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2021/06/15 | 299 | 1,242 | <issue_start>username_0: Here is the link to the journal: <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-methods-and-programs-in-biomedicine-update/>
I'm not sure why the fee is waived or if this is a red flag in any way?<issue_comment>username_1: It shouldn't be a problem for an established publisher. Perhaps they just ... |
2021/06/15 | 468 | 1,712 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been looking for where I can read: <NAME>. (1921). "Correlation and causation". *Journal of Agriculture Research*. **20** (7): 557-585.
I've tried the following without success.
* Going directly to the Journal
* Google search engine
* Google Scholar
* Research Gate
* Search tools at my u... |
2021/06/16 | 313 | 1,192 | <issue_start>username_0: I feel a bit tired and even exhausted of the work i am doing, would it be convenient to ask my Ph.D. advisor for few resting days to full up some energy and return more productive ?
Thanks<issue_comment>username_1: People often neglect to ask for help from a research librarian at a local unive... |
2021/06/16 | 627 | 2,699 | <issue_start>username_0: When Ph.D. was first inducted into the universities, what was its actual purpose?
1. increasing employability
2. becoming eligible for working as a researcher
3. becoming eligible for obtaining a tenured professorship
4. vanity and prestige
...
??
Is the purpose the same or different nowaday... |
2021/06/16 | 583 | 2,553 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering can a post doctorate researcher review a PhD thesis? I found many discussions in reviewing research articles. Reviewing articles for Journals is an integral part of research and very important for the career of a Post doc. But I did not find a discussion whether post doctorates a... |
2021/06/16 | 485 | 2,129 | <issue_start>username_0: Speaking pragmatically, does it look odd or amateurish to write "this work was not supported by any funding" or something like that on a paper? Would it seem to suggest the author is, as I say, an amateur/non-academic, or is not doing enough research to secure grants consistently?
The context ... |
2021/06/16 | 2,743 | 10,924 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently discovered that anti-vaxxers have been citing one of my papers on Twitter and elsewhere as evidence of a specific 5G-related conspiracy theory surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine. Of course, my work has no relationship with any vaccine, COVID or otherwise, and their arguments are l... |
2021/06/17 | 584 | 2,380 | <issue_start>username_0: If I work on a topic and in a field that is also available in my home country, then why stay in a foreign country?
For example, I work in computational materials science. Many researchers in my home country work in this field. If the quality of work is the same in my home country and in a top ... |
2021/06/17 | 1,986 | 8,474 | <issue_start>username_0: After finishing my master’s, I applied for a couple of positions, and the first interview I was invited to was at a renowned research institution in my field. I was living in our capital at that time and the research institute is in a small city quite far from other major cities.
The head of t... |
2021/06/17 | 833 | 3,508 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to enter into the 3rd year of college. I am pursuing a physics major, and I want to do some kind of project work under some professor. The problem is, we have been taught only about basics of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics so I really don't know what professor to approac... |
2021/06/17 | 3,072 | 12,992 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second-year PhD student, but I think this question may interest a broader readership.
I'd like to ask experienced researchers for some insights on how to navigate a prolonged stressful period.
For "prolonged stressful period", I intend a timeframe lasting for at least a year in which b... |
2021/06/18 | 1,946 | 8,993 | <issue_start>username_0: I do not know if this is one of the unpleasant consequences of online classes. Here is a typical scenario that plays out:
1. Students take an exam.
2. They complain if it is a multiple choice question or fill in the blank questions that they are not being provided partial credit for thinking t... |
2021/06/18 | 803 | 3,327 | <issue_start>username_0: So I am currently a rising senior at a college in the US (which I will call "UNI"), and preparing to apply to grad schools. Furthermore, the college I currently go to (UNI) also happens to be my dream school for graduate school.
I have been working at a lab here at "UNI" as an undergraduate re... |
2021/06/18 | 654 | 2,745 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to apply for a graduate program that requires background in subjects A,B,C. I have not studied those in my uni.
