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2018/05/22 | 1,030 | 4,338 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student with a very difficult colleague - someone I thought was just socially inept, and rude. I was always friendly, giving her the benefit of the doubt, even though she offended me and others on a constant basis with her privileged, superiority complex. On paper, she looks brillian... |
2018/05/22 | 2,502 | 10,948 | <issue_start>username_0: A student who has trained hard for my exam got a just-passing grade. They are dissatisfied with it, and have mailed me to ask to have a look at my corrections. Naturally, I agreed to this. In the mail, they are already calling into question my corrections and the exam content. Is there anything... |
2018/05/22 | 1,145 | 5,061 | <issue_start>username_0: **TL;DR**
We cannot reproduce very good simulation results of our paper and the person who was responsible for writing the code and running the simulations does not have the code anymore and cannot explain how the results were obtained. How should we deal with potential data falsification?
**... |
2018/05/22 | 4,156 | 17,737 | <issue_start>username_0: As an undergraduate student, I find it hard to understand research papers on any particular subject.
Why don't researchers use simple language for their reports, so that everyone would understand?
Update: I will leave this post as a general discussion on this topic. Feel free to edit question... |
2018/05/22 | 1,690 | 7,380 | <issue_start>username_0: When submitting to (computer science) conferences, you usually have full control over the layout and are able to submit a camera-ready version that will be published as submitted.
For journals, however, you usually have to submit a manuscript that will be reformatted before publication. In my ... |
2018/05/22 | 1,341 | 5,482 | <issue_start>username_0: When reading [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/110143/why-do-journals-reformat-your-submissions) it seems the theoretical answer is that LaTeX is not perfect and manual/human intervention is required. In the [*TeX Book*](https://ctan.org/pkg/texbook?lang=en) Knuth say... |
2018/05/22 | 1,053 | 4,666 | <issue_start>username_0: My colleague presented two separate posters, one at a domestic conference and another at an international conference, based on the work both of us have been collaborating for past 1.5 years.
Before submitting the abstract or the poster, they did not seek my approval. In fact, I was not aware o... |
2018/05/22 | 1,491 | 6,325 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student. I was working on some problem from last 5-6 months and some days I was able to solve it. I discuss with my research team including my research supervisor. I told them my idea and approach and then they discuss for 40-50 minute and asked me few questions and I gave them answe... |
2018/05/22 | 354 | 1,551 | <issue_start>username_0: Publishers such as Elsevier and SAGE provide LaTeX templates for manuscripts to be submitted to their journals. Can one post that version of the paper in our websites if the paper has been accepted to such journals? I am referring to a manuscript that only I have modified and has not been modif... |
2018/05/23 | 744 | 3,255 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently investigating some generalized properties in my mathematical research with my professor. We are basically now working together to produce new paper to publish.
My professor is very well experienced and he seems to know what he is doing very fast compared to me. I feel like I d... |
2018/05/23 | 1,979 | 8,487 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not sure if this is generalizable to all subjects. What I have noticed in some of the sciences, for example biology, ecology, and environmental sciences, is that the authors of the most used textbooks are not very highly cited scientists. Perhaps they have a book which is well cited but no... |
2018/05/23 | 470 | 1,913 | <issue_start>username_0: I was studying journalism in my country, but I realised it's not for me at all. I kind of had to apply there because there aren't really any good schools in things I was interested in. I was thinking of applying to a Physics school in the USA or UK, but all the universities I looked up say I wo... |
2018/05/23 | 1,627 | 7,030 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a biology research paper. My topic is related to organs transplantation (current issues, ethical problems etc). I have written a draft and showed it to my professor. She was satisfied with the content and research, but she told that I need to work on my writing. According to her, I... |
2018/05/23 | 1,904 | 8,265 | <issue_start>username_0: I am supervising a master student for his thesis in a technology field. His English is so-so and it takes quite a bit of work to correct it. I feel that correcting English is not my job, but to correct the technical aspects of the manuscript. Back when I was a student, I knew of students whose ... |
2018/05/23 | 1,760 | 7,130 | <issue_start>username_0: >
> I know this board isn't meant to answer deep personal questions, so I try to keep this rather general as it is kind of related to [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/23150/who-should-pursue-a-ph-d-degree) and [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/73503/is-it-w... |
2018/05/23 | 2,279 | 9,419 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently read many questions about doing a second PhD and (to my surprise) most people consider it a bad move. Also - it looks like some universities (for example Berkeley) even have formal policies against it.
