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2019/10/02 | 1,183 | 5,434 | <issue_start>username_0: I am very torn about whether to take the plunge to do a Master's degree. I graduated a few years ago with BSc in Maths which I didn't particularly enjoy, only the statistics and programming courses. I then got a job at a big technology company in their R&D department doing research and applicat... |
2019/10/02 | 691 | 3,035 | <issue_start>username_0: Let’s take a very hypothetical situation. Suppose that a scientific journal (let’s use Scientific Reports for the sake of the example) recently published a paper that seems to be completely off track. By completely, I mean that the phenomenon described in the paper can be completely explained a... |
2019/10/03 | 593 | 2,623 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm curious what happens if a department runs out of space - e.g. they are expanding, but they don't have enough rooms for their faculty, postdocs, visitors, etc. It's presumably possible to squeeze a bit, put many PhD students into the same room for example, but this would be a short-term solu... |
2019/10/03 | 1,098 | 4,479 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a lecturer at a small university. In a class I taught last year, one grad student disagreed with his grade and complained as high up in the university as possible. The result was the grade stayed the same.
I see this student on campus from time to time, and he usually ignores me, which is... |
2019/10/03 | 767 | 3,157 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for a faculty position at a state research (not so intensive) school in June. Since the position requires both a clinical degree and a research degree, their application pool is not likely to be large.
Then, in mid-August, I emailed a search committee chair to update my CV with a ne... |
2019/10/03 | 879 | 3,712 | <issue_start>username_0: Because of Brexit issues with my large grant, I'm considering a move from a permanent research+teaching post at a university to one of Europe's large research institutions. I'm not particularly familiar with these entities and I'm finding it difficult to gauge the long term implications of this... |
2019/10/03 | 663 | 2,757 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is highly relevant to this one: [is-it-appropriate-to-acknowledge-stackexchange-in-my-msc-thesis](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/23231/is-it-appropriate-to-acknowledge-stackexchange-in-my-msc-thesis); however, in my case, <NAME> is the **pseudonymous person (or persons... |
2019/10/03 | 311 | 1,270 | <issue_start>username_0: I have enrolled as a PhD student in one of the UK's universities. I have been received an email containing a list of different professors and secretaries in the department. I am a little worried since I don't know how to greet them and I don't know what to say. Could anyone please help me?<issu... |
2019/10/03 | 720 | 3,064 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a college student attending a very prestigious university. I did an independent research during this summer, and I recently submitted my conference paper to an international conference. The acceptance letter was very fast (2-3 days), and after doing much research, I realized that the organi... |
2019/10/03 | 1,923 | 8,371 | <issue_start>username_0: The title has my primary question. My research professor whom I have known since the beginning of the calendar year has quite consistently canceled on meetings last minute, most often due to personal reasons or last-minute department meetings. Despite the difficulties this causes with my own an... |
2019/10/03 | 943 | 3,873 | <issue_start>username_0: You worked on your manuscript and its language for a year and a half, carefully choosing every word; what is there left to do for the journal's copyeditors after acceptance? What is the point of copyediting your manuscript?<issue_comment>username_1: I worked for a year and a half on a paper and... |
2019/10/03 | 991 | 4,129 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a thesis about a data analysis I'm implementing and am currently describing my data preparation where I talk about what needed to be done prior to the analysis (formatting the data, removing noisy data).
Now, I was wondering if I should also include steps that only helped me to wor... |
2019/10/03 | 2,722 | 12,201 | <issue_start>username_0: I was in the evaluation committee for the adjunct lecturers this year, and it was a complete nightmare. There were over thirty candidates and many of them didn't have an account on Google Scholar, which made tracking their impact really hard, due to name collisions etc.
My question is would i... |
2019/10/04 | 1,725 | 6,862 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing a joint paper with my mentor. I am a math postdoc. How is the corresponding author generally chosen? What are the benefits of being the corresponding author? Is it better for a post-doc's career if they are the corresponding author?<issue_comment>username_1: My experience as a pu... |
2019/10/04 | 1,638 | 6,316 | <issue_start>username_0: Last year, I asked my physics professor a question that he did not know the answer to. This year, while doing a research paper, I also figured out the answer to the question I asked him. I want to send an email to my professor explaining the answer I found simply because he's a curious guy.