I self-learned them. The application process starts next January. So I have no time to audit these courses or get a RL from a professor .. etc. How to include this in my C... |
2021/06/19 | 3,739 | 15,739 | <issue_start>username_0: So, this is an online test and some of my students have identical answers (including mistakes and typos!). My plan is to send an email to the class giving the cheaters a chance to come forward for a reduced penalty (scale down the grade based on the severity of the cheating). Otherwise, they wi... |
2021/06/19 | 1,058 | 4,469 | <issue_start>username_0: So here is the issue. In my masters project, I have worked on a problem and am hopelessly stuck on a mathematical equation that I cannot solve.
I am a non-math student who uses math as a tool. I have tried several ways that I could to solve the equation, but I have failed. I would like to appr... |
2021/06/19 | 1,305 | 6,028 | <issue_start>username_0: hoping some scientist academics out there can provide insight into a question I've been ruminating on for a while.
I spent multiple years working on a large computational data set, and it was published in a journal this year. There were millions genes and many interesting patterns in this proj... |
2021/06/19 | 1,047 | 4,377 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to a Christian University, and they have requested that in my CV I include my religious background. I have no issue with doing this, so I plan to simply make the appropriate additions to my existing CV. However, I'm not really sure what I should include. Obviously, only I know my ... |
2021/06/20 | 1,190 | 5,536 | <issue_start>username_0: Whenever we start new research, we need to do a literature review first in order to both get acquainted with the context and the concepts related to our research as well as to situate our research within the existing knowledge.
The problem is that in order to find relevant literature, you need... |
2021/06/21 | 622 | 2,759 | <issue_start>username_0: In science in the US, a large fraction of the available jobs are temporary, and typically scientists take on temporary jobs (usually called postdocs) earlier in their careers. Why is this the case? Anecdotally, most occupations have a smaller fraction of temporary positions.
I'm interested in ... |
2021/06/21 | 796 | 3,396 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Masters student in math and thus new to academia and publishing in general. I am a coauthor on a number of recently submitted papers and had the (somewhat intrusive) thought, what happens to papers that get rejected? Of course, the simple answer is that they get corrected/improved based ... |
2021/06/21 | 1,394 | 5,485 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a quite large table (45 columns x 15 rows). Columns include comparisons groups and each row represents a measure. I can only think about putting the table on multiple pages but this does not make it easy to compare groups' estimates that are on different pages? What are good practices fo... |
2021/06/21 | 2,202 | 8,601 | <issue_start>username_0: Conference season is coming up and my supervisor signed us both up to a series of conferences that are running over the next few weeks. Having already participated in a couple of them, I kind of know what I'm in for and wondered how you guys tackle online conferences.
Is it bad that I sometime... |
2021/06/21 | 1,328 | 5,786 | <issue_start>username_0: As I understood correctly, in the field of computer science, there is no *"standard notation"* in scientific publications for explaining various aspects of a computer system. Even though in each discipline there exist some conventions for denoting various elements in the system (e.g., in networ... |
2021/06/22 | 1,116 | 4,886 | <issue_start>username_0: I currently work as a software developer and I am curious about machine learning research.
Does it work if I can spend some extra time to read papers/collaborate towards ML research, or is a Master's degree the only option? If yes, how can I network to find like-minded ML enthusiasts with whom... |
2021/06/22 | 4,799 | 20,640 | <issue_start>username_0: Thanks to Covid-19, I have been watching many video conferences and online presentations (both formal and not) **in the humanities**, specifically on printing, paleography, manuscripts, analysis of paper, libraries, etc.. Many, but not all, the presenters read their papers verbatim. Unless you ... |
2021/06/22 | 545 | 2,454 | <issue_start>username_0: Several posts on this website discussed the negotiation process and tips for new faculty in US. However, I wonder if there are any possibilities or tips to negotiate the salary after being tenured and promoted to associate or full professor.<issue_comment>username_1: Generally speaking, promoti... |
2021/06/23 | 1,231 | 5,210 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing my master's thesis. I came across paraphrasing tools quite recently too. I saw that sometimes my texts are not very clear and repetitive (although I can explain an idea in an understandable way). For documentation purposes, would it be okay if I use a paraphrasing tool fo... |
2021/06/23 | 1,177 | 4,528 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I read a research paper and write an email to the *authors*, requesting some resource or asking a doubt. I know the email address and author's name from research paper.