I am now finishing two master degrees in Computer Science. My university is ... |
2018/05/24 | 326 | 1,432 | <issue_start>username_0: I think it's fairly common practice to isolate some parts of a thesis, *if* interesting enough, and publish them as a paper after properly changing structure and style.
Is the opposite possible, if the paper has been submitted to a journal and is under review? And what if it actually gets pub... |
2018/05/24 | 2,068 | 8,799 | <issue_start>username_0: A PhD student "Alex" has a few years to impress their research lab advisor and then their dissertation committee. During these years, I imagine that Alex will come up with some great ideas that can be modeled, simulated, and perhaps validated with physical experiments, etc. It might feel that a... |
2018/05/24 | 338 | 1,502 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a rising senior studying Psychology, and will be applying to PhD and Master's programs in the Fall. I have already shortlisted the advisors from the schools I would like to work with and whose research I find fascinating.
Would sending them a quick email now (late May) asking whether they... |
2018/05/24 | 2,961 | 12,617 | <issue_start>username_0: I study in the USA.
Can a professor ask me to waive my right to privacy so he can talk to my doctor about my medical condition? He says he needs that in order to allow me to take a make-up midterm for an exam that I missed, even though a medical note certifying my illness is provided.
Also, t... |
2018/05/24 | 1,106 | 4,660 | <issue_start>username_0: When looking at adverts for postdoc positions, I often see examples from the US that say something like "the position is for one year, with the possibility of extension for another 1-2 years".
Literally, and contractually, the meaning of this is obvious, but I am interested in guidance as to w... |
2018/05/24 | 963 | 4,095 | <issue_start>username_0: Many Computer Science conferences offer a rebuttal phase, and it often does not require the authors to upload an updated version. Instead, the authors clarify things and many also make promises. What are reviewers supposed to do with these promises? Should the reviewer trust it or ignore it? Th... |
2018/05/24 | 493 | 2,102 | <issue_start>username_0: How many days does it normally take to receive an admission letter after applying to a university in China?
I am a student from Bangladesh.<issue_comment>username_1: It depends on the programme of studies, the director that will see your application, plus whether there are additional requireme... |
2018/05/24 | 974 | 4,299 | <issue_start>username_0: the question title above is deliberately provocative.
I am in the UK. A few days ago I have explained my situation - many problems with a Department that was not able to support me adequately.
Generally, both my supervisor, co-supervisor (the co-supervisor has just become a lecturer, so he is... |
2018/05/24 | 714 | 2,995 | <issue_start>username_0: I just got the grade for a problem sheet that we had to hand in. The grading of the TA seems really ... odd, to put it nicely (for example, 1 exercise consisted of 3 basic computations - I got the correct values on 2 of them, but on the third even though I plugged the good numbers in I just typ... |
2018/05/24 | 682 | 2,420 | <issue_start>username_0: I had obtained my bachelor degree with first class of honor then I pursued my master studies in France. During the first year of my master (M1), I had pretty bad performance. I failed a course but I passed the semester since my average grade is higher than 10/20. Also, there was a project which... |
2018/05/24 | 535 | 2,279 | <issue_start>username_0: I define top university as Harvard, Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Caltech, Yale and similar.
If relevant, I am talking about computer science field.
I am interested in all levels - bachelor, master, phd, post-doc.
Should anything beside: GPA, published papers, supervisor, commercial exper... |
2018/05/25 | 1,255 | 5,277 | <issue_start>username_0: This question involves only wary use of ≤ 3 readable colours (e.g. an author used 3 colours: black for text, green for quotations, and blue for headings). One benefit is immediate distinction of an author's, from others', writing.
### Drawbacks
The use of multiple colours by many textbooks su... |
2018/05/25 | 549 | 2,226 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a TT offer which includes removing 2.5 years from my tenure clock, the amount of time I have spent in my first postdoc. The papers and grants from the postdoc would be considered by my tenure committee at the new institution.
