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2017/10/21 | 761 | 3,174 | <issue_start>username_0: The core of the problem is already in the title but I feel as i should add some more details.
I was doing some mathematics and, if there are no logical flaws or mistakes of any other nature (it seems that there are none) I managed to prove some result that, again, if it is proved with no error... |
2017/10/21 | 1,277 | 5,523 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a faculty member at an R2 institution in the US, looking ahead to a sabbatical. On paper, my university has a typical sabbatical policy: every seven years, a semester at full pay or a year at half pay. However, the administration has recently created policies, apparently for financial reas... |
2017/10/22 | 560 | 2,523 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a review report on my magazine article (Impact Factor 7.6). Based on magazine restriction we can not use more than 3 mathematical equations. But the idea I presented in article require some mathematical evaluation as well. The reviewer suggested that we should publish relevant result... |
2017/10/22 | 596 | 2,537 | <issue_start>username_0: I spent a year with a Phd. supervisor. I am not happy from both aspects: relationship and academically. Is it ethical to change the supervisor? Should I explain the reasons for change in details to the prospective supervisor or just be brief? How to avoid getting the impression that the student... |
2017/10/22 | 455 | 2,001 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a Ph.D. position in a university. Their system required me to fill in the conferences I attended.
I published my paper on one conference although I didn't attend it personally for some reasons. My advisor went on my behalf. However, if I denied that I had attended that conf... |
2017/10/22 | 463 | 1,815 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to download a database containing all scientific papers published. This is obviously too broad and ambitious. To be realistic, say I want all the papers searchable on google scholar (although other databases are fine, say SemanticScholar, etc.), or an approximation of that. What da... |
2017/10/23 | 1,025 | 4,760 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently received reviews for a journal paper I submitted a few months back. The verdict is a major revision (three out of four reviewers requested this, the fourth said accept with minor revisions).
Many of the reviewers felt like we did not justify our approach sufficiently, to which ... |
2017/10/23 | 358 | 1,322 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the difference between tuition fees and enrolment fees? The University I'm planning to apply for MA studies, requires Non-EU students to pay 1500 euros per semester for tuition and 150 euros per semester for enrolment.<issue_comment>username_1: At least in Germany, the difference is tha... |
2017/10/23 | 902 | 3,984 | <issue_start>username_0: I have asked a professor that I took a year long project with to write a recommendation to support my application to a well-known, selective masters programme in the UK (my university is based in South Africa). The letter has already been submitted but the problem is, I have no idea how strong ... |
2017/10/23 | 560 | 2,112 | <issue_start>username_0: As I know, using "I" and "we" should be avoided in research paper writing.
But in one of my paper, I am the only one author.
And in the introduction I wrote something like AA et al. proved that ..., BB et al. found that ..., CC et al. stated that ....
Then the problem is that I want to refe... |
2017/10/23 | 356 | 1,532 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed during some conference talks that some presenters use their initials rather than their full names on some presentationn slides. Specifically I noticed this when they show name-labeled photos of their teams or have slides where they highlight key contributors to a broader scientific fi... |
2017/10/23 | 1,063 | 3,931 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering if it is possible to download all articles from references in a pdf file or on a journal website. For example I'd like to download all articles in the following references (I'm using the internet connection of my university, thus I can download all articles if they were purchased;... |
2017/10/23 | 905 | 3,908 | <issue_start>username_0: I believe that I'm in a rather unusual situation and, as the title suggests, there is some uncertainty about how I should acknowledge a particular referee. This referee was supposed to be anonymous, but clearly (and deliberately) identified themselves in their report for historical context.
> ... |
2017/10/23 | 957 | 4,166 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the process of contacting potential supervisors for a post-doctoral position. I discussed my initial idea with 2 potential supervisors, but now I refined the idea and I found 2 more supervisors that fit within the scope of the project and that are interested in searching for funding tog... |
2017/10/24 | 287 | 1,291 | <issue_start>username_0: Some of the faculty-level academic jobs require teaching evaluations in the submission package, which gives rise to a need to acquire teaching evaluations.