What is the proper salutation? Is it proper to use "Dear sir" or not? What are the other alternatives to salute?<issu... |
2021/06/23 | 903 | 3,725 | <issue_start>username_0: I just graduated last semester and I just received a bill from my college claiming $125 in "room damages". I contacted the office of res life about it and they claimed that I "turned in the wrong key" and so they needed to replace the lock. Their claim is blatantly false as I did turn in the ke... |
2021/06/23 | 717 | 3,045 | <issue_start>username_0: I started writing a book on my own in lockdown about some critical social issues. For this I read some books online to gain more knowledge about the issue I am writing about (all books are online), and I read some news articles as well, which are as important as the books. The problem I face is... |
2021/06/23 | 462 | 1,861 | <issue_start>username_0: I attended a panel for early career researchers, and one of the panelists mentioned that at the university he was at, it is more challenging for the department to pay for the flight costs to host an applicant from abroad for interviews for tenure-track jobs. Is this common? Is this something I ... |
2021/06/24 | 1,543 | 6,094 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently spoke to a graduate coordinator of a mathematics PhD program I was planning to apply to. I asked about admission, requirements to complete the degree and such. The program coordinator ended up telling me that usually they only pass 50% of the people in the program in the qualifying r... |
2021/06/24 | 2,174 | 9,301 | <issue_start>username_0: In the first week of my PhD studies, another student of my advisor asked me strange and racist questions regarding my religion and country of origin. We are in Germany, and the other student is from Italy (if it matters).
I didn't say anything, because I don't know how things work here and I d... |
2021/06/24 | 959 | 4,326 | <issue_start>username_0: While I am carrying out research or learning something in my field, I often find some other resources that are relevant to my domain and could help my understanding. Sometimes, while learning, I find myself going down a rabbit hole of these resources for hours, and come out feeling overwhelmed ... |
2021/06/24 | 573 | 2,475 | <issue_start>username_0: I was just offered a postdoc position, but my wife is pregnant, and we are expecting the child a month after starting the postdoc.
This is my second child, so I know what is required to take care of a newborn. I will need at least a couple days per week to work from home to assist my wife.
Sh... |
2021/06/24 | 540 | 2,141 | <issue_start>username_0: Here is the timeline of what happened.
Day 1: emailed and requested a LOR.
Day 3: got a response, prof. **agreed** to sign the LOR I draft for him.
Day 20: sent an email with my draft, asked to make changes if needed, sign and email it to me.
Day 27: sent a follow-up, politely reminded abou... |
2021/06/24 | 312 | 1,241 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m in a masters in applied math program at a university and I applied for the PhD entry but didn’t get it for this upcoming fall. However, I got an email from the director saying the department would like to consider me for Spring and that their all out of funding for Fall and they would like ... |
2021/06/25 | 1,230 | 5,137 | <issue_start>username_0: It took me 5.5 years to get my BSc, 3 years to get my MSc, and 6 years to do my PhD. I had a child as a teenager (so I have spent my entire adult life a mum) and we moved countries (to Germany) when I went to do my PhD. 16 years is a long time in University. Now I am looking to start my Post-Do... |
2021/06/25 | 1,833 | 7,945 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc and I am mentoring a research exchange undergraduate (REU) student from another university virtually and I will say it's a bit strange. The student is not responding well to my emails or being very proactive in the research. I also have not received any paperwork about the progra... |
2021/06/25 | 2,273 | 9,563 | <issue_start>username_0: I'll soon have finished my PhD in mathematics in a not top ranked university, and as far as I see it, my thesis is not going to be especially impressive.
My goal after the defense is to either leave academia, or make a rather drastic change of fields (let's assume it's the latter).
The problem ... |
2021/06/25 | 2,140 | 8,564 | <issue_start>username_0: So I am in a dilemma in that a recent publication literally has used up every (legible) character on [this page](https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/LaTeX:Symbols#Greek_Letters). We have checked thoroughly and every single character is necessary and this many characters are unfortuna... |
2021/06/26 | 1,164 | 4,920 | <issue_start>username_0: Almost four years ago I asked [Are there "gig economy" resources in academic research? Are they fundable?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/93924/69206). Now that much of the world and its academe has endured pandemic and lock-down, I wonder if things have changed in terms of research.
