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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A senior colleague that belittles my contributions, expertise and won't acknowledge a published error that I identified
I am a PhD student and the most junior person on our small team (me, a lab manager, a statistical analyst, a wet-bench scientist, a senior statistician, and our PI). The statistical analyst has been ...
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How can I deal with a significant flaw I found in my previous supervisor’s paper?
Suppose that I found a technical flaw in one of the papers coauthored by my previous advisor. This mistake will substantially change their major result, but their contribution will be still worthwhile ...
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What to do if authors don't respond to my serious concerns about their paper?
I recently read a paper that conducted an experiment, analyzed it, and reached a conclusion. However, the way they conducted the analysis is seriously flawed and cannot be used to support the ...
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Correcting small errors in text/picture after publication?
I got a manuscript published in November 2018 (Elsevier) and realized after reading it again today that an error has been introduced, after proofreading/publishing, in one of the equations I wrote; ...
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Maintaining Credibility with Data Obtained by Hand
Recently, I was doing a project in computer science (involving modes of computation) that had a very specific time limit. Unfortunately, due to software problems, I was forced to obtain my data by ...
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How do I phrase (in my thesis) that results in an important study are wrong?
The title probably comes off wrong, I tried to keep it short. I do not necessarily want to make an absolute statement like "that is wrong". But I do need to address the problems I am facing with a ...
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Found a major flaw in paper from home university – to which I would like to return
During my Ph.D. in condensed-matter physics, I published a paper together with two other students. The research group of the university that I am originally from (in Madrid, Spain) happened to work on ...
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What to do if a paper by respected authors has obvious problems, and I have told them so already?
I have recently found a paper of a very respected research group in my field. In this paper, they have some theoretical calculations, and they are obviously completely wrong. Not in the sense that the ...
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Found a mistake in my paper after submitting the final version. What should I do?
Recently my paper got accepted in a journal. After that we submitted the final version with all corrections. Now I found an error in the way I calculated some type of numerical error. I don’t think ...
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Are theses perfect? readers opinions on honest mistakes? (whatever degree)
I used to have a big concern for a little statistical mistake in my thesis (which wont be published), and now I have overcome that fear.
During that time of fear, my parents told me that all the ...
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Can i submit a revised version of a retracted paper to another journal
One of my paper was retracted die to honest error (statistical error). is it possible to submit the revised version of the paper to another journal for consideration of publication. Thank you
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I found some topographical errors in one of my published papers
i found some topographical errors mainly missing spellings in one of my published papers. However the errors does not alter the meaning or concept of the paper. I contacted the joirnal editor but told ...
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Erratum, Rejoinder etc. in Article names: What are the differences?
I am a little bit confused with the following terms and do not know how they differ:
Erratum/Corrigendum
Rejoinder
Commentary
In which cases is/should an article be named one or the other?
What ...
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How are these kinds of published errors managed?
Context: Say author A writes: "the authors B in Ref [30] found two consequences of the standing posture i.e sitting in the workplace on the health of industrial workers".
Actually, it should be "the ...
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Erratum or corrigendum on arXiv too? Should the authors lists match?
We have a mistake in a published paper and we will send a Corrigendum to the journal. Concerning arXiv we have two options:
Replace v1 by v2, where v2 has no longer the mistake, and state what we did ...
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Citing a paper whose title has received errata
I recently stumbled upon a published article entitled "ANCOVA versus change from baseline had more power in randomized studies and more bias in nonrandomized studies," which has an errata stating the ...
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Correct typo in paper title?
One of my published papers has a typo in the title. I have found errors of various kinds in my other papers (who hasn't) and never cared to make corrections, but I often refer people to this ...
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How to refer to a source with "minor" typos in the title?
This questions supplements the existing: how to refer to a source with typos in the title, where OP spotted grammar mistakes in the title of papers mentioned in the reference list and wondered whether ...
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How can I overcome feelings of unworthiness after finding mistakes in my research?
I'm currently a PhD student suffering from extreme anxiety after finding some mistakes in my scientific paper 7 months back. I've talked to my supervisor about it and he said that those were simple ...
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Found published work that doesn't reference previous related work
I have been researching a specific topic in computer science for a couple of years now and a well established professor and his students have recently published a couple of publications in that topic ...
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Should I follow-up with the editor about formatting issues on a published article?
I just received an email from the editor of a monograph series letting me know the issue where my article is included is now live. I went through normal things recently to get it published, like a ...
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Minor editorial error during minor revision. Should I notify the editor or just correct it?
I recently submitted a manuscript to a prestigious journal in my field. The manuscript is now under "minor revision" status and the reviewer only asked me to provide percentages in one of the table. ...
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How does an Erratum on one's own paper affect one's career as a researcher?
I'm still early in my scientific career, with only a few papers published. However, I've discovered a typo in a non-critical equation of my paper, and one of the graphs in the same paper should have ...
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Is a corrigendum required for this error?
Our manuscript, for which I am the first co-author, got accepted in a journal. However, upon careful review of our manuscript, I noticed that there are errors in one table. The percentages were ...
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Conference abstract: AutoCorrect underline not removed
I started my PhD last August, and recently I submitted an abstract to a major conference. After submitting it I noticed that on one of my figures, which contain multiple subfigures, I have forgotten ...
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They shared the code, but then, I found key errors in their work. How do I criticize this in my research paper?
Associate Prof. X is committed to reproducible research and makes his code available. He authors a paper with Dr. Y and others.
Dr. Y is the first author of the paper and the code is shared on Ass. ...
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When should the erratum (or other published correction) for a paper be cited?
I am curious as to whether there are any accepted standard rules on when to cite, or not to cite, a published correction (erratum/corrigendum) along with a paper.
The meanings of these terms are not ...
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How to withdraw ones name from an already published paper
I am having the following trouble. Within a collaboration I was asked to prepare and pre-characterize some samples. I did so and sent the samples along with a report on the characterization results.
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Can I correct a typo in my published paper if it doesn't affect content?
I discovered a minor error (essentially a typo) in one of my recent publications. It would not be noticed by most readers. It does not affect the content of the article and does not require an erratum ...
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How to discuss an error of my previous supervisor's paper with the new supervisor
I have been recently working on my Master thesis. The idea for it was approximately the following: take a recent Nature paper of my supervisor, reproduce the results and add them to my Master thesis. ...
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