Ty... |
2019/10/05 | 230 | 1,013 | <issue_start>username_0: It is just to evaluate what is right and wrong in a script (i.e., an exam or problem sheet completed by a student), and making notes and comments on that?<issue_comment>username_1: Marking is grading but comments are not compulsory as it depends on the policy if the papers will be seen by anyon... |
2019/10/05 | 663 | 2,807 | <issue_start>username_0: Can I refer to DOIs without explaining what they are? I am writing for an audience of experienced academics.<issue_comment>username_1: My suspicion is that the vast majority of academics (in STEM fields, say) will
* have seen DOIs being used many times in papers and online,
* be able to discer... |
2019/10/05 | 672 | 2,779 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a master-thesis research paper. Recently, I have chosen a research topic and found a related survey dataset to work with. However, just now, I have found out that other authors did the same work for the same country, but used a different survey and for years earlier. Now, I am c... |
2019/10/05 | 548 | 2,181 | <issue_start>username_0: Internet sources seem to agree that, in the list of references, the title of an article written in a non-Latin script should be transliterated and also translated. Similarly, the title of the journal should be transliterated if necessary. My question is: **should non-English journal names shoul... |
2019/10/05 | 273 | 1,139 | <issue_start>username_0: As we know, today, citations of an academic get lots of attentions about whether his research is impfactful. I am just wondering what is the history of citation numbers becoming this important? When were they first calculated and whose idea was this?<issue_comment>username_1: I would like to dr... |
2019/10/06 | 522 | 2,197 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, one of my works have received the status of **Accept with Shepherd**. We have received many suggestions from the reviewers.
I'd like to know in more detail in which real status is my paper and if it has been accepted or it is in a sort of minor/major review.
The paper is for a works... |
2019/10/06 | 3,440 | 14,818 | <issue_start>username_0: When I read a mathematical textbook at graduate level to learn and master a particular subject that I am unfamiliar with, I always struggle with the strategy on the exercises. Sometimes I spent one hour on one exercise problem without making any progress. Sometimes I skip exercise problems with... |
2019/10/06 | 432 | 1,866 | <issue_start>username_0: This is more of a thought experiment than a problem. I just want to know how ethical is it.
Suppose a student discovered a very cool theorem/result that would yield a very good academic paper in a very good journal. But the student know that the admission to the graduate program in his country... |
2019/10/07 | 421 | 1,775 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand the standard margin spacing on personal statements is 1 inch, but I've read that 0.75 inches may be okay.
Most of the statements specify 1-2 page limits and nothing else. I'm wondering if 0.75 inch margins are okay, given that I have 3 significant research experiences to describe ... |
2019/10/07 | 2,023 | 8,646 | <issue_start>username_0: First, she never helped me on either my thesis or my slide presentation.
After my presentation (which she did not attend), she asked me "how to present" it to her so she could use it in the international conference.
(I don't want to do that, but I have no choice.)
Then, she asked me to send th... |
2019/10/07 | 2,096 | 9,013 | <issue_start>username_0: This is going to be long as I believe that the context is important.
I have always been fairly good at maths and physics (won state wide prizes in the math contests and even won a gold medal in the national physics olympiad.) I live in USA/UK/AUS (trying to hide my identity).
However, after ... |
2019/10/07 | 672 | 2,845 | <issue_start>username_0: I have finished my PhD a while ago and have since worked at the university as lecturer. Now the contract is coming to an end and I am weighing two options: (1) Teach at the university (I am much more interested in teaching than in research) or (2) work in industry.
I have done a lot of teachi... |
2019/10/07 | 6,056 | 25,648 | <issue_start>username_0: About 17 years ago I attended a top 10 UK university to study for a degree in Computer Science.