My question is then, how can one obtain teaching evaluations for a course where one is either a co-instructor or a teaching assistant, but... |
2017/10/24 | 253 | 1,207 | <issue_start>username_0: I have already established contact with my potential advisor. Would it be appropriate to mention his name in my personal statement? Would doing so be looked upon negatively by the admissions committee?<issue_comment>username_1: It's perfectly acceptable to mention a potential supervisor's name,... |
2017/10/24 | 797 | 3,494 | <issue_start>username_0: If a researcher publishes a paper found to be fraudulent, are the reviewers and editors of the paper also discredited for having approved the fraudulent paper?<issue_comment>username_1: A note about the nature of academic fraud: **Merely being wrong is not fraud**.
In the case where something ... |
2017/10/24 | 3,299 | 13,638 | <issue_start>username_0: My field is extremely competitive for tenure track jobs that I:
1. will most likely be unable to land after graduation
2. don't even really desire anymore.
In comparison to my classmates, my research productivity is absolutely pitiful. It is stymied by an apathy for my subfield and academia ... |
2017/10/24 | 1,466 | 6,330 | <issue_start>username_0: I was offered a post doc position in a top level university about 2 months ago, which I have already accepted.
However, I was recently called for an interview in another equally prestigious university for another postdoc position which I applied to before getting the previous position offered... |
2017/10/24 | 1,517 | 5,773 | <issue_start>username_0: I've finished my PhD in pure mathematics in late 2013 in the US (2 published papers, 1 preprint), and after almost 4 years of postdoc in the subjects of pure math (1 year-unproductive), medical imaging and computer vision (3 years- 3 papers), I'm joining a research position in industry in Franc... |
2017/10/24 | 1,417 | 6,147 | <issue_start>username_0: For 1 year and half I did my master thesis in one laboratory, where although I learned a lot, it was mostly alone, having very reduced supervision and not having a project parallel to any of the PhD students. Finally by the time I delivered my thesis I learnt that I got accepted with a internsh... |
2017/10/24 | 1,122 | 4,555 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in my first year at a funded Ph.D. program. I have a graduate teaching assistantship in the form of teaching three introductory biology labs (1 credit per) plus the other responsibilities of being an instructor. I also have a six credit (tuition waiver) course load and a stipend.... |
2017/10/24 | 430 | 1,821 | <issue_start>username_0: It's a specific question about academic norms in Canada.
I am not Canadian, but I personally find students chatting while the lecturer is talking is highly impolite, disturbing, and unrespectful to the lecturer. If I am lecturing, it would definitely make me upset if I notice audience is not p... |
2017/10/24 | 364 | 1,609 | <issue_start>username_0: Does a PhD student and first author choose the journal or their supervisor?
This is in the case where negotiations have failed.
Who should get the final say or keeps this right?<issue_comment>username_1: All authors have to agree to the publication of a paper, and any author can veto signing ... |
2017/10/24 | 434 | 1,921 | <issue_start>username_0: ZbMATH sent an article for post-publication review. As of a little more than a month ago, I worked at the same department in the same university as one of the authors. We have not cooperated on a paper, but have otherwise interacted.
Should I decline to review the paper due to this conflict of... |
2017/10/24 | 4,349 | 18,946 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently attending university online (at a notable public institution, not a crappy school—I feel compelled to mention this because one typically expects quality from good institutions). Unfortunately, my instructor didn't put much effort into designing the course.
Essentially, though the... |
2017/10/25 | 2,192 | 8,677 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate senior seeking to continue on into academia, and one of the avenues I'm pursuing to accomplish this is through an NSF GRFP proposal. I spent well over a hundred hours agonizing over every word of this, and I'm happy to have three professors that I've done research with who ... |
2017/10/25 | 1,648 | 7,050 | <issue_start>username_0: I know of a full professor who doesn't list any of his publications on his website. He just gives name, title, email address and phone number.
Nothing more, literally.
When I search for his work internally through our library he has plenty of published work.
What are some typical reasons why... |
2017/10/25 | 414 | 1,688 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm sorry if this has a very obvious answer, but I've looked around and haven't been able to find one.
