Top new questions this week:
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I am an amateur mathematician who at age 64 finally became published in January. As a result, review requests started coming in.
The first two were from two different journals. Both papers were well ...
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This question is inspired by the comments under this answer, specifically the points raised by user TimRias. The discussion was about a paper submitted to Physical Review D (PRD), a journal covering ...
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I usually meet my PhD students weekly. However for one student, I can clear tell that she basically only does some simple things before the meeting, when I met her. During the communication, I feel ...
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I am working on a paper which builds upon work from a paper from the 1980s.
In that paper, a result of the form A < B < C is claimed in generality and is necessary for the proof of a result.
I ...
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I have been pushing hard for several years to get an academic job, with little success. The best job I could get was a non-tenure track group leader position, with very questionable promotion criteria....
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I'm wondering how common (or uncommon) it is to cite R functions in publications. E.g. to write in a manuscript something like:
We used the 'X' function from the 'Y' package version 0.2.0 [@ref] to ...
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Last year I applied for PhD programs. I got together four letter writers two from my current MA program and two from a previous MA program. I was rejected from every PhD program that year, and I was ...
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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Recently my faculty (mathematics and statistics) and I have been dealing with widespread cheating due to calculators that have been modified so as to have more functionality than is permitted.
At my ...
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Example:
Q: Does Venus exhibit retrograde motion? (1 mark)
A: No. This is because Venus orbits the Sun and not the Earth.
The first part is correct: Venus does not exhibit retrograde motion. But the ...
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I just got an email from Academia.edu saying that my name has been mentioned two times (Edit: now up to 150 papers!), but to see the mentions you have to upgrade to a premium account at 8.25AUD/month.
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It is very common to see statements like "it is your responsibility to make sure [someone with higher rank, like your advisor/supervisor/mentor] to submit/upload [something like a letter/approval]...
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Some universities that offer a DSc as the doctoral degree, while most of them also offer a PHD degree in science. What are the differences these degrees in terms of academic standing? What are the ...
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Reading the question posted here left me with a more general question:
Given the professional title and name: Dr. (First Name)(Last Name), is there some way to differentiate between the holder of a ...
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Many times I heard about papers published in conference. But still I am not able to find the major difference between papers published in a conference and those published in a journal. What is the ...
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