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Continuous article publishing

Is continuous article publishing (CAP) a good thing? Many journals are making the transition to CAP. It seems to alleviate costs for publishers. Also, I suppose it is a natural thing, in view of the ...
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Is it true that a conference paper is considered more valueable than a journal paper in the field of Computer Science? If so why is it so? [duplicate]

I have heard that journal papers are more valuable than conference papers generally in other fields. Yet I read that in Computer Science field that conference papers are more valuable. Hence I want ...
REnuka Perera's user avatar
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Is there benefit to publishing the abstract of an English article in multiple languages?

I noted from a previous paper I worked on, that when it was published an abstract was included in Spanish as well as English (https://bjssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bjs.11422 and ...
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Avoiding scientific salami slicing [closed]

As part of my master thesis in bioinformatics I built a tool A, which is similar to tool B which uses other data. Tool's B original paper is a description of the software and methods implemented, ...
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How to answer question about publication plans in a grant proposal?

How do you answer a question in your application for research grant, where it asks you 'Plans for publication'? I plan to publish the results of my research in one of three optional scientific ...
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Best sites and practices to disseminate research papers

I am thinking of posting a preprint of a paper of mine before I get a response to my submission. This is allowed by several publishers. I considered three possibilities: arXiv.org, academia.edu and ...
Marco Stamazza's user avatar
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How to disseminate a methodology proposal to those who may be interested?

I am currently doing research in the field of non-linear narrative design. As it is still quite a small field, few sources and set jargon is currently available that hasn't bled in from paternal ...
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Which license should I aim to publish articles & software under?

Suppose I have the choice of license under which to publish my research work in Computer Science (constituting scientific papers and software) online; and that I need to make this decision before any ...
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Published and unpublished dissertation; DOI assignment

I have recently defended my Ph.D. dissertation and submitted it to my graduate school's e-repository of scholarly works as well as to the ProQuest database. I have not heard yet from ProQuest about ...
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