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2018/07/05 | 610 | 2,496 | <issue_start>username_0: *P*, a postdoc applicant, lists 3 referees (*A*, *B* and *C*) on her strong application.
* *A* knows *P*'s work best and gives a mixed (guarded) assessment.
* *B* knows *P*'s work moderately well and gives a great assessment.
* *C* knows *P*'s work least and gives a great assessment.
* *S* and... |
2018/07/05 | 355 | 1,536 | <issue_start>username_0: I am submitting my journal article to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
This is a completely new work. However, initial results have been submitted
to IEEE Globecom 2018 (the result will be announced on July 15th).
My question is, should I upload my conference paper to the journal su... |
2018/07/06 | 523 | 2,249 | <issue_start>username_0: Can one use leftover grant funding to take a vacation?
Or does leftover funding get returned to the funding agency?
For reference, I am asking about research labs in American universities.<issue_comment>username_1: Without knowing the actual laws or seeing the grant proposal, I think I can p... |
2018/07/06 | 516 | 2,270 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated from my undergraduate degree about a year ago and took a job in industry. While completing that degree, I did research with a professor related to machine learning. However, after finishing that project, I don't think ML is where I'd want to do my research if I decide to reenter the... |
2018/07/06 | 1,030 | 4,620 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a debate regarding tables developed for a literature review which include Author, Year, Type of Study, Methods, and Results. I believe all components of the table should be paraphrased, but a colleague directly copied methods and results which has resulted in a debate. Is this direct co... |
2018/07/06 | 304 | 1,187 | <issue_start>username_0: I am printing a poster for presenting at a conference. I would like to print on cloth so that I can carry it easily in the suitcase.
In many print shops I have to select which cloth exactly to print on. There are many kinds of clothes: satin, canvas, flag, net, etc...
Which material both al... |
2018/07/06 | 414 | 1,676 | <issue_start>username_0: After what type of changes must a table be considered as adapted instead of reprinted? If I reproduce a part of a table in my text (by making my own table and inserting the info) and correct some spelling mistakes, will that make it adapted instead of reprinted?<issue_comment>username_1: To rep... |
2018/07/06 | 692 | 2,891 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student. I have just started my master degree in Canada and I have been invited to a group dinner by my supervisor.
This situation and culture are quite new to me; I have not had this experience before. How should I act? Should I buy a gift or something?
And if so, what ... |
2018/07/06 | 1,960 | 8,277 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:**
I work in a public university as a staff member, and also a part-time lecturer, allowed to teach only 1 class (per Union).
Last year, I applied and received multiple grants/awards for my teaching position. I already completed the work and received payments. The grants did not ... |
2018/07/07 | 1,920 | 7,798 | <issue_start>username_0: The circumstance :
1. I finished a master program (in engineering) in Germany a while ago with quite good grades (score of 1.\*\*).
2. Immediately after the defense, the professor asked me the plan afterwards, and offered a Phd scholarship (1100 euro per month), not employee-contract.