**Q... |
2021/06/26 | 1,729 | 7,488 | <issue_start>username_0: My university has a rule that all students need to publish at-least a couple of papers in SCI rated journals.
A senior told me that it is better not to publish the research contribution in a single paper. The length of paper is not an issue here. The act is meant for increase in paper count an... |
2021/06/26 | 1,475 | 6,460 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a research article on a particular research problem in a Mathematics journal few days ago. But now I have been abled to answer the same research problem in a different method and hence I have prepared another article on the same research problem but in a complete different meth... |
2021/06/26 | 1,385 | 4,446 | <issue_start>username_0: I wonder where I can find the number of citations the top x % of researchers of a given research field have received. I'm still specifically interested in the following two research fields: natural language processing and computer vision.
(No self-infatuation intended: I received some third-pa... |
2021/06/27 | 1,785 | 7,543 | <issue_start>username_0: Computer Science and Engineering have a publication system that is quite different from that of other disciplines, in that conference proceedings have great importance and partially take the role of journal papers (see e.g. [this answer](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4472/958) or [t... |
2021/06/27 | 433 | 1,468 | <issue_start>username_0: One may specify some keywords in one's Google Scholar profile, [e.g.](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=UZ5wscMAAAAJ):
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RDwMy.png)
How can I see the number of Google Scholar profiles ... |
2021/06/27 | 497 | 2,035 | <issue_start>username_0: I was planning to submit a couple of posters to a Computer Science conference because there are some final experiments that I should perform with the data we have at hand. I wondered if there would be an issue if I submit the complete work to another conference and citing the first conference i... |
2021/06/27 | 346 | 1,490 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm reading ML papers where nearly every reference is on arxiv. It would be really nice if clicking on a footnote directly opened the paper, rather then sending me to the bottom of the PDF. I haven't been able to find anything using Google, but would be really surprised if nothing of the sort e... |
2021/06/27 | 763 | 3,447 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first year PhD student and my research is related to Quiver representation and recently I have been looking at semi- invariant rings in the context of Quiver representation.
Sometimes I feel like nobody cares about this particular topic that I'm working on. I recently attended a conferen... |
2021/06/27 | 726 | 2,920 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a 3rd year undergraduate student. I was thinking of making a side project where I analyze the effects of different vaccines on the rate of new cases. I will be using methods I've learned from my recent Regression Analysis class.
I'll also be following the formal structure of a research pap... |
2021/06/27 | 1,908 | 8,228 | <issue_start>username_0: When I start reading a research paper in my research area, I flooded with a lot of new words, techniques etc.. In the majority of cases, I start reading the **relevant** textbooks for expertise in order to understand the research paper well, instead of going to research papers again. I am not s... |
2021/06/28 | 2,138 | 9,513 | <issue_start>username_0: For my master's thesis, I completed a systematic literature review and supplemented it with surveys and patient interviews. The topics required no medical information of patients.
My supervisor was aware of both the surveys and interviews and ethics board was never brought up.
All participant... |
2021/06/29 | 713 | 2,519 | <issue_start>username_0: I get plenty of scam mail, but the scam mail from predatory journals has a unique habit of using odd substitutes for normal roman letters. For example;
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> You Are Inᴠіtҽd to Pυbliѕհ Your Original Ɍҽsҽαrch with Us
>
>
>
Other scams don't do this. They just make their appeal in normal char... |
2021/06/29 | 1,102 | 4,437 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be applying to study mathematics in university soon, and in order to choose which universities I should apply to I am looking at university rankings among other factors.
However, many of the university rankings that I have looked at often differ significantly, eg placing a university 10... |
2021/06/29 | 886 | 3,739 | <issue_start>username_0: I am fairly comfortable with English as a second language and have been studying at schools with English as the primary language for the last 9 years. I also have multiple semesters worth of experience TA'ing for CS courses in English (conducting lab sessions, giving short lectures etc.).
