Newest Questions
45,753 questions
0
votes
0
answers
3
views
Is it appropriate to reach out to an editor to propose reviewers after my paper has been stuck with only 1 review for some time?
A paper I submitted to a journal has been in review for several months. During this time, the editor has invited 9 reviewers, but only 1 accepted and sent the final review. This has been over 1.5 ...
- 912
-1
votes
0
answers
22
views
Is there any tool to fix cases in references (LaTeX + BibTeX)?
One common formatting issue in reference lists is that characters that should remain capitalized are often not. E.g., Chatgpt -> ChatGPT. Is there a tool that can fix this? I use LaTeX and BibTeX.
- 34.7k
1
vote
2
answers
92
views
My paper was submitted without my consent, accepted, then replaced by substantially different camera-ready version when I complained
A paper authored by myself during my post-doc was submitted to conference A and rejected. I was unhappy with the paper and did not want to resubmit it to another conference. It was agreed with my PI ...
- 11
0
votes
1
answer
57
views
Does it seem lazy to email a professor after a talk to check if my understanding is correct regarding a paper he presented?
I attended a talk by a professor a few months ago. Now I am doing research that would benefit from a methodology he used in his presentation, it is not his, but he used it in his work, and explained ...
- 749
1
vote
1
answer
56
views
How much advising does one get typically get during a postdoc?
I recently outlined my current PhD struggles in another question No research progress due to advisor and other professors don't want to collaborate, what should I do?. In an ideal world, I would ...
- 81
3
votes
1
answer
76
views
How does one respond to a colleague asking for major credit for a joint project for the application for a personal career prize?
Tom (experienced postdoc), Lilly (junior postdoc) and Olivier (PhD student) co-first-authored a project which was published in a high profile journal. Tom now wants to use this paper in an application ...
- 31
3
votes
1
answer
111
views
Immediate concerns with paper I am peer-reviewing
I recently accepted an invitation to peer review a paper an ecology-adjacent field. When I conduct a peer-review, I start with an initial read through of the paper to get a general idea of the ...
- 214
0
votes
0
answers
25
views
Multi-Physical Host Hyperledger Fabric Network setup and deploying chaincode [closed]
I want to create a Hyperledger Fabric (latest version v2.5 or v3.0 from the doc) network on multiple physical machines. My fabric network will have 2 channels.In the first channel, I will have 2 ...
3
votes
2
answers
326
views
Is 40 pages too long for a math/cs research paper?
I was originally content with a 25 pages long research paper. When I sent it for review in a journal, the EiC rejected it and said they demand clarification on X and Y and mathematical proofs for a ...
- 593
6
votes
2
answers
764
views
Is there a happy medium between Purple Prose and Thing Explainer?
I'm writing a STEM journal article with some coauthors. One of my coauthors (another native speaker) has been politely critical of my writing style for being "too conversational", ...
6
votes
2
answers
1k
views
is it ethical to leave my PhD in one more year although I am funded?
I’m a PhD student in an ECE department at a US institution, currently funded as a TA/GA and next year as a TA/TA (I have received and signed my contract). When I got interviewed with my advisor, he ...
4
votes
1
answer
147
views
Licensing for material held in Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum
I'm having a hard time finding information on how the scanned books in the GDZ are licenced. On this info page https://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/copying-digitising/goettingen-digitisation-centre/ ...
- 1,365
3
votes
0
answers
87
views
Has anyone used Lockdown Browser for in-class essay rough drafts? Any issues you've run into with this?
Writing and Literature teacher here. In response to students' irresponsible use of LLMs, I have shifted away from relying heavily on longer research essays for assessment. (If I wanted to know what ...
- 133
0
votes
1
answer
163
views
Is it true that Google Scholar does not include papers signed with an initial?
Apparently Google Scholar does not allow more than three "other names." So for the primary full name, it is not capable of including papers signed with an initial?
For example, if the ...
-1
votes
0
answers
130
views
If a potential supervisor practically rejects your revised proposal, are your Ph.D. admission chances significantly reduced? [closed]
The potential supervisor I met several weeks ago made several substantive comments on my proposal. I did my best to address them, but several days after sending her my revised proposal, she made the ...
- 129