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2019/09/16 | 863 | 3,681 | <issue_start>username_0: Do most journals keep archives of referee reports and would historians of science be able to access them? Perhaps after some delay?<issue_comment>username_1: All reputable journals today use web-based manuscript management systems that keep information about each manuscript, its various revisio... |
2019/09/16 | 2,239 | 9,547 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it common to guarantee students a passing course grade if they demonstrate proficiency in some subset of topics/skills on a final exam?
Note that this is in contrast to setting an upper bound on a final exam score that would guarantee a *failing* grade for a student, as in [this question](h... |
2019/09/16 | 1,054 | 4,650 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to biology REUs(Research Experience for Undergraduates) this summer. Would a white female junior from a small R2 university, 3.9 gpa, and one summer of research experience be likely enough to get into one these programs? I've heard that it's a long shot if you're not a minority, t... |
2019/09/17 | 817 | 3,621 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m a research assistant with an idea for a new study. I’ve started my literature review, however a couple of people have said to me there are plenty of PhD students who would be keen to help with the research. Why would a PhD student want to do research on a topic that’s not potentially of any... |
2019/09/17 | 1,151 | 4,710 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a paper in the field of AI. I've developed a new technology that allows many state of the art benchmarks to be improved on. I want to make sure that when I publish the paper, anyone/company that wants to use the technology can do so free of charge with no strings attached. My fe... |
2019/09/17 | 712 | 2,209 | <issue_start>username_0: In google scholar, it is easily possible to obtain a list of articles that cite a specific article. Web of science and scopus also offer this feature, if you manually enter the article identifiers (e.g. doi or database identifier).
However, to automatically (api-wise) obtain a list of articles... |
2019/09/17 | 739 | 3,296 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a senior PhD student in computer science. I have published several papers with my PhD advisor already.
Someone told me that, when applying for faculty positions, it looks good to have a peer-reviewed paper without your advisor listed as an author. I guess it implies that you can complete ... |
2019/09/17 | 575 | 2,500 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm becoming frustrated with an international collaborator that has been involved in the project since early this year. He has been responsible for translating the survey into another language and we aim to use his connections (via his University) to launch the project in their area.
He has be... |
2019/09/18 | 1,517 | 6,640 | <issue_start>username_0: A former student has asked me to write a letter of recommendation. I am always quite happy to do so -- but in this case it's hard to find much to say. The student took two classes with me and earned B's in both; moreover, both classes were large lectures, so it was more or less impossible to no... |
2019/09/18 | 1,756 | 7,519 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to submit my manuscript to a journal. Before I do, I would like to reach out to a professor at another university to see if he would be willing to review my manuscript since he is an expert in the field.
Is this appropriate or common practice?<issue_comment>username_1: Ask your a... |
2019/09/18 | 1,820 | 7,835 | <issue_start>username_0: My field of study is business communication and I tried to gather responses for my survey by contacting target audience by email directly, however response rates were next to 0%. Now I'm considering using paid participation survey service to gather information I need (which is possible with som... |
2019/09/18 | 620 | 2,825 | <issue_start>username_0: It is known that the PhD would make an original contribution and/or advance knowledge in a given field. In my field ( Computer science), there are various PhD contribution that combine methods to solve a problem.
In short, my question is: What are the conditions to develop an original/novel me... |
2019/09/18 | 338 | 1,581 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for Graduate school in US. I have 2 years working experience and i have 3 people ready from my company to provide me the letter of recommendation but as a whole the company will provide 1 universal letter with a letter head and the person individually cannot use it as it against c... |
2019/09/18 | 372 | 1,652 | <issue_start>username_0: We all know that the peer review process of a manuscript can take months, and months, and more months. In this period, one continues to research, and sometimes your manuscript keeps experiencing small changes as your investigation proceeds further. What do you do? Wait until the first revision ... |
2019/09/19 | 1,019 | 4,264 | <issue_start>username_0: I hate my PhD program. I absolutely despise the program and many people in it. Sometimes at conferences, with new faculty, etc. I get asked what I think of my program. The real answer is "it's horrible, I despise it and I totally regret going. Please stay far away".
