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2019/02/16 | 452 | 1,915 | <issue_start>username_0: Unexpected results were attained in a simulation that point to a possible problem with the dataset. While writing about this in the discussion section, I'd like to elaborate on my explanation for this by presenting a simple calculation that reinforces my interpretation. Is it allowed to do this... |
2019/02/16 | 804 | 3,517 | <issue_start>username_0: Last week, I did a paper, and posted it on my school's online blackboard. Not even five minutes later, I realized I had misread the directions and took it down. Some of my points were still relevant, so I used them exactly as i had written them before. Is this self-plagiarism?<issue_comment>use... |
2019/02/17 | 1,376 | 5,525 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm considering the possibility of completing a degree from which I dropped out almost a decade ago. In part because I feel I should, in part because I think it could be useful for switching to industry.
**Context**
Started a degree in Engineering in a non-US university with traditional syste... |
2019/02/17 | 668 | 3,041 | <issue_start>username_0: Say you are developing a new advanced course in Computer Science in a fast-developing area.
* You may look at equivalent courses given elsewhere that partially overlap with your new course, while structuring your slides and Syllabus.
* You may give reading assignments explicitly directing stu... |
2019/02/17 | 1,022 | 4,315 | <issue_start>username_0: There are so many posts regarding authorship disputes on this site. How can my friend, A, avoid such a drama in the following situation?
1. A and another graduate student, B, are in the same PhD program in the US.
2. Even though B has just started the program, he completed a MSc program in Eur... |
2019/02/17 | 736 | 2,884 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a 2nd semester PhD student at **Y** university. My MS is from the same **Y** university and under the same supervisor. In last months of my MS, I told my supervisor that I want to change university after MS. He said that it's okay to look for better PhD positions but we should fi... |
2019/02/17 | 1,700 | 6,929 | <issue_start>username_0: She says, why do you want to hurry? Let's put the defense in December, then you can have several publications out till then.
I am thinking of asking directly, "What do you think about my PhD work? Are you not happy with my work and is that the reason you are delaying correcting my manuscripts... |
2019/02/17 | 1,656 | 6,801 | <issue_start>username_0: If someone has a associate's degree with relevant courses (math and physics) and more than 10 years of (verifiable) programming experience, is it generally possible to apply for graduate admission at a good international university?<issue_comment>username_1: Normally, you both should have the i... |
2019/02/17 | 816 | 3,581 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a manuscript submitted in a journal, and there is a newly-added reviewer after the first round of revision, which is surprising for me. The three other reviewers remain the same in the second round (this round) and agree with acceptance of the manuscript.
I don't know what reason is beh... |
2019/02/17 | 392 | 1,668 | <issue_start>username_0: I have applied for a position last month and the deadline is on March. But by this time one of my work has been published in a good journal (which I wrote in my CV as under review). The position is competitive. Is it ok if I mail the professor and ask him to read my published work? (Though the ... |
2019/02/17 | 1,281 | 5,318 | <issue_start>username_0: I am studying for a Master's in one of the top IIT in India and looking forward to apply for a PhD candidature. My institute follows relative grading. Faculty are allowed to assign grade themselves.
* Normally the student with the highest score in the class will be given S (10 points).
* The s... |
2019/02/18 | 1,168 | 4,992 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm the corresponding author of my accepted paper in a conference. I won't be able to attend the conference so one of the co-authors will attend and present the paper.
Now for the final paper submission, I have to make a full registration for the system to let me upload the final version.
Sho... |
2019/02/18 | 826 | 3,699 | <issue_start>username_0: We submitted to peer-review journal that has several Associate Editors. One of them is a lecturer in our department. Thus, the editor will not assign our paper review to him/her. Do we understand correctly?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes. An editor from the same institution as the authors has a ... |
2019/02/18 | 4,825 | 19,605 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a senior undergraduate about to publish my first academic paper, and have been thinking about taking an academic pseudonym to make myself easier to identify.
