Questions tagged [publications]
Questions related to academic publications including online and traditional journals, books, and conference proceedings.
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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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Is it normal for journal reviewers to reject submissions based on non-scientific reasoning? [closed]
Is it normal for reviewers to use nonfactual statements as reasons to reject journal submissions? Here, nonfactual statements will be defined as statements that are in contradiction with verified ...
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What does this mean when I submitted the revised manuscript (the decison is minor revision )? [duplicate]
I have submitted a manuscript to IEEE TRANS Journal.
After rounds of revisions, I have gone through the major revision, minor revision, and minor revision.
I have just submitted the revised manuscript ...
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Should you ever pick "recommended" or "opposed" reviewers for journal submissions in social science?
This question applies to all disciplines but I am curious here about social science journals in particular. Is it ever a good idea to name/identify specific reviewers that you would like to have them ...
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Status of a manuscript whose required reviews are completed
I have submitted a paper to a good math journal in first week of May 2024. After a month (+ a week at most), the online system shows the status “Required reviews completed”. However, to this day, I ...
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Is there a limit to the number of times a journal editor will send my paper for review if referees keep declining?
I submitted a paper to Physical Review D, an APS journal, approximately a month ago. So far, the editor has forwarded my paper to six referees for review, all of whom have declined. I suspect this may ...
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"journal of Electronics,Computer Networking and Applied Mathematics(JECNAM)" tell me about this journal category? [closed]
"journal of Electronics,Computer Networking and Applied Mathematics(JECNAM)" tell me about this journal category ?
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What is the best place to discuss scientific articles online (STEM related fields)? [closed]
What is the best online-place to discuss, ask questions about or comment scientific articles (STEM related fields) ? Here, "best" means most frequented and high probability to be read/...
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Not proud of work, should I allow submission?
One of the students in a research group I worked with years ago has picked up my old work and is trying to get it published, but I am not proud of the quality of work. The paper is based on a ...
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Can a bad paper title hurt you? Can a good one help you?
I've written a paper draft and given it a provisional title which is slightly tongue-in-cheek (but not in any way offensive; cf. examples below). This title makes my coauthor nervous, as he feels ...
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Does quick review means likely rejection?
I recently submitted a paper to an Elsevier journal in the management area, where I can track the review status. After submitting the paper, I found that one of the reviewers completed the review just ...
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How can some researchers publish so much in so little time? [duplicate]
I've been wondering how some researchers publish so much in so little time. Like, one famous scholar from MIT published one study per week during the pandemic. For me, it is difficult to believe he's ...
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How to pick masters topic?
I asked a professor I had taken a class with to be my supervisor for my project in 1-2 years. He agreed. I overlooked that, typically, students apply for projects directly with professors or ...
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Waited almost a year and a half for a review. The reviewer reviewed the wrong paper. What to do?
Waited almost a year and a half for a review. The reviewer reviewed the wrong paper. What to do? Can I ask the editor to really expedite the next review?
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Is this an invitation to submit or a polite rejection?
I have sent an email to an editor of a highly competitive math journal, asking if they think I should submit my paper there or not. The editor is an expert in the field of the paper, so my email was ...
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Should I add my old or new institute as affiliation? [duplicate]
If I did research while I was affiliated with institute X (collecting data from the patient's data of that institute) and now I left this for another one, which institute I should include when ...
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My result is accepted in a journal as an errata, but the editors want to change the authorship
We submitted a result claiming that a paper by an associate editor (of the same journal) contained a proposition that is proven mistaken by us, and furthermore, the proof of a theorem is incomplete.
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Is an employment Conflict of Interest necessary when redundant with my Affiliation?
I am a full time employee at company XYZ, and will be co-author with university researchers on a paper utilizing one of my company's products. My affiliation will therefore be listed as "XYZ.&...
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Is it appropriate to report mistakes in an engineering paper which makes unsupported claims?
I was given a paper to build off of for engineering research. The paper was published in a high impact journal but happens to be written very sloppily in the following sense.
The proof of a central ...
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Minor Revision Response Waiting Period [duplicate]
I've submitted a paper to a Q2 journal of economics after which I've got a response 5 months later recommending minor revision. I have then submitted the revised manuscript which I believe has ...
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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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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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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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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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I forgot to remove all authors' names from the appendix for a double-blind journal submission. What are the potential consequences?
I submitted a paper to a double-blind peer-reviewed journal. Unfortunately, I noticed that we forgot to remove the authors' names from the appendix. The submission was very recent, and until now, only ...
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Does Elsevier inform authors (or corresponding author) once they received the payment for Article Publishing Charge (APC) for open access?
I have submitted a manuscript to a fully open access journal in Elsevier and they accepted it after several revision rounds. However, after acceptance I received an invoice and I submitted it to my ...
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Should I ask permission from my former PI after finishing my contract when I'm sole author of the paper?
I'm a postdoc and I worked with a PI with whom I had many issues and disagreement. I even went to HR to report him for breaking the law. He told me to write the paper by myself as a single author. ...
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Pre-print split into 2 manuscripts
I have a pre-print that was submitted and rejected from a journal. We are now splitting the pre-print into 2 publications (one review paper and one theory paper).
I was wondering what to do in this ...
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Whether to upload a conference paper?
I am going to a (large) conference this summer, and participants are expected to upload their papers so the chair, the discussant and the conference-goers can read them beforehand. Today, I received ...
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Why are there still page number restrictions for journal papres even though physical printing plays almost no role anymore? [duplicate]
Why are there still page number restrictions for journal papers even though physical printing plays almost no role anymore?