I re... |
2021/06/29 | 1,032 | 4,336 | <issue_start>username_0: After my PhD, I continued with a postdoc in my PhD lab. The topic and the numerical method was quite different than my PhD and I had to read up quite a bit of literature to start the new work. However, as I was also involved in other projects as well, I took around nine months to complete the w... |
2021/06/29 | 1,005 | 4,238 | <issue_start>username_0: How do you credit people for reviewing a manuscript prior to submission? I am referring to individuals with more knowledge and experience than myself, such as a professor. Where in the manuscript do you list their names? Is this good practice or frowned upon?
I was thinking maybe under the tit... |
2021/06/30 | 420 | 1,792 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to hire someone to do partial research writing for me, particularly the introduction section. I will do the rest of the work. All the practical work is completed. This is non-graded work. It's not related to university or college work. It is just an independent work.
I want to know if th... |
2021/06/30 | 590 | 2,516 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a PhD interview for a position but I had to cancel it because I had an offer from another one. However, I didn't accept the offer and now I would like to be interviewed for the first position. How could I ask them for this?<issue_comment>username_1: You can always ask in a contrite manner... |
2021/06/30 | 1,103 | 4,776 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently doing my PhD in Economics in a UK university and have a couple of working papers —one of them almost finished—. Each of these working papers corresponds to one chapter in my PhD Thesis, which is in the field of Game Theory (Theoretical Microeconomics). I am expected to complete m... |
2021/06/30 | 408 | 1,837 | <issue_start>username_0: I have communicated one research paper of mathematics in a journal. Now I want to talk on that paper in a seminar/conference just for a presentation and getting a presentation certificate (probably), but not for publication.
Is it ethical ?
Any suggestion please.<issue_comment>username_1: Per... |
2021/06/30 | 679 | 3,023 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm head of a search committee and will be checking references for finalists for a fixed-term position. Two finalists worked with the same non-profit and gave the names of different people who work there. When I am talking to one person at the non-profit, is it okay to ask what they think of th... |
2021/06/30 | 765 | 3,151 | <issue_start>username_0: The UCAS student [finances page](https://www.ucas.com/finance/undergraduate-tuition-fees-and-student-loans#what-financial-help-can-you-get) that the undergraduate tuition fee loan is paid directly to the insititution.
>
> Tuition fee loans, to cover the full cost of your course, are paid dire... |
2021/06/30 | 2,816 | 12,190 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first year PhD student and I was asked to think about a problem last week and I tried to work out some examples, did some computations, but I wasn't successful. Basically, I didn't really make any significant progress in the last week. Today I had a meeting with my supervisors and he imme... |
2021/07/01 | 749 | 3,115 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been wanting to do some research on some quite controversial topics for a while now to stay educated on the common talking points of today, but every time I want to look at a research paper, I wonder whether the people who conducted the research are biased, or whether the journals are bias... |
2021/07/01 | 583 | 2,492 | <issue_start>username_0: This is my first research and I don't know how many references I can use. So far I have collected 14. Is this enough? My research is about physics.<issue_comment>username_1: Look at how many citations other publications have in your target journal or field. How many citations do your 14 referen... |
2021/07/01 | 855 | 3,564 | <issue_start>username_0: I wonder to what extent [technology transfers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_transfer) are weighted when reviewing a professor's tenure application in a US university. E.g. in the case that a professor collaborated, possibly via one of their PhD students, to a technology transfer per... |
2021/07/01 | 3,868 | 16,349 | <issue_start>username_0: (Details fictionalized.) My research involves a new way of forecasting the weather. Unlike other forecasting models, the model I have developed says that the weather in a certain region will be amenable to farming next year. Before I post the preprint of my paper, I am considering "betting" on ... |
2021/07/02 | 822 | 3,509 | <issue_start>username_0: If a PhD student were to transfer universities after completing
1. Course requirements
2. Qualifying exams
but not yet started a dissertation, could the student start at a new university with ABD status?
