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To what extent is it acceptable academic practice to ask for help in SE to write a proof of a paper that may be published? [duplicate]
I am currently trying to write a mathematical proof for a paper that I hope will some day be published in some peer-reviewed journal. In said proof, there is a step I am not seeing, and I have been ...
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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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Replying to an editor after plagiarism accusation and manuscript rejection
As the title of this question suggests, a manuscript that I submitted was flagged as plagiarized by iThenticate and was rejected by the editor.
The editor claims that the manuscript has 35% similarity ...
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Came across a very similar framework: what to do?
I am from a social science field. As a part of my dissertation I have published a paper on my topic in a journal with good standing. In that paper, I propose a framework to analyze an issue and ...
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Dealing with repetitive introduction sections - copy-paste-edit approach
I often find myself writing summaries of the same sub-(sub)-branches of mathematics in the background sections of my papers. With time, this grows somewhat tedious, since there are only so many ways ...
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After a plagiarism complaint, the journal is slow to respond and not taking any action. What should be done?
Someone from where I work took a piece of work I wrote and published it in their name without informing me. I gave them almost a year's time to remove that paper. They did not. Now I complained to the ...
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What is considered plagiarism when writing a literature review paper
Taking someone else's experimental data and passing it for your own is objectively wrong. I would not argue with that. But what about when you are writing a review paper about some topic that doesn't ...
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How to manage and differentiate literature reviews for different papers with related subject?
I wrote a research paper on a given topic. And now I'm writing a continuation for the same research. My question are :
How to include the literature review of the previous paper in the current paper ...
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What expression to use when citing a publication for a result bordering one, oneself seeks to publish? (replicate, corroborate, in line with)
The specific reason for citing/referencing a publication may accompany an expression signifying that. One broad reason is empirical results (other broad reasons are theoretical ideas, methodological ...
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Can I keep my PhD thesis chapter intro as is when publishing it as an article if another article was published in the meantime that paraphrases it?
I graduated from my PhD in 2019 and published my thesis online. Just before COVID I submitted an article based on a thesis chapter, but because of life getting in the way I was unable to finish it and ...
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Is it okay to just present (without paper) research that is subject to an already finally submitted, but still unpublished conference paper?
I will try to make my question as understandable as possibe.
In the course of a project I belong to as a consortium member, I did research on a particular topic and submitted my findings in form of a ...
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Potential Plagiarism of Published Papers when writing Survey Paper
I am in the process of writing a survey paper, and found one conference publication A that I will cite. Additionally, I found a journal publication B that I almost would have included in the survey, ...
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Can I submit articles in top math journals from my master's thesis (after the defense)?
I am writing my master's thesis and my advisor is taking the total hands-off approach (I am mentioning that because I am still waiting to hear his feedback on the work when he reads it). He wants me ...
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What to do if a special case of a theorem is published
I published a paper in a reputable journal in 2021 December. I had proved a conjecture.
Today I discovered that another author published a special case of the conjecture and published it, in another ...
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How can one prevent the unauthorized reuse of the technical content from a rejected paper
One of my colleagues told me that one of his papers was rejected for presentation at a conference. One year later a paper was accepted with almost the same content at the same conference.
Is it in ...
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