3. I rea... |
2018/07/07 | 662 | 2,902 | <issue_start>username_0: What's the search engine for research papers that professors of English,History or Humanities wrote? I looked up my english professors on google and couldn't find any of their dissertations or papers. Google scholar fails.<issue_comment>username_1: It's possible that this question will be close... |
2018/07/08 | 3,792 | 16,443 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed that in my field, studies involving testing with human subjects often only show a small number (N>=10) of them. While I understand that researchers are often limited on funding and time, I always thought studies like that would require a certain minimum of subjects far greater than th... |
2018/07/08 | 2,042 | 8,690 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an engineer with a M.S. and 20+ years of industry experience. I always wanted to teach but I left grad school for industry to help pay the bills. I have no regrets, but I do have a very strong desire to go back into academia. I remember my first real engineering class was taught by a adjunc... |
2018/07/08 | 625 | 2,664 | <issue_start>username_0: Although there is system for writing comments on an article by proper submission through editorial system. But sometime, we feel need of commenting on article like; the content is very good or content is lacking in certain aspect etc. I think, if there is provision of writing comment directly o... |
2018/07/08 | 968 | 3,882 | <issue_start>username_0: Are translators of mathematical texts (books or articles or whatever) from a foreign language into English in demand today? Specifically, I'm interested in German and Russian. If they are, then what kind of organizations (or what specific organizations) are interested in such translators? Do pe... |
2018/07/08 | 452 | 1,798 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to take the GRE soon. My practice tests end up being at V: 158 (80%) and Q: 162 (80%). I didn't care too much about the quantitative section in the practice test so my real score should be higher. However, my Verbal seems accurate. I don't know about the writing, but I'd guess to aro... |
2018/07/09 | 2,278 | 10,049 | <issue_start>username_0: When submitting papers to journals, I understand from experience that acceptance can take quite some time (on the order of several months), even when a reviewer is immediately assigned to the paper. But can a referee usually tell fairly quickly if the article should be rejected? Are there any h... |
2018/07/09 | 1,091 | 4,824 | <issue_start>username_0: To be clear I am not referring to out of scope, incorrect formatting or language quality rejections which are mostly detected by junior editing staff and a reasonable explanation is usually supplied in the rejection letter. I am referring to desk rejections by the editor in chief after a paper ... |
2018/07/09 | 2,162 | 8,653 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the USA. Did a BS and MS in Computer Science years ago.
Is it possible to do a PhD without enrolling in a formal program?
Currently I get small breaks of free time (between work and helping an elderly parent), and I'm using it to do self-directed programming projects to determine what... |
2018/07/09 | 2,023 | 8,749 | <issue_start>username_0: I am hitting the academic job market this fall and was advised to have a professional website, but I am completely lost in putting this advice into action. I now am sitting here thinking about making a professional website in preparation of the job market. I am uncomfortable with this kind of s... |
2018/07/09 | 917 | 3,821 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate in theoretical chemistry, and I am currently having a summer research internship at one of the top institutions in the world. I was dreaming about this experience for a long time, but now I think that I can't handle it.
I started to feel drained of energy six months ago ... |
2018/07/09 | 885 | 3,654 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the last year of my PhD and I'd like to get a postdoc after my program is done. In a few days, I'm going to present a poster about one of my projects (manuscript to be submitted soon) in a conference and I want to know how to approach professors.
I have a pretty good idea about the pro... |
2018/07/09 | 2,202 | 8,886 | <issue_start>username_0: I used to have a good relationship with an author, but now it's broken. However, my work is heavily based on the work of that author, and I'm not sure if citing it without informing them is OK here. Would there be any potential trouble from this? What if they explicitly tell me to not cite thei... |
2018/07/09 | 985 | 3,778 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that a bibliography contains two entries by the same author, published in the same year (and for the sake of simplicity, with no coauthors). Which order should they be listed in? At least three possibilities come to mind, and as [this](https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/190842/same... |
2018/07/10 | 922 | 3,981 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc and currently co-supervising a novel PhD student who works very very slow and needs to be spoon-fed most of the time (which is reasonable considering she's in early stages of her PhD). We are working on a very hot topic and have defined a research problem to work on. She has been... |
2018/07/10 | 1,145 | 5,063 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently doing my master’s in German and need to start writing my thesis. Although I am already comfortable speaking the language, writing (especially academic papers) is not something I feel great about. Also, my thesis is a big deal. Legally speaking, could I write it in English and hav... |
2018/07/10 | 2,210 | 8,942 | <issue_start>username_0: In the classroom, one of the students asked me about Sci-Hub. I answered that I like the idea as I am against the tyranny of publishers. As a fun fact, I added that I have even donated to Sci-Hub.
Then, I received a notice from our department head referring the case to the disciplinary committ... |
2018/07/10 | 663 | 2,772 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing a paper for proceedings of a conference in the domain of engineering and physics.
Is it formally acceptable to add a figure in the introduction?
The idea is that I am explaining something that is already done/known, and I would like to keep it in the introduction as a part of th... |
2018/07/10 | 1,850 | 8,208 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a new hire at an R1 university in the United States. My position focuses on the administration of research. Before coming here, I worked in private industry and government agencies - but this is my first time working within a university setting.
