Questions tagged [collaboration]
Queries related to establishing and maintaining collaborative academic research endeavors or other activities.
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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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Collaborators write their departments for my (undergraduate) affiliation
I am an undergraduate student in the medical field. I have taken part in writing multiple articles with professors from different departments from my Uni. The way I see it, my affiliation should be ...
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Determining first authorship for a shared project
There is a project (STEM field, R1 university in the United States) on which four graduate students have been working for approximately one year. Although all members joined the project at the same ...
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Found possible instance of plagiarism in joint review paper and PhD thesis of high profile collaborator, what to do?
I am a new assistant professor, and I just started my faculty career. I encountered a problem when collaborating with a tenured associate professor from an American University. I am a new faculty, and ...
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Must I co-author with supervisors as an undergraduate?
I'm a final-year undergraduate student in the U.K. As part of my undergraduate research, I proved a long-standing conjecture in graph theory. I have now written a detailed proof of the result, which ...
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What is the proper way to submit a "response" paper without offending the one I am responding to?
I am considering submitting a response to another scholar's paper. While I assume it is always best to first approach the journal in which the original article was published, is there a "best-...
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A very difficult situation: my coauthor "scooped" my proof and theorem in a joint work
I am working in a field of math and have written some papers, some published, some not. I have one small paper finished in 2021, which I forgot to send for publication.
At the moment, I am co-...
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How should I handle a collaborator who doesn't work?
I am a second year graduate student collaborating with a postdoc who is not doing his part of the work.
He is always busy making posters for our supervisor or other documentation work that has ...
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A platform for collaborative research projects?
This question may sound unusual but I'm have been searching for a while now for a platform for collaborative research projects? The concept here is simple. Experienced researchers sign up and verify ...
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Collaboration with Professor who does unethical research
I am a second year PhD student at a university. My supervisor asked me to do a research collaboration with a professor from another university.
When I was reading about his research, I already found ...
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Authorship issue between two PhD students
I have a little dispute over co-authorship on a paper, and I would appreciate feedback on whether I am handling this appropriately (or if I am being an asshole or not).
I am a PhD student in applied ...
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How can I work with a senior researcher who is less knowledgeable than myself?
This question is partially inspired by this comment on a recent post which says
[...] Part of being successful is working out how to work productively with people who are not as good/knowledgeable/...
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Is it a good idea to do a Master's project which is a new collaboration between two labs?
I am discussing starting a Master's project that would be a totally new project and most likely a collaboration - the collaboration may be negotiated solely based on my project at the initiative of ...
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Coauthors rewrote and published "abandoned" project without my knowledge
I worked on some results jointly with other coauthors. We jointly wrote a first draft of the article, and we started discussing where to submit. Time passed, and there was not much impulse to finish ...
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Censorship by Collaboration?
Suppose I am the primary author of an article advocating a controversial view along with several coauthors, and my coauthors not only change their mind but want to stop my article from being published ...
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