My teaching and service commitments will go up after tenure,... |
2018/05/25 | 657 | 2,832 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to defend my PhD thesis in computer science and so far I have being asked to subreview 5 or 6 papers of different conferences.
At the beginning, it was exiting because it was a new experience in my career. However, at this moment I am a little bit snowed under work and I have being a... |
2018/05/25 | 770 | 3,231 | <issue_start>username_0: I studied three years as a History major, and I received many bad grades. So I transferred out to a different school in its computer science program.
I have completed up to third year (and a little bit more) of my CS degree in the last two years. I recently looked up the available course list... |
2018/05/25 | 1,319 | 6,023 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I have reviewed a project from a female proponent. Among the scientific content there was a section about the under-representation of women in a specific field - saying that, on top of all the scientific justifications for the project, it should also be approved to support women in tha... |
2018/05/26 | 1,003 | 4,278 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate student studying psychology using English language in a non-English speaking country. I'm graduating soon, and I'm applying for master programs. We mostly use McGraw Hill publications for our undergraduate curriculum.
My concern is this: Our instructors teach us through s... |
2018/05/26 | 1,011 | 4,198 | <issue_start>username_0: There are 3 PhD positions advertised on university's website and I am interested in two of them. University welcomes to give more than one choices for which candidate should be considered. For both positions requirements are similar. I know the names of professors who will supervise these PhDs ... |
2018/05/27 | 1,310 | 5,447 | <issue_start>username_0: We have a few questions on offering to give a talk at a university.
And the general response is that is pretty acceptable.
It is basically asking to be invited as a speaker.
**What I am wondering about is:**
I am asking to be invited to speak and to be given a working space.
**Details:**
My... |
2018/05/27 | 1,028 | 4,424 | <issue_start>username_0: Many authors, especially in manufacturing, use data from real manufacturing companies (not from a lab experiment) for their research. They are asked to report only the results from their analysis on those datasets in journal papers without publishing the underlying data due to confidentiality a... |
2018/05/28 | 749 | 3,015 | <issue_start>username_0: I took the general GRE two years ago and received V167/Q161/W5.0 or V98%/Q78%/W93%.
I am applying for PhD programs in applied mathematics this fall and plan on taking the GRE mathematics subject test.
My question is, should I focus on doing well on the subject test or also study and retake th... |
2018/05/28 | 713 | 2,990 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received a referee request for a paper that I refereed and rejected a few months ago. I would like to decline the request because although the recent journal's rank is lower than the previous one, I will reject the paper again for the same reasons I gave last time. Hence it would be bett... |
2018/05/28 | 1,099 | 4,513 | <issue_start>username_0: This is my First question, so correct me if I am going off topic.
I am an Indian male. My age is 20. I am pursuing my B.Tech Mechanical Engineering from India's premier institute. I am currently moving to my final year. After that, I wish to apply for Masters abroad. I have a good GPA of 9.12/... |
2018/05/28 | 1,117 | 4,153 | <issue_start>username_0: I am 29. I've had informative, goal-driven, well written SOP, I'm guessing good recommendations. I have a masters in the related field (Computer Vision) with tier 2 publications. I'm in a research engineer job which can not add publications to my profile. I have been rejected by 13 US universit... |
2018/05/28 | 250 | 959 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a fresh graduate from a B.S. in mathematics program and am looking to go to graduate school. I have a strong cumulative GPA of 3.7 and have secured 3 letters of recommendation for the future. Despite this however, a mandatory 1 year military service program prevents me taking any GRE exams ... |
2018/05/28 | 504 | 2,039 | <issue_start>username_0: What is a neat way to include "ongoing research projects" in a mathematician's academic CV?
By this, I mean something that is narrower than a generic "research interest", but not quite as defined as a "paper in preparation".