I don't want to lie and ma... |
2019/09/19 | 1,064 | 4,349 | <issue_start>username_0: I manage a peer-reviewed and open-access publishing journal for academic research. At the moment, the articles are not viewable in google searches. If someone wants to access the articles, they must go to the journal website and download the article from there. This means that someone must know... |
2019/09/19 | 1,064 | 4,334 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reading an academic paper, but I cannot understand a lot of things in the paper, especially some proofs. If I ask someone else who is not reading the paper, or who is not studying the similar research field, then he/she might need to spend much time and may still turn out to not understand... |
2019/09/19 | 806 | 3,162 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently published a journal article in the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IEEE TGRS). I can confirm that my contribution in the journal article is really of high quality and has promising results. Even my (very reputable) university congratulated me for my contribut... |
2019/09/20 | 856 | 3,335 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a rising 2nd year PhD student in a US public school.
I was promised 4 years of funding by my department. Last year, I received a fellowship which covered tuition and stipend. I believe most people get 2 years of funding, so I was expecting it to be renewed. Over the summer, I kept asking... |
2019/09/20 | 356 | 1,594 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to one of the journals in IEEE and editor responded with a rejection letter saying that it is plagiarized. But am very sure I have not copied any content or idea from other authors and have cited all references correctly.
I had submitted the paper in another journal of IEEE... |
2019/09/20 | 435 | 1,967 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible for an editor to review the paper directly without inviting another reviewer if the editor feels familiar with the content studied in the paper?<issue_comment>username_1: Depending on the rules of a given journal, an editor could take on the review task themselves or not. Some wi... |
2019/09/20 | 924 | 3,834 | <issue_start>username_0: Follow up question to [How does research funding work in determining academic promotions?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/137381/how-does-research-funding-work-in-determining-academic-promotions) since it was too broad.
Based on [this answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/... |
2019/09/20 | 1,490 | 5,947 | <issue_start>username_0: For reasons that elude me, a student I taught several semesters ago sounded me out about writing a letter of recommendation for graduate school. I won't go into it, but my recollections of this student are uniformly bad. There is no way I would want them pursuing graduate study in our departmen... |
2019/09/20 | 692 | 3,089 | <issue_start>username_0: Follow up question to [How does research funding work in determining academic promotions?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/137381/how-does-research-funding-work-in-determining-academic-promotions) since it was too broad.
Take two equally talented researchers, Alice & Bob. To what ... |
2019/09/20 | 1,142 | 4,811 | <issue_start>username_0: My co-supervisor (2nd supervisor) comes to the office where I work to help her (main) Ph.D. students. The noise distracts my work. I find it unprecedented. Why not help her students in her own private office, instead of coming to the shared office space!?
I am not sure how to resolve this issu... |
2019/09/20 | 1,096 | 4,623 | <issue_start>username_0: Follow up question to [How does research funding work in determining academic promotions?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/137381/how-does-research-funding-work-in-determining-academic-promotions) since it was too broad.
Take two equally talented researchers, Alice & Bob. Alice ha... |
2019/09/20 | 875 | 3,799 | <issue_start>username_0: My supervisor does not have time to neither read my report nor give me feedback. The topic I am working on is totally new and my supervisor does not know about that.
There is another guy in my group who works on the same topic. I got the correct result and the other guy did not get the correc... |
2019/09/20 | 761 | 3,161 | <issue_start>username_0: In a lot of Curriculum of undergraduate and graduate researchers I see they list their research experiences using **Advisor** and **Mentor** too, to describe that people who guide them in the research.
So, what's the difference between Advisor and Mentor in a academic space? I tried to find s... |
2019/09/20 | 698 | 2,886 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the meaning of the German academic title "Akad. Orat"? What would its international analogous be?<issue_comment>username_1: They aren't really different, if used in a singular context.
