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Should a thesis cite a published paper that originates from the thesis Itself?
I find myself in a complex situation involving citations between a published paper and the thesis from which it originated. Here are the key details:
I submitted my thesis for examination and, during ...
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Is it possible to create a classification scale similar to Kardashev to classify scientific articles?
My idea would be to build a theoretical classification similar to Kardashev's ladder to consider what is scientific, what is not scientific or what is pseudoscientific.
The Kardashev scale definition ...
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I published an article developing and applying a method that I thought new. Someone had developed it before, outside of my applied field
I am writing my PhD thesis now. It comprises, in particular, one published article in a Q1 journal. This is a compilation thesis, and thus articles are pasted directly. For context, we apply machine ...
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How should I paraphrase a paragraph with several primary references?
I have a question about in-text citations. I have read different answers and want to be sure about it: when I paraphrase a text from paper A, I should cite the author; if there is a reference in the ...
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Adding all entries in bibliography of a research paper automatically other than using Excite and wos [duplicate]
Every research paper had a bibliography at the end carrying various earlier research papers, books, web articles, etc. The user has to click on each one separately and then, through Google or Semantic ...
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Can I cite an article only once that I use for a whole section of the MSc dissertation?
I'm writing a section of my thesis in LaTeX that belongs to a state of the art chapter. This section contains the summary of a scientific article (many sentences are copied literally while others are ...
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Is it possible to publish a scientific research on a web page and a journal at the same time? [closed]
Can I create a web page and write research on it and then publish in an arxiv site or a magazine? Do the laws of magazines allow this?
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Referencing if a YouTube video is the sole source
I have information that I found on YouTube, and when I searched for it on Google, I did not find it in any book, not even in an article, and nor in Google Scholar. Can I mention this information ...
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Complaining about a published paper
I have seen a paper recently published in a reputable IEEE journal but this paper is completely wrong, using other algorithms and making false statements. This is degrading the complete research ...
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Week before Master's thesis deadline, found publication that explores same concept with slightly different results
My Master's thesis is due in a week and I am currently writing up all of my results. To my horror, I have just found a paper that seems to explore virtually the same concept as I do, although they ...
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Can I reference a result on a dataset without any research paper by that author as state of the art?
The best result on a given dataset has no trace in the form of
research paper or any sort of analysis.
We have no idea whose results were those, or what method was created.
Some competition was held,...
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If I publish my paper in non-ISI journal, Will it appear on PubMed and other electronic databases, to the public?
If I publish my paper in non-ISI journal, will it appear on PubMed and other electronic databases, to the public?
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Blockchain for publications [closed]
Today`s publications lack of the possibility to be extended by others after being published. A data base paper could for example benefit when contributors would gain authorship by opening data with a ...
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Should a dissertation cite the chapter within the dissertation or the published manuscript?
I'm in the process putting together a dissertation by publication and one of the manuscripts builds upon previously published work. As a result, the manuscript as a chapter in the dissertation has ...
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Writing Thesis: Copying from published papers [closed]
I'm aware that some institutions offer something that is called 'Thesis by Publication' (sandwich thesis) but that's not available to me. I'm trying to work out what pitfalls there may be to simply ...
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