My full name is shared by **at least three famous people** (including one celebrity and one international athlete), and **at least ... |
2019/02/18 | 4,296 | 17,458 | <issue_start>username_0: When one finishes a degree or a research position, the boss asks to carry on sth unfinished (unpaid), does one need to agree to do so?<issue_comment>username_1: One option you may have is changing your name legally. This would avoid some of the complications you see. This is the time to do it, ... |
2019/02/18 | 1,745 | 7,316 | <issue_start>username_0: During my Ph.D. in condensed-matter physics, I published a paper together with two other students. The research group of the university that I am originally from (in Madrid, Spain) happened to work on the same subject and, later on, published another paper where they criticize our work, propose... |
2019/02/18 | 1,459 | 5,913 | <issue_start>username_0: Apologies if this question is not entirely fitting for this Exchange, but I didn't know where else to ask.
I am currently working through my Masters, and while talking with one of my professors the question "Would you be interested in continuing with a PhD" came up. I have thought about this ... |
2019/02/18 | 4,809 | 19,908 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm 3rd Physics & Mathematics student and I almost hate both taking and attending lectures; it is not because of the content, but rather the way how it is done; I don't like sitting in uncomfortable in a crowded room for 50 min. unstopped.
To explain what I mean, let me describe an "ideal" lea... |
2019/02/18 | 4,256 | 17,610 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoctoral supported by 2 grants (say A and B) with 50/50. Those 2 grants are owned by different PIs.
I would happy to have suggestions for the followings:
1. When I finish a paper for grant A, am I expected to acknowledge both grant A and B, or A alone?
2. Am I expected to put the P... |
2019/02/18 | 646 | 2,925 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the middle of writing a funding proposal for a BMBF programme (BMBF = the German federal ministry of education and research). I'm part of a consortium with a company, a local city government, our university, and another university.
We've already submitted a combined proposal, which got ... |
2019/02/19 | 560 | 2,473 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a postdoc in the US, from Europe originally. I plan on applying for research scientist positions at big tech companies in Canada e.g. Google, uber, etc (I want a change from the US).
My problem is that my travel outside of the US is restricted on my current visa. Is it possible to get pos... |
2019/02/19 | 297 | 1,306 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my manuscript to a Springer journal and after viewing the submission, I approved it. But now I need to edit one of my references, but the Edit button is not available after approving the submission. How can I edit it? Should I submit a new manuscript?<issue_comment>username_1: I thi... |
2019/02/19 | 433 | 1,887 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say I'm handling a paper which has been reviewed, but the reviews are incomplete. For example:
* The journal needs N reviews as a policy and I only have N-1 reviews.
* The journal needs at least one reviewer who isn't a suggested reviewer, and all the reviews so far have been by suggeste... |
2019/02/19 | 820 | 3,354 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an MTech in Industrial Drives and Control (Electrical Eng). After that could not go for any work... After giving some tuition, I came to the conclusion that I am genuinely interested in mathematics... be it to study or to teach. Is it possible for me to do a PhD in mathematics? Or, are t... |
2019/02/19 | 1,476 | 6,251 | <issue_start>username_0: Me and my friend attend different colleges, both of which are part of the same university. My friend has done the project and as well as me too. Our projects are exactly the same - not a single word is different. Is this considered plagiarism?<issue_comment>username_1: I'll assume that you work... |
2019/02/19 | 1,354 | 5,775 | <issue_start>username_0: I was accepted into a PhD in maths at a fairly highly ranked school in 2017. My supervisor was known for being quite demanding, but I wanted this because I wanted to push myself, and he is quite well known in the field I was interested in, which is algebraic geometry.
During the first year I ... |
2019/02/19 | 945 | 3,990 | <issue_start>username_0: Are EU universities as of 2019 more dependent on external funding than 20 or 40 years ago? Is there any EU policy on increasing external private funds and reducing public funding?<issue_comment>username_1: If you want to continue at the same school I'd start by going to talk to the administrato... |
2019/02/20 | 6,286 | 26,805 | <issue_start>username_0: I have read many PhDs have a feeling of failure during their studies. At the moment I am seeking a reflection, from someone who is/has been a PhD and maybe a similar situation.