In my experience, "advisor" is synonymous with "supervisor" or "PI": it's the one senior person, usua... |
2019/09/21 | 348 | 1,172 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for NSF postdoc and it is asking for Biographical Sketches ( [see part 14 in here](https://www.nsf.gov/mps/dms/MSPRF/MSPRF_Application_Instructions_FY20.pdf)) <https://www.nsf.gov/mps/dms/MSPRF/MSPRF_Application_Instructions_FY20.pdf>.
So I was wondering if we can upload our CV h... |
2019/09/21 | 469 | 1,882 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed that a few people in my field (Computer Science / Community Informatics) have taken up post-doc positions immediately after their PhD but within a year of starting those post-docs have been promoted to Lectureships either internally or in another academic organization.
The individua... |
2019/09/21 | 756 | 3,265 | <issue_start>username_0: It is my understanding that philosophy papers have less chance of being published if they are over 7,000 or 8,000 words long. But at the same time we philosophers often complain that a given author's work was not considered in a manuscript. So what should one do when a reviewer asks for conside... |
2019/09/21 | 486 | 2,038 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I got a position as a 3-year fixed-term lecturer at an Australia university. I wonder if there is any possibility to transfer to permanent position? Or I would have a better chance if I apply to an open continuing position after working there?<issue_comment>username_1: Ask your head of... |
2019/09/21 | 293 | 1,354 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to apply for non-tenure tack academic position and I have already prepared all documents. They did not list Cover Letter as a required document. I would like to know whether it is necessary or not to put this document in my application?<issue_comment>username_1: A cover letter is pro... |
2019/09/21 | 1,552 | 6,625 | <issue_start>username_0: I believe I may have scheduled an exam too early, and I am considering delaying it by a day or two. The material that I would cover fits in fairly well with the earlier material, and not as well with the later material. I can cover the material as is, but barely so, and the students would not h... |
2019/09/21 | 739 | 3,134 | <issue_start>username_0: A famous scholar sent me an unpublished draft of hers. It was to convince me that a certain philosophical position is wrong (the paper debunks that position). Then she died. I think her work should be published.
What should I do? Who should I contact?<issue_comment>username_1: The first thing ... |
2019/09/22 | 1,239 | 5,771 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't feel like it actually helped me. I now sense long after high school that taking notes and reading them probably did not help. Now I understand why it could work. In theory, somebody who thinks for themself could use their own method of trying to understand the parts of a lecture they ar... |
2019/09/22 | 423 | 1,498 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying to graduate school and I'm contacting potential supervisors, as advised by the universities I'm applying to.
My GPA is 16.33/20. When I convert it to the 4.0 scale,according to WES, my overall GPA, GPA in the final 2 years, the final year and the final semester are 3.41, 3.34, 3.4... |
2019/09/22 | 454 | 1,857 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a grant application as a sole PI, and it is not clear to me whether I should use singular or plural terms. As an example, currently I have a sentence like this:
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> "Based on previous work, **I** got to the conclusion that the present approach X to problem Y is inappropriate. The... |
2019/09/22 | 901 | 3,974 | <issue_start>username_0: What are some of the best ways\avenues to collaborate with PHD students\professors to do research and publish in conferences\journals in the field of software engineering.
1. Do students\professors encourage people reaching out to them on cold emails, if they are interested in their research?
... |
2019/09/22 | 1,803 | 7,499 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in my last semester as a master student and planning to apply for phd degree. I'm going to have a first meeting with my potential phd adviser in a few days and I'm really nervous. All I know is I'm confident about what I've studied and I'm prepared to do the phd study both mentall... |
2019/09/23 | 463 | 1,978 | <issue_start>username_0: I had an interview at a European university. After half an hour in the interview, they told me, we are positive to give you this position. The position starts in February however, the earliest time I can be there is in March.
I would like to ask, is it possible to defer a Ph.D. position for a... |
2019/09/23 | 1,209 | 4,985 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a mathematician with physics background. We recently obtained some results that, in my opinion, has interesting physics interpretations and thus deserve an interdisciplinary attention.
We already wrote a manuscript meant for a math journal. It is super technical and not friendly at all to ... |
2019/09/23 | 379 | 1,648 | <issue_start>username_0: I intended to participate in a conference, I sent my abstract and it was accepted. For some reasons, I didn't go to that conference and I didn't send my final conference paper.
