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Do conference abstracts by other groups preclude publication?
N.B. This question is about physics (if you want it really specific: applied physics, adjacent to chemistry). This means that (a) abstracts are typically very short compared to a full paper (around 1-...
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How to do short research projects with professors?
I am a physics student looking to apply for PhD positions. To increase my chances of getting selected and to increase my exposure to research, I want to publish research papers. The only research I ...
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Emphasis on explaining background knowledge in PL; not much so in physics?
As a CS-Physics double major undergrad entering my senior year, I have begun reading a handful of articles from both fields. Specifically, I have read some articles from programming language-related ...
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Is it a good idea, for a young researcher, to submit to arXiv a "mediocre" paper?
I'm a PhD student in physics, working on some projects with my advisors, which are hopefully going to be published soon. I have a profile on ResearchGate, on which I posted my theses, a poster, and a ...
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Do people care about single-author works in quantum information theory?
I am a junior postdoc (completed one and a half years) working in the field of quantum information theory. I was told by my PhD advisor that single-author papers don’t really matter in physics. They ...
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Disadvantages/risks of publishing new raw data as one of a group of instructive examples while planning to publish a full analysis of the data later?
We have a few 2D low energy electron diffraction LEED images (field is Physics/Surface Science) that are currently not yet published, the analysis is not complete nor their implications fully explored....
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I see these types of plots a lot in older publications. What software/method is used to make this plot? [duplicate]
Anyone know what software or method is used to make these classic black and white publication figures with all caps axis labels and typically a gridded background?
Just curious because I have seen ...
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Convention on embedding three pairs of items in a single sentence using parentheses
I am writing in a description of three items in a thesis on Particle Physics, and I can do it in one line in theory. If there were just two items, e.g. A and B, which produce results C and D, I could ...
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strategy of publication fee for a junior faculty member in math/phys fields
Most good journals don't charge a mandatory publication fee. Many open access only journals aren't that good and accept papers easily. For a junior faculty member who has much money for publication in ...
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How does one keep hammering on another study in preprints so forcefully that one gets temporarily banned from posting to arXiv?
The September 26, 2022 news item in Science ‘Something is seriously wrong’: Room-temperature superconductivity study retracted discusses one individual who levied substantial criticism of the study, ...
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If I write a paper as PI, is it best to be first or last author? [duplicate]
I'm a physicist at a national lab. I recently became head of a group at my lab and am currently writing a journal paper with a few of the people in my group.
Is it better to put myself as first author ...
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Can I publish plots for already derived and plotted data with different values?
I am doing MS Physics. If I take some previously derived results and plot them for different values, can I publish this work? If I do so, will it be like a review work? The plots are already there in ...
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Can I do publish my paper without APC? [closed]
Now a days,I have no money to pay for Article Processing charge (APC) since I have no money support foundation.I want to publish my paper without paying any amount of money in an international journal ...
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Does adding a co-author with a high citation record in a paper have an impact on the peer-review process?
While going through some papers in my research area. I have noticed the presence of an author X with a high citation record (+3000), on several research papers. Digging deeper, I have discovered that, ...
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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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