I set up my GoogleScholar Profile and added my publications to it without a problem. So far, so good.
However, most of them are linking to publisher websites that people won't be able to ac... |
2017/10/25 | 1,730 | 7,229 | <issue_start>username_0: I just wanted to see what people think about a possible plagiarism issue. I found a new article which, as far as I can tell, uses data first shown in an older publication from the same group but with a different first author. This may be irrelevant but I thought I'd mention it anyways; this new... |
2017/10/25 | 677 | 2,981 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked on a research project earlier this year. It has recently been submitted for publication and is currently under review. I am working on my resume and cover letter at the moment as well as applying to graduate schools. This is one of the biggest projects I have worked on in my undergrad ... |
2017/10/25 | 1,970 | 8,580 | <issue_start>username_0: Next January, I will start as an assistant professor in a respected university. My field of work is civil engineering, and I have diplomas (Masters, PhD) in the engineering studies (Hydraulics, Geotechnical, Construction, ...). What I lack, however, is an experience in the field since I have de... |
2017/10/25 | 774 | 3,426 | <issue_start>username_0: I just completed my MFA in Film this August, 2017. Now I am freelancing and not associated with an academic institution. May I still use my graduate university's letterhead when applying to faculty positions? I don't have any other nice looking letterhead with a logo, unless I make it up.<issue... |
2017/10/25 | 1,253 | 5,515 | <issue_start>username_0: On this website (and on the Internet in general), it looks to be in vogue for physicists and mathematicians to move into biological fields to apply their mathematical knowledge and also the general methodology to biological problems. However, there's very little discussion on biologists moving ... |
2017/10/26 | 657 | 2,756 | <issue_start>username_0: A little background info,
I'm currently working as a lab technician in a drug lab which focuses on clinical chemistry and toxicology. I wish to eventually, within a few years tops, go back for my upper level degrees. I didn't have any close relationships with professors of mine as an undergrad... |
2017/10/26 | 2,399 | 10,224 | <issue_start>username_0: I currently am a sophomore in a US college. I have been accepted into a semester-long undergraduate research group. Officially, we have a faculty advisor as well as graduate student mentors. In practice, we mostly only meet with our graduate student mentors.
The problem is that, from the first... |
2017/10/26 | 445 | 2,081 | <issue_start>username_0: It is very common for researchers to share published articles upon individual requests, and many copyright transfer statements explicitly allow this.
In the case that the copyright transfer statement does not explicitly allow sharing the published article in any form, is it allowed to share a ... |
2017/10/26 | 1,262 | 5,341 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student in Mathematics. There is a field I'm interested in (possibly enough to make it my main research area) which is not studied in my city. I've read a lecture notes on this topic a few months ago and sent the author a list of typos/inaccuracies I'd found. He responded in a positive w... |
2017/10/26 | 1,577 | 6,540 | <issue_start>username_0: My professor and I walk to and from for every class I have with her, I am a female senior student and my professor is in her 30's. I've gotten to know her really well, we even had a random dinner together. I go to her office hours everyday and share a coffee or cookie. I go to her for many inci... |
2017/10/27 | 1,583 | 6,482 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a new lecturer. Part of my course (one lecture) teaches the origins of our scientific understanding of the solar system. I talk about the ancient Greeks, the preservation of their work by eastern scholars, the Renaissance, Copernicus, Kepler, De Brahe, Galileo, Newton, etc. Much like how I ... |
2017/10/27 | 1,549 | 6,351 | <issue_start>username_0: A famous quote by <NAME>, former US Secretary of Education, is as follows:
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> We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented, in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.
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I have seen this quoted in... |
2017/10/27 | 2,535 | 10,794 | <issue_start>username_0: I just rememebered a case when I was still in school: we had to write an essay about a specific topic and one guy put big parts of his essay on Wikipedia before handing it in. When the teacher checked for plagiarism she indeed found big parts of his text in the Wikipedia article and thus accuse... |
2017/10/27 | 460 | 2,009 | <issue_start>username_0: Actually I am making my PhD studies that is in the field of Computer Science and its algorithms related. There is one part in which for proving my ideas I have to program a web related extensive set of tests, but currently I really do not have time to program it. I have met a friend that is fol... |
2017/10/27 | 1,472 | 6,089 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my profs in college has (after years of students asking him to do so) put forth a syllabus with all the material for the class he is teaching.