However, my abstract (title, authors, abstract, keywords) is shown in the published ***abstract book*** of the confer... |
2019/09/23 | 1,100 | 4,768 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for a PhD in neuroscience and I've recently finished writing my SOP and supplementary essay. My supplementary essay asked me to respond to the prompt "Please tell us about an incident in your research where you experienced failure. Include what you did about it and what you learned... |
2019/09/23 | 914 | 4,138 | <issue_start>username_0: It seems typical in some fields (e.g. engineering) for researchers to classify their publications on their websites and CVs into two groups: journal vs. conference/workshop. This appears to be because journal papers are considered more significant, in some sense.
This doesn't appear to be the ... |
2019/09/23 | 1,969 | 7,924 | <issue_start>username_0: At the end of a session, we have to give an examination where 2 years worth of syllabus is asked and it is the most important examination. It takes place in 2 sessions 9-12 and 2-5. I have heard from some of my peers that having things like energy drinks or consuming chocolate could help boost ... |
2019/09/24 | 1,830 | 7,375 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to search for papers such that the data used in that paper are also published. This is because sometimes I really enjoy replicating a paper and it is somehow hard to ask the author to give you the data especially if he surveyed this data. I mainly use it to see if I may able to repl... |
2019/09/24 | 1,706 | 6,899 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently looking for Post-doctoral positions after finishing my PhD. I have recently visited a potential lab for a lab visit. It has already been two weeks since I came back from there. Since then, I have not received any communication negative or positive. I also reached out to the Group... |
2019/09/24 | 3,708 | 15,444 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD supervisor (in the field of artificial intelligence) invited me to several meetings with another PhD student. Since I have more knowledge than my supervisor in some topics, I made many suggestions about how this student could improve his methodology. In total, I went to 5 meetings of 3–4... |
2019/09/24 | 636 | 2,725 | <issue_start>username_0: Now I am facing a very serious problem that I have to remove an article which is accepted by IEEE but will be published till the end of 2019.
Due to some conflicts of interests(we finished this manuscript last year, this is my idea at the first place, and I finished the data analysis and proc... |
2019/09/24 | 559 | 2,077 | <issue_start>username_0: I am living in the Netherlands (at the moment, I am an expat), I have two M.Sc and a bachelor in software engineer / computer science and and I am looking at the possibility of having a part-time masters course in Humanities, particularly history or philosophy.
I checked the universities in my... |
2019/09/25 | 533 | 2,118 | <issue_start>username_0: (this line is added later ) : The length of the paper is only 3 pages.
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2019/09/25 | 810 | 3,270 | <issue_start>username_0: I am considering a possibly risky route into graduate school. Namely, auditing classes at the university I would like to attend and then reapplying after a semester or two. This way I can demonstrate my abilities directly.<issue_comment>username_1: I cannot speak for Physics, but I can speak ge... |
2019/09/25 | 2,143 | 8,896 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is partially inspired by the [question about degree nostrification](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/91599/5674).
In some countries a PhD is a 3-3.5 year degree (Denmark and the UK for ex) whereas in others like Sweden a PhD is usually 4.5-5 years. Quick disclaimer, I don't m... |
2019/09/25 | 3,156 | 14,027 | <issue_start>username_0: I've entertained the idea of writing a textbook for several years now. The idea has taken several forms - a set of course notes that I provide as pdf, a text that is printed at my institution, or possibly a text that I propose to a publisher and (hopefully) get accepted.
This question is a pra... |
2019/09/25 | 251 | 1,022 | <issue_start>username_0: A professor tweeted that he has a PhD position in his lab. I am trying to write a mail regarding that. How should I express that where did I find the advertisement?
