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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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