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2018/03/12 | 1,418 | 6,221 | <issue_start>username_0: It is a doctoral project in engineering, a long, tedious, and grumbling story. I was contracted as a PhD candidate for another project but when I started, the director suggested me to change for the current one (which they just obtained some funds). Later, a co-director was added who has never ... |
2018/03/12 | 2,299 | 9,479 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a conference paper which is indexed by IEEE by a copyring with the following terms. My paper is an extented abstract without any proofs and details. Now I want to submit the same paper with all proofs and details to a journal. Can I do it
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> IEEE COPYRIGHT AND CONSENT FORM
> To ensu... |
2018/03/12 | 999 | 4,298 | <issue_start>username_0: Not sure if this is the place to ask about this. But for lack of knowledge of a better resource, I turn here.
When citing papers which use the different notation for the same model, is it better to leave the notation as is when citing each source, or, to retain consistency conform to one notat... |
2018/03/12 | 533 | 2,512 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second year undergraduate in in Math+CS interested in applying to some CS graduate programs (in the US).
Since I began my degree I purposefully put off taking a series of general education requirements with the intent of instead moving quickly through my main CS and Math coursework so ... |
2018/03/12 | 1,108 | 4,564 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider the following situation. Scientist A obtained a novel cool result and submitted it to a respected journal after putting the preprint to arXiv. The journal started the peer review process which will take 2 years. During this time scientist B drastically enhanced A's achievements thus ma... |
2018/03/13 | 376 | 1,586 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the salient points to watch during a thesis defence?
How do you know if your thesis is up to scratch before the defence?<issue_comment>username_1: Apart from the motivation for your research, a number of other salient points that you must be sure to have addressed/ have answers to, inc... |
2018/03/13 | 1,971 | 8,436 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a journal editor rejects a manuscript with only one reviewer’s feedback, but the few comments the reviewer and editor made were almost entirely minor comments (e.g. “use these units for this figure axis”, or “this section heading is misleading”).
Suppose one author shows the feedback t... |
2018/03/13 | 1,002 | 3,830 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a medical student working on my thesis... I found a couple of theses online that have relevant info to my thesis subject...
I took this information but rephrased them with my own words and then I copied and pasted the references from those theses! Is that ok?
If not, can I cite those these... |
2018/03/13 | 1,473 | 6,157 | <issue_start>username_0: I was talking with a faculty member and her strategy is to submit to as many grant proposals even if the quality is not high. And in fact, one of her grants was accepted. Are there any benefits for a researcher or university in terms of number of grants submitted even if the quality is low-medi... |
2018/03/13 | 546 | 2,277 | <issue_start>username_0: As I want to make my publications easily available for citation, at my website I am offering, together with my references, a citation file. For the moment I am offering a `.bib` BibTeX file with every citation.
The question is, if it is recommendable to use further **citation formats**. I have... |
2018/03/13 | 383 | 1,666 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, I have a master’s of science in mathematics and a potential plan to couple my qualifications with a masters of science in analytics. I am actually nowhere close to being retired in the industry. But thinking way beyond the scope of the near future, I am curious if there is any possib... |
2018/03/13 | 637 | 2,998 | <issue_start>username_0: I just submitted a paper to some journal. Since they didn't specify a template, I used the IEEE template. Unfortunately, they immediately rejected my paper because they think I already submitted the same paper to one of the "IEEE Transactions" journals. I know for sure that's not the case. But ... |
2018/03/13 | 1,013 | 3,734 | <issue_start>username_0: It seems like PhD theses are way more rare in the Google Scholar index than globally done.
If my assumption is correct they get published as well, is there a primary search engine for that?
Specifically I am interested in comp. science and information systems mgmt topics.<issue_comment>userna... |
2018/03/14 | 325 | 1,345 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm finding it hard to understand my lecturers in lectures because they do lecture in Arabic language which I do not know. So please how can I make it to the pillar of success?
I'm currently at Suez University, Egypt pursuing degree in petroleum and mining engineering.