With the help of 3 students from previous years (who did most of the writing), he made a neat 90 page syllabus covering what is taught during le... |
2017/10/27 | 377 | 1,612 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first-year PhD student. After about months into my program, my adviser has asked me to look for another lab. I have had no luck so far with other labs in my department. He told me as my background is not similar to his research work, I cannot succeed in this area. He told me to look for ... |
2017/10/27 | 1,064 | 4,598 | <issue_start>username_0: I doing a PhD in a research group where there are 4-5 PhD student and 1-2 Postdocs. Given the nature of the research projects, more than one person ends up working on one project and sometimes people work on multiple projects simultaneously.
I am assigned to work on a project where a postdoc ... |
2017/10/27 | 3,903 | 16,248 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a tenured professor at a national public university. I was just on a two-year leave of absence (to do a startup) and I'm now returning to the university. I was just informed I'm going to have to teach a class on X. I protested that I don't even know what X is, but my chair said "sorry, we h... |
2017/10/27 | 872 | 3,750 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted an article to a journal several months ago, and after two rounds of revisions, I have received an email from the editor with whom I've been corresponding, in which they said that the referee is *"satisfied with the latest version"*, and therefore *"I have recommended acceptance"*. M... |
2017/10/27 | 2,235 | 9,813 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a TA currently grading a set of 80 midterms for an engineering math course for fourth-year engineer undergrads. The test had four questions, each question had around four parts.
Of course, typically a student can make a wide variety of different types of errors on the exam. But what I ha... |
2017/10/28 | 2,531 | 10,687 | <issue_start>username_0: Given the premise of any form of testing is the evaluation of one's knowledge in comparison to the population (i.e. class) as a whole and a set body of knowledge (i.e. syllabus).
How does one approach the issue of answering conceptual questions that are completely groundless in a multiple choi... |
2017/10/28 | 342 | 1,448 | <issue_start>username_0: Title says all! I can't seem to find any answers pertaining to my question on google, and so I'm wondering if anyone here could share their thoughts/knowledge. Your help is much appreciated :)<issue_comment>username_1: I can imagine that this may be theoretcally possible in some jurisdictions. ... |
2017/10/28 | 1,245 | 5,565 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper where the proofs involve more than one field of mathematics. Call them fields X and Y for simplification. This is not very unusual, but I think it may confuse the editor in the following sense:
There are several motivations for the paper coming from both fields X and Y. Ho... |
2017/10/28 | 3,084 | 13,104 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my professors is bullying me, so I filed a complaint with the Dean of the graduate school. He said, "While the investigation is in progress, you are not to attend class." He said that I was still responsible for passing the class and completing all assignments and taking all exams, but t... |
2017/10/29 | 3,487 | 14,166 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently talked with my advisor and several other professors from the same field about student–teacher interaction in class. Several of them said they had noticed that men participated in class and interacted with them significantly more than women, and that they thought this is a problem bec... |
2017/10/30 | 616 | 2,639 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering if ECTS Credits are based on performance. For example, I know a course is say 5 ects credits, are those 5 credits awarded to a passing grade or is it based on performance and only a part of those credits are awarded depending on your grades?<issue_comment>username_1: You get all... |
2017/10/30 | 393 | 1,762 | <issue_start>username_0: I have published a paper in *Journal of Chemical Education* by my supervisor. This is about a teaching approach for an undergraduate course. The paper was peer-reviewed and we spent more time on it than a research paper.
In my CV (I am applying for a faculty position), the list of publications... |
2017/10/30 | 418 | 1,836 | <issue_start>username_0: While this may seem unfair intuitively, I want to know whether if it is **fair** for a professor to have an extra question for specific students in the class.