One colleague of mine uses the following notation:
>
> **Cubic No... |
2018/05/29 | 443 | 1,616 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student at a US university. One of the papers I need for my research is a Ph.D. thesis, owned by the University of Birmingham, U.K. (but this question is for a more general case). That thesis has never been published and is not available on the web. When searching for that paper... |
2018/05/29 | 1,525 | 6,266 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a professor who has published his lecture notes in the form of a book. The only way to get access to his lecture notes is to purchase them from an off-campus bookstore. To me, this seems like a highly unethical, if not illegal, practice. Shouldn't students have access to lecture notes as... |
2018/05/29 | 717 | 3,112 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international master's student at a top US institution and I am graduating from my program in September. I do not have a PhD lined up yet, I am planning on applying in this fall. Towards the end of my master's studies, I came up with an idea for a project and already did the ground work... |
2018/05/29 | 625 | 2,779 | <issue_start>username_0: So the conference that I am going to present a paper is going to publish a book of abstracts. Is this considered the proceedings of the conference? Or can I still grab my paper and send to a peer reviewed publication?
My field is management / social sciences.<issue_comment>username_1: Someone ... |
2018/05/29 | 939 | 3,700 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently searching for a master and then a PhD in Finance/Quantitative Finance. Since I have a certificate in German Language, I could choose German-speaking countries (Switzerland, Germany, and Austria) since their master programms have low fees and PhD students get paied in contrast wit... |
2018/05/29 | 602 | 2,683 | <issue_start>username_0: What is a proper reply to questions like "Describe your operational knowledge about (some course, i.e. quantum physics)?"
I have taken few courses about quantum physics but it's not a big deal for an M.Sc. physics graduate. Everybody knows that it's essential to take quantum physics courses du... |
2018/05/29 | 935 | 4,270 | <issue_start>username_0: In December I will finish a Computational Sciences M.S. degree and plan to pursue a PhD in Applied and Computational mathematics afterwards. I have a B.Sc. in Applied and Computational Mathematics so have some exposure to the field but my Masters degree has largely been focused on Data Science ... |
2018/05/29 | 1,129 | 5,075 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a review paper to a well-regarded A\* journal 9 months ago. After about 6 weeks, I received a request for revisions. The email contained general comments from 3 reviewers and an attached sheet of detailed comments from one of them.
Unfortunately, two of the reviews clearly referred ... |
2018/05/29 | 2,559 | 10,967 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background**
I am a Permanent Resident living in the USA (CO) and studying part-time at a Christian distance-learning institution which is accredited in the USA and based in Missouri. The course is a BA in Bible & Theology. I read widely in law, history, and theology. I have physical and cog... |
2018/05/29 | 642 | 2,456 | <issue_start>username_0: Journal articles are packed with in-text citations of other works to validate points and situate the work in the context of past works. What about undergraduate textbooks with multiple chapter authors? Each chapter author is likely to be an expert in the field. Are citations necessary in this c... |
2018/05/29 | 703 | 2,793 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote [this article](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTr80vk75hd-wq-nFAGVSNvTzVGxiJpRTdtgZD53wbsK2WYqIRwGCkMgGccEgWmxrwXfqC49STBmlF2/pub) with a radically new idea what is the function of the sense of humor.
I sent my article to one journal. They said they won't publish because t... |
2018/05/30 | 815 | 3,472 | <issue_start>username_0: I had an interview for an administrative (IT) position at a very prestigious US university. I had a second phone interview with an HR representative who asked for my salary expectation. I gave my range, and the HR person gave me their range, whose maximum is 20% lower than my minimum. She asked... |
2018/05/30 | 292 | 976 | <issue_start>username_0: I have already submitted my Ph.D. thesis to my committee and plan to defend my thesis. I want to prepare an updated CV.
In my situation, what should I write in the CV:
>
> **Ph.D. candidate**
>
>
>
or just
>
> **Ph.D**
>
>
><issue_comment>username_1: Typically, one writes **Ph.D., ... |
2018/05/30 | 469 | 1,946 | <issue_start>username_0: I hope this is the right SE site for this question. To be clear, **I am not asking anything about the contents of the paper**, but on the practice of omitting certain information that I thought should be included for completeness and clarity.