Your advises are highly... |
2018/03/14 | 3,530 | 14,621 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose one is happy at one's institution until something happens that makes it impossible to stay given one's strong ideological beliefs. Is it a good idea to mention these beliefs if they are the main reason for wanting to move?
For example:
1. "Why do you want to study at this university?... |
2018/03/14 | 1,546 | 5,445 | <issue_start>username_0: I've noticed, for citations, that some BibTeX files provided by google scholar are having regular errors (I believe these are errors).
For bib items, there is the "pages" field, in which we could input a range or a number of pages an article has. I've found at least two journals (in a short ti... |
2018/03/14 | 719 | 3,116 | <issue_start>username_0: The situation is as follows: I am a third year PhD student in theoretical biophysics and recently had my first jointly-authored journal paper published. My advisor thinks that I am on track, though to be fair a lot of the credit goes to another student who did a substantial part of the work for... |
2018/03/15 | 1,433 | 5,873 | <issue_start>username_0: Just found one of my very old written manuscript in my backup folder and interested to submit it to some journal.
I had written a Manuscript with 7 co-authors in 2008 just 10 years before. The entire work was dealt with observation datasets until 2008. Although I had conducted all the works in... |
2018/03/15 | 736 | 2,964 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for different postdocs at the same institution. They hire during the year in different subfields of my main field.
I already read some questions related to my problem ([here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/14646/is-it-acceptable-to-apply-for-two-different-postdoc-po... |
2018/03/15 | 3,307 | 13,331 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the differences between [viXra.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViXra) and [arXiv.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArXiv)?<issue_comment>username_1: arXiv is a respected repository for physics and math preprints. In some fields of physics, it is actually the primary venue through w... |
2018/03/15 | 1,031 | 4,506 | <issue_start>username_0: I've read a certain 'extended abstract', published in conference proceedings, that presents a useful mathematical analysis of a computational problem and uses that to provide a sketch for an algorithm to solve the problem. The sketch lists the general (well-known) techniques on which the algori... |
2018/03/15 | 949 | 4,056 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't know whether this question has been posted previously or not. I just successfully defended my PhD thesis and right now I am unofficially a PhD holder. I have applied to several institutions for postdoctoral research and so far I have been received two offers. One of the offers was from ... |
2018/03/15 | 1,446 | 6,024 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a final year undergrad student in mathematics. This is an important detail as usually there are not many mathematics students, and even less in their final (because of the dropout rate). Because of this, the number of students is pretty small, around 12-18, which allows the teachers to not... |
2018/03/15 | 898 | 3,698 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently there have been a few instances of preprints I've seen on arXiv where I felt that I didn't receive due credit (an acknowledgment or at least a mention) for certain things. Here are a couple examples:
1. I mentioned a fact to a collaborator at a conference. It wasn't a deep, just an in... |
2018/03/15 | 458 | 2,139 | <issue_start>username_0: Should I present future research directions in a separate section while writing a scientific paper? Or to mention it in its related section?<issue_comment>username_1: You can discuss future directions in related work if related work section comes at the end of article i-e, just before the concl... |
2018/03/15 | 3,499 | 14,394 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a Statistical Programmer position at a commercial research organization (CRO), and I am wondering if it is unethical to omit my PhD in Statistics from my resume?
All of my degrees (Bachelor's, Master's, PhD) are in Statistics, and I am just wondering if it would be ethical to... |
2018/03/16 | 739 | 2,746 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently applied to a PhD program, now accepted and planning to attend, in my CV I entered my GPA as 3.8 although the true value is 3.78.
Will that be a problem when I send the hardcopy transcripts to school?<issue_comment>username_1: Being a professor, I will not supervise any student who l... |
2018/03/16 | 2,744 | 11,211 | <issue_start>username_0: In my undergraduate Physics courses, I have heard from my Professor last semester that he got in trouble from the physics department for passing too many students.
This semester, the TA in the lab portion of my class (who grades our lab reports) came flapping around a memo he got, also from th... |
2018/03/16 | 455 | 1,655 | <issue_start>username_0: Lets say I have 3 different methods. I am trying to find the best technique to represent similarities (or differences) among these methods.