A little background: In a calculus class, 3 out of a 16 ish students have taken calculus before at their high school, but the universit... |
2017/10/30 | 805 | 3,278 | <issue_start>username_0: Here are some guidelines and rules regarding the use of footnotes for different journals in Earth Science and IT:
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Source: <http://publications.agu.org/author-resour... |
2017/10/30 | 2,354 | 9,973 | <issue_start>username_0: Usually when I'm applying an exam on my students, right before giving them the questions sheet, I tell them not to cheat. I usually warn them that I will not be inspecting their every move, but I will be watchful to make sure that no communication, electronic device or consulting will be done/u... |
2017/10/30 | 8,687 | 36,004 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a junior faculty member and as part of my work I have to supervise students. I am required by the University to have one-on-one meetings with them every week to check their progress and give feedback. I usually have these meetings in my office like all the other staff.
One piece of advice... |
2017/10/31 | 1,518 | 6,463 | <issue_start>username_0: I have had an idea for a year or two to write a book relating to the research I do. My specific field (in the mathematical sciences) is somewhat niche and no book currently exists that aggregates the big results into one place. Currently, all of the research is spread across multiple papers, jo... |
2017/10/31 | 588 | 2,766 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is about structure of scientific texts. This can be master thesis or published journal article.
The *Disucssion* section: Is there a **reasonable** rule why the discussion of results comes before the discussion of methods?
I often see this in published articles and I argue about... |
2017/10/31 | 646 | 2,716 | <issue_start>username_0: Before publication, if a new edition of a source is released, should I try and find the new edition or keep a citation based on the old?<issue_comment>username_1: Cite the edition of the book you used, as new editions may contain the same text, paragraph or example but on a different page.
Upvo... |
2017/10/31 | 538 | 2,329 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for a tenure-track assistant professorship position in computer science (CS) in the US. The particular opening announcement was broad, non-specific to the subarea. In my application, I emphasized the subarea X. After applying, I inofficially found out that the CS department doesn't hi... |
2017/10/31 | 1,532 | 6,317 | <issue_start>username_0: So for one of my computer science classes, we have a WhatsApp chat among all students in the class to network and help each other out with questions regarding homework, or if we have any confusion on assignments. It's a given that we can get help on these types of assignments.
But exams are p... |
2017/10/31 | 1,753 | 7,538 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing two academic papers currently, and have discovered the point where things get absurd and I need something that is lighter and more enjoyable - the kind of feeling that spawned The Journal Of Irreproducible Results.
As a fan of the show Westworld, I'd enjoy producing a paper which u... |
2017/10/31 | 530 | 2,373 | <issue_start>username_0: The open access journal [Scientific Reports](https://www.nature.com/srep/about/aims) *publishes original research* [*in all areas of the natural and clinical sciences*](https://www.nature.com/srep/browse-subjects). That's broad; it's a [mega journal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_journal).... |
2017/11/01 | 558 | 2,190 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a math professor. I get asked to write a number of recommendation letters to graduate schools where my honest view of the candidate is "this student would fall somewhere in the bottom 25-50% of their student body. I expect there will be dozens of applicants of similar quality and I have no ... |
2017/11/01 | 456 | 1,948 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been working on a project with a graduate student in my lab for the past month and a half. I spend about 20 hours a week on the project.
I implemented a part of our algorithm, wrote part of the paper, revised the paper, tested/debugged the scripts we use for data collection, and produced ... |
2017/11/01 | 2,588 | 11,244 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my thesis-based master’s in computer engineering and am required to program a tool in C++ as a part of my research. I am quite impressed by the help offered on the Code Review website and am considering posting a big chunk of my code for suggestions and improvement. However, I am als... |
2017/11/01 | 2,773 | 12,033 | <issue_start>username_0: During my PhD studies, I published a journal article (one of total four) in a prestigious journal of my field. I gave my codes to my PhD supervisor, but he messed up things in the lab and lost it (I also didn’t care and lost, for I am pursuing different directions).
Two years after publication... |
2017/11/01 | 998 | 3,844 | <issue_start>username_0: While teaching in the blackboard, I find it difficult to represent a vector/matrix/tensor. In latex, we represent `$\mathbf{x}$`. But, how do we represent it while writing in chalk? Is it okay to write an underlined variable `$\underline{x}$` instead? What is the usual practice?