I found myself in a group of around 10 PhDs under 1 supervisor. All of them are non-native speakers, struggling with ... |
2019/02/20 | 1,196 | 5,253 | <issue_start>username_0: After 3 weeks from submission, I recieved the below email from the editor in chief of an applied math journal, asking whether I would consider changing my manuscript from full length article to a letter/short article, giving primary reason that the article length is short, so it would suit a sh... |
2019/02/20 | 836 | 3,373 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated from a masters degree half a year ago and I am been working at a private research institute. Today I received an email from a professor who is asking me to join him in August this year for an graduate position in the experimental sciences. If I accept, I would have to quit this job ... |
2019/02/20 | 1,044 | 4,199 | <issue_start>username_0: I have generally only heard people refer to professors as either "Dr. Smith" or "Prof. Smith". However, I received an email that referred to the keynote speakers at a conference as "Prof. Dr. Smith". Is this common? (It is for a conference in taking place in the EU and I am from the US if that ... |
2019/02/20 | 1,045 | 4,249 | <issue_start>username_0: Are handbooks on a particular field you are interested in, the fastest and most comprehensive way of learning about that field. For instance, if I were interested in cognitive science would a book like "Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Science" be the best way to go. Also, if there are multiple han... |
2019/02/20 | 590 | 2,547 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated with my Master's degree in Computer Science a couple of years ago. For a graduate requirement, I had to take on a project of significant scope and write a paper about the project. I had continued my project after graduation in order to attempt to publish a paper. This unfortunately ... |
2019/02/20 | 1,599 | 4,966 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to reference a 19th century French journal paper, which appears in vingt-quatrieme cahier, tome XV, of the Journal de l’École polytechnique. The journal front page lists them in that order: cahier first, then tome.
I am using Word and tried to enter the citation data in the bibliography... |
2019/02/20 | 1,168 | 4,997 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm curious to ways professors might support or resist efforts by gradate students to unionize. The only reason I can think of, is the concern that grant money could hire less students if they were paid more. Is this a valid concern?
What if the reasons for unionization aren't about pay? Are t... |
2019/02/21 | 875 | 3,758 | <issue_start>username_0: I am pursuing Masters of Human Resource Management and will complete it within a few months. But it always bugs me that I have not chosen the right field. I went with what everyone was doing. I also think that this seat could have been gone to a deserving candidate who actually wanted to do thi... |
2019/02/21 | 1,895 | 8,246 | <issue_start>username_0: We are asked in our group to send new publications for journals and conferences to our secretary, who told me she has to input this information also into a database of the university. Over the years of PhD/Postdoc my Professor also seems to favor publishing many small papers rather than leaving... |
2019/02/21 | 802 | 3,465 | <issue_start>username_0: I work at a bootcamp where I teach programming. I have a student in my class who would ask 1 question every minute. This student would ask about every single thing like where to add this code and how I should do X and Y without even trying.
How do you deal with a student who asks 100's of que... |
2019/02/21 | 1,836 | 7,795 | <issue_start>username_0: For a bit of background, I'm a non-academic, so I'm not familiar with the process of submitting a paper for peer-review or anything technical (I have learned that [non-academics can submit papers but have a higher hurdle to overcome](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/34202/who-can-su... |
2019/02/22 | 858 | 3,519 | <issue_start>username_0: Problem 1
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I have been struggling coming out an efficient way to take notes while reading papers, one commonly-used way is annotate the paper while reading, but some issues include
* These notes are hard to organize since they are distributed through the text.
* There notes usually c... |
2019/02/22 | 309 | 1,286 | <issue_start>username_0: Google Scholar may mark citation counts with an asterisk (\*), meaning:
>
> This "Cited by" count includes citations to the following articles in Scholar. The ones marked \* may be different from the article in the profile.
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How can I validate citations in my Google Scholar account t... |
2019/02/22 | 772 | 3,174 | <issue_start>username_0: The professor I have been assigned to TA hasn't assigned any work and has stonewalled me. I have sent three emails to check in and he hasn't responded. How should I respond? Should I bother reporting this to my graduate advisor?