Related, would it matter if the exam committee remained the same but the university affi... |
2021/07/02 | 618 | 2,477 | <issue_start>username_0: The question is motivated by the fact, that [Physical Review Research](https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/) still did not get its first impact factor and a date it happens given on their internet page:
"We are hopeful that Physical Review Research will be fully indexed soon and will receive i... |
2021/07/02 | 862 | 3,625 | <issue_start>username_0: Hello dear academic community,
**I am having a lot of confusion regarding what it is that determines your PhD field**. As far as I know, PhD is an academic title awarded mainly in the humanities, and the way I understand it a person who writes a dissertation on Literature and some who writes o... |
2021/07/02 | 1,052 | 4,477 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in the final year of my PhD who has been struggling with creating new connections in my field, especially due to the current Covid situation. Conferences are only taking place online and nobody of relevance really sticks around for longer than their own talks. Also, my adviso... |
2021/07/02 | 724 | 2,957 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to go to one of the U.S. universities for sabbatical. (I do not live in U.S.) Most of my salary will be paid by my university, but my host university will pay for my apartment in the U.S. and provide health insurance for me and my family.
When I asked people I am going to visit w... |
2021/07/02 | 446 | 1,852 | <issue_start>username_0: This is just for an example: suppose, someone finishes a Ph.D. in Biology. Now, **for some reason** (maybe a hobby, to invent something new, etc), he wants to study Electrical Eng. So, he gets admission into an MSc in Electrical Eng program.
Is it normal in the USA/UK?<issue_comment>username_1... |
2021/07/03 | 1,793 | 7,666 | <issue_start>username_0: Lately, I have given a couple of interviews for Integrated Ph.D. programs in Physical Science. On some I was selected, while on others I was rejected. But I find only trifling differences between these interviews. Whenever I gave answers, they'd say, *good* and so on. I gave all of the question... |
2021/07/03 | 1,192 | 3,918 | <issue_start>username_0: [This journal](https://www.resurchify.com/impact/details/14875) has an impact score and impact factor:
* Impact Score 5.94
* Impact Factor 6.714 (2019)
>
> The journal Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from
> the journal published in the past two years have been cited in ... |
2021/07/03 | 905 | 3,710 | <issue_start>username_0: Research suggests that high-altitude training can have a positive impact on athletic (especially aerobic) performance. It is also known that high altitude (beyond a certain threshold value) is associated with a decrease in athletic ability and cognitive function. However, is there any evidence ... |
2021/07/03 | 680 | 2,845 | <issue_start>username_0: Our university has the option where a student can withdraw from a course within the first month from the commencement of the course. This would lead to 'W' grade and is generally not equated with a 'Fail' grade. I took a course in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Course and had to withdraw from it ... |
2021/07/03 | 3,154 | 13,338 | <issue_start>username_0: In math/CS and related fields, it is almost unheard of to obtain a tenure track position at a top US university without doing at least one postdoc. However, on mathjobs, a large proportion of the postings are from Chinese universities, and a substantial subset of such postings seem to always be... |
2021/07/04 | 1,063 | 4,086 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently trying to start a bachelors in Germany as an international student. However, I have to decide between going to a normal university or a so-called Fachhochschule. According to what I have found, studying at a Fachhochschule is more job-oriented and practical instead of theoretical.... |
2021/07/04 | 690 | 2,644 | <issue_start>username_0: I continued with a postdoc with my PhD advisor on a tangential topic as my PhD work.
I spent the first 6 months in getting my PhD papers out. I have 4 papers from my 5.5 years PhD and 1 first authored paper with a collaborator. In total, 3 of my papers came out last year. I have also written 1 ... |
2021/07/04 | 700 | 3,127 | <issue_start>username_0: When producing a list of publication for a CV, it is sometimes useful to append the impact factor of the journal in which each publication was published.
The question is: should one use the impact factor of the year in which the paper was published, or the most recent one?
