Questions tagged [publications]
Questions related to academic publications including online and traditional journals, books, and conference proceedings.
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Those who fight and lose relationships over authorship disputes, is it worth it?
Sometimes, you feel you do more than the other person but get a lower authorship position. Sometimes, the other person does not do enough but asks for a co-first position. Sometimes, your authorship ...
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Submitting 2 manuscripts explaining the same scientific fact but by two different methods
I have submitted two manuscripts on physics both have analyzed a new finding by me but the methods of the "analysis" are different.
They differ in data, results and figures, just at the end, ...
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Can I reuse a large part of my own previously published paper in a new paper?
I am currently writing up a paper, and am tempted to copy/paste an entire section (several pages) from a previous paper I have written.
Some important context before you pass judgment: The section I ...
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Isolated from project when deadline approaches
I am a postdoc in a laboratory in the area of computer science. I have spent around 7 months mentoring a student master thesis. At the beginning this took significant work including me coming up with ...
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An article containing a copyrighted figure should be embedded in a stapler thesis: How to fill in RightsLink form?
I wrote an Elsevier article (open-access, CC-BY 4.0) that contains a third party figure from a Springer subscription book. At the time, I obtained a license for re-using the Springer figure in a ...
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I forgot to remove all authors' names from the appendix for a double-blind journal submission. What are the potential consequences?
I submitted a paper to a double-blind peer-reviewed journal. Unfortunately, I noticed that we forgot to remove the authors' names from the appendix. The submission was very recent, and until now, only ...
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Does Elsevier inform authors (or corresponding author) once they received the payment for Article Publishing Charge (APC) for open access?
I have submitted a manuscript to a fully open access journal in Elsevier and they accepted it after several revision rounds. However, after acceptance I received an invoice and I submitted it to my ...
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Should I ask permission from my former PI after finishing my contract when I'm sole author of the paper?
I'm a postdoc and I worked with a PI with whom I had many issues and disagreement. I even went to HR to report him for breaking the law. He told me to write the paper by myself as a single author. ...
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Pre-print split into 2 manuscripts
I have a pre-print that was submitted and rejected from a journal. We are now splitting the pre-print into 2 publications (one review paper and one theory paper).
I was wondering what to do in this ...
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Whether to upload a conference paper?
I am going to a (large) conference this summer, and participants are expected to upload their papers so the chair, the discussant and the conference-goers can read them beforehand. Today, I received ...
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Why are there still page number restrictions for journal papres even though physical printing plays almost no role anymore? [duplicate]
Why are there still page number restrictions for journal papers even though physical printing plays almost no role anymore?
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Why does independent research from people without formal academic qualifications generally turn out to be a complete waste of time?
I personally relate with people (wannabe physicists) who want to do something BIG in Physics and Maths, but don't have a high-level education (PhD) suited for it. Reasons could be a lack of jobs in ...
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How to handle a missing author on an ECCV paper submission after the deadline?
We recently submitted a paper to ECCV (European Conference on Computer Vision), but realized after the submission deadline that one of our significant contributors was omitted from the author list. ...
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Single author or joint paper with a famous author?
A postdoc X is in the early career phase (< 6 years after PhD) in a field that needs lots of publications. X is working in a group whose leader is very famous in a slightly different but still ...
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Do you think that publishing a documented script in R (e.g. on GitHub) can increase the chance of publication?
I am involved in environmental science. The data analysis for my following scientific paper is done 100% in R. I'm wondering if I should clean up my script before submitting the article for review and ...