Questions tagged [publications]
Questions related to academic publications including online and traditional journals, books, and conference proceedings.
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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 ...
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Is it possible to share a CC-BY-licensed article on ResearchGate that contains copyrighted material?
My open-access Elsevier article (CC-BY 4.0) contains a third-party figure (from a Springer subscription book). I obtained permission and the caption correctly states that the copyright of the figure ...
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Publication trend (quality vs quantity) after tenure
Are there any studies that measure the change or the lack thereof in the trend of publications produced by a professor after they got tenured? Do recently tenured professors shift from quantity of ...
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Paper rejected because it did not fit the scope of a journal
I recently finished my paper and I submitted it to a journal. A few days later, I got a response from the editor saying that my manuscript had been rejected because it did not fit the scope of the ...
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Redacting third-party figure in journal article before including in thesis?
I have included a third-party figure (from a Springer subscription book) in an open-access Elsevier article (CC-BY 4.0 license). At the time, I obtained permission via RightsLink and included the ...
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Figure for publication creation workflow (mainly physics, math) [closed]
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I have a question about figure creation, mostly in the context of numerical work in math and physics, but I don't think that the discipline is that relevant for my purpose. I make plots ...
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