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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Serious error in published journal paper by a faculty member
Consider the following scenario:
Paper A used a model developed in Paper B.
This model developed in Paper B was corrected over the years in an erratum before Paper A was published.
This makes the ...
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Can I resubmit the article?
I submitted my revised paper (second-time major revision) just few days back through Scholar One. Now I found some errors in my submitted paper. As the paper is already submitted, what shall I do? Can ...
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Miswritten reference in (in press) paper
A paper A has been published recently with a big publisher. The article is available as early access, but it is still in press, i.e. not yet assigned to a volume. In that paper, our paper B was cited, ...
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Recommendation letter has slightly wrong info – should I mention it in my cover letter?
When I asked for the letter, last semester’s grades hadn’t been fully uploaded to the system so among the things my professor wrote, they said I was a top-5% student. This week, grades were updated ...
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Hugely important database replete with errors
I am about to finish my PhD in bioinformatics. I am trying not to give out too many details, so I won't be very specific.
In the field I am working in, there are two extremely important databases ...
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How shall I report a critical error in a given paper?
This is a follow-up of my previous question about this course task:
Find an existing, published research paper in the field of Chemical Engineering and try to autonomously replicate its results (...
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Paper with a spelling mistake in author affiliation in publication
I published a paper late 2016. Recently I noticed that the published manuscript has a typo error in one of the authors affiliation. But it got indexed correctly on all databases under that author. ...
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How should I handle a paper with incorrect experimental results? [duplicate]
We found that a paper, published in an important CS conference, presents incorrect results in its experimental evaluation section.
Merely reading the paper is not sufficient to spot these mistakes, ...
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Paper submitted with repeated sentences in the introduction
I have submitted a research paper to a peer-reviewed journal two months ago. It is my first submission. I have noticed two unfortunate elements in my introduction:
I wrote the same sentence twice in ...
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Finding some errors in my "IEEE conference paper" after presentation but before publication
Two days ago, I presented my accepted paper in an IEEE conference. While I am presenting, I noticed that I really made 3 mistakes in the notations! I don't really know why I didn't make attention for ...
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Should I do anything if I am cited for something that wasn't in my paper?
I’ve just read a paper in which a previous paper of mine has been cited. The line in which the citation happens is something like:
It has been shown that technique X is successful in this problem [...
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Found error in published article where to submit a correspondence?
I have found an error in a published article. The error lies within the method section.
I would like then to write a correspondence to let people know about this issue and to explain what could have ...
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How shall I report an error in a given paper?
I am currently at my last MSc year in Chemical and Process Engineering (Italy), and our last course on Industrial Chemistry has a mandatory pre-exam exercise which reads:
Find an existing, ...
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Former PhD supervisor faked results and submitted a corrigendum two years after publication
During my PhD studies, I published a journal article (one of total four) in a prestigious journal of my field. I gave my codes to my PhD supervisor, but he messed up things in the lab and lost it (I ...
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Corrigendum submitted by my PhD supervisor 1.5 years after I left?
During my PhD studies, I published a journal article (1 of total 4) in a prestigious journal of my field. My PhD advisor wants to commercialize my PhD work and wanted me to help him without willing to ...
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Minor typos found directly after submission of a revised manuscript to a geochemistry-focused journal
I am a PhD candidate working in fields related to environmental sciences and climatology, and have recently finished the revisions/corrections for my first peer-reviewed manuscript.
Unfortunately, I ...
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Correct grammatical errors after getting PhD [duplicate]
I have a question I cannot find the answer in any place. After receiving my PhD degree I found in my thesis some stupid grammatical errors which dont change anything in my work but still embarrassing. ...
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Is it possible to change email on published paper?
My paper was published two weeks ago. I have just noticed that I have provided the wrong email. Is it possible to change the email after the paper was published?
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Publisher didn't make change to paper and now the paper still has the error
I recently published a paper with IEEE. During the publishing stage, I had to provide them the figures named [MyName]FigureX_a, [MyName]FigureX_b etc...
By accident, I got two figures wrong and they ...
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Found an error in my thesis
I've found a error in my thesis recently, after its submission. I made a mistake that wrongly accepted the hypothesis which should be rejected. What should I do??
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I found a huge error in my master's thesis which I defended a year ago
I defended my Master's thesis last year and continued on to pursue PhD in the same university under a different adviser. My Master's thesis adviser and I were getting ready to present a paper ...
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Article published in a conference has several technical flaws in it. What should be done?
This conference is organized on every 3 years. It is highly influential in the field of study. Screening and review committee are usually reputable that includes a strong set of researchers and ...
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What should I do if I have just observed minor mathematical typos in my accepted paper?
My paper was accepted at a good conference after 3 reviewers cleared it. After proof reading for the publishing, I sent it to the editor with approval.
However, now I have realised that there are 2 ...
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What to do when you notice that a value in your paper is wrong, once it is accepted but before it is published?
8 months ago, I have submitted my paper to the top journal in my field and finally it got accepted. Unfortunately, I have found one wrong table entry (Experiment Section), which is not a logical value ...
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If I notice an error in a figure after manuscript submission, could I be accused of falsification of data during review stage?
I have submitted a paper to a reputed journal (computer science; computer vision to be specific). While i was keenly waiting for the reviews, they were getting delayed. So I began working on an ...
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What should I do if a paper makes false claims about my work?
I recently found a paper published in the proceedings of a very important AI conference that makes a false claim about my work, i.e., claim that is false from the technical point of view.
I already ...
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Publishing erratum to arXiv and other best practices
Is publishing a single page erratum to arXiv an acceptable practice? And does it violate the copyright of journal who published the original work?
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Whether to seek correction after my paper is published when the order of my first, middle, and last names is incorrect?
My article has just been published in a reputable journal. I discovered that my name is in Last, Middle, First order e.g Bagud, F.M instead of Bagud, M.F which doesn't go with APA style. Do I need to ...
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Mistake in defended PhD thesis [duplicate]
I have defended my thesis and the PhD was awarded. But now I realize that I have made a mistake. The same images are published for 2 different samples. ( I have the real two images but somehow 1 was ...
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What should you consider before upload a revision to your arXiv paper when you spot an error?
I am in process of uploading a paper for arXiv. I have looked over the paper for several weeks now and it seems that there are no major issues, however, the paper is 24 pages long so I have accepted ...
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