Mathematics had never been a particularly strong point for me. However I (just) had the required A-Level qualification to be accepted for the course without any issue.
After two terms I dropped ou... |
2019/10/07 | 5,706 | 24,012 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for graduate programs this year. My undergraduate major is physics while my intended specialty is astrophysics. I apply for physics program for the most of schools and astronomy program for the others. One of the main factors which led me to apply for physics program rather than a... |
2019/10/07 | 5,796 | 24,384 | <issue_start>username_0: I have read several questions regarding the importance of a personal website when applying to Posdocs and other academic jobs. However, I have found little stating the importance of it when applying for a PhD.
In general, how important is it to have a website as a PhD applicant?
In my case, I ... |
2019/10/07 | 683 | 2,844 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm soon going to apply to some M.Sc. in Europe and I asked my current supervisor at work - he was a professor until a couple of years ago - to write a reference letter for me. My function at the company is currently related to what he used to teach as a professor so I thought it would be a goo... |
2019/10/07 | 846 | 3,477 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in economics in the UK. Recently, I have been hearing how important teaching experience is to find a job in academia as a lecturer. One needs to submit teaching statements and may be asked about one's teaching philosophy.
Can you please share your experience about how import... |
2019/10/07 | 2,751 | 11,853 | <issue_start>username_0: First author is a PhD student, as am I. All of the other co-authors are our supervisors. The first author doesn't want me to read the paper, because we are both PhD students and I might plagiarize (?!) her work. Can I report this person for unprofessional conduct to the University committee? Or... |
2019/10/08 | 1,115 | 4,861 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking into applying to a teaching position at a liberal-arts institution. The application page asks for an example of scholarly work. What are good examples of scholarly work? For the sciences, is this like published articles?<issue_comment>username_1: The best example is some sort of re... |
2019/10/08 | 3,505 | 13,704 | <issue_start>username_0: Hope this doesn't fall into the category of personal advice, but I just have a general question about academia today (particularly in Philosophy).
I have read many articles on the internet indicating that it's extremely difficult, if not impossible, to find a tenure track position in a relativ... |
2019/10/08 | 1,540 | 6,711 | <issue_start>username_0: In general, the job of a lecturer (under Australian terminology- I think the terminology is different in America) can be divided up into two main areas of focus: research and teaching, with the latter involving writing up lesson and assessment plans, managing your tutors, delivering lectures to... |
2019/10/08 | 619 | 2,656 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for faculty jobs and was considering including sample syllabi for courses I could develop (which are currently not offered at the target institution). My idea was to include them as an appendix to my teaching statement.
Would this be a good idea? Are there any pitfalls I should lo... |
2019/10/08 | 1,559 | 6,763 | <issue_start>username_0: **Edit**: I believe this is not a duplicate of [Are there instances where citing Wikipedia is allowed?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/19083/are-there-instances-where-citing-wikipedia-is-allowed), because that question asks about citing Wikipedia for knowledge that is very *basic*... |
2019/10/08 | 3,054 | 12,793 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD Student in the US and am going to a conference for poster presentation soon.
I just realized that my poster will be right next to my former advisor's poster (To be precise, it's his student's poster).
To explain the history with the advisor, I worked with him for about a year. But he... |
2019/10/08 | 608 | 2,570 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently had a concussion. I got everything on paper signed by a doctor, and emailed my teachers immediately. During my medical absence, I missed a quiz. I emailed my teacher regarding making the quiz up, and he said “that’s what the quiz drop is for." However, I had already my quiz drop due ... |
2019/10/09 | 469 | 1,929 | <issue_start>username_0: I've recently submitted a paper for review for a reputed math journal. The main paper is just 2 pages (everything else being in appendix), where I setup a new problem, and the central result I had left unproven. (I said the proof is yet to be done). I did not send this paper in a hurry, I had s... |
2019/10/09 | 1,172 | 4,999 | <issue_start>username_0: After some decades an event on my research area was announced in my city, so I decided to send my abstract, which was accepted.
