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I have a proof that holds in a more general setting than that of my article, should I state the theorem generally or do something else
I am writing an article about matroids (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroid) and have a proof which holds not only for matroids but also for sets, i.e. it holds for a matroid given by M=(E, C), ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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", ...
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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 ...
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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/ ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Ai tools for academic research data collection [closed]
I’m doing extensive research each time because I need to synthesize many documents (articles, reports, etc), and I’m ready to invest in an AI tool that can help me with research. I waste most of my ...
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Is it true that Google scholar allows only up to three alternative (other) names?
My colleague's Sccholar profile has three "other names", which are alternative spellings of her name that appear in her papers. Can I add one more? There is no link "+ Add another ...
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How much does the name of the PhD degree matter for finding a job in industry?
I'm a second year PhD student in Poultry Science. My background is Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering. My research is about Poultry Robots. An opportunity appeared recently to transfer my major ...
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Will the University of Adelaide’s QS Ranking Reset After Its 2026 Merger with University of South Australia? [closed]
The University of Adelaide (currently ranked #82 in QS Rankings) is set to merge with the University of South Australia (#340 in QS Rankings) in 2026 to form Adelaide University.
Since this is ...
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Disclose peculiar health condition prior to hiring
I am writing this on behalf of a dear friend of mine (they/them).
My friend has been offered a very beautiful short-term internship opportunity in a foreign university not very far from where they ...
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How can we handle the coming academic refugee crisis? [closed]
With drastic cuts to the NSF and NIH and attacks on academic freedom at top US universities, many academics in the US are looking to move away, especially to the EU. Is it possible for other countries ...
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Is it acceptable to ask researchers working in industry to referee papers?
I am an editor of several academic journals. Occasionally it happens that when I am looking for potential referees of a paper, e.g. by looking at the authors of recent related papers and preprints, I ...
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My son gave a completed paper from a previous semester to another student to get ideas on what to write about- he copied it word for word [duplicate]
My son is on probation for academic dishonesty for "allowing others to cheat." He specifically told the student he could use it to get ideas on how and what to write about, but obviously not ...
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Does winning a DV Lottery pave the way for a non-academic researcher? [closed]
I have recently been selected for the US DV Lottery. However, for a person like me, I want to know if it is worth following the steps to receive a visa. I got my bachelor's degree in civil engineering ...
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Is pursuing a PhD in Singapore risky for an ML research career in industry in Europe? And in Asia?
I've decided to pursue a PhD primarily to deepen my expertise in machine learning, neural networks, and their mathematical foundations, aiming eventually for an industry research career—not academia. ...
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Letter of recommendation from research labs [closed]
Here's my situation: I graduated from a good university with bachelor's in CS and a CGPA of 8.21/10. During my internship, I worked at a research lab, published a paper and my supervisor, a PhD senior ...
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Publishing in a journal your own original work from a Stack Exchange site?
There are several questions already about citing work from Stack Exchange. This is already clear enough when citing someone else's work. But what about reproducing your own work in a journal without ...
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How can I stay intellectually engaged when my physics education focuses only on producing results, not understanding concepts?
I'm a final-year undergraduate physics student at a Nigerian university, and I’ve been struggling with a fundamental disconnect between the way I want to learn and the way I’m being taught.
Throughout ...
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How to organise working as a PhD student [duplicate]
I am starting my PhD soon in mathematics, and want to come up with a way of organising my notes and workings out etc (preferably on Overleaf), but I can't figure out the best way of this. I read that ...
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Is it appropriate to send research problems to professors I don’t know well for feedback?
I'm an early-career mathematician, just finished my PhD and about to start a postdoc. Toward the end of my PhD, I began generating my own research questions. Previously, I thought I needed a professor’...
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Quickly testing cognitive performance as evidence of NEED for sleep [closed]
First, to explain the word "NEED" in the title:
We assume for simplicity that the individual hasn't recently consumed coffee or any other caffeine-containing beverages or foods, and has at ...