Is it right to start mail like this:
```
Dear Prof. ZZZ,
I am writing to apply for the PhD position which was posted on your tw... |
2019/09/25 | 766 | 2,960 | <issue_start>username_0: I've searched the forums but can't find anything specific to this question so I hope someone can help. Recently I've been told that I need to better strategise my publishing as I'm not publishing in the right journals (fair enough) because I should be publishing in Q1 journals. However, when I ... |
2019/09/26 | 1,107 | 4,815 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD thesis is on numerical modeling using finite element methods and non-linear continuum mechanics. My university did not offer these courses during the first two years of my PhD. So, I had to self study them from different books to the best of my ability. As I got completely engrossed in m... |
2019/09/26 | 1,485 | 6,371 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a postdoc offer from a great research group at a US university towards the end of my PhD in April 2018. Around that time, a family member became severely ill. The nature of the illness was such that the doctors told me that they had to wait a few months to get a clear diagnosis and know w... |
2019/09/26 | 1,724 | 7,474 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently finished writing my first paper for my PhD study. I believe I have made some discoveries, but by comparing my manuscript to previous work, I think the advance is not very big and the work should be published on specialized journal in my field.
However, my supervisor does not a... |
2019/09/26 | 366 | 1,668 | <issue_start>username_0: If reviewers get requests for reviewing grant applications from people they know personally, what should they do if they don't know how to comment, as the proposals are good, but don't want to quit either?<issue_comment>username_1: If you believe that you can treat this review as you would any ... |
2019/09/26 | 1,013 | 4,289 | <issue_start>username_0: A "friendly" reviewer purposely disclosed his identity to me (the author) during a previous round of reviews of a paper that was not published back then. However, he helped me to make the article better. If I publish the paper now, should I thank him by name or as an anonymous reviewer?<issue_c... |
2019/09/26 | 654 | 2,773 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student at an IT school, I study to become a computer engineer.
During my scholarship, what I did was:
* 6 month intership at the beginning of 2nd year.
* 6 month internship at the end of my third year (before the master began).
Both internship subject were about `Java backend`.
... |
2019/09/26 | 1,322 | 5,420 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is not about the structure of an entire thesis, but just about the Introduction chapter. At the moment, it consists of the following sections:
* Objective [where I briefly introduce the aim of my thesis]
* Area of Research [where my thesis collocates in a more general pipeline]
* C... |
2019/09/26 | 2,478 | 10,414 | <issue_start>username_0: Today mathematics (and probably also other sciences) became very specialized: every researcher works in their own narrow field which usually hardly interacts with fields of other colleagues, even on the same department.
At the same time every researcher is often expected to accept PhD student... |
2019/09/26 | 742 | 3,275 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Physics master's student trying for PhD. During my summer internship I worked on a project in a research lab. During the work I found a a few inconsistencies with work done by the Post-Doc and I also redid the analysis with new data. Because of this I was included as second author in a p... |
2019/09/26 | 325 | 1,429 | <issue_start>username_0: Should I answer an EiC email that communicates a revise decision and sends me the reviews, saying that I will? Or just revise an upload the revised manuscript when it is ready?<issue_comment>username_1: Just submit the revisions when ready, according to whatever the procedures for that particul... |
2019/09/27 | 634 | 2,711 | <issue_start>username_0: I have developed a method/measure in a project supervised by my PhD advisor, and (a rather limited version of) this method appeared very useful in a project I'm working on in collaboration with a different group (let's call it group X), which has nothing to do with my advisor or my institution.... |
2019/09/27 | 1,463 | 6,282 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been invited to interview for a postdoc position at a good university. They asked me a different question to most of my other interviews. For the presentation they want me make a 5 minute (maximum) PowerPoint presentation on the following topic "How does your previous experience in vascu... |
2019/09/27 | 1,255 | 5,218 | <issue_start>username_0: Undergrad going to apply for graduate school. I recently came back from a trip where I got some goodies - I thought it would be nice to give some of my favorite professors gifts. However, I am now concerned there might be some ethical issues at hand here. I will definitely ask them for LORs and... |
2019/09/27 | 2,501 | 10,270 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a strange one. I have been going to the gym 2-3 times per week for stress management. Before summer, our university made some nice offer for staff to register to the on-campus gym. So, I switched. Compared to my previous gym, I pay less money, it's more modern, and it's more convenient.... |
2019/09/27 | 936 | 3,699 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm looking for examples of people who are at the very top of their fields who weren't child prodigies, and followed quite a "normal" path in life (high school > college > grad school) before finding their passion in a field and then becoming a top academic at a top institution at it. We come a... |
2019/09/27 | 952 | 4,150 | <issue_start>username_0: A colleague/friend has asked me to review his application for a very large grant, which appears to resemble my PhD thesis.