UPDATE!! - He finally responded. He did have some issues, but is ... |
2019/02/22 | 1,266 | 5,242 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing my master's thesis in computer science. In my topic, I had a lot of papers to read and my main result relies also heavily on some theorems from especially one paper.
In the common literature there are some standard theorems for which the proofs are usually omitted bescau... |
2019/02/22 | 1,005 | 4,271 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a lecturer in a European university. A student from my department asked me to write a recommendation for a program somewhere in the US that he wants to attend.
I have read the [horror stories](http://people.csail.mit.edu/mernst/advice/write-recommendation.html) about American recommendati... |
2019/02/22 | 1,584 | 6,514 | <issue_start>username_0: Long story short: I got my PhD a few years ago, and am currently in a temporary job. Anticipating future job applications, I found myself an experienced, senior local mentor. My time in this job is now almost at an end, and I've been submitting dozens of job applications, including to jobs far ... |
2019/02/22 | 1,355 | 5,685 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a US undergraduate in math and physics and I'm looking to ultimately do a PhD in either physics or math. It seems that a lot of the research I connect with the most is happening in Europe. I also like the focus on research rather than coursework in European PhD programs. However, I've found... |
2019/02/23 | 1,469 | 6,753 | <issue_start>username_0: If a university student is set coursework, this is generally a very uncontrolled method of assessment. Lots of different sources can be used to draw knowledge from and often if it's a technical exercise and not a research one citations are explicitly stated as not required.
My question is thus... |
2019/02/23 | 677 | 2,936 | <issue_start>username_0: I am from Germany and about to finish my second bachelors degree (two different fields). And am now considering options for masters studies. Now i know that in Germany i can study two masters simultaneously and it generally does not matter too much if i need say three years to complete both ins... |
2019/02/23 | 709 | 2,936 | <issue_start>username_0: I seem to have lost the focus that I once used to have. Few years back I was able to study for 4 hours straight but now its hardly possible for me to focus for 15 minutes. Any advice on how to regain lost focus in studying?<issue_comment>username_1: This situation is not that uncommon and there... |
2019/02/23 | 1,505 | 6,385 | <issue_start>username_0: This is actually specific to mathematics. In particular, in the sub field of category theory, differential geometry, algebraic geometry.
Question is as mentioned above.
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> How much is too much when it comes to diagrams in a research article?
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> Do more diagrams annoy a reader?
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> ... |
2019/02/23 | 1,454 | 6,093 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't understand the following terms in a journal where I am going to publish.
This is in reference to [this series of journals](http://mjl.clarivate.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&Word=*discrete%20mathematics).
What is the meaning of the terms *bimonthly*, *semimonthly* and *qu... |
2019/02/23 | 1,920 | 8,022 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in STEM, and in recent years I have been troubled by this trend in academia where certain individuals are elevated to the status of celebrities. Their appearances alone draw crowds in the hundreds and their "latest" interviews are almost taken as edicts directly from God and are debated ... |
2019/02/23 | 843 | 3,670 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in my last semester of Physics and Mathematics and, at the same time, my first semester in a MS in Applied Math (which I will finish in two more semesters) in one of the top universities for physics grad programs. I plan on pursuing a PhD in Physics by Fall 2020 and was wondering what was ... |
2019/02/24 | 469 | 1,997 | <issue_start>username_0: Is including the manuscript of a rejected paper (without claiming that it has been published or mentioning any rejections) as a supporting document in my application ethical / would it in any way increase my chances of admission?<issue_comment>username_1: No. Don't include copies of papers (pub... |
2019/02/24 | 685 | 2,669 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose now I am interested in University A and a Journal B. I want to know how many people from University A published a paper in Journal B, and what are these papers. How to do this?<issue_comment>username_1: Unfortunately, affiliations are a mess. People in bibliometrics usually say that you... |
2019/02/24 | 2,405 | 9,865 | <issue_start>username_0: How can an undergraduate student self-assess his/her PhD application prior to actually applying for PhD programs?