However, they recently sent me the programme and among the keynote speakers was a person whose doctoral thesis contains uncontroversial plagiarism. (About 30 pages of... |
2019/10/09 | 1,065 | 4,354 | <issue_start>username_0: In the context of my thesis research I have recovered the data of some important old papers whose data is sometimes referred by the name of its authors, but that are never explicitly cited.
I though it important to refer all the data of these papers somewhere, but if were to I include them in ... |
2019/10/09 | 566 | 2,479 | <issue_start>username_0: About six months ago I submitted a paper in one of the very reputed IEEE Transactions. I have observed from different papers published in that journal that the average time for receiving the first review is around 3 months. That is why I politely inquired about the status of the manuscript afte... |
2019/10/09 | 440 | 1,920 | <issue_start>username_0: We published a paper in a theoretical CS conference last year, and were hoping to submit it to a journal when we found out that our result was improved in a followup work.
While it's clear that there are no ethical issues with submitting the extended manuscript to a journal, its results are in... |
2019/10/09 | 2,300 | 9,984 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a request from the sponsored projects office person at a well known university, asking me to peer review a grant proposal that was in preparation at their university. The idea was for me to help their researchers to write a more successful grant proposal. I felt that it was something... |
2019/10/10 | 2,373 | 10,246 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working in academia in a very wide field of research mixing a lot of different domains. This broadness is also a problem, since there is no proper references for the basis of the theory, and we have to deal with a lot of material scattered in very different places, often in the form of lec... |
2019/10/10 | 815 | 3,152 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an American student currently earning a Master's in American cultural studies in Germany. Why study American culture in Germany? Firstly, I wouldn't have been able to afford a U.S. Master's in this field, and secondly I'd like to learn/improve my German with the ultimate goal of (possibly) ... |
2019/10/10 | 2,416 | 10,225 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a graduate student in applied math (applied probability, asymptotic etc.). I have written several articles on either solving "small" problems, or developing particular methodology/techniques towards certain type of problems. I'm at a stage where I have lots of ideas and if I want to I may b... |
2019/10/10 | 1,871 | 8,353 | <issue_start>username_0: If I use an auto-grading script and allow students to see their would-be grade based on the auto-grader, is it wrong to change their grades after the due date if I decide to change the auto-grader? I'm curious what others think because on the one hand students could go back and change their sub... |
2019/10/10 | 1,821 | 8,055 | <issue_start>username_0: I am pursuing a master part time in my home country. My job is sending me to Houston for 2020, so I will have to pause my studies. I wouldn't like to stop studying next year so I wanted to know if I could take one or two courses at a Houston university given I comply with the academic requireme... |
2019/10/11 | 820 | 2,914 | <issue_start>username_0: How can I find a more recent review article in a topic I am interested in? I have found a review article on biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles published in 2015. (<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2015.03.015>) How do I go about finding more recent work done on the same?<issue_comment>userna... |
2019/10/11 | 1,335 | 5,374 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Material Science and Engineering major.What I am having doubt with is how I am supposed to write long answers.Lets say someone asks,"What is a Lomer Cottrell barrier?" or may be,"What is solid solution strengthening?"Actually I write answers to these but those answers never fetch me a mo... |
2019/10/11 | 666 | 3,076 | <issue_start>username_0: Some questions before said that in US/Canada, we should apply first then select the professor and it's different from the system in UK or EU. So, what about Australia or New Zealand?<issue_comment>username_1: From my experience in Australia, the usual scenario is that a student makes contact wi... |
2019/10/11 | 1,188 | 4,944 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student works in theoretical computer science(Algebra). I have been working on my PhD project from last five years. I am very much interested in my work. During my Ph.D there were not collaborator were there other than my research supervisor. I struggle a lot during my Ph.D as proble... |
2019/10/11 | 380 | 1,708 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper that was accepted at a conference and in publication of conference special issues of a journal. The acceptance email stated that we will be contacted by the journal editorial office for further actions regarding the publication.