Here it is common for many management functi... |
2018/07/10 | 1,827 | 7,767 | <issue_start>username_0: When we are accepted in a **poster session**, does it mean that we need to provide a "**poster**" (usually in **A0** size) + an "**article**" which explains the topic **in a separate file** ? Or both poster and article are included in a single PDF file ?
And also this article must include an ... |
2018/07/11 | 775 | 3,020 | <issue_start>username_0: Without naming the university (to protect my privacy), I attended one of the top 20 universities in the US for my undergrad and graduated in 3 years with honors. While graduating from this school in 3 years isn't impossible, it's certainly rare. On top of that, I have a good GPA and finished a ... |
2018/07/11 | 359 | 1,357 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper submitted to a journal of Springer.
In the submission process, there is a note that "attach your manuscript **excluding author names and affiliations** but I did not do it.
What will happen in this case.
Thank you very much for your responses.<issue_comment>username_1: As Alice... |
2018/07/11 | 424 | 1,883 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand that some pay-walled journals include timestamp and IP address and/or institution to full-text PDFs to track copyright violations.
However, I also saw an open access journal doing the same despite allowing non-commercial, attributable redistribution and modification.
If that jour... |
2018/07/11 | 161 | 657 | <issue_start>username_0: Am I entitled for a family allowance if my family (a husband and children) don't live in the same country where my host institution is?<issue_comment>username_1: You have to read carefully the instructions, I think that it doesn't matter where they live, you have to show proofs that you are par... |
2018/07/11 | 3,422 | 13,848 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student who will be joining a graduate program at a US university starting Fall '18. In my home country, I have used such websites as [Library Genesis](http://gen.lib.rus.ec/) and [BookFi](http://bookfi.net/) to download textbooks, from such publishers as Springer etc., wh... |
2018/07/11 | 2,583 | 10,223 | <issue_start>username_0: I will try to make this brief. I am a student at a prominent university in the UK, and while I was showing my thesis work, a website, to my supervisor, the website crashed. Then I was asked to close the browser and open it again.
When I did, it seems a tab of adult content was open from the pr... |
2018/07/11 | 862 | 3,483 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a class last week and I was 10 minutes late. I missed part of the class, and I want to write an email to my professor to arrange a time to meet.
I prepared this email:
>
> Dear .....
>
>
> I’ve missed part of the previous session and this part is not clear for me. Could I meet up wit... |
2018/07/11 | 711 | 2,889 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a question about plagiarism.
If a peer reviewer writes a negative review of a paper and rejects it, so that he or she can use the idea of the paper in their own work is that considered plagiarism?
Similarly, if a peer reviewer lifts sentences from a submitted, but rejected manuscript i... |
2018/07/11 | 345 | 1,426 | <issue_start>username_0: If a paper is accepted in poster session of a conference or workshop such that only one page of the article will be published in proceedings, how this paper can be credible? (in particular in computer science and in a workshop like this: <http://deic.uab.cat/conferences/cbt/cbt2018/>)<issue_com... |
2018/07/11 | 648 | 2,711 | <issue_start>username_0: I have started my master's degree and I am a fully funded student.
I want to get perfect marks and do my research perfectly.
What steps should I follow to become an outstanding student in my supervisor's mind?
How can I be a perfect student?
I also have a class with him this semester. I am als... |
2018/07/11 | 557 | 2,175 | <issue_start>username_0: I currently live in New Zealand an I'm studying animal science. I got my bachelor of science in New Zealand (from Massey) and my masters from Melbourne University.
Do you think it is strange if I go back to New Zealand to the same University to do my PhD? I've heard that it is good to go to d... |
2018/07/12 | 5,641 | 23,649 | <issue_start>username_0: One thing I don't understand about lectures is why the lecturer covers the material that is already presented in the book and assigned as reading material to the students.
Is the assumption that some students are actually incapable of reading? If not, what then is the point of covering the sa... |
2018/07/12 | 761 | 2,877 | <issue_start>username_0: I am giving in the next days a presentation to a UK university, as a part of an interview for a post-doc position.
