Questions tagged [publications]
Questions related to academic publications including online and traditional journals, books, and conference proceedings.
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Does Stack Exchange answers have the same validity as pre-print sites like arXiv when proving priority?
Say I have done some simple calculations in an answer to a Stack Exchange question, which after a quick search does not have any existing papers detailing the same procedure, or that the few existing ...
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Best tools to create figures for papers/journal
What are good tools to create figures for papers/journals similar to the figure below which is both clear and well designed? Which tools can I use to create similar figures?
Features: Smoothly bended ...
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How to make an entire section as a conjecture?
I was writing a research paper and solved a problem inside it. To solve the problem for a specific case, I need to assume something to be true (I'm now sure about that) and then write a set of proofs ...
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Is it ethical for a PI of a collaborating PhD student to be part of my publication, even if he hasn't contributed anything?
I'm a PhD student in a country in Europe. There is a collaborating PhD student from another institute (in a different country), who has worked closely with my PI and me. Some simulations were run on ...
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What is the longest cycle in the graph of academic papers and citations?
Okay, this is obviously just a fun and hopefully interesting question, but it is related to academia as a whole.
Sometimes two papers cite each other because they were published around the same time. ...
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Can I add a GitHub Pages link to an IEEE paper abstract?
Can I add a GitHub Page link to an IEEE paper abstract? The page has videos, photos, abstract, codes links etc. Is there any restriction for that?
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We provide real robot video demonstrations ...
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Publishing a paper written in your free time as an unaffiliated author when you are affiliated
Suppose you are a researcher that works at a university. You produce, during your free time, i.e. outside of work hours, and without any other university colleague's involvement, a paper with your own ...
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Submitting paper to lower tier journal instead of doing major revision at higher tier journal
I am about to submit a paper from my master's thesis, my ex supervisor is my co-author.
They are letting me choose between two journals: one is a top journal, one is a good journal.
I'd like to submit ...
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Adding a co-author in the arXiv version of a conference paper
How can I give credit to a co-worker who contributed significantly to our paper after submission, given that the conference won't allow us to add them as a co-author? The entire team, including the ...
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Why are Management Information Systems journals publishing so few operations management interdisciplinary research works?
I am new to Management Information Systems (MIS) research. Before embarking upon my research journey, my prior education and work experience has been in logistics and operations management.
My first ...
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Incorrect affiliation on publication
As the title says, I (and a coauthor) recently had our manuscript accepted at an IOP Science journal. The manuscript was published just a while back and we have noticed that our affiliations have been ...
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What to do if I am not able to reproduce the coauthors’ results?
We are doing computational biology research using ML. My coauthor who is a Phd student initially proposed a new idea that he said worked better than the baseline. However, after trying to replicate ...
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How to cite a conditionally accepted article?
I'm currently working on an R&R with a fairly strict due date coming up within a few weeks. One of the reviewers had a question about a small part of the paper that uses data from a particular ...
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How do you cite an entire magazine/periodical?
I have a class where I am supposed to talk about advertising in magazines, and I can't find any information on how to cite the entire magazine/periodical. I have to talk about the trends I generally ...
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How deep should I check references of a papers I am going to cite?
I am a new researcher who just started writing scientific papers and am concerned about checking the papers I am planning to cite. When citing a specific paper, I always try to read most of the cited ...
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