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What happens to preprints after the information contained in them gets published in a peer-reviewed journal?
My question is whether preprints continue to exist after the information contained in them gets published in a journal. It would be confusing to have two sources for the same information (the preprint ...
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Second revision, one of the reviewers said I should completely rewrite paper with new ideas and methods, because it is not innovative
I have revised my initial manuscript with a major revision after the first decision. After long months of waiting, I received reviewing results with another major revision.
Two reviewers were ...
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Bad answer to a bad peer-review
I submitted a paper together with other people to an important journal. A couple of days ago we received the answer from the editor and the paper was rejected (I was 3rd author) with very bad comments....
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Reivsion in ScholarOne: Where to upload the response to reviewers as a attached file? [closed]
For the revision, I found there are two possible attachment places for the response document.
I don't know which one is the appropriate place for attaching the document. Please help me!
One is in '...
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Asking to review my research paper
I recently wrote a research paper and want to submit it to a journal but as I wrote it on my own and it's my first paper, I would like someone (a faculty member or a PhD student) to review my paper ...
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Is the journal indexing by SCOPUS meaningless? [closed]
A journal that I want to submit my manuscript is SCOPUS and WoS indexed (Q3, impact factor: 1.89, SJR 0.264, Fee: around 1000$). But my Professor said SCOPUS indexed journals are MEANINGLESS!(two ...
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Is it a requirement that at least one of the authors of a paper holds a PhD?
The editor of a journal asked me “Please confirm the title of XXX XX, Mr. or Dr.?” His title is Mr., as the manuscript was written by two students alone, without a supervisor or anyone with the title ...
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When should one go for a double blind peer review?
Field of interest: Astronomy and Astrophysics (please do share your knowledge and experiences for other fields as well)
Many journals allow the author to request for a double blind peer review.
When ...
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Existence of regional bias in peer review and how to deal with it
Background information:
Field: Neuroscience;
Country: India
Premise:
I am a graduate student. I have not published many articles. Over the past 5 or so years, I have been hearing from colleagues, my ...
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Shall I review a paper for my advisor?
I am a research scholar who published a paper in an Elsevier journal recently.
My advisor had almost no contribution in the paper, but since it is mandatory to put the advisor’s name in the paper, I ...
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How to deal with this type of rejection without review report?
After being in "Under Review" status for 4.5 months (before that it stayed in "Reviewing" status for 3 weeks), I get the following cold rejection without any review report or review comments. How to ...
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Referees ask for more content but this lengthens the paper dramatically
So, my situation is as follows: I submitted a paper to a journal and continued to work on that line of research, specifically on the open problems I mentioned in the submitted paper.
Now, in the ...
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Is doing research alone and publishing solo frowned upon by colleagues and superiors in engineering sciences? [closed]
Research has become more and more complex and difficult to be successfully conducted by a single person. However, there are fields (such as some branches of engineering) in which a researcher can ...
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Editor reviews paper directly
Is it possible for an editor to review the paper directly without inviting another reviewer if the editor feels familiar with the content studied in the paper?
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Being in "reviewer invited" state for a long time before changing to "under review" : Is this a bad sign
My paper was in "Reviewer invited" state for close to 7 months and recently changed to the status "Under Review". Why did it took 7 months for a reviewer/reviewers to accept to review, or find one who ...
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