At the time of acceptance the status was “editori... |
2019/10/11 | 1,320 | 5,455 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a physics master's student hoping to pursue physics research by doing PhD, post-doc, etc., following the standard path. To put it straight, how far can sheer hard work take one in academia until it becomes impractical and affects one's personal life?(in terms of research quality and quanti... |
2019/10/11 | 708 | 2,619 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in generating citation-metrics for [The journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions](http://jbasr.com/basr/diskus/index.html) using Google Scholar or such tools. (The journal is not indexed in almost any selective database, compounding my woes.)
Is there a way... |
2019/10/11 | 445 | 1,974 | <issue_start>username_0: Zenodo and ResearchGate can assign a DOI to an article. After publishing an article on Zenodo or ResearchGate with a DOI, if the article is good, will the article still be accepted for publication by peer-reviewed journals? Assume that the journal in question allows green open access (i.e., pos... |
2019/10/12 | 558 | 2,350 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible that an associate professor in one university be designated as assistant professor after a year in the same university? What could be the consequences of it?<issue_comment>username_1: Caveat: This is a view from the US. In other countries with different traditions things may diff... |
2019/10/12 | 1,201 | 4,812 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there any drawbacks to dropping out of school and completing a GED instead of finishing and getting a diploma?
I am in the midwest United States and am currently unemployed. I would eventually like to have a job focused on computing and was wondering if getting a GED would let me start col... |
2019/10/12 | 1,211 | 4,853 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a postdoctoral fellowship at an American University and I have to submit the research proposal. Besides the usual description of my own research, it is written that I must describe the
>
> resources necessary to conduct the project
> and an informed evaluation of resource ... |
2019/10/12 | 1,276 | 5,641 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote my statement of interests where one paragraph is dedicated to discuss my past works. But I wonder if that is necessary because it feels like repeating abstracts from the papers. And probably it will not make much sense to those who do not specialize in those topics. Should I just refer ... |
2019/10/13 | 252 | 988 | <issue_start>username_0: Public university salary information is usually available online. What about private universities? Can average salary by field and rank be found at least?
Context: US/North America, mathematics<issue_comment>username_1: It's far from perfect, but you could try looking at AAUP's [Faculty Compen... |
2019/10/13 | 307 | 1,318 | <issue_start>username_0: My referee is a pioneer of my university in my home country. I am applying for PhD in Australia. My referee has signed the letter of recommendation in hardcopy form but he hasn't put a stamp of his name on it saying that letter head needs no stamp. I have mentioned on letter head that he is Pro... |
2019/10/13 | 197 | 877 | <issue_start>username_0: Can you ignore the core curriculum at your university and still get into graduate school?<issue_comment>username_1: Some universities will allow you to start just about any course if they deem your professional experience relevant. Other universities won't.
You will have to apply and, perhaps,... |
2019/10/13 | 1,309 | 4,941 | <issue_start>username_0: In the second half of the 20th century there were a large number of English-language journals published in the West that carried only translations by Western academics of Russian-language articles. The original versions of these articles were written by Soviet academics and had appeared in Russ... |
2019/10/13 | 767 | 3,444 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently had a paper rejected: both referees pointed to a unique issue with our work. One referee's criticism was fair, hence I feel the rejection decision was fair.
The other referee however, seemed to appreciate the paper and know the area extremely well (and thus, I expect to have them a... |
2019/10/14 | 2,571 | 11,564 | <issue_start>username_0: For context, I am a PhD student in bioinformatics, working partly in development of new statistical models and partly in applying models to data.
I recently came across a paper which describes an interesting approach to clustering data. This method would have direct use for data I was working ... |
2019/10/14 | 695 | 2,927 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a offer letter from a very well-known group in my field for a postdoc position. The proposed starting date would be early next year.
However, I am currently also applying for a faculty (assistant professor) position at a different institution.