I have been reading a paper titled: "[Spatial and t... |
2018/05/30 | 429 | 1,914 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent an e-mail to a professor along with my CV explaining my research background and expressing an interest in joining his research group as he has asked to send CVs if anyone is interested in joining his group. After a few hours, I got a reply from him saying that my research background is q... |
2018/05/30 | 1,567 | 6,123 | <issue_start>username_0: Assuming that the cited work will not be less identifiable:
When including a paper in the body and bibliography of one’s work, is it okay to **omit the author’s middle name(s)** and just give the first and last name in the bibliography?
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The main reason why I consider doing that is as foll... |
2018/05/30 | 2,106 | 8,662 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was accepted to become a Master's student, I had *virtually no experience* in the topics that my supervisor wanted to work in. Lately I've been catching up on background knowledge (I've been in the program for about a month), but I still haven't developed that ever-elusive passion that I... |
2018/05/30 | 754 | 3,107 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been made an offer for a position that I will likely accept. I've been given a week more time than planned (at my request) to make a decision, which makes it possible to attend a campus interview (already scheduled) for another position, although it probably won't be as good as the already... |
2018/05/30 | 357 | 1,508 | <issue_start>username_0: My paper is about a software I created which uses part of another software licensed under the MIT license. It is available on Github and includes a copy of the MIT license correctly. Additionally the paper cites the repository.
I want to to include a code snippet of the other software in my pa... |
2018/05/30 | 588 | 2,533 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering how editors evaluate manuscripts. They certainly do not have time to read the paper thoroughly. What are the key points to look for when evaluating a manuscript as an editor?<issue_comment>username_1: You find reviewers who look at the paper for you, and whose judgment you trust... |
2018/05/30 | 2,492 | 10,102 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm graduating from my master's degree at MIT this summer and I have a chance to stay for another year as an employee in my current lab while I apply for PhD programs. I'd love to do that because I love the current grant I am working on, I love the topic, the people and the PI.
My only hesita... |
2018/05/31 | 987 | 4,131 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student in a private Indian university. Last semester I worked on a research project with another undergrad student and under the mentorship of a PhD scholar.
We have submitted a paper to an Elsevier journal which charges a mandatory open-access fee of $500 on acceptance ... |
2018/05/31 | 337 | 1,445 | <issue_start>username_0: In December I applied for a post doctoral position. After 4 months I had my job interview and now one month later they are ready to make a decision.
Is a long interviewing process a red flag? I am concerned that this shows that the department has a bad organizational structure and decisions ar... |
2018/05/31 | 1,585 | 6,670 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in the best-ranked university in my country (not America or the UK) and pursuing my research in a field that I am (was?) passionate about. All was fine for a couple of years - I loved my work, did fruitful experiments and presented a paper at the best conference in my field. ... |
2018/05/31 | 593 | 2,466 | <issue_start>username_0: As the title says, I received an email yesterday, presumably I am in Cc of the email that my professor wrote to the university I am applying to. In my understanding there is always some mystery about the letters. But what exactly is the norm here? Does anyone care?<issue_comment>username_1: I w... |
2018/05/31 | 1,223 | 5,323 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a bit of a dilemma. I am writing a master thesis about a topic that I originally thought was original. It turns out that someone else has done the exact same thing, which forced me to take another perspective on the same topic. Their code and research are old, over 10 years. What I ended... |
2018/05/31 | 2,693 | 10,974 | <issue_start>username_0: According to the (US-centric) "The Professor Is In." Facebook live [podcast](https://www.facebook.com/TheProfessorIsIn/videos/1790722777640928/) it is illegal/problematic to ask a candidate in a job interview about family - specifically, it is a problem to ask about how a spouse would react to ... |
2018/05/31 | 1,257 | 5,170 | <issue_start>username_0: *professorship: tenure-track position, or "good" assistant professorship. Basically, a position that upgrades the postdoc status, and gives a much higher chance of a future permanent position.*
I'm currently going to start a postdoc in applied mathematics and I wish to land a permanent positio... |
2018/05/31 | 6,106 | 25,774 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Summary
I was assigned to write an autobiography for a course and copied some sentences from a personal statement for an application.
Those sentences in turn included material by somebody else, which I referenced in the application, but I failed to reference in the autobiography.
Due to th... |
2018/06/01 | 777 | 3,590 | <issue_start>username_0: I have decided to apply to a few faculty jobs, and all of my faculty references have agreed some time ago to support me (my masters and PhD advisors who I talked to a year ago).