One way I thought of is to create a table and create my own correlation methodology (e.g., high, medium, and low). However, I am not sure if this is the ... |
2018/03/16 | 1,919 | 7,656 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written my Statement of Purpose (SOP) for the graduate programs that were Ph.D. or M.Sc.+Ph.D. (the American doctoral programs), but I am also applying for some only M.Sc. programs. They often require a shorter SOP, and even if they don't explicitly mention a word limit, my presumption i... |
2018/03/16 | 703 | 3,062 | <issue_start>username_0: Last summer I asked a professor if I can try my hand at doing research under him in his field of interest. As I was an undergrad student (*I still am*) taking taking summer courses and working (*I wasn't getting paid for the research*) at the time and lacked a lot of skills/creativity to help i... |
2018/03/16 | 352 | 1,541 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible to do a second Masters Degree in Biostatistics if I already have a Masters Degree in Statistics?
During my first Masters Degree, I took one Biostatistics course for my elective, and I found the subject really interesting. I thought about taking a PhD program in Biostatistics, bu... |
2018/03/16 | 1,159 | 4,357 | <issue_start>username_0: I didn't have the chance to wear my [academic stole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_stole) or [honor cord](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_cords) during my undergraduate graduation.
**Question:** Would it be appropriate to wear the academic stole and honor cord to my doctoral hoodi... |
2018/03/17 | 2,217 | 9,559 | <issue_start>username_0: As an undergraduate student majoring in physics, I intend to apply for a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics. I have known that working as physicists in this field is kind of different, as they are always affiliated to a collaboration (like CMS in LHC) and may appear as authors in loads of r... |
2018/03/17 | 1,592 | 6,891 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a third-year PhD student in Computational Algebra with a B.Sc. in Computer Science.
While doing my research, I often need to check my old textbooks for definitions, and I am concerned that I may not be adequately prepared despite having done the course work seriously. Due to this to me I ... |
2018/03/17 | 706 | 3,072 | <issue_start>username_0: The website of the journal Philosophy and Phenomenological Research says:
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> This site only accepts invited submissions.
>
>
>
In general, what is an invited submission? Is this how special issues of journals are published? Why would a journal invite submissions? How does publishing as a... |
2018/03/17 | 1,156 | 4,454 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for Master's degree in France and have learned that there are two different ones - M1 and M2. I read the answers to [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/69002/what-does-masters-2-level-mean) and a few websites with general explanations, but couldn't quite fi... |
2018/03/18 | 3,619 | 15,695 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Background
In my academic surrounding, we follow the following approach for supervising the actual writing of a bachelor’s and master’s thesis:
Whenever the student has written something more than a page, they can give it to an advisor (PhD student, postdoc, or professor) and they will qui... |
2018/03/18 | 713 | 3,380 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing economic analyses of natural resources based on processes seen in the real world (geology) for my PhD thesis. The model I have built is mostly inspired from an already well-established model in the literature, but my approach on getting economic values is quite different.
In details... |
2018/03/18 | 330 | 956 | <issue_start>username_0: According to Wikipedia, [<NAME>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson)
>
> was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1765 by Trinity College Dublin and in 1775 by Oxford University.
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>
>
Also, apparently people referred to him as "<NAME>" back then.
May I put "PhD" after his name now... |
2018/03/18 | 590 | 2,700 | <issue_start>username_0: Grant proposals can take months until you hear back. What should researchers do during that period?
1. Start working on the research since the idea could be implemented by others and publish without acknowledging the funder.
2. Similar to point 1 but in publishing wait to hear about the result... |
2018/03/19 | 491 | 2,006 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm halfway through my PhD and will be visiting another country for a conference. While I am there I would like to talk with some of the local researchers and hopefully visit their labs and discuss their research. I intend to email some of the researchers in my field in advance and ask if they ... |
2018/03/19 | 1,059 | 4,447 | <issue_start>username_0: I love cybersecurity. Linux is amazing, programming is enthralling, and I have not found much else in my life I enjoy, as well as, (well I suppose used to) believe I could make a career out of. While researching the best programming languages for cybsersecurity I came across some advice on Quor... |
2018/03/19 | 663 | 2,875 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently a fourth year undergraduate student graduating this year. I'm taking the upcoming school year off to travel, so instead of applying to grad school during my fourth year like most students, I will be applying this upcoming September (when I will have graduated).
