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Those who fight and lose relationships over authorship disputes, is it worth it?
Sometimes, you feel you do more than the other person but get a lower authorship position. Sometimes, the other person does not do enough but asks for a co-first position. Sometimes, your authorship ...
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Submission of a manuscript to two special issue of a journal
I have noticed that the content of my paper is in the scope of two special issues of a journal. Is it reasonable to submit that to both of them art the same time, or I have to wait for the result of ...
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Which recognized mathematical journal accepts submissions in Chinese language [closed]
I know from experience that some [mathematical-journals] from France allow French submissions. And on the arXiv you can see now and then a math paper in French and not only in English.
I've checked ...
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Authorship is relegated & get excluded from the project because coauthors intentionally add a lot of things that do not even improve the performance
I have been working on a computational biology paper for over three years. Initially, I found the model to be saturated and difficult to improve and we already had a manuscript at this point, but my ...
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Submitting 2 manuscripts explaining the same scientific fact but by two different methods
I have submitted two manuscripts on physics both have analyzed a new finding by me but the methods of the "analysis" are different.
They differ in data, results and figures, just at the end, ...
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Has the Journal of Fluid Mechanics really published more than 800 volumes?
I currently want to cite this article from the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, but what strikes me is the high volume number (879). To what I have found:
the volume number refers to the number of years a ...
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Can I reuse a large part of my own previously published paper in a new paper?
I am currently writing up a paper, and am tempted to copy/paste an entire section (several pages) from a previous paper I have written.
Some important context before you pass judgment: The section I ...
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Register to 2 conferences at almost the same time with the same talk abstract/paper
I don't know how to do to prevent being blacklisted from journals. I wanted to give a talk at an international conference (and not to publish this work as a conference paper). I did not know that it ...
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Should I apologise to a professor after a gift authorship attempt, which they refused?
(I am a PhD student) I recently worked on a paper using a computational methodology developed by Professor X and my manuscript was published on a preprint server.
My supervisor, Professor Y, is ...
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Isolated from project when deadline approaches
I am a postdoc in a laboratory in the area of computer science. I have spent around 7 months mentoring a student master thesis. At the beginning this took significant work including me coming up with ...
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Can I use snippets from books on various subjects to make analytical reading questions?
Is it okay to use short excerpts (under 200 words) from psychology, history, philosophy books, etc. to create reading comprehension questions for my test prep book? I'd focus on main ideas, making ...
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An article containing a copyrighted figure should be embedded in a stapler thesis: How to fill in RightsLink form?
I wrote an Elsevier article (open-access, CC-BY 4.0) that contains a third party figure from a Springer subscription book. At the time, I obtained a license for re-using the Springer figure in a ...
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How can one apply to graduate school if their undergraduate university is uncooperative in providing the required information?
Asking on behalf of a relative:
I graduated in the early 1990s from a relatively well-known university in the Middle East, and since then have been working at various companies in North America. I ...
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Can I do PhD and master's simultaneously? [closed]
I have just completed my bachelor's and I am very interested in pursuing masters and is it possible for me to pursue masters and PhD together simultaneously.
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Biophysics for longevity research? Does the undergraduate background matter for US graduate programs?
I am currently studying undergraduate physics (condensed matter) (outside the US).
Starting from the beginning of the 3rd year of studies, there'll be an opportunity to publish undergraduate research ...
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