The PI of the lab asked me to put one slide at the beginning with my academic CV.
However, academic CV is in general long and I have no clue on what I should put in this slide an... |
2018/07/12 | 427 | 1,869 | <issue_start>username_0: I am curious if faculty appointees (at various levels) should request their schools to send their official transcripts to the employer to get a faculty position? Or is it only required for students?
When I finish my PhD, do I still need to request my school to send an official transcript of my... |
2018/07/12 | 1,279 | 5,597 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written a thesis about applying some AI techniques to a simulation that my professor introduced. To make this happen, I had to implement a very large amount of software, because the simulation works in another language, follows different principles etc.
After 6 months of hard work, I di... |
2018/07/12 | 1,399 | 6,088 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate student that was offered a role researching for a grant. I was able to get authorship status on a paper and will be attending a conference for it later this year. The professor I am working for connected me with another student at a different university in order to share a ... |
2018/07/12 | 788 | 3,351 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the mid stages of my PhD, working on 3/4 of the components of a major project in our group. A post-doc has just started working on the remaining 1/4 using protocols I established (to keep our work comparable). My supervisor has now reassigned a lot of my original work to the post-doc, an... |
2018/07/13 | 728 | 2,886 | <issue_start>username_0: I went to graduate school in the United States for biological sciences. The first year was coursework + graduate rotations. I then spent 2.5 years in a lab and left (on good terms) but did not complete any research requirements with this adviser. I started over completely in a new lab and new f... |
2018/07/13 | 639 | 2,807 | <issue_start>username_0: At some conferences I attend(ed), plenary speakers are introduced with more than just name an title of the talk, but also a short CV by the session convenor.
While I don't know how these intros are compiled (do organisers run background checks on the speakers? do speakers provide the summary t... |
2018/07/13 | 589 | 2,513 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my dissertation yesterday, one day before the due date.
Upon reading back through the dissertation, I noticed quite an error in my methods and discussion.
Unfortunately, due to adding a number of extra tables in my methods which in turn automatically were updated, I now have element... |
2018/07/13 | 2,416 | 7,970 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to find papers of a specific journal. For example, I want to search papers about the smart grid security only in the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid journal. Is there appropriate configuration criteria for the particular search in the Google Scholar or Scopus;
Thanks in advance<issue_c... |
2018/07/13 | 1,211 | 5,538 | <issue_start>username_0: My last paper evaluations in journals (rejects/major reviews decisions) emphasized I should make more clear the novelty and strengths of my work in comparison to the state of the art.
Which style is preferred?
* After presenting each related work, make a brief comparison with my work when po... |
2018/07/13 | 780 | 3,414 | <issue_start>username_0: I have one year left of my Biology degree in the UK, and I want to do a masters. I love biology and I enjoy learning, specifically in cellular and cancer biology. However, I do not enjoy labs, I find it very mundane and boring, and also not rewarding. Most of the research I have done shows that... |
2018/07/13 | 705 | 3,134 | <issue_start>username_0: If a topic (only one page) has been accepted previously in poster session of a conference / workshop, is it possible to submit the long version of the same topic (15 pages) to another conference? (particularly in field of computer science)<issue_comment>username_1: You want to do cancer/cell bi... |
2018/07/13 | 1,001 | 4,301 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a master's degree student. A professor of mine offered me work on some parts of his paper that I have good knowledge about, because of my background. He said he'll pay me in return, and acknowledge me in his paper. I accepted and suggested a 10 EU/h work and he accepted. I suggested that ra... |
2018/07/14 | 1,312 | 5,185 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it ethical to slightly improve upon someone's work posted in arxiv and publish before the original work, however citing the original work?