I worked with two ... |
2018/03/19 | 843 | 3,685 | <issue_start>username_0: A friend of mine submitted a paper to a conference, about a topic he was working on in his company. Recently, he got fired from his company so unfairly due to colleagues jealousy (seriously). He already got approval for publication when he was there, but the submission was made arter the firing... |
2018/03/19 | 925 | 4,057 | <issue_start>username_0: I sometimes find that the reviews I get on papers I submit to various high-impact journals are of surprisingly questionable quality. I typically get the impression that reviewers only read a paper in a cursory fashion, make rash assumptions, and hence make comments that are actually not relevan... |
2018/03/19 | 937 | 4,183 | <issue_start>username_0: I left academia, but occasionally I am coauthor of a paper. These papers are in the area of research I did at university, but now I am working in a different industry.
Asked for affiliation, I am not sure whether I should state my company's name (although the company does not take part in the... |
2018/03/19 | 1,352 | 5,844 | <issue_start>username_0: As a Ph.D. student, I am curious about how collaborations among researchers are established. To me, it seems like it is a very informal process: someone proposes an idea(while in a lunch discussion, for example) and the other person tries to give some advice. Eventually, the first person will r... |
2018/03/19 | 913 | 3,554 | <issue_start>username_0: I discovered a minor error (essentially a typo) in one of my recent publications. It would not be noticed by most readers. It does not affect the content of the article and does not require an erratum or corrigendum. According to the editor, it is no longer possible to correct the error. Althou... |
2018/03/19 | 489 | 2,127 | <issue_start>username_0: For a math student, does an industrial internship, where you use the applications of the mathematics you learned in courses, give a better preparation for a PhD in Applied Math, or taking more advanced courses? How about taking courses on other topics (not math), which are skill-based or otherw... |
2018/03/19 | 2,647 | 10,963 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a doctoral student in a large state university in the eastern US. I'm in my final year of work and will likely defend my dissertation shortly. I already have a job in "industry" (i.e. non-academia) lined up.
My advisor would prefer that I stay for another semester to finish up another pu... |
2018/03/20 | 1,312 | 5,717 | <issue_start>username_0: I just received a major revision decision (1st round) for a manuscript I submitted to a reputable journal. After looking into one of the reviewer's comments I found a major error in my analysis. The conclusions of my research are almost completely different as a result. I also don't think the r... |
2018/03/20 | 2,011 | 8,473 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm having trouble with one of my labmates that is severely impacting my work. He is a more senior student than me, but only has been in my lab for two months since my advisor came from a different university last year, and this student didn't come initially (he was supposed to graduate at the ... |
2018/03/20 | 349 | 1,464 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a standard way they are paid?
We'll concern ourselves only with cases where it's stated that the conference will pay travel (up to a specific amount). However, does the speaker pay and then get compensated for receipts? Does the conference pay the tickets? Does it pay them in advance?... |
2018/03/20 | 970 | 4,066 | <issue_start>username_0: I've written a statistical software package and published a paper on it. Recently, it appears to have received moderate use, but with at least less than a 50% citation rate. I know this because Google Scholar will tell me that a paper mentions the name of my software package (it's a nonsense wo... |
2018/03/20 | 2,003 | 8,215 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a PhD student working out research and also doing mathematics for my PhD research. Most of the time these days I spend on studying -- maybe 15 to 16 hours per day. I believe that I joined the PhD as an active student, but now I am not as active as I used to be in the initial year... |
2018/03/20 | 532 | 1,760 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any API service to provide just the number of citations by DOI of an article?<issue_comment>username_1: If you are a publisher member of CrossRef, you could use their [Cited By service](https://www.crossref.org/services/cited-by/), and enumerate the results from that. If you had access... |
2018/03/20 | 543 | 2,141 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the criteria for a PhD? Is it mastery in a discipline? (But, then, what is a "Masters" degree?)