For example: I publi... |
2021/07/05 | 287 | 1,300 | <issue_start>username_0: I got this feedback for my thesis paper. Can anyone explain this feedback with details?<issue_comment>username_1: More context would be helpful. It is possible that your result is simulation-based (such as a bootstrap CI, simulated permutation test, or simulated P-value for a chi-squared test w... |
2021/07/05 | 1,045 | 4,624 | <issue_start>username_0: Going through the computer science PhD applications process for US schools, I've heard two conflicting types of advice/anecdotes:
1. While they have a certain broad area in mind before starting their PhD studies, PhD students gravitate towards faculty members working on specific problems that ... |
2021/07/06 | 2,520 | 10,609 | <issue_start>username_0: Several years ago I taught an upper-division Mathematics course at my former institution. In the course of preparing to teach the course, I discovered that a professor at another university had not only written a text that would be useful to my students as supplemental material, but had also po... |
2021/07/06 | 6,060 | 26,106 | <issue_start>username_0: I got my PhD in [data engineering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_engineering) in 2014 from a reputed university in a developed country. I am now an associate professor in a well-reputed university. Between my PhD and my current position, I took several postdoc positions in very good... |
2021/07/06 | 690 | 2,853 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been checking the websites of different UK universities for teaching assistantship benefits. None of the websites I've visited so far disclose the specific benefits that TAs receive. So, I wonder if it is unusual for UK universities to waive the tuition fees of their TAs.<issue_comment>use... |
2021/07/06 | 2,230 | 9,485 | <issue_start>username_0: The paper in question is an analysis of government statistics to answer a question in sociology. The analysis was applied to a single government survey of a large population.
The *sociologist* has limited knowledge of statistics. He wrote the introduction, literature review, part of the discus... |
2021/07/06 | 3,111 | 13,264 | <issue_start>username_0: My impression is that some US universities at one time required producing a translation of a non-English language article in order to receive a PhD. As far as I am aware, this practice started before World War II when English was not as dominant a language in science as it is today. The require... |
2021/07/06 | 1,222 | 5,480 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a European master student and recently accepted a PhD position (Computer Science/Machine Learning) in a German speaking country. I did multiple research internships in Europe during my master's, and I would argue, they define me more than my actual degree. To "onboard" with my university, ... |
2021/07/06 | 4,354 | 17,760 | <issue_start>username_0: *Note: This question is intended to be a generic version of something that gets asked occasionally on this site. I apologize for making it overly-contrived, but it's intended to be a generic template of this style of question. A previous version of this question was locked due to Personally Ide... |
2021/07/06 | 694 | 3,065 | <issue_start>username_0: A student working on a master thesis in mathematics will have to present it at the end of the semester in front of the professor.
The professor will ask several questions during the presentation, what is the intend of those questions?
Basically, what is the professor trying to achieve through... |
2021/07/06 | 709 | 2,994 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm from Brazil and I really, really want to be able to pursue my Ph.D. in Immunology at Yale University.
I have a Bachelor's degree in Medicine here in Brazil, and I'm currently taking my Master's degree in the field of Mucosal Immunology.
However, whereas I do think my Curriculum is competi... |
2021/07/06 | 1,081 | 4,672 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a very beginner and I want to publish my first research in theoretical physics. I do not yet have the terminology of experts in this field. Is it possible to accept a research in physics without high-accuracy scientific terms and experience?<issue_comment>username_1: It is possible, but ve... |
2021/07/07 | 611 | 2,634 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a masters program (mathematics) and I have written a paper with my supervisor. My supervisor taught me the whole **general** procedure of finding papers to start with, methods of research and writing papers etc. I have learned so much from him but what I have learned has all been about ... |
2021/07/07 | 527 | 2,277 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for the best place to publish a paper that I am preparing. It will be my first, and there aren't many clear and concise sources of information as to who is to be sought for the research I have been doing.
My question is, what are factors to consider in the choosing of a journal wh... |
2021/07/07 | 1,290 | 5,462 | <issue_start>username_0: Background: I’m a rising (undergraduate) junior transferring to a different school starting with this upcoming semester. At my previous school I was an English/Philosophy double major, but I took way more philosophy courses than English, so that at my new school if I want to complete my double ... |
2021/07/07 | 561 | 2,425 | <issue_start>username_0: I find that many professors are to some extent supervising employees in the industry. They are helping the industry guys publish papers or solve difficult problems.
I don't know what motivates them to spend their time on that. I thought there are three possible reasons: 1) they can introduce t... |