I mean suppose the original work gets rejected in a top-tier journal (generally top-tier journal takes so much time) whereas the improved version gets ... |
2018/07/14 | 1,536 | 6,049 | <issue_start>username_0: [According to <NAME>](http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2011/03/30/how-to-get-tenure-at-a-major-research-university/), a famous cosmologist and tenured professor,
>
> Don’t be too well known outside the field. I hate to say this, but the evidence is there: if you have too high of a pu... |
2018/07/14 | 704 | 3,032 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background**: I am writing a MSc dissertation in a technology/business-related topic. I interviewed 15 people for about an hour each. Each interviewee was given a choice of anonymity (e.g. tech-sector employee), organisation only (e.g. Microsoft employee) or named (<NAME> of Microsoft). Most ... |
2018/07/14 | 1,499 | 6,141 | <issue_start>username_0: One subfield of computer science that used to be quite popular is the computational complexity of playing particular games. At the end of the 1900s there was a slew of research on this, examine games ranging from the universally known such as Go and Chess to the more obscure such as Sim and Dom... |
2018/07/14 | 988 | 4,197 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a big problem and I need your opinions and your advices.
Someone did his PHD 4 years ago using data collected over 10 years to develop some equations and simulate them. I re-measured the same data 2 years ago (i.e. spanning over 12 years; the methods of collecting the data are different... |
2018/07/14 | 1,598 | 6,798 | <issue_start>username_0: About a year ago when I was a first-year graduate student, my advisor wanted me to follow up on a project left behind by an honors student. I agreed because, at that time, I thought the topic was important and the findings were rather interesting. However, over the past year, I was busy with ot... |
2018/07/15 | 1,266 | 5,456 | <issue_start>username_0: So I'm in a bit of a weird situation right now.
I recently graduated from university with my BS, but was expecting to continue my education at the school as I was accepted into a BS/MS program at the end of my junior year. I put a tremendous amount of time and effort into my work and knocked o... |
2018/07/15 | 550 | 2,271 | <issue_start>username_0: I can get a small raise if I earn 7 more graduate units from an accredited school. I have no intention of earning another degree, and I could be happy with either online or in-person work. How to go about it?
I could apply to some Master's program, get accepted, enroll, and then not finish the... |
2018/07/15 | 560 | 2,377 | <issue_start>username_0: Few days ago I appeared in a postdoc interview. The PI was very much impressed with my resume and the interview went very well. The PI asked me when do you want to join. The next day he asked recommendation letters from two of my references (I am sure that they will give me a very good recommen... |
2018/07/15 | 914 | 4,106 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it convention for a researcher who changes institutions to reapply for ethical review (IRB) on ongoing projects at a new institution, or keep working with the IRB files at the institution where the researcher originally applied, until the studies are ready to be closed?
For context, I just ... |
2018/07/15 | 531 | 2,188 | <issue_start>username_0: Usually for the journals we have impact factor and for the conferences we have acceptance rate.
Now, is it possible to guess the acceptance rate of a journal using its impact factor ? For example, for this journal:
<https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-security/call-for-papers/spe... |
2018/07/15 | 1,309 | 5,672 | <issue_start>username_0: About 4 years ago, a [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/16870/researchgate-an-asset-or-a-waste-of-time) was asked about usefulness of ResearchGate for academics. Judging by the most upvoted answers, the portal had a rather negative opinion back then. However, social media t... |
2018/07/15 | 364 | 1,519 | <issue_start>username_0: After finally getting an article listed on google scholar via preprints, Google Scholar has not listed me as an author on my paper on either preprint it has indexed. I was the one who uploaded them to the preprint sites and I am the second author but they have only listed the first and third au... |
2018/07/15 | 1,211 | 5,218 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student in pure Mathematics. My supervisor gave me an idea to work on, and in 6-9 months I found enough stuff to write 3 papers. After I did that, I was eager to work on some new idea, but my advisor only gave me learning projects, so that I just read many papers without doing a... |
2018/07/15 | 685 | 3,053 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in my second year of a PhD program. I have not yet decided on academia, industry, or entrepreneurship for a career, but in all these cases my success will be strongly influenced by my ability to lead and manage a team of students/postdocs, research engineers/technicians, or co-fo... |
2018/07/16 | 1,650 | 7,165 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in applied probability looking for postdoc jobs after submitting my thesis. What is the value of arXiv papers (not yet published in a journal) compared to papers published in a journal while applying for postdoc? For example, if I have two journal papers and one arXiv paper, ... |
2018/07/16 | 1,241 | 5,130 | <issue_start>username_0: I finished my B.Sc. in physics 3 years ago, did a year of research, worked a year in tech, and have spent the last year off the grid living in the bush and running away from reality for a while. Now I'm going back for my master's or PhD, but I'm pretty rusty. I'm hoping someone out there might ... |
2018/07/16 | 445 | 1,946 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an engineering PhD student in Germany. I am planning to get a job in industry after finishing my degree? Is this common in Germany?
