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I found a counterexample to an assumption in a proof but not to its result – how to publish this?
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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Copyright of infographs and where to deposit them?
Recently, a company designed infographs for some of our articles.
Infographs could be described as pictured one-page summaries of a research article. The head of the department paid for that service ...
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What opportunities are there to write casual articles in math?
I am wondering how to find good opportunities in editorials that publish work to educate younger readers and invite them to be curious about mathematics. For context, I have recently produced many ...
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Is it possible to publish an idea in a paper without a proof of concept?
I am currently a programmer and an engineering student in France, and I have a research idea which I would like to formally share with the scientific community.
The problem is that this idea is not a ...
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Recommendations regarding publishing 'folklore' results in math
I've recently obtained some results which I have not found in the literature explicitly. Namely they are hinted in certain published literature, but very shortly and not in a very constructive sense.
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I've created a new formula in the field of math, as a bachelor student, what should I do now? [duplicate]
I'm a computer science student and recently developed a new formula in the field of math. It's something important and I'm confident that the formula does what is intended to do because of my tests.
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Do people care about single-author works in quantum information theory?
I am a junior postdoc (completed one and a half years) working in the field of quantum information theory. I was told by my PhD advisor that single-author papers don’t really matter in physics. They ...
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Getting scooped and is it appropriate to volunteer to write a highlight?
To solve a long-unknown crystal structure, we were scooped by another group using the same state-of-the-art technique. A peer-reviewed top journal article was published online in the past few days.
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Are rebuttal papers too narrow in scope to get published, and is there an alternative?
When reading a recent philosophy paper I spotted what I believe to be a subtle error in one of the assumptions their main argument relies on. I am not exactly an active participant in academia, so I ...
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What would a paper proposing a new theory to explain something with several lines of evidence look like?
As an example, suppose I come up with a theory that removes the need for dark matter. Dark matter is a hypothetical substance with many different lines of evidence for its existence, but it hasn't ...
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When is a math diploma thesis seriously publishable?
When is a diploma thesis in mathematics (bachelor or master thesis) actually considered good enough for a supervisor to propose publishing it in a journal? In some universities (e.g., ETH), this ...
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Why does Springer need 85,000 words in a monograph?
I'm dealing with Springer about a monograph proposal. My draft was 80,000 words and they asked me to make it 85–100,000 words. I don't want to bother the editor with a question that is just out of ...
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"Expect" Nature publication for PhD?
EDIT: Original title was "Guarantee" Nature
publication for PhD?
I am currently applying as a PhD student in a group at the intersection of experimental physics and engineering in a rather ...
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I submitted an article to a too high-ranking journal, should I cancel?
I am a Postdoc, recently I submitted my first single-author publication (physics). I had one journal in mind and briefly discussed the idea with several seniors, and nobody really objected. Now I ...
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Publishing dissent
My team has been trying to replicate a study published in a journal.
After a month of effort my team is convinced that the details provided in the paper are incorrect and the study cannot be ...
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