishe... |
2017/06/19 | 220 | 864 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the pros and cons of dealing with a very large amount of qualitative data as a sole researcher?
Obviously, required time and resources come to mind, but what else?<issue_comment>username_1: If the proper big data processing is done, you have more data to use. The con is that 'big dat... |
2017/06/19 | 544 | 2,120 | <issue_start>username_0: I am studying at a university that provides with a CGPA (as mentioned on mark sheets) but they are not a curve.
The thing is, although my cgpa is 7, I am fourth in the class from a total of 40 students. I am worried that it might be taken negatively when I apply for Graduate Studies. How can ... |
2017/06/19 | 425 | 2,000 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a very general question. Say I have written 10 papers, published them independently in different journals over the years - could I then just take these papers and make a book out of them and publish that, or is there then a copyright on the published papers which would prevent me from do... |
2017/06/19 | 741 | 2,688 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible to publish a paper when the research was done a number of years ago?
For example, can I write a paper from my Masters thesis which was done in 2011 and try to publish it in 2017?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, **IF** the research is still relevant and novel.
When you publish ... |
2017/06/19 | 889 | 3,990 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible to publish the same article in multiple journals published in different languages? For instance, I have a published SCI journal article, but I want to publish the same article in a domestic journal for a local research community as well and vice versa.
Will it be consider self-p... |
2017/06/20 | 2,246 | 8,678 | <issue_start>username_0: I just got an email from Academia.edu saying that my name has been mentioned two times (Edit: now up to 150 papers!), but to see the mentions you have to upgrade to a premium account at 8.25AUD/month.
This seems very unlikely to me, because
1. The name being mentioned is my nick name (and a v... |
2017/06/20 | 1,313 | 5,194 | <issue_start>username_0: Most rankings systems rank math at Harvard quite favorably. Is phd in applied mathematics (control theory) at Harvard as reputable as a phd in pure math at Harvard? (The first is offered in an engineering department while the second is offered in a math department)<issue_comment>username_1: I g... |
2017/06/20 | 6,627 | 30,400 | <issue_start>username_0: I consider myself a scientist and researcher into a very interesting topic-the most fundamental questions of Life and the very foundations of biology. I'm using the phrase *I consider* myself because in reality I have no publications in any journals with real impact factor and all I have manage... |
2017/06/20 | 957 | 4,123 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in what is the role of peer review in journals. I have read the [wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholarly_peer_review#History) which discuss much about style and criticism but few to purpose. I don't know if initially it already came with comments to improve artic... |
2017/06/20 | 3,336 | 14,491 | <issue_start>username_0: As a state university adjunct I get a fair number of students who start classes are finding themselves unprepared, have unforeseen events (job, home, personal), which impact their ability to complete the course in a timely fashion. I tend to offer an incomplete as a way to permit the student to... |
2017/06/20 | 383 | 1,630 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for a postdoc position in Denmark and was invited to an interview. The interview includes a ten minute presentation "of yourself and your research" targeted towards master students (the entire interview is 30 minutes). Presenting my research is expected and not a problem. But what doe... |
2017/06/20 | 6,995 | 29,480 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 5th MSc semester mathematics student at a local German university. Since fall, I have been working on my thesis, which is the only remaining task for finishing my studies.
I had not had particular difficulties during my studies, apart from the usual struggling and doubts I suppose every... |
2017/06/20 | 535 | 2,312 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm studying Bachelors in Computer Science.
I've taken a course this semester where the professor requires us to write research paper inorder to complete the course. High quality papers from this course are published in journals like Springer.
So I was wondering - how will undergrad research ... |
2017/06/20 | 586 | 2,466 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to publish a paper based on my MSc. thesis in software engineering.
I have considered myself, as the first name of the paper, and my supervisor as the second one, since I was the person behind everything. He was much concern about the structure of the thesis, and in scientific contr... |
2017/06/20 | 672 | 2,733 | <issue_start>username_0: Are our academia research minds just so trained to constantly climb our mental mountains that when achieving some success, one feels, "that was it?", even when the past leading up to the success was absolutely brutal in terms of work load and stress and creative thinking, so that one would thin... |
2017/06/21 | 2,406 | 10,435 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not seeking a masters or PhD degree, but I would like to do a research paper and have it peer reviewed academically? Is this possible? If so, where and how to do it?