The backstory is as follows. My PhD thesis was the first detailed study of Phenomenon X. My colleague works in Context C. Phenomenon X is present in Context C.
Three ye... |
2019/09/28 | 1,072 | 4,982 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a newbie to proposal writing although have been writing research papers for several years. After the rejection of my first NSF proposal, I am becoming aware that the `proposal language` is quite different from `research paper language`, where the later one emphasizes on its accuracy and ob... |
2019/09/28 | 1,725 | 7,069 | <issue_start>username_0: ### Context
It's becoming common in the natural sciences for grad students to include papers they have previously published as part of their dissertation as a ["sandwich thesis" or "stapled thesis"](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/149/32794). Some joke about merely "stapling three papers ... |
2019/09/28 | 3,188 | 13,374 | <issue_start>username_0: Someone I know has given a presentation at a American University. He supposedly had his hand in his pocket while giving the presentation. A foreign student attacked him for this. The person supposedly said "how would you like it if I gave a presentation with my hand in my pocket." At the end of... |
2019/09/29 | 3,331 | 14,111 | <issue_start>username_0: In the country where I live, university students studying mathematics usually attend lectures, consultation with their lecturers (if they have questions relating to material taught) and tutorial/practice classes.
Years ago there was a change in the way tutorials are run. Now students work in g... |
2019/09/29 | 869 | 3,666 | <issue_start>username_0: What would you do if you have already handed in a thesis to your professor, but you printed an earlier version with a small mistake. You want to have a great grade nevertheless, but I am feeling unsure of what to do:
Would you tell him your mistake and hope that he indulgent and says "Okay, t... |
2019/09/29 | 639 | 2,757 | <issue_start>username_0: Asked to be an external reviewer of a grant application, I think the proposal looks good, but I don't know the small field well, though I'm in the same big field. So it's a bit hard to write comments. How should I write comments?<issue_comment>username_1: Consider asking for guidance from the g... |
2019/09/29 | 740 | 3,208 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently unsure whether I want to do my PhD in psychology or neuroscience so I'm applying to both programs. The issue is that all of my previous research experience is exclusively in neuroscience. Within my psychology applications, do I need to explain why I only have neuroscience experie... |
2019/09/29 | 2,956 | 12,214 | <issue_start>username_0: During my freshman year of college, I had some academic difficulties and ended up switching programs. I then had to take a semester off, during which I visited a class as a guest. So, I am now in my fourth semester of calendar time, though my academic standing is that of a second-semester stude... |
2019/09/29 | 471 | 2,155 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD candidate and have been invited to visit two labs where I had applied for postdoc positions after initial online interviews. My question is regarding the content of my talk, which I think should include my PhD research questions as well as a big picture of my research interest. I was... |
2019/09/30 | 2,277 | 9,632 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a year 2 PhD student doing my research in the area of time series analysis. Since year 1, I'm always aiming to publish in high impact factor journal (Impact factor >= 7) or top conferences, maybe due to the fact that my university is not a top 10 university in the world and I do not want a... |
2019/09/30 | 2,233 | 9,076 | <issue_start>username_0: I am clearly disheartened by the editor's behaviour:
I sent a manuscript for peer review nearly three months back to an Elsevier journal with impact factor 0.625 in mathematics.
I inquired about the status of my manuscript after 1.5 months since it was still showing "With Editor " status.
Th... |
2019/09/30 | 828 | 3,492 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a MPhil and planning to start my PhD soon. I sumbitted a manuscript to a popular journal in the field. After two rounds of major revisions, the editor is requesting a minor revision now. I finished the revision and submitted. The revised manuscript is now "with editor".