Should I mention this offer in my applicati... |
2019/10/14 | 2,646 | 11,704 | <issue_start>username_0: I am graduate student, to finish my degree I need to build methods outperform what is already there. An issue that I came across with, is that two papers reported way (I mean more than 20%) more than what resulted from my reimplementation. This could be due to two reasons:
1. I missed somethin... |
2019/10/14 | 795 | 3,659 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked on a paper in computer science (CS) from half a year approximately, so I decided to send it to the JUCS journal. They kindly informed me that they were not able to find enough reviewers for my article and so I decided to send it somewhere else. After that, I sent it to another journal ... |
2019/10/14 | 935 | 4,122 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in my seventh year after my PhD, and am applying from a tenure-track position in Mathematics. I am working with a job coach, who is suggesting a 2.5 page cover letter for tenure-track mathematics positions. This seems long to me, I always thought that in math 1 page was max, but are the ru... |
2019/10/14 | 2,162 | 9,039 | <issue_start>username_0: I was working for a company where we put forward a paper with other colleagues. I was the first author and the paper got rejected. After that I left that company. Recently, I found out that they published the paper removing my name from the list of authors and they simply put me in the acknowle... |
2019/10/14 | 823 | 3,068 | <issue_start>username_0: I've asked a professor who I did research with over the summer to write me a letter a recommendation for graduate programs, but he hasn't responded for over a week. I've resent him an email and have received no answer, but a peer who also worked in his lab over summer got an almost immediate re... |
2019/10/14 | 1,138 | 4,455 | <issue_start>username_0: I am 26 years old and I got an offer for a PhD in Machine Learning at Oxford. However, currently I am a software engineer at Facebook and I am living a very `well-off` lifestyle.
I applied for the PhD last year, not knowing if I would get it and I decided to work as a back up. Now that I have... |
2019/10/15 | 1,486 | 6,594 | <issue_start>username_0: I just had a job interview (permanent lecturer position not connected to a grant) and, immediately afterwards, I found out that the person who is the group leader and responsible for recruiting is the sibling of one of the candidates.
I made sure that this is actually the case. It is not a sus... |
2019/10/15 | 1,139 | 5,128 | <issue_start>username_0: I've served as an area chair for several conferences. Following the review period, the program chairs asked the area chairs to submit to them an annotated list of problematic reviewers. Mostly these were reviewers who failed to submit a review at all, despite repeated reminders, but we were als... |
2019/10/15 | 1,200 | 5,244 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student currently applying for postdocs and while I have secured my first and second letters of recommendation from faculty, the professor that had agreed to write me my third has unfortunately passed away recently.
I don't have a fourth professor sufficiently familiar with my resear... |
2019/10/15 | 1,721 | 7,632 | <issue_start>username_0: This is something I've been curious about for a while, and there's little public or explicit information about it. It's obvious that some journals are considered very prestigious and other journals something less than that. It seems most seasoned professors have quite specific opinions on the m... |
2019/10/16 | 663 | 2,916 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for tenure-track positions in R1 (say, top 50) universities in Computer Science in the US.
When writing the cover letter, should I mention teaching experience and competence?
Or should I leave it for the teaching statement?<issue_comment>username_1: At an R1 university you will s... |
2019/10/16 | 3,818 | 16,637 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in my final semester of a Computer Science degree at University and we have general education requirements.
I'm in a Public Speaking course with an interesting professor, lets call him professor <NAME> doesn't seem to be actually teaching any material or guiding us on any topics that are ... |
2019/10/16 | 727 | 3,201 | <issue_start>username_0: A common problem I encounter every time I do a literature search on a new subject is determining a reading order for papers. It feels akin to [jumping into a prolific sci-fi fantasy series](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1381/what-order-should-i-be-reading-the-discworld-books-in/1648... |
2019/10/16 | 1,352 | 6,052 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second year STEM PhD student at a large R1 public university in the United States. When I chose to come to this program, the department told me that I would have a teaching load of 3 classes per year. That is, I would be expected to teach two classes in one semester, and one class in the... |
2019/10/16 | 954 | 4,140 | <issue_start>username_0: Or alternatively do good PhD students and researchers spend some part of their day, regularly, reading new research papers and pre-prints?
Please give some reasoning of why and why not, if possible.