**Addendum**:
Thank you for all your comments and answers. These have clarified many aspects to this project. I have severa... |
2017/06/21 | 1,409 | 6,253 | <issue_start>username_0: My regression tables have coefficient estimates, standard errors, and significance stars indicating the range of p-values (e.g. two stars means p < 0.05).
A reviewer wants the exact p-values. I personally think it would make the table more cluttered than it already is, and I have 12 regression... |
2017/06/21 | 1,883 | 7,592 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper to a peer-reviewed journal. On the first round of review, 3 reviewers had different comments and I tried my best to answer them. On the second round of review, two of them were almost satisfied but the third one had an aggressive tone and asked some questions that were ... |
2017/06/21 | 1,811 | 7,250 | <issue_start>username_0: In a manuscript recently accepted to a journal, I just realized I neglected to mention that I centered a variable for an analysis. How crucial is this detail to correct, and what's the best way to go about doing it?<issue_comment>username_1: Certainly you can ask. It's not impossible that the e... |
2017/06/22 | 493 | 2,250 | <issue_start>username_0: I used a commercial tool created by a small company to perform quantitative analysis of medical images for a study that I did. I was very conservative in my statistical analysis and consulted with a university-employed biostatistician throughout the process. The results were negative. I present... |
2017/06/22 | 395 | 1,626 | <issue_start>username_0: Some journals require keywords besides the abstract to 'describe' the published article, some don't. See for instance with keywords <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X16301788> and without keywords <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajps.12313/full>
I was wo... |
2017/06/22 | 549 | 2,329 | <issue_start>username_0: Next month I will be graduating from university in the UK with a Master's degree in Astrophysics and in October I will be starting my PhD at a different UK university.
I have seen some academic CVs that list the PhD supervisors that person had, alongside the usual information such as the insti... |
2017/06/22 | 1,242 | 5,231 | <issue_start>username_0: Plagiarism software will not detect assignments that use [Spinbot](https://spinbot.biz) or other paraphrasing software. How do you prove a student is doing so?<issue_comment>username_1: I think you would need to know the particular source text that you believe it was modified from. In that case... |
2017/06/20 | 2,182 | 9,911 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a teaching assistant for undergraduate engineering classes. I will be in charge of running lab sessions, helping students, and assigning grades. I have an extreme and insurmountable personal problem with one of the students in one of my lab sections scheduled for next semester and am conce... |
2017/06/22 | 713 | 2,736 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been confused with the present status of my manuscript whose status follows the following timeline:
1. Manuscript **initially submitted** through Editorial Manager (Springer): 25 Jan 2017
2. **Under Review**: 27 Feb 2017 till 9 Jun 2017
3. **Reviews completed**: 10 Jun 2017 till 22 Jun ... |
2017/06/22 | 838 | 3,658 | <issue_start>username_0: I am at the beginning of my Ph.D. My research lies at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistics, meaning that I will interact with a variety of researchers from several different fields - which should substantially broaden my horizons. However, reading the literature stri... |
2017/06/22 | 1,157 | 4,650 | <issue_start>username_0: I am teaching a course in calculus. Things are generally going quite well, but since this is the first course I've ever taught I'm certainly not doing a perfect job. As a result, I sometimes come across lecture topics that don't go so well, either because:
1. I didn't do a good job of explaini... |
2017/06/22 | 877 | 3,169 | <issue_start>username_0: How do the grades of higher degrees math up with undergraduate qualifications, in terms of quality of work? I'm in the UK. At my current institution, where I'm sitting an MA
* 70+ -- Distinction
* 60+ -- Merit
* 50+ -- Pass
* < 50 -- Fail
At undergraduate, again in the UK
* 70 -- 1st
* 60+ -... |
2017/06/23 | 1,597 | 5,520 | <issue_start>username_0: In the paper I am currently writing I cite works by <NAME> and <NAME>.