At the same tim... |
2019/09/30 | 876 | 3,806 | <issue_start>username_0: If a Python library is built can it be turned into a research paper? Will it be accepted?<issue_comment>username_1: There might be research that leads you to build such a library, but coding itself, isn't research. But compilers, for example, were built on a ton of research prior to any coding ... |
2019/09/30 | 1,068 | 5,003 | <issue_start>username_0: For context: I know exactly the topic and have an idea for the methods. I have done background research and seen what similar research has been done (and how). I have an associate’s degree. I live in Boston where I feel confident there must be some professor or postdoc or grad student who under... |
2019/10/01 | 616 | 2,678 | <issue_start>username_0: I was enrolled in a prestigious school in central Europe, studying an MSc in computer science.
I have decided to drop out because it seriously felt like my bachelor background was weak, and I had to cover too much ground. Also, my study technique was poor.
Will it be possible to go back to gr... |
2019/10/01 | 981 | 4,196 | <issue_start>username_0: I've taken two classes in a row that require research papers to be written as an assignment, and since the second one has had a similar criteria for which topics are allowed, I decided to continue researching the same topic. However, after checking with the school's plagiarism checker, it flagg... |
2019/10/01 | 1,317 | 5,512 | <issue_start>username_0: The University of California has been out of contract with Elsevier this year following disputes on higher costs and reduced rights to a number of journals.
My lab has published numerous papers in various Elsevier journals, many of which are highly considered in their respective fields, but my... |
2019/10/01 | 1,518 | 6,772 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in computer vision and I managed to publish 2 conference papers (one as first author and other as co-author) as a side project, since I had low quality data during my PhD.
Currently my supervisor is demanding a huge amount of work to be completed in 6 months - he is telling ... |
2019/10/01 | 360 | 1,314 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider this example:
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> According to XYZ [1], this is referenced text. This is is also referenced text. Now this is my
> text in the same paragraph.
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It does not tell where the referenced text ends and where my text starts. I understand I can place reference number at the end of ... |
2019/10/01 | 351 | 1,343 | <issue_start>username_0: As i just want to skim over the latest articles in nature photonics, I was wondering if there is anyway to download all of the current issue as a single file (just as when one downloads Scientific American, even though these are very different publications). Still, there should be a way to down... |
2019/10/01 | 941 | 4,053 | <issue_start>username_0: First some context: I'm a Ph.D. student in Physics. I have been discussing with my supervisor the objectives for the Ph.D. project and we have been looking at some papers from the field.
In that case, recently I've come across a quite interesting paper, one of the authors being a very renowned... |
2019/10/01 | 920 | 3,992 | <issue_start>username_0: And, would there be an appropriate way to do this?
Basically, I have a paper in a mathematical field that has gone back and forth a few times with a reviewer. Since the document is in TeX, it is extra hard to keep track of changes and make sure things are addressed. I believe seeing something ... |
2019/10/02 | 1,066 | 4,803 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student that has just started my third year in a scientific field. Since I have started my program, my mother has been diagnosed with a serious form of cancer. It has recently gotten worse and I am worried sick. I am considering applying to another PhD program that would be much clos... |
2019/10/02 | 2,228 | 9,221 | <issue_start>username_0: I have observed that whenever I'm studying something, or solving an assignment, whenever I would hit a question which I am unable to solve or is taking too long for me to do, my mind wanders away from that task, no matter how urgent or important my current task is. I would maybe end up surfing ... |
2019/10/02 | 4,068 | 15,944 | <issue_start>username_0: I have one more year until finishing my PhD. I feel that I will have a mediocre PhD thesis, at best. I feel like quitting, and I had this feeling even from the start of the PhD. I felt even from the beginning that something is wrong and I should not continue but I continued anyway because I was... |
2019/10/02 | 1,226 | 5,519 | <issue_start>username_0: I presently work for a biotech company in biotech manufacturing with some other duties (QA/starting a research project) thrown in. I graduated with my bachelors degree in 2010 and am 31 now, and now am finally getting to apply to some PhD programs this year after gaining industry experience and... |