If one claims to have a PhD without an issuing institution, can that title be defended as legitimate?
This issue could be relevant in issues of employment (where an applicant has listed a ... |
2018/03/20 | 2,984 | 12,707 | <issue_start>username_0: Though I am at the very beginning of my PhD journey, I am somewhat disturbed by the apparent lack of tenured positions in the US and Western Europe, especially concerning the humanities. All these horror stories about eager graduates looking in vain for years make me wonder how to prepare for m... |
2018/03/21 | 1,146 | 4,802 | <issue_start>username_0: As a TA, I have to grade students' assignments.
The main instructor usually has requirements regarding the minimum average grade for the class.
At the same time, it is tricky to predict the class' performance until I have graded about one third of the students' papers (for larger classes, and o... |
2018/03/21 | 526 | 2,386 | <issue_start>username_0: I am curious if one is allowed to hire an illustrator to draw images for a paper (e.g. a cartoon of some chemical reaction). Should this person be included as an author or in the acknowledgements? Or is this outright not allowed?<issue_comment>username_1: Seems entirely reasonable to hire an il... |
2018/03/21 | 2,909 | 11,494 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm severely disabled. Under [**Outcomes and length of arrangements**](https://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/acservices/Examinations/PAA/medical.aspx):
>
> If your condition is long-term and unchanging, the Personalised Assessment **[henceforth PA]** Arrangements Committee (PAAC) will approve arra... |
2018/03/21 | 1,691 | 7,687 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm studying in Germany. German and English are not my native tongue, but I prefer to write my thesis in English for the following reasons:
* My English is better than my German (not a good reason).
* My supervisor's native tongue is English (not a good reason).
* I'm analyzing the socio-polit... |
2018/03/21 | 1,291 | 5,156 | <issue_start>username_0: I enquired about a funded PhD position which was advertised on the faculty website. The application involved finding a supervisor and getting them to agree to be a potential supervisor before applying formally to the position.
I contacted the supervisor, who responded straight away, and they s... |
2018/03/21 | 1,237 | 5,144 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting to put together my PhD thesis. The bulk of the thesis will be reprints of papers I have published during my PhD. I am wondering about presentation style.
My personal preference would be to reformat all of my papers into a single LaTeX document so as to have consistent style thro... |
2018/03/21 | 554 | 2,425 | <issue_start>username_0: I currently write my thesis, therefore I develop and later implement a solution for a problem and do a performance & security evaluation afterwards.
The results of the evaluation are quite good in my opinion, because they are just slightly below the solution considered optimal (which can not b... |
2018/03/21 | 668 | 2,744 | <issue_start>username_0: I failed a crucial course for my major that serves as the foundation for many other core courses.
I retook the course and got an A, and have kept straight A's in my upper-level courses since then.
**Question:** What can I do to mitigate the fallout from this?
According to graduate admission ... |
2018/03/22 | 4,342 | 18,446 | <issue_start>username_0: Context: I am an assistant professor of mathematics at a small liberal-arts college in the US.
I did my graduate work at a large public university, and there I rarely encountered students who had previously taken a class from me, let alone ones who had failed one of my courses. Now that I'm at... |
2018/03/22 | 4,259 | 18,123 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent an email to a potential supervisor for PhD in Computer Science with a concise introduction, research I am exploring and a brief about how one of his publication is relevant to my research. Put in some good question around it as well. Then I asked if he is willing to take PhD candidates i... |
2018/03/22 | 2,283 | 9,631 | <issue_start>username_0: As a Ph.D. student, I am curious about the following: if you collaborate with a researcher(not necessarily your advisor) while being a student, should you write in your dissertation the work of the other collaborator?
Assume that while being a student, you collaborate with Prof. X, and you wr... |
2018/03/22 | 880 | 3,921 | <issue_start>username_0: Does one violate the copyright of images in any sense if one uses them in research (for example in memory tasks) and writes a scientific publication based on these data, **but does not publish images in the article**?