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What are the disadvantages/advantages of submitting a paper on openreview?
I am a graduate student soon to submit a paper in the field of math/cs/ml.
I am interested in two journals that require authors to upload their papers on openreview. I looked at some uploaded ...
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Can I use the Teacher Confirmation Scale if the original author doesn’t respond?
I’m doing research for my bachelor's thesis and really want to use the Teacher Confirmation Scale (TCS) by Ellis (2000). I found it referenced (and even fully listed) in another article by Wang & ...
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Does the literature survey always have to come near the start of the chapter?
I have a thesis chapter which centers around using a technique that will be largely unfamiliar to most people in my field. I've so far wrote the chapter very pedagogically to 'teach' the reader the ...
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How to cite a ministry of a foreign country?
For exemple, if I want to cite the ministry of foreign affairs of Japan, should I just cite it as "Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Year). Name of publication". Or should I name it as "...
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Weak results for my undergrad thesis [closed]
I’m doing my undergrad dissertation on the impact of FDI on economic growth in developing countries. I’ve used a range of models: pooled OLS, one-way fixed effects, two-way fixed effects, and 2SLS. ...
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Looking for OT programs abroad with full scholarship (Thai student, low GPA, published research) [closed]
I’m a Grade 12 student in Thailand with a cumulative GPA of around 2.00. Despite this, I have a research project that was accepted and published in an academic journal. I’m very passionate about ...
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How do I prove my point to my supervisors? [closed]
Currently doing my masters program and also doing my research paper with two supervisors but often times we come into a clash with certain concepts. Recently, the results I generated matched the ...
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Poor handling of a paper by mathematics journal
As a PhD student, I prepared a short manuscript containing a counterexample to a mistaken claim in an earlier paper from 2001. I sent this manuscript to someone I knew (my advisor's collaborator; my ...
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Being removed from acknowledgements despite contributing to the paper
(I'm an academic in the applied mathematics (PDEs) community in Europe).
Last year I had many discussions with a colleague of mine (call him X) which helped him in creating the results that went into ...
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Is it acceptable to accept a university job offer while waiting on a potential industry offer?
I am a senior researcher based in Country A. I recently received an offer for an associate professorship at a university in Country B. The offer followed a lengthy and difficult negotiation process, ...
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Rounding decimal places during the calculation [closed]
I have a question in regards to decimal places.
If I am asked to provide an answer to the nearest unit, but I then have to show my work, I presume that during the process I would write a particular ...
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Is it acceptable to list only one of my two official PhD advisors when the other played a symbolic role?
I officially have two PhD advisors listed by my university. One of them is a retired professor who no longer actively advises students and was only minimally involved in my research or mathematical ...
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Citation count of ArXiv and journal version of the same paper
I know there is a rule which says if a paper was published in a journal later, you must cite it in its journal form.
Consider a paper that was sent to ArXiv and then published in the journal. In the ...
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When writing a grant application, should I be concise, or max out my word count?
I'm writing my first grant application, and have received a lot of support from colleagues. Many of them have even sent me their successful applications from prior years.
One thing I've noticed is ...
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Should I get a second bachelors or just move on to a masters. The goal is to to a PHD program [closed]
I need advice. I have a bachelor in Political Science, which I graduated with in 2024. I am now more interested in strictly becoming a data scientist, but not in policy. The goal for me is to get I ...
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No research progress due to advisor and other professors don't want to collaborate, what should I do?
I'm in the fifth year of a PhD program in a theoretical STEM field at a US university. I began working with my advisor midway through my second year. For reasons I won’t elaborate on here she holds ...
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Why do scientists use same words for different things? [closed]
I have seen that sometimes in academic articles, one uses different notations for different subjects or same word for different definitions, like sometimes a ring is commutative and sometimes not. Why ...
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ArXiv vs. journal publishing process
I am interested if anyone knows which part of journal publishing process (received/revised/accepted/published) is equivalent to publishing a preprint on ArXiv?
Why I am asking this: (potentional ...
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