Unanswered Questions
179 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Is there a flaw in the Elsevier green OA license?
I'm checking the Elsevier article sharing policies and I think there is a problem with their license of the accepted manuscript (post-review article). Indeed, the instructions say:
Authors can share ...
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Make Google Scholar re-identify a paper's citations
A few weeks ago, Google Scholar asked if I wanted to update the title of my thesis (the publication website and the document itself had different titles for some unknown reason). I accepted the ...
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Do APA article titles that include the title of a book italicize the book title within the article title?
I have an APA question that I cannot seem to find a clear answer to within the APA 7th edition Style guide. When citing the title of an article of an article whose title includes the title of a ...
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Getting scooped and is it appropriate to volunteer to write a highlight?
To solve a long-unknown crystal structure, we were scooped by another group using the same state-of-the-art technique. A peer-reviewed top journal article was published online in the past few days.
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Why are my referenced papers not identified by Semantic Scholar and ResearchGate?
My paper lists 83 articles in the reference section. However, Semantic Scholar only identifies 5 of them. One of the 5 identified references, Jae S. Lim (1986), does not even appear in my article. ...
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Is it ethical to publish my own idea when ex-colleagues also wanted to work on it, and how do I make it clear which parts are my own contributions?
Context: Some years ago I collaborated on a paper, with my advisor and another grad student (first author), in which we would include
a certain competitive machine learning algorithm and
a ...
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Awaiting recommendation, but before any sort of peer review
I submitted a paper through ScholarOne Manuscripts 3 days ago. The first status that I am getting is "ADM: Awaiting Recommendation" , just after the initial status which was "ADM: ...
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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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Are there any disadvantages of pre-publishing figures for a paper separatly using a CC-BY license?
I recently came across a blog post, where it was suggested to pre-publish figures you intend to use in an academic paper somewhere using a CC-BY license. I find this idea really nice (as it allows ...
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How to cite an author response on OpenReview?
I am discussing papers A and B in a paper that I'm writing. Since paper B is more recent than paper A and both propose methods to address the same problem, I hoped to find sufficient benchmarks ...
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Publication trend (quality vs quantity) after tenure
Are there any studies that measure the change or the lack thereof in the trend of publications produced by a professor after they got tenured? Do recently tenured professors shift from quantity of ...
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Studies of the impact on research of measuring research output via publication statistics?
Are there any studies of the impact on research choices (i.e. which research topics do researcher choose, how likely they are to collaborate with others, whether they go to public or private research ...
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Can I set up zotero to download arxiv vanity when I download a paper from arxiv?
When I add a paper from arXiv to my zotero, it will download the arxiv paper along with all the details. I was wondering if there is some way to get it to also download the corresponding arxiv vanity ...
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A standard form for declaration of authorship shares inside an author collective
I need a formal agreement from co-authors of our publication describing their individual authorship contribution. In other words, I need a form (signed by all authors) that state the contribution in ...
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How to cite long term unofficial usage of a non-approved medical device in the results section of a paper?
My research group has developed a novel medical device that is much needed in the area of diagnostic laboratory medicine that we are working in. We are writing a paper on this device and its results ...
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