Is this part of the fair use policy?<issue_comment>username_1: It seems like... |
2018/03/22 | 295 | 1,270 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to cite the words “cascade of disparities” which actually comes from the title of an article. Under the APA style, do I need to include a page number since the words are in the actual title (and used throughout the article)?<issue_comment>username_1: When you say article, I assume that i... |
2018/03/22 | 1,777 | 7,454 | <issue_start>username_0: From my own point of view, the first year of a PhD is heavily packed with new information, theory, techniques, conventions, experimental abilities, etc. Let us call all these elements "material". This new material required a lot of effort which I felt as a heavy burden in comparison to my maste... |
2018/03/22 | 853 | 3,631 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently writing my PhD thesis, in a mathematical field in physics. I have published a handful of papers, and the thesis is going to be mostly based on these results. I assume that, even though they are published, I should be including full proofs in the thesis.
I also assume I will effec... |
2018/03/22 | 571 | 2,362 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in Applied Mathematics. I submitted my Phd thesis and starting to apply for postdoc positions.
In my PhD thesis I have one work published in a tier 1 math journal and the other two works still unpublished. My question is the following: Should I submit the unpublished works i... |
2018/03/22 | 2,221 | 9,133 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my PhD in Germany and I’m under a three year DFG grant, which ends in September, and with it my visa. Although I can get an 18-month visa to find a job after my PhD, this won’t be granted until after my defense (when I get my certificate).
My supervisor had no idea that my residence... |
2018/03/22 | 587 | 2,602 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm trying to think of things that can contribute to reducing the review time of a paper, and to get the most relevant reviews.
Are there some best practices with regard to submitting a paper to a journal?
For example: Is it better to wait until after big holidays? How long in advance of an h... |
2018/03/23 | 590 | 2,565 | <issue_start>username_0: For some concrete study, I need to find for some keywords, papers that have just one author. I used PubMed, Scopus and ISI Web of Science, but in any case, I could not find a way to filter bibliographic search results by a specific number of authors, or a number less than some exact number of a... |
2018/03/23 | 756 | 3,308 | <issue_start>username_0: I know there is a thread related to this topic but I just want to know how does an MS in Pure Math or Applied Math look in a PhD Statistics application in top school (Ivy League, Stanford). I'm currently at the top 50-60 school in Math and I would like to know what a committee member of top PhD... |
2018/03/23 | 2,851 | 12,278 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is in a similar vein to [this one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/21276/best-practice-models-for-research-code).
My research requires code. I can write code and I know some things about writing good code. Both for readability, (e.g. standardised doc string, descriptiv... |
2018/03/23 | 1,922 | 7,913 | <issue_start>username_0: It is a known fact that reputation and lineage are a very important factor in academia. Master students need recommendation letters to get a PhD opportunity and the same for PhD students looking for a postdoc position. If a PhD supervisor knows someone in another institute or a company, he can ... |
2018/03/23 | 952 | 3,808 | <issue_start>username_0: I've submitted a publication to an ACS Journal where I performed all the experiments myself, most of the editorial work, and all the coordination. Other authors agreed to let me be the corresponding author.
ACS spontaneously changed the corresponding author to the last author (which doesn't ev... |
2018/03/23 | 1,766 | 7,192 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been on the US tenure-track job market. I finally got an offer
(let's call it A) that I am happy with.
However, I have another interview scheduled (let's call it B). I think
it is unlikely that I would prefer B over A. They are comparable in
terms of academic strength, but there are stron... |
2018/03/23 | 1,134 | 3,973 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a professor. Anecdotally, about half the people I know in academia have at least one parent who was or is a professor. (I was not born to any professors, for the record.) And then you see families like [this](https://harvardmagazine.com/2010/07/jasanoff-family-at-harvard).
