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45 votes

10 answers

11k views

Promised authorship was not given; am I supposed to get an automatic acknowledgement?

asked Apr 11, 2021 at 5:54

34 votes

6 answers

9k views

Shall I go and see my advisor's father who is on his death bed?

asked Dec 22, 2019 at 5:27

27 votes

5 answers

7k views

Is it acceptable to ask for the original bibtex file of a paper?

asked Sep 30, 2017 at 21:44

27 votes

3 answers

6k views

Is it good courtesy to reply and express gratitude to an editor's long letter of rejection?

asked Jul 13, 2022 at 23:32

20 votes

9 answers

9k views

Can I contact the referee if I know their identity after a double-blind reviewing process?

asked Sep 28, 2020 at 2:50

16 votes

7 answers

6k views

My result is accepted in a journal as an errata, but the editors want to change the authorship

asked Jul 10 at 20:32

15 votes

8 answers

9k views

When do I switch from "Dear Dr. X" to "Dear Firstname" when exchanging emails with a professor that I never seen before?

asked Jun 29, 2022 at 6:13

15 votes

6 answers

5k views

Concurrent workers independently published part of my results. How to convince the referees that I got the results independently?

asked Apr 17, 2021 at 7:01

12 votes

3 answers

2k views

Asking questions/sending note to the three authors of a paper in economics, three personalized letters?

asked Aug 30, 2020 at 19:17

12 votes

7 answers

3k views

How can I deal with a significant flaw I found in my previous supervisor’s paper?

asked Mar 2, 2019 at 7:49

12 votes

3 answers

4k views

Whom should I send the email to? The Principal Investigator or the postdoc who have done the work?

asked Apr 19, 2018 at 14:25

9 votes

3 answers

1k views

The referee says that I did not attempt to "reject" my model – what does this mean?

asked Sep 27, 2020 at 10:30

8 votes

4 answers

3k views

I found some typos in the proof of the main theorem after submission. Shall I contact the editor?

asked Jul 2, 2022 at 5:22

6 votes

7 answers

5k views

Pre-print service like arXiv but with private option, so I can correct my mistakes without publicly advertising my mistakes?

asked Nov 14, 2020 at 22:14

6 votes

2 answers

371 views

My experiment supports a theory. Shall I contact the theorist attaching with my drafts?

asked Oct 19, 2020 at 12:09

5 votes

2 answers

872 views

A poor and mistaken paper scooped a well-written paper: can the latter paper still be published in a journal of similar tier?

asked Jan 27, 2022 at 9:25

5 votes

3 answers

665 views

Citing articles while writing a reply to the referee/editor's reports: do I need to do that?

asked Dec 12, 2023 at 23:22

4 votes

1 answer

239 views

Should I contact the original authors before submission if my paper is heavily built on a series of previous papers (and does not invalid it)?

asked Jun 28, 2022 at 6:45

4 votes

3 answers

1k views

Someone claim to "independently discovered the same thing (two years after me)"

asked Aug 16, 2023 at 10:20

4 votes

2 answers

1k views

Is it polite to ask to be the corresponding author in a paper that I contributed the most?

asked Dec 1, 2021 at 0:52

4 votes

2 answers

948 views

Asking for the second/third recommendation letter, should I tell the referee he is writing the third letter?

asked Oct 26, 2018 at 6:17

3 votes

1 answer

2k views

What is the best way to schedule an office hour appointment with big name professor?

asked Oct 17, 2017 at 21:38

3 votes

2 answers

297 views

Conflict of interests and the assignment of referee for a very narrow field

asked Nov 2, 2019 at 18:02

3 votes

3 answers

1k views

Is it impolite to not to respond to professors' replying email asap?

asked Oct 21, 2020 at 7:09

3 votes

2 answers

420 views

How to politely and diplomatically ask one "half-senior“ coauthor to contribute more?

asked May 10, 2022 at 21:48

3 votes

3 answers

679 views

Who should the authors of a corrigendum be if I am correcting someone else's mistake?

asked Jun 14, 2022 at 11:31

3 votes

3 answers

3k views

What steps should I take when contacting another researcher after finding possible errors in their work?

asked Jun 27, 2023 at 14:26

2 votes

1 answer

709 views

What is the name for "academic fights"?

asked Oct 30, 2019 at 1:30

2 votes

2 answers

281 views

Shall I give a template to the rec-letter writer?

asked Nov 20, 2019 at 1:36

2 votes

1 answer

666 views

How to politely, mildly, and tactfully ask for a minor revision before the presentation of the conference paper?

asked May 4, 2018 at 0:46

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55 Questions

Promised authorship was not given; am I supposed to get an automatic acknowledgement?

Shall I go and see my advisor's father who is on his death bed?

Is it acceptable to ask for the original bibtex file of a paper?

Is it good courtesy to reply and express gratitude to an editor's long letter of rejection?

Can I contact the referee if I know their identity after a double-blind reviewing process?

My result is accepted in a journal as an errata, but the editors want to change the authorship

When do I switch from "Dear Dr. X" to "Dear Firstname" when exchanging emails with a professor that I never seen before?

Concurrent workers independently published part of my results. How to convince the referees that I got the results independently?

Asking questions/sending note to the three authors of a paper in economics, three personalized letters?

How can I deal with a significant flaw I found in my previous supervisor’s paper?

Whom should I send the email to? The Principal Investigator or the postdoc who have done the work?

The referee says that I did not attempt to "reject" my model – what does this mean?

I found some typos in the proof of the main theorem after submission. Shall I contact the editor?

Pre-print service like arXiv but with private option, so I can correct my mistakes without publicly advertising my mistakes?

My experiment supports a theory. Shall I contact the theorist attaching with my drafts?

A poor and mistaken paper scooped a well-written paper: can the latter paper still be published in a journal of similar tier?

Citing articles while writing a reply to the referee/editor's reports: do I need to do that?

Should I contact the original authors before submission if my paper is heavily built on a series of previous papers (and does not invalid it)?

Someone claim to "independently discovered the same thing (two years after me)"

Is it polite to ask to be the corresponding author in a paper that I contributed the most?

Asking for the second/third recommendation letter, should I tell the referee he is writing the third letter?

What is the best way to schedule an office hour appointment with big name professor?

Conflict of interests and the assignment of referee for a very narrow field

Is it impolite to not to respond to professors' replying email asap?

How to politely and diplomatically ask one "half-senior“ coauthor to contribute more?

Who should the authors of a corrigendum be if I am correcting someone else's mistake?

What steps should I take when contacting another researcher after finding possible errors in their work?

What is the name for "academic fights"?

Shall I give a template to the rec-letter writer?

How to politely, mildly, and tactfully ask for a minor revision before the presentation of the conference paper?