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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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