I refer to them both several times, as several of <NAME>’s papers provide the basis for some of the techniques I am using, and <NAME>’s work provides origin for the dataset I am using.
This dataset is commonly called *The S... |
2017/06/23 | 449 | 1,796 | <issue_start>username_0: My paper was accepted at a good conference after 3 reviewers cleared it. After proof reading for the publishing, I sent it to the editor with approval.
However, now I have realised that there are 2 mistakes in the paper: 1. One of the equations dependent on time is using `t` instead of `t+1` 2... |
2017/06/23 | 729 | 3,037 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been working with 2 faculty members on the same project. I took a class from each of them, and the three of us meet in person on a weekly basis. I think it's reasonable to assume that they've seen the same level of research ability from me.
I am planning on applying to graduate school,... |
2017/06/23 | 602 | 2,380 | <issue_start>username_0: As a phd student, I am in phase 0 of my research and I download many papers everyday. I have archived the names and the specifications of the papers in a spreadsheet, but that does not really help.
How can have I an efficient interactive archive/database of all the papers I download every day?... |
2017/06/23 | 808 | 3,237 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently at a Top-20 engineering school in the US. I am making great progress on my PhD and have an excellent relationship with my advisor.
My advisor is transferring to a Top-3 engineering school and wants to bring me.
I am concerned because I'm afraid that the Top-3 school will rejec... |
2017/06/24 | 638 | 2,722 | <issue_start>username_0: Why do some professors arrange meetings to give updates about their ongoing work? The updates are certainly exciting, especially for the other people who have been in the lab for awhile and was involved in the work in some small way. But these meetings are also open to visitors, and visiting pr... |
2017/06/24 | 1,491 | 6,366 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been involved in a research lab for a while now. I have a set of peers who work on related, yet non-overlapping fields.
I find myself uncomfortable when other's works get accepted in some research venue (journal or conferences). And, so do I believe that others feel the same when my wor... |
2017/06/24 | 3,201 | 13,229 | <issue_start>username_0: For grading exams, I usually assign points to the exercises in such a way they sum to 100, and then I correct the exams by giving partial points based on such assignment.
Lately, I feel this is a poor choice: students which obviously don't get the topic sometimes get acceptable grades (because... |
2017/06/25 | 629 | 2,637 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm curious as to how long postdoc positions in math usually last for. I'm far away from thinking much about this myself but all my grad student friends seem to be telling me they only last a year or two. Now I know people don't want a postdoctoral position that's too long, but I'm getting the ... |
2017/06/25 | 542 | 2,362 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my friends had a pretty good relationship with their undergraduate professor; however, the professor decided to retire and no longer teaches at that university. In a few months, my friend is deciding to apply to graduate school, and he is wondering if it would still be appropriate to ask... |
2017/06/25 | 693 | 3,161 | <issue_start>username_0: I am middle author of a manuscript that has been submitted and received reviews asking for some additional analyses. Two of the authors (including the PI) prepared the revision, sent it to the other authors (5-7 in total), asking for comments and suggestions.
I had a very different interpretat... |
2017/06/26 | 1,014 | 4,485 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there any **standard rules** by referring to which you can claim authorship? Or do the rules **differ from lab to lab** and depend on the PI?
I have worked for almost two years in lab X on some project. After that I joined lab Y. After that the PI from lab X drafted a manuscript (based, in... |
2017/06/26 | 729 | 3,265 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to use, in a journal manuscript, a figure for which the original source (a website) no longer exists. What can I do?
I found the figure in a Ph.D thesis, the author of the thesis is however not the copyright holder of the figure. But the website of the figure's reference no longer... |
2017/06/26 | 2,718 | 11,725 | <issue_start>username_0: My supervisor does not allow me to use commercial software for my project. I believe that they want to reuse, modify and build upon what I do and thus are interested only in tools/libraries that are widely-accepted in the scientific community (which I do not intend to pursue a career in).