I have submitted 5 applications so far and plan on submitting another 5 this season. But I am not sure when I shoul... |
2018/06/01 | 1,874 | 8,646 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently finishing the last year of my undergrad degree, and plan on applying to grad school in about 7 years. I'm taking a year off to work, then completing a 1 year graduate certificate followed by a 2 year diploma program and 3 more years of work experience before applying for a masters... |
2018/06/01 | 1,985 | 9,034 | <issue_start>username_0: I will soon be graduating, and I have been working mostly remote with a company as an application developer for about 4 years since my freshman year of college, doing enterprise-level development while pursuing my degree.
I have always been interested in business management/administration sin... |
2018/06/01 | 500 | 1,667 | <issue_start>username_0: [ArXiv.org does not assign DOIs](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/62480/9425) to its preprints, but [ResearchGate does](https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/ResearchGate+DOIs). Are there other preprint repositories that assign DOIs for free?<issue_comment>username_1: Although me... |
2018/06/01 | 572 | 2,046 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper which expounds on a portion of a previous paper that I got published.
If I did not even mention the previous paper in my new one, I'm fairly certain this would be seen as trying to pass off old work as new (unethical).
However, in the introduction of the new paper, the ... |
2018/06/01 | 502 | 2,130 | <issue_start>username_0: How can I find conferences in mathematics which accept guest articles/notes *without the guest physically visiting the conference*?
I have two problems which prevent me to physically visit conferences: 1. no money to pay for air tickets; 2. bad spoken English.
Can I nevertheless contribute to... |
2018/06/02 | 292 | 1,352 | <issue_start>username_0: This question might seem silly at first read. But in my research, first I have done mathematical analysis and simulation and provided the results in section I. Later, in section II, based on Sec. I, I did simulation in which nodes are distributed over 2D plane and some parameter is calculated o... |
2018/06/02 | 368 | 1,510 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm editing an interview transcript. One of the speakers mentions a concept popularized in an academic paper. Would I add the citation within the interview transcript?<issue_comment>username_1: I recommend against adding an in-text citation, but you could use a footnote if you think it's import... |
2018/06/02 | 1,081 | 4,470 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm doing a masters. My thesis supervisor made our relationship a bit more personal and friendly: added me on Facebook, invited me for couple of dinners and we used to hangout sometimes and talk on articles at bars. Now he's for some reason avoiding me, answers emails/messages after couple of d... |
2018/06/02 | 476 | 1,950 | <issue_start>username_0: I took a test today morning and I saw that the person sitting next to me used her phone repeatedly, I believe it was to check the power point slides for answers. The fact that this student also asked me for the answer to a question before I left also raises my suspicious slightly.
I don't know... |
2018/06/02 | 1,740 | 6,899 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently teaching calculus and I thought it would be a good idea to do some kind of limit (and later derivative/integral) calculation tournament. The thing is... The students only seem to give their best if the activity is an actual assessment so I was wondering how can I prepare a tourna... |
2018/06/03 | 1,394 | 6,210 | <issue_start>username_0: I began a PhD program last year and found the program to have been misrepresented, whether intentionally or not. I am a behavioral student, and my department has two tracks they admit students to: behavioral and non-behavioral (I'm trying to keep details vague), where the non-behavioral track d... |
2018/06/03 | 657 | 2,575 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a research Paper Y which presents some experimental result. The author has cited Paper X to justify and explain the reason of that result. I am writing a review paper and included the result of Paper Y.
Can I cite Paper X in the review paper to give the justification of the result by ... |
2018/06/03 | 617 | 2,617 | <issue_start>username_0: This year I have been pursuing my second Master's degree in pure mathematics. It is a one-year program in which the final score is determined 100% by the final exams. I have excellent scores at my previous degrees, but this year I faced a health issue which resulted in me making very little pro... |
2018/06/03 | 596 | 2,428 | <issue_start>username_0: 1. Authors A, B and C published paper [1] in journal X.