Thank you guys in advance.<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, many engineers do this. In fact, industrial partnerships with academia for PhD students are much m... |
2018/07/17 | 7,233 | 32,063 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in my 3rd year of PhD. In my program, it is a requirement for PhD students to graduate with a paper that is published in a Scopus Index journal.
Before I entered, and during my PhD, I had already published a few papers to a Scopus index peer reviewed journal (for topics not based on my th... |
2018/07/17 | 688 | 3,071 | <issue_start>username_0: I got puzzled by the definition of 'substantial similarity'.
Here is the case. I dealt with two related problems, say **P1** and **P2**, that could be treated in the same mathematical framework. I aimed to show optimal appoaches to both problems. Perhaps more details:
**P1**: the optimality c... |
2018/07/17 | 920 | 3,461 | <issue_start>username_0: I've never delved deeper into this but I'm still curious: do I need to be enrolled in a PhD to publish scientific papers?
I have a MSc but I regularly read research papers of not-so-great-a-quality and think "I might write better stuff than this". It doesn't happen with the majority of papers ... |
2018/07/17 | 911 | 3,915 | <issue_start>username_0: I reflect about preparing research publications and possibly starting a PhD. The subject matter of my interest has connections with the social sciences different from mine.
Specialised in Law, I intend to research a topic which is closely connected with political science and sociology. Such p... |
2018/07/17 | 1,117 | 4,749 | <issue_start>username_0: Current scientific databases hold papers that were published over the past few decades (I haven't checked what is the oldest paper available, but I remember seeing papers from the 1960s, there might even be older papers than that which are cataloged in current databases - not talking about *[th... |
2018/07/17 | 718 | 2,801 | <issue_start>username_0: In writing one article, I came across situation where my section title has one long word which I wanted to use with acronym later on. Now should I put acronym in section title or repeat word in text and write acronym there ? Take a following example for illustration...
Option 1
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> **Section... |
2018/07/17 | 906 | 3,673 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I have a paper acceptance from a tier-1 conference in our field of telecommunication. I have also submitted the extended version in IEEE Transactions as well.
Is it ok (and acceptable) for me to write the patent out these papers? (I understand that paper acceptance does not guarantee ... |
2018/07/17 | 1,585 | 6,523 | <issue_start>username_0: In mathematics, it is usual to call terminal results "theorems" and intermediate results "propositions" or even "lemmas" depending on importance and place in the overarching proof. Suppose that one is refereeing a paper where the authors have decided to call almost all their results "theorems",... |
2018/07/17 | 1,559 | 6,700 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international PhD student in Industrial Engineering at one of the average university. I have completed one year of my study. I already have an MBA from India. So it made sense to do PhD as I was very enthusiastic about this. I have good GRE scores, good academic history. I got TA positi... |
2018/07/17 | 2,557 | 10,558 | <issue_start>username_0: I've recently quit my job as a maths teacher after doing it for 3 years and I have been incredibly lucky to be offered a fully funded doctoral training course at a top university. This is an extraordinary opportunity for me, especially given that I previously withdrew from a PhD, and this time ... |
2018/07/17 | 4,189 | 17,831 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been bullied by my supervisor and other members of my research group for the past couple of years.
Some of the things which have indicated bullying include snide remarks being made during group meetings, exclusion from the group inside and outside of the research environment, not being ke... |
2018/07/17 | 1,255 | 5,338 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just read about "German Phd in industry" in the site, "Research-in-Germany". It says that even if I get a phd position in industry, I need a university professor to supervise my research and award the doctor degree.