I think, avoid... |
2017/11/01 | 344 | 1,357 | <issue_start>username_0: I've just "published" some Datasets as the Mendeley Data repositories. After pressing the "Publish" button I was surprised with message that my dataset(s) are "in the moderation" process that I wasn't well aware of in advance (my bad).
Now, I'm puzzled how long it takes usually for Mendeley Da... |
2017/11/01 | 504 | 2,222 | <issue_start>username_0: I was invited to review a paper in which the journal's Editor-in-Chief is a co-author. I do not mind, but raised the question that this peer-review is no longer blind. The co-author can see who wrote the reports.
I do not say the editor takes advantage of his position, but the peer-review is n... |
2017/11/01 | 1,590 | 7,021 | <issue_start>username_0: When preparing a presentation, I usually avoid putting a lot of text and then read the slides. To me, the best presentation contains very good figures with presenter explaining them, and not reading what is already written. Thus, I prefer using little to no text and use only figures if possible... |
2017/11/01 | 2,130 | 8,841 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:** I understand that academics have different styles of working, but in the same field, I would have thought that the outputs of senior academics should be comparable (and according to their extra responsibilities).
For example, the Editor-in-Chief of *Nano Energy* (impact factor... |
2017/11/01 | 1,162 | 4,220 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a (text)book on how academia or science works? What I'm looking for is not anecdotes and tips, but actual insights presented systematically, like any textbooks in every disciplines. This book should provide connections between [varieties in academia](https://academia.meta.stackexchange... |
2017/11/02 | 203 | 829 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing an academic CV for PhD applications. I have included the marks for each exam I did in my final year.
The marking scheme is slightly unusual: the threshold for the highest mark was 59 (normally around 70). I got (~10 marks) higher than 59 in a few papers and I want it to be clear ... |
2017/11/02 | 2,191 | 9,468 | <issue_start>username_0: We are writing a manuscript with 7 people. I am not sure what is a good tool to write a paper collaboratively. Other than overleaf or sharelatex which cost money.
What do you do if you have technology inclined collaborators?<issue_comment>username_1: Git! Or more generally, version control sy... |
2017/11/02 | 749 | 3,166 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student of computer science and just have started working on a research problem. Some fellow Ph.D. students have mentioned the term *research visit.* For a professor, these things make sense, but as a Ph.D. student I am not getting what it means. There are some precise questions re... |
2017/11/02 | 3,615 | 15,189 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a grad student and I do some tutoring on the side for money. It's a sweet gig and I do like helping people learn. However I have had plenty bad experiences tutoring. Usually the really bad things (people wanting me to cheat, not paying, etc.) usually are pretty obvious right away.
However... |
2017/11/03 | 1,227 | 5,463 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted few manuscripts to some journals during my PhD and moved to other institute for postdoc (full-time) in few months before. Now one manuscript has come for revision and other manuscripts may come soon. I have following many questions in my mind.
I am wondering is it ethical to spend... |
2017/11/03 | 499 | 2,293 | <issue_start>username_0: In most engineering papers, I see that the authors justify their research by displaying how well it performs against the state-of-the-art methods or algorithms, in a quantitative sense. To put it loosely, this is usually stated along the lines of "Our method is faster/better/cheaper than existi... |
2017/11/03 | 1,242 | 4,577 | <issue_start>username_0: The following paper was published in *Annals of Medicine and Surgery*.
[How to approach supervisors for research opportunities](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S204908011600025X)
It has nothing to do with medicine or surgery.
How can one think of submitting a paper like tha... |
2017/11/03 | 1,658 | 6,574 | <issue_start>username_0: I came across an advertisement of an academic position (in Europe) that states explicitly:
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I have never seen a photo on CV to be a requirement (although the fact that is included ... |
2017/11/03 | 560 | 2,435 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for Masters programs in the USA. Most programs require the applicant to waive their right to see their letters of recommendation, and the applicant is not supposed to ever see their LOR.