2. Author B created a figure for paper [1]. *The figure is not essential and does not contain any important data. It is just a geometric ilustration.*
3. Authors C and B are writing a new paper [2] for journal Y.
**Can the same figure be ... |
2018/06/03 | 1,297 | 5,063 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm teacher in a French university (I don't know if the right english term is 'tenured', I mean I'm hired permanently in this university, not temporarily), but I don't have any research role and I'm not connected to any research lab.
Still, I continue to do research during my free time (mostly... |
2018/06/03 | 2,400 | 10,221 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a real life scenario, but I'll refer to the people involved as A and B.
A and B are both retired. A is doing a part-time PhD (humanities), but for at least a year\* B has been working nearly 9-5 every day helping A. The help seems to involve research (finding and reading papers/sources... |
2018/05/31 | 1,065 | 4,949 | <issue_start>username_0: I have discovered a mistaken assumption that was made three centuries ago and has somehow been overlooked since then. It is a principle that was initially and remains to this day "proven" by a perceptual error. If we put the demonstrations and examples to the test of measurement, it is clear th... |
2018/06/04 | 899 | 3,739 | <issue_start>username_0: I've conducted a survey for my masters thesis and would like to show the results as a [box plot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_plot):
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/NnAbo.png)
(The x-axis lists different skill ... |
2018/06/04 | 2,490 | 10,244 | <issue_start>username_0: After having presented a paper of mine at a conference last summer, I received an email from someone claiming to be part of an editorial team of a journal, to whom my paper was recommended. I sent my work to them, and received an unconditional acceptance after four weeks. But there have been so... |
2018/06/04 | 804 | 3,282 | <issue_start>username_0: Today I defended by Bachelor's thesis and I did well. The thesis is handed in. However the process of developing it was a real nightmare, I had many panic attacks, etc. and it was just awful. But now I realized that I have mentioned in my thesis that there is room for more research in this fiel... |
2018/06/04 | 403 | 1,770 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been lucky enough to have been offered different professor positions in different universities. Both departments have made a lot of efforts to try and convince me to choose theirs (who gets offered what job is public here).
It was not easy, but I have finally chosen one. Should I try to... |
2018/06/04 | 350 | 1,150 | <issue_start>username_0: My school gives me my GPA as a percentage out of 100. If I have 91.55% overall, websites like [this](https://pages.collegeboard.org/how-to-convert-gpa-4.0-scale) and [this](https://blog.prepscholar.com/gpa-chart-conversion-to-4-0-scale) claim that this is equivalent to a 3.7 GPA. Is it then val... |
2018/06/04 | 1,590 | 6,698 | <issue_start>username_0: Last year one of the recommendation letter writers wrote incorrect information about my character and this was the reason I was rejected when I applied to graduate school.
After hearing about the rejection the professor realized his mistake and told me about it. Basically, he wrote I had serio... |
2018/06/04 | 600 | 2,455 | <issue_start>username_0: Following suggestions for my post here "[Should results of a journal paper always be reproducible?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/110678/should-results-of-a-journal-paper-always-be-reproducible)", I have done the simulation using a particular seed in the first part of my result s... |
2018/06/05 | 1,860 | 7,774 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is similar to this one
[I am an editor for a lousy paper and I found a better algorithm than theirs. Must I share it with them?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/99487/i-am-an-editor-for-a-lousy-paper-and-i-found-a-better-algorithm-than-theirs-mus)
although there are s... |
2018/06/05 | 610 | 2,278 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently looking for some advise concerning the correct way of mentioning people (i.e. inventors or scientists) in a (PhD) thesis. To clarify, I'm looking for a good way of phrasing "Method X was invented by Y". Which of the following sentences - if any - would be the best way?
* Method X... |
2018/06/05 | 1,047 | 4,386 | <issue_start>username_0: I am finishing my first postdoc in computer science, and I have to make a decision about what I want to do next.
I have basically two options:
* Try to get a new position as a **senior postdoc or junior researcher**. In this case, I will have limited scientific freedom, and there will be a pri... |
2018/06/06 | 225 | 997 | <issue_start>username_0: Where to check my paper grammars for free of charge?
Do you have some suggestions?<issue_comment>username_1: Unless they are your friends in real life, it's very unlikely anyone will help you check your grammar for free. It takes time and effort, and could easily take several hours especially i... |