The... |
2017/06/26 | 1,821 | 8,017 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a doctoral student who is trying to graduate. The requirement at my university is that students write 3 publishable manuscripts. Because my adviser knows that I don't want to stay at my current university for a post-doc, she wants me to submit my manuscripts before she'll let me graduate. I... |
2017/06/26 | 3,020 | 11,502 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently been appointed as a [lecturer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecturer) in a scientific department. This is a permanent position. The responsibilities of the position include: teaching, conducting high level research, administration tasks, mentoring and supervising students. The ... |
2017/06/26 | 691 | 2,863 | <issue_start>username_0: Here's my challenge: I took a suspension of studies about a year and a half ago from my UK PhD program (in ancient history) and moved back to the US after my funding ran out, and now have to decide whether to pony up for part-time tuition or just drop out entirely.
I have no hope or interest ... |
2017/06/27 | 1,334 | 5,662 | <issue_start>username_0: I know it is fairly common to review the same paper twice. However, I want to ask whether this can be unfair to the authors.
I recently had a paper rejected in two very prestigious applied math journals. Both times I received one very good review and both times I received *the same* very negat... |
2017/06/27 | 1,654 | 6,759 | <issue_start>username_0: My university requires applicants to have some sort of Master's or PhD degree to become a professor and teach.
But really, how is PhD related to **teaching**? My high school "teacher" graduated with a Bachelors of Science, and he is one of the most knowledgeable and best people I know. His **t... |
2017/06/27 | 500 | 2,012 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently got several postdoc offers and two of those were really nice. I have accepted one of them and I am thinking whether I can make some use of the second one that I have turned down.
I traveled quite a long distance to give a job talk, that was pretty successful, and a famous profe... |
2017/06/27 | 474 | 2,089 | <issue_start>username_0: If you have been working on projects independently and not under a professor, does compiling your work on a personal website/blog also serve as a good reference for an admission committee looking to select a graduate student for a Master of Science program? Or should a professor always vouch fo... |
2017/06/27 | 696 | 2,709 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing my thesis and I want to emphasize that the importance of energy, especially electrical energy, has increased tremendously and we are living in an information era which is fueled by electrical energy.
How would I make this sound credible?<issue_comment>username_1: It is often quite ... |
2017/06/27 | 848 | 3,250 | <issue_start>username_0: Within the context of research (e.g., research proposal), what makes the Aims and Objectives different to one another?
I am looking for a clear and simple answer. When I look around I often end up more confused.<issue_comment>username_1: This shows up generally in the English language, I've se... |
2017/06/27 | 1,188 | 4,975 | <issue_start>username_0: In the next months I will defend my thesis and I wonder if it is really worth it to write a traditional thesis. Although I have time to write it, I would consider a “waste” of time that I could use continuing my research (or improving some of my results).
On the other side, all my colleagues h... |
2017/06/27 | 585 | 2,399 | <issue_start>username_0: I've seen many personal web pages of (US/UK/EU) academics that have a list of all the PhD, MSc/BSc or internship students they've supervised before. Is this allowed or does it break privacy of the students?<issue_comment>username_1: This not only allowed but is a good practice too towards trans... |
2017/06/27 | 1,672 | 7,234 | <issue_start>username_0: In a research meeting I mentioned I was doing some peer-review for a conference and disclosed the general topic it was about, without any further details. Immediately my colleagues demanded I disclose information about details of the paper, authors, and they even suggested I should share the pa... |
2017/06/27 | 628 | 2,630 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to submit a 3.000 words article. It needs to be submitted soon, and I will have to submit it, but I know that I could flesh this out much more, and arrive at something with around 7.000-10.000 words, if I had more time. However, the **basic** idea would remain the same. It would be m... |
2017/06/27 | 734 | 2,975 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to decide on the journal where I want to submit my article. Besides the ranking of the journal, what I care is the speed with which the journal review articles. OK, I do not accept a super-fast review process from any journal, but sometimes it can be painful to wait too long as many... |
2017/06/27 | 1,081 | 4,413 | <issue_start>username_0: Springer's self-archiving policy states:
>
> Authors may self-archive the author’s accepted manuscript of their articles on their own websites.
> Authors may also deposit this version of the article in any
> repository, provided it is only made publicly available 12 months
> after officia... |