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Can I publish something which is more like a study and which does not contain any concrete results?
I am a theoretical physics researcher. I have not published any papers yet, so I do not have that much experience in publishing a paper. Though I am a Ph.D. student, I am also working independently on ...
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Should I tell my supervisor about my upcoming paper?
I'm doing a PhD on theoretical physics.
The last months, I'm working on a paper that my supervisor is not aware of. I'm now finishing the paper. The idea of the paper is closely related to my PhD ...
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Citing programming packages [duplicate]
I wanted to ask how to cite python packages into a scientific article.
I used a code package for my project and I can not find a scientific publication of the package I used. Exist a standard to cite ...
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# as abbreviation of "Number of"/"Count of"
I'm writing a scientific paper, and I seen a lot of times the abbreviation # for 'number of' or similar, for example if we are counting events, I seen expressed the results as,
# type1 = 100, # ...
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Scientific paper with 3D scatterplot in supplementary information; I can add a video but how to let readers rotate/zoom interactively?
When publishing in the physical sciences the main paper is usually something 2D, you can read it online or print it. Many journals support supplementary data in the form of pdf files and videos.
It is ...
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I have developed a tool which I think can benefit others. Can I publish this to a journal? [duplicate]
I'm a physicist and have written a tool which greatly simplifies my job. Instead of needing to worry about implementation details I can now simply input my data and the software will do all necessary ...
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Publishing a physics paper when you are outside academia?
I'd like to publish a paper in a cosmology journal. However, I've been outside academia for about 3 years since completing my masters. Is there any platform where I can share my idea and get feedback ...
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Pursuing a UK PhD with a Greek BSc + research experience [duplicate]
I am beginning my final semester of my 4-year undergraduate program, studying Informatics (Computer Science) in Greece, and I expect to graduate this September. I would like to pursue a PhD in the ...
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How can I ease in to the research arena?
I'm a first year graduate student and my age is 24. I got a degree in statistics, but it was not that interesting. I barely got into a below average grad school program in mathematics. I want to ...
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My paper is rejected repeatedly without naming a technical flaw [duplicate]
My theoretical physics paper is being rejected repeatedly at the editorial stage, without undergoing peer review. However, every rejection explicitly states that there is no technical error in my line ...
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Would it be inappropriate to complete this project on my own?
About a year ago, I quit my PhD in mathematics. At the time, I was working on a project given to me by my former advisor. His contributions were as follows:
Explaining the basic idea of the project, ...
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What niche is PRResearch supposed to fill that the other APS journals don’t already cover?
I read the description of the new journal PRResearch on the APS website, but I am still confused.
APS publishes specialized journals, including PRA/B/C/D/E, for each major branch of physics, and ...
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Example of joint submission to PRL, PRA
We are thinking about a joint submission to Physical Review Letters, and PRA per these guidelines. I'm however not entirely sure how the two submissions should be exactly related, e.g. how much ...
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Importance of peer-reviewed proceedings in particle physics
How important can be peer-reviewed proceedings based on talks on work-in-progress? Do they carry equal importance like a publication in a journal and count as an independent publication even though ...
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What is the formal process for a theory to get accepted by the science community? [duplicate]
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Since last many years, I have self-studied a subject that is Theoretical Physics - Cosmology, Time and Space. I have never got ...
