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Locating the journal in which a paper was published
I found a singular paper on an extremely specific CS topic on arXiv. How would I find which journal this paper has been published in?
I ask because I would like more detail on this paper, however ...
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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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Should I highlight one of my old papers in my last 5 years research achievements, if the old paper got printed recently?
It is general that most of the journals now a days publish article in online first and later give the volume and year name when they print it.
I have many papers in such case. However, I am confused ...
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Publishing independent proofs of a theorem in the same journal?
In the comments here, a user suggested that when two proofs of the same theorem are obtained independently, it is a common practice (at least in physics) to submit them to the same journal.
I was ...
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Is it possible to ask the identity of a particular reviewer to oppose for future submission?
I am in an embarrassing situation. I have submitted my article three times, to three different journals, and always I get the same reviewer who copies and pastes the same reviews which actually make ...
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Does it still make sense to reply to not so recent publications? Is there a cut off?
When is a publication (paper or book) considered to be a recent publication? Does it still make sense to reply to publications, even if they are not so recent, or will it look silly to respond to ...
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Is my paper under review (or similar) for too long and if yes, how should I react?
I submitted a paper to a journal, and I suspect that it is handled too slowly.
How can I decide whether my suspicion is correct? What handling times should I expect?
Given some expected handling ...
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What to do if a discussion letter/paper is rejected because it's not an original research article?
A while ago, we read a paper published in a quite credible journal (impact factor around 3), which we believed had a few very basic but significant mistakes in the methods and final results.
The ...
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What to do about fee from publisher for withdrawing unpublished accepted manuscript?
I had sent my manuscript mistakenly to two different journals and both journals are ready to publish (not yet published) my work which is not possible. So, after knowing their impact factor I ...
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One of the multiple submitted paper is published and others are withdrawn
I have written one paper on mathematics and submitted it to 5 journals concurrently. Four of them accepted the paper and one asked to send the paper in their required format.
The paper contains one ...
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What is the correct procedure to report typos or errors in journal articles?
I have found an error in a journal article which I believe to be a typo. It is minor but it does affect the technical aspects of the paper so it should ideally be corrected.
What is the correct ...
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How to write a letter to an editor for pointing out needed corrections in my submitted journal manuscript
Few days back I communicated a paper in a journal and some silly mistakes are there. While citing some other author's paper in my paper, instead of reference number it is showing a sign of question ...
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Should you mention previous rejections when resubmitting a paper? What is common practice?
You submit a manuscript to journal A. The paper is rejected, either with a short dismissal ("not good enough for this journal") or with a longer rebuttal from the referees. You wish to resubmit it to ...
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Acknowledgements and reviewer selection
For some reason, I was always under the impression that people that are included in the acknowledgement section of paper are not contacted to review your paper because they would be predisposed to ...
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What should I do if I found a citation error in a published paper?
I've found a mistake in a published paper, and am unsure what to do now.
I was looking at all cited articles from a paper over 10 years old, and found one that is citing the paper in error.
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