One of the profs who is writing letters for me accidentally sent me a copy of my LOR today. H... |
2017/11/03 | 236 | 947 | <issue_start>username_0: How do I know when to capitalize the words in a scientific paper's title? When I look on pubmed I see both styles. To be clear I am talking about the actual title of the paper, not a citation.<issue_comment>username_1: Essentially, the way to check is to look at if the particular journal to whi... |
2017/11/04 | 889 | 3,675 | <issue_start>username_0: If the supervisor does not actually write anything for or contribute to the paper, can a PhD student submit the paper as a single Author?
Would this be a faux pas and cause a strained relationship with the supervisor? I know they expect their name to be on all papers related to the PhD.
Als... |
2017/11/04 | 773 | 3,384 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm going to start my PhD in an English-speaking country. I would like to improve my English for research (fro writing and speaking). Could you let me know any good ways to do that?<issue_comment>username_1: As someone in the U.S. currently teaching a class of mostly international graduate stud... |
2017/11/04 | 825 | 3,665 | <issue_start>username_0: My first year undergraduate teammate has submitted our project work to multiple conferences. I want him to pull back the submission before reviewers take action against us. But he wants proof that conferences actually care about it and can detect self plagiarism and double submission.
This is ... |
2017/11/04 | 952 | 4,064 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a fresh medical graduate. I worked with a professor who harassed me sexually. Unfortunately, I was afraid to talk and also a little bit confused because I was an international visiting student at that time. I did a great job in his lab before he did that. He wrote for me a great letter of ... |
2017/11/04 | 2,336 | 10,102 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm not sure what to tag this question as, and I don't know if it should be on [Law.SE](https://law.stackexchange.com).
If someone is being investigated for academic misconduct:
* accused of taking photos of tests and sharing it online, which is *explicitly disallowed by the professor*
* and ... |
2017/11/05 | 2,132 | 8,135 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m doing my PhD in Europe but I’m researching my opportunities for doing a postdoc in the US. There is a reasonable amount of job postings in my field, so I hope I’d have a decent chance of obtaining one. My concern, however, is purely financial. I have a wife and two children and am wondering... |
2017/11/05 | 486 | 2,035 | <issue_start>username_0: In the spirit of [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/98364/photo-requirement-on-cv) question about photos on CVs, I'm wondering why applications to grad programs seem to universally ask for the applicant's date of birth, usually right next to the applicant's name.
This is in s... |
2017/11/06 | 422 | 1,851 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing an essay to apply for a summer research project and is supposed to write about 'general research topic that interests me' and 'area I would like to focus'. I'm kind of confused about these two terms. What's the difference?
For example, if I'm interested in computer science, where ... |
2017/11/06 | 1,208 | 4,542 | <issue_start>username_0: How do professors deal with loneliness? I feel that professors, specifically in the STEM fields, have to constantly project an image of seriousness to the public - an image that math and science are no. 1 in their lives. Any projection of any other feelings is discouraged, e.g. feelings of roma... |
2017/11/06 | 388 | 1,789 | <issue_start>username_0: I have done a research paper with someone in industry, while doing a Phd. Is it important to include my supervisor name also in research paper. Will three names be a good thing or should i go with 2 names.<issue_comment>username_1: Authorship should be decided by who made intellectual contribut... |
2017/11/06 | 1,389 | 6,210 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm teaching in a university where many different types of administrative software are used. Many seem a bit clunky and badly designed, but I'm only interested in those relating to teaching. Some of these, like Blackboard, are pretty poor in terms of usability, efficiency and reliability. Howev... |
2017/11/06 | 2,225 | 9,787 | <issue_start>username_0: I just started my PhD and this is my fourth week. I understand that as a PhD student, my main aim is to find a gap in the knowledge and then trace this gap by using scientific approaches that I might choose later.
My question is: **How can I find this gap?**
I can think of two options:
1. ... |
2017/11/06 | 1,360 | 5,838 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I submitted a paper to a maths journal (which is a decent journal with a solid editorial board). It was eventually accepted after making some revisions suggested by the referees, at which point I uploaded my final submission. This final submission was then edited by a copy editor at t... |