Background for those who are interested:
I am a physics student. I am new to publishing resea... |
2019/10/16 | 543 | 2,409 | <issue_start>username_0: A few years ago I published a book on mathematics and physics. This book received positive feedback from people who read it, but was never widely read and has not sold that many copies. At this point, I would prefer if the book were just made freely available as it is probably never going to ma... |
2019/10/16 | 429 | 1,814 | <issue_start>username_0: To make literature search simpler and more efficient, I'm looking for a good tool that would come up with a list of publications based on a given set of publications/research areas. So far, I've found [Mendeley Suggest](https://www.mendeley.com/guides/web/05-mendeley-suggest) but it does not se... |
2019/10/16 | 669 | 2,844 | <issue_start>username_0: I think the title is fairly self-explanatory. I am wondering if any recent studies (past 20 years or so) have been published that look at possible correlations between age and the 'success rate' of PhD candidates? I understand that 'success rate' may be somewhat subjective - I'm thinking of pos... |
2019/10/17 | 993 | 4,298 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say that I take a position at a university, and the university gives me a grant of $X for 2 years. I use the grant to buy a bunch of equipment and make some international trips, which costs me three quarters of $X. After one year, I decide to quit to take another job elsewhere, and I cann... |
2019/10/17 | 1,833 | 7,688 | <issue_start>username_0: I've recently noticed a trend of big names in my sub-field starting new journals whose scopes substantially or fully overlap with pre-existing journals, and the motivation is not very obvious to me. To be clear, these are intended to be reputable journals with rigorous peer review, hosted by ma... |
2019/10/17 | 938 | 4,052 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for a graduate position. One professor answered my email and asked me some questions. Two of them are listed below:
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I can talk about my profess... |
2019/10/17 | 871 | 3,472 | <issue_start>username_0: *[Notes and Queries](https://academic.oup.com/nq)* is a very famous and very long-running humanities journal, noted for its pioneering question-and-answer format. It's spun off a number of regional editions, a series of anthologies, and given rise to countless imitators.
I'd like to know wheth... |
2019/10/17 | 589 | 2,107 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the name of this reference style? In which other fields have you seen it?
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It replaces author names (in the list of references) with a long underscore when it's the same authors ... |
2019/10/17 | 523 | 2,328 | <issue_start>username_0: I may have a postdoc job offer. The professor for the postdoc still hesitates to make a final decision and asked me if I can confirm my commitment (working for at least one year). I have finished one-year postdoc (not at the professor's institution) and have been very actively looking for facul... |
2019/10/17 | 535 | 2,429 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to apply to a specific master program in Finance. I do not have any experience in Finance and have never worked in any project related to Finance. But I am very interested to study it because I want to enlarge my research area (which is in signal processing) and have more job oppo... |
2019/10/17 | 2,173 | 8,819 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m a college student. My class has only 40 students. My professor left the classroom before class ended because, like he said, too many students were using phones while he was talking. It was not like there were phone sounds or the phones rang. He said before leaving that he would let us teach... |
2019/10/18 | 2,257 | 9,275 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to biomedical science PhD programs and have been working on personal statements for a while now. Many of the programs seem to have a very similar lineup with how they want the statement to look. However, they're usually ordered around a little differently.
I've found that there's... |
2019/10/18 | 591 | 2,507 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working in the Computer Science field and when working on one internal review of our department, I am asked to fill in the following items:
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> List of important committees of which you were an executive member (these committees typically own A-journals or A-conferences)
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2019/10/18 | 658 | 2,571 | <issue_start>username_0: If a psychological methods journal only specifies that the entire manuscript has to be in APA style, how should I format computer code snippets in the manuscript to be submitted? I see nothing mentioned in the actual APA manual regarding this.
Is there any convention? In specific I wonder whet... |
2019/10/18 | 532 | 2,340 | <issue_start>username_0: I have worked for 3years as phd researcher at universityin country A. Because of some critical family relocation issues, i had to move to my family in country B. My maximum research work is done but due to travel restrictions in country B, i can not go back to country A for longer period of tim... |