\*So, I wonder if a company accept me, I should work in the company or... |
2018/07/17 | 690 | 2,821 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed a project while I was an undergraduate student performing an internship at NASA-JPL. I recently graduated and I am editing the paper I wrote to make it conference paper ready, following AIAA guidelines. I also have a new job and master's program lined up at another institution start... |
2018/07/18 | 1,056 | 4,514 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working on a research paper and two well-known professors have reviewed and commented on the paper. They have also accepted that their names be mentioned in acknowledgments section.
My question is whether including the names of prominent researches would influence the acceptance of a pape... |
2018/07/18 | 2,575 | 11,120 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first year PhD student in the life sciences. So far, my PhD has been going well. I meet my supervisor regularly and he is interested in the project and generally supportive.
A couple of months ago my supervisor encouraged me to start writing a draft for a paper, incorporating the results... |
2018/07/18 | 1,010 | 4,359 | <issue_start>username_0: Obviously, I will mostly speak about my experience performing research at an undergraduate level and in internships and how I wish to undertake a PhD to improve my lab technical skills and contribute to known scientific research.
However, is it appropriate to briefly mention my reason for choo... |
2018/07/18 | 856 | 3,653 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my undergrad in engineering at a small liberal arts school. Due to lack of research opportunities at my current school, I am looking at getting a research position at a state university nearby. My question is, how typical is it for professors to let students from other universities j... |
2018/07/18 | 1,104 | 4,564 | <issue_start>username_0: I was on good terms with my PhD supervisor throughout my studies. After graduation, I gave a talk at a symposium and my PhD supervisor was in the audience. I was planning to add a few sentences of appreciation to my supervisor during my talk, but decided not to (in order to prevent potential aw... |
2018/07/18 | 2,167 | 9,147 | <issue_start>username_0: A bachelor's degree takes you three years to complete, and say it consists of about thiry courses, and say each course is based on a book of about four hundred pages (fairly standard for fields like mathematics, physics, computational science, etc).
This could be learned in a month: 30 courses... |
2018/07/19 | 549 | 2,363 | <issue_start>username_0: I've seriously never encountered what I just have, nor have I had to ever ponder this before. I am taking an international business class where we have to write six papers and six journals. I am currently writing my third paper and am now stuck here. One of the criteria for the last paper I wro... |
2018/07/19 | 806 | 3,554 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate researcher working with another undergraduate researcher in a group. I believe the other undergraduate researcher wants to look particularly good between the two of us for a good letter of recommendation, and she has been doing this to my detriment (giving me false or misle... |
2018/07/19 | 588 | 2,684 | <issue_start>username_0: I have some publications in Elsevier and Springer journals. After publication, I received an author's personal copy of one of my articles. I don't know how they sent it to me because I don't remember ever had requesting a personal copy. After that I did not receive any personal copy for any of ... |
2018/07/19 | 548 | 2,276 | <issue_start>username_0: After reading yet another news article about predatory journals/conferences and how they weigh on the finances of labs in some countries, I started to wonder the following. Were they widespread before publishers of reputable journals started introducing the model where the author pays to have t... |
2018/07/19 | 851 | 3,701 | <issue_start>username_0: It would be quite interesting to have others' experience and opinion on what guidelines are followed, and/or would make sense to follow regarding conference expenses for a researcher having recently transitioned laboratories.
It is very common for PhD researchers to do a post-doc in a differen... |
2018/07/19 | 1,631 | 7,187 | <issue_start>username_0: There have been a multitude of questions about the fact that in computer science and a couple adjacent fields, the standards conferences are held to is quite different than in most fields. CS conference papers in general are peer reviewed and count just as much as journal papers, the most prest... |
2018/07/19 | 1,428 | 6,440 | <issue_start>username_0: I am mid stage PhD student. I have done qualification exam and course work etc and from last around one year I am working on a one research problem. There is small progress on that problem, but till needs to add more things to make it publishable. I am also aware that in the field I am working ... |
2018/07/19 | 817 | 2,921 | <issue_start>username_0: A journal drop-down menu for selecting a person's title has four options but none of them are *Mr.*
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7BeoV.jpg)
(I definitely scrolled down enough.)
As a male, non-PhD holder should I select *Mx.*... |