Questions tagged [errors-erratum]
On errors found after submission or publication in a book, paper, thesis, or other document, and erratum (written notice of errors and corrections) for them.
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How do I handle a mistake in a mathematical proof that does not invalidate the main conclusion of our paper?
I recently found a mistake in a mathematical proof of a result I published in 2016. In a nutshell, a subtle error led me to claim that two conditions were equivalent. Unfortunately one of the two ...
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Found a figure duplication problem in an already published paper
I published a peer-reviewed article several years ago. Recently when I look back on my paper, I suddenly realized there had a figure duplication problem in one of the main figures (That main figure ...
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Erroneous paper published and reviewed on MathSciNet
An article claiming to solve a great long-standing mathematical open problem was published in a conference proceedings, and was refereed on MathSciNet positively, i.e. the reviewer makes an impression ...
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Will an error in one of my publication affect the outcome of my PhD defense?
I'm a PhD student in physics in a European country. I'm about to have my PhD defence in about 6 weeks. I have 3 published papers and one manuscript ready for submission. My thesis is also finished (...
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Is it considered rude to point out typos, by sending an email to the reviewer, in a MathSciNet review?
Is it considered rude to point out typos, by sending an email to the reviewer, in a MathSciNet review?
Will they be able to correct the typo, easily, with out involving MathSciNet technical team?
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Are arXiv papers more read than the journal versions? [closed]
I have a conference paper which is published at IEEE with some errors unfortunately. But I have submitted a version on ArXiv without the errors.
As a researcher, I honestly prefer reading versions on ...
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Found an error in the title of published article (A phrase has been repeated twice)
I have found an error in the title of my recently published article. A phrase has been repeated twice in the title. Considering that journal not accepted any changes what should I do about it?
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PhD manuscript with grammatical errors and informal phrases
I have made a very good contribution in my PhD and just graduated two years ago from a top university with honors.
Today, I revised my PhD manuscript and surprisingly found several grammatical errors,...
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Withdrawing paper from a conference after presentation due to error
Please refer to the following link for details. I am planning to send an e-mail to the conference chairs regarding my withdrawal.
I wanted to seek help from the experts in the community for drafting ...
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Extent of "unscientific" or wrong papers in research mathematics [closed]
Kevin Buzzard's slides (PDF version) at a recent conference have really unsettled me.
In it, he mentions several examples in what one would imagine as very rigorous areas (e.g., algebraic geometry) ...
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Found a severe error in a conference paper after presentation but before the proceedings
I am a final year undergraduate student and had worked on a very fundamental project(there is no available literature on this field presently) during my sophomore year. The results obtained were quite ...
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Disagreement with supervisor regarding sending an erratum
I have a paper that is accepted and published in a journal. After it was accepted I realized that some of the errors were calculated in a wrong manner and hence they appeared around 1.5 times smaller ...
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Paper unknowingly describing technical bias as if it was a biological phenomenon of interest
Let’s take a very hypothetical situation. Suppose that a scientific journal (let’s use Scientific Reports for the sake of the example) recently published a paper that seems to be completely off track. ...
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A high quality contribution but an annoying error is present in my published article
I have recently published a journal article in the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IEEE TGRS). I can confirm that my contribution in the journal article is really of high quality ...
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Case-specific appropriateness of an erratum/corrigendum? [closed]
Myself and my PhD supervisors recently published an article (climate science). One of the panels within a multi-panel Figure is a time-series with both a left-hand and right-hand y-axes. The axis ...
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On writing critical review: is there any threat?
During my research on a specific topic, I found two interesting papers by same authors. So, I decided to implement their proposed idea but it was not possible. At first, I thought that I was wrong but ...
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Correct typo error in the article title that published Early Access of the journal
I have a accepted article that published under early Access.
Today, I have got the proofs from the journal to approve some changes. I have found a typo error in the title "Commutation" instead of "...
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Should I bring up minor writing errors that I noticed after submitting revised version?
I have received a decision letter on my paper from editor "I am prepared to accept this manuscript for publication provided that the authors perform some editing to improve the grammar throughout the ...
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What should I do if actually I found a serious flaw in someone's PhD thesis and an article derived from that PhD thesis?
Recently, I came across a PhD thesis and an article derived from that PhD thesis and found a serious flaw in them that actually makes their conclusions invalid.
In the first place, I was unsure if I'...
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I got better and improved results later of one chapter of my published PhD thesis
I defended my thesis in 2015. Later during the preparation of publications from one of my chapter, I got improved and better numerical simulation results than the one in my original thesis. Although ...
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How to approach a mistake I made in an abstract for a Conference?
In about a month I will be presenting a poster among 100+ people in an international congress. However, I'm just realizing that I made a huge mistake in the abstract I sent (accepted of course), ...
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Sharing referee/AE report online to point out a grievous error in refereeing
I submitted a short note to a math journal providing a counterexample to a result in literature that had first appeared in that very journal.
After eight months, I heard from the journal. It was a ...
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Erratum to correct a reference — will this technically work?
Hours after I approved the proofs, I noticed a key reference in my article was wrong. Authors and title are correct, journal is wrong, and it's wrongly listed as in press. The paper is now published ...
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What to do in dealing with scientific mistakes in an article?
Recently I've read an article in a journal and find out numerous scientific mistakes in that paper. I decide to write a note to the editorial board of the journal.
First of all, I want to know is ...
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Error discovered in an accepted conference paper but not yet presented
I'm a CS student, and I discovered two code bugs that change some numerical values on a table of a paper that got accepted and will be presented at a conference very soon. The changes is very small (...
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Submitted paper with wrong title
I wrote a paper which got accepted in a reputed journal, I wrote another paper with completely different work, however when I submitted the second paper I mistakenly (actually I was in a hurry) with ...
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minor errors in published paper [duplicate]
I am inexperienced in publishing papers in scientific journals. I was going over recently published paper of mine and found that I accidentally reported mean with standard deviation when I meant to ...
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Publishing a Corrigendum?
I recently published a book chapter with my supervisor. I just realized that I messed up two dates in the chapter. For the first one, the original sentence is like "xx policy decisions were published ...
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Identifying a published error
Hypothetical:
I found an error which fundamentally kills a published paper and re-opens a number of problems the paper claimed to solve.
Not only is there an error, but the results are actually wrong....
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Author removal from a published paper [duplicate]
I have been one of the co-authors of a published paper 8 years ago. In those years I was an undergrad student. So, I had no significant scientific contribution to this paper. I have just finished my ...
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