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Plagiarism between a Physical Review Letters paper and a previous arXiv preprint
I am a PhD student and today, a PRL paper has been published in which a part of its main section reports the same results as our arXiv preprint, that was submitted also to PRL (and to arXiv) at 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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I am extremely passionate about entropy/physics, but I don't think I can get into grad school. What can I do to pursue these topics sustainably? [closed]
I am a recent graduate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland with a 2.94 GPA and a 3.01 major GPA and I am completely obsessed with entropy and the foundations of quantum physics. I'...
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How do researchers use published plots?
I was wondering how people deal with data represented with plots (of any kind) in a published paper, in particular for what regards Physics. When doing theoretical research (but not only), often you ...
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Will a paper be retracted if a flaw in released software code invalidates its central idea?
Say I have written code that performs a physics calculation. After this, I get a paper published based on the results of the code. In the interest of advancing the progress of science, I upload the ...
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Looking for an endorser to publish on arxiv.org as well as other suggestions [duplicate]
My grandfather, a long since retired professor, recently finished a very long in the making paper, which tries to cover a lot of ground around physics and general nature science. He is very old-school,...
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Life cycle for Physical Review Letters [duplicate]
What is the average time does it take from the time you submit your paper to the time is it published in Physical Review Letters?
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Graduate courses or research experience for PhD admissions: Which is more important? [closed]
I am currently at a crossroads, deciding between several MS program offers. I have the choice to do a research based masters, where I would take very few graduate courses but focus almost solely on ...
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How to explore Physics research as an undergraduate, keeping in mind the ever increasing weight on publications? [closed]
I am currently 3rd year Physics UG and have been working on Cosmology for past 3 years.
I want to explore different areas like QFT, Quantum Gravity and maybe a bit of basic Math research as well, ...
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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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Why do citations in physics journals leave out the article title?
I'm not a physicist but I read the occasional physics paper. Coming from another discipline I find it odd that most article references in physics journals leave out the article title - this seems like ...
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How can a prospective PhD student know beforehand which universities have the most reputable teams/supervisors?
I am interested in astronomy/astrophysics and cosmology. It is my understanding that choosing the best supervisor/team to work with for the PHD is more crucial than choosing the best (and most ...
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What is the workflow of an editor in this case? [closed]
I am rather new to the academic so I am bit insecure about the whole process. I have a small question regarding the publication process.
Context:
Recently I submitted a paper to a physics journal. ...
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How does a book editor's scientific reputation affect how the work of the chapter authors is evaluated?
When considering to publish a paper in a research journal, the journal's reputation itself is what people usually care about, rather than the editor's expertise and scientific status (although high-...
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History of mega-collaborations
Curiosity spurred by this recent question: what were the first mega-collaboration papers (hundreds/thousands of authors)? Which institution/project/experiment started them? How were they received at ...
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Article got accepted into PRL -- do I pay the costs?
Last week we got an article accepted into PRL (Physical Review Letters). As is standard, they afterwards sent out an email saying
To help defray editorial and production expenses, APS, a
not-for-...
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Authorship disagreement
I'm in physics where the order of authors is meaningful. The first author is the lead author and the last author is the principal investigator. I am an undergraduate who has collaborated on a topic ...
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Is first authorship a big deal (in terms of highlighting it on CV, etc.)? [duplicate]
From August 2015 through August 2016 I was on a Nuclear/Radiation Physics based work placement in a scientific research institute, between my second and third years of my university Maths degree. I am ...
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In physics, does the order of authors on a paper matter?
I'm writing to inquire whether or not the order in which the names of the authors is mentioned has any bearing? Here's my case:
I started working on a project with a professor in the physics ...
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Two potential ways of presenting results, is there a preference?
In a short paper I am writing, I have developed a fairly complex model. To express it in a highly watered down fashion, the purpose of the paper is to study the variation of a Variable Y with an ...
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Publishing a paper as the sole author (undergraduate)
I am an undergraduate student and I have been working with a computational physics group for three years.
Over the past three years, the code I used for our research has grown from one simple ...
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Is there any recognized online portal where anyone can publish articles without being associated with any university or organization?
Suppose some working person has interest in physics and mathematics and he want to publish a paper either review or research, so is there anyway he can publish? Obviously person is not associated with ...
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My manuscript status says that one referee sent a message but not a report
About three weeks ago, I submitted a paper to a highly reputable physics journal. (I had another paper recently published in this journal as well.) I have been checking the status continuously, and ...
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How to advertise a paper to increase citations?
Of course, the best way to improve citations is to write good papers which presents sound, interesting, and important results.
However, assuming that one has a nice paper published in an important ...
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How can I justify having only two publications when applying for postdoc jobs in physics/chemistry?
I have only 2 publications from my PhD, and I am applying for a post-doc position.
My fields are: Theoretical physical chemistry; condensed matter physics;
computational chemistry; cluster science.
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Alphabetical authorship order in graduate admissions (particularly high energy physics)
I would like to know how graduate admission committees at US Universities look at alphabetical authorship publications in a CV (particularly in high energy physics). Since the convention in high ...
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PhD in theoretical physics after dropping out of PhD program in Engineering?
I am applying to US universities for PhD in theoretical physics (for Fall 2015). I was earlier an engineering undergraduate student from a reputed college in Asia with GPA of around 8.0 (on a scale of ...
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What are pre-print repositories for math and physics alternative to ArXiv?
Are there other widely used academic pre-print repositories other than ArXiv? My interest is especially towards mathematics and physics.
If possible, one characteristic that I'd like to find in other ...
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What are the most frequently cited textbooks in the physics literature? [closed]
What are the most frequently cited textbooks in the physics literature?
Note: I am not looking for guesses, but answers supported by citations data. What are some good physics citations databases?
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How to find an appropriate journal to submit to when working in a new, unfamiliar field?
I have developed a new method to form a single-atom chain (break junction) in physics, which so far has results from calculation and simulation but not yet experiment.
How can I find out which ...
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