I'm curious to ... |
2018/03/24 | 932 | 3,954 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently submitted a paper to one of the Physical Review Journals (not Letters). I think that the result is both novel and important. After I uploaded the preprint to ArXiv, I received several emails from researchers in the field whom I do not know personally saying that they liked the paper ... |
2018/03/24 | 3,450 | 14,393 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student. I am feeling something unusual in my PhD: to me it appears that my supervisor ignores my correct answers and always gives me a feedback when my answer is wrong. I know this is a good thing, but the problem is that due to this kind of his behaviour I always feel demotivated a... |
2018/03/24 | 4,987 | 22,681 | <issue_start>username_0: During the last semester my supervisor Prof. X held a seminar for bachelor and master students (mostly computer scientists). According to the study regulations the students have to
* give scientific presentations (based on journal or conference papers) and
* hand in seminar papers on the topi... |
2018/03/24 | 421 | 1,736 | <issue_start>username_0: Do postdoc positions (joining date) start only in the fall semester or in the spring semester also? I mean, can it start at any time during the year?<issue_comment>username_1: Postdocs are often so informal that they can start almost any time.
I had one starting in early August and one starti... |
2018/03/24 | 1,217 | 5,128 | <issue_start>username_0: Let us suppose that a certain senior Ph. D. student is interested in "securing" a postdoctoral position under a professor whom he does look up to. Would it be right for the student to write the researcher and ask him if he stands a chance of eventually being hired as a postdoctoral fellow in th... |
2018/03/25 | 1,108 | 4,498 | <issue_start>username_0: I am PhD student working in computer science. I am worried about the perception that my research career is going to be almost the same as that of former students in my group. I am not satisfied with this because:
* I came from very good university as compared to my colleagues.
* While I don’t ... |
2018/03/25 | 533 | 2,295 | <issue_start>username_0: I was caught cheating during an university exam. The professor promptly failed me for the class. If I decided to take this issue to court, claiming that the professor has no evidence of my cheating, could I get away with it? At the time, there were no cameras in the room, and the professor did ... |
2018/03/25 | 883 | 3,599 | <issue_start>username_0: *I know that most question in this community refer to (natural or engineering) sciences. This question is concerned with the quality of higher education in the field of arts though, I hope it is on topic here.*
My question goes along the lines of ["What is the proper way to judge the quality ... |
2018/03/25 | 1,154 | 4,622 | <issue_start>username_0: Strictly speaking, is translating to english my own published work written in my mothertongue in a non-peer reviewed journal to put it as a part of my PhD thesis plagiarism ?<issue_comment>username_1: This will depend on your institution's rules and your situation, but here are some general poi... |
2018/03/25 | 1,012 | 4,294 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm curious to know how you keep up with new publications in your field and various conferences that are happening. I seem to miss really great conferences and find articles a year or more after they have been published.
How do you keep track? Have you tried an RSS feed?<issue_comment>username... |
2018/03/25 | 549 | 2,304 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to be taking a Ph.D. program in statistics, and I kind of want to have two people for my supervisor (for my Ph.D. research), but I don't know if this would be a good or bad idea. I have two questions:
1. What are the pros and cons of having two supervisors for my PhD research?
2. In... |
2018/03/25 | 1,249 | 5,314 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in my first year of my master's degree in Europe, and within a year or so I'll have to be sending out applications for a PhD (always in Europe), for which I need 2 to 3 recommendation letters. This is a huge issue for me because I pretty much don't know anyone inside academia.
Recommendat... |
2018/03/25 | 1,473 | 6,277 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in molecular biology & bioinformatics in Australia. I have previously presented one of my projects as a poster at a conference. This was sent for review to all co-authors, changes made and presented.
A couple of months down the line, I was asked to present a poster at a loca... |
2018/03/25 | 2,091 | 8,772 | <issue_start>username_0: I will finish my Master degree in electrical engineering (in Germany) soon, but at the moment I am quite unsure about my future after that. Quite some of my fellow students just joined the institutes of the university whose professors supervised their Master's Theses. There they will work as as... |
2018/03/25 | 3,601 | 15,712 | <issue_start>username_0: A few months ago, I submitted a manuscript. After the reviews were completed I received a rejection decision from the Associate Editor (AE). The rejection was based on the basis of a single rejection recommendation by one of the four reviewers. The journal has very high standards so this is not... |
2018/03/26 | 617 | 2,764 | <issue_start>username_0: Like many people, I have a lot of print journals that I got over time with association memberships. However, I never use them, given online access at my institution. Does anyone know where I can donate them? I've looked at a lot of university libraries and often, it doesn't look like they accep... |