As prospective PhD students, we can generally compare ourselves to other students at our own school using our grades. We may also apply to internships or awards and, by acceptance ... |
2019/02/24 | 996 | 4,273 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student after the mid stage. I come to know a very strange thing about academia that acceptance is a bad thing. Let me define acceptance, many time i hear the statement of other collegues including my supervisor, research fellows etc. What happens that I always tried to accept their ... |
2019/02/24 | 464 | 2,017 | <issue_start>username_0: I have heard that it is impolite and improper to apply to a masters/PhD program and ask more than one professor at that university to be your supervisor. In other words, when you apply to a single program, you should have determine who you want your supervisor to be and apply upon the prospect ... |
2019/02/24 | 555 | 2,448 | <issue_start>username_0: We had a paper accepted in one of the top biology journals (IF=15). It is a work in which I participated in the part of computational biology, and was submitted by a colleague, she being the corresponding author since she is an expert on the field. We had a major revision and I had to do an out... |
2019/02/24 | 1,411 | 5,669 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a non-academic report based on the research I did for my PhD thesis. The report is a condition of the funding that supported my research. It is non-academic and will be published publicly.
Much of the work in the thesis has also been published or is under review as journal article... |
2019/02/25 | 2,264 | 9,239 | <issue_start>username_0: To be brief, I am a PhD student in the UK, and I have recently had some disagreement with the way my advisor handled our collaboration on research. This was initially a fairly minor thing. Not in the sense of what has happened, but minor in the sense that I only wanted to move past it, and to c... |
2019/02/25 | 2,507 | 11,151 | <issue_start>username_0: What are some factors that enable some papers to be published in top-tier journals while others (apparently similar) cannot?
For example, in the field of control theory, there are so many papers with complicated mathematics. Some paper is related to a very similar topic, but some get published... |
2019/02/25 | 2,948 | 12,585 | <issue_start>username_0: My colleagues and I have recently submitted an article in a biology-oriented journal about a new technological system. While describing the interaction between the different modules of the system, we used the terms "master" and "slave", as it describes the communication protocol in a very compr... |
2019/02/25 | 699 | 3,052 | <issue_start>username_0: I am unable to advance three papers written while I was a postdoc, even to submission. Two coauthors constantly stall. They send 'additional rounds' of edits, pre-submission, with minor changes, stall for months, and create nonexistant parts of the academic process (ex. asking me to send a docu... |
2019/02/25 | 540 | 2,000 | <issue_start>username_0: I ran my data analysis and created my graphs in RStudio, but RStudio is just a platform for R. In my paper should I cite R or RStudio?<issue_comment>username_1: Cite what you use. RStudio has a collection of developers who have made your work possible. Cite them. R is a language so it is, perha... |
2019/02/25 | 1,017 | 4,523 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student in the US in the middle of my third year. We use a method for some simulations that is initially provided to me by my PhD adviser, despite the fact that all other research groups, that do the same simulation as us, use different method, which is a way more powerful than ours. ... |
2019/02/26 | 495 | 2,114 | <issue_start>username_0: I have one accepted manuscript waiting to be published. During the proof, I changed the corresponding author from me to my postdoc adivsor. Editor now asked why I made such a change.
What happened was that when I submitted my manuscript, I am the corresponding author by default. I failed to f... |
2019/02/26 | 2,821 | 11,588 | <issue_start>username_0: There are a few sites which offer paid articles for free. It’s something unethical, especially for those who upload to that site, but for me, it’s good for expanding knowledge.
As a readers, can we cite those documents, and can the editorial board know that I’m using those articles?<issue_comm... |
2019/02/26 | 1,562 | 6,581 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a 4th year PhD student at a top school in Canada studying chemical physics. For the past few years, I have been floating around the idea of leaving with a Masters and pursuing a PhD at a different institute due to many factors, such as:
* Poor supervision. My supervisor is primarily overse... |
2019/02/26 | 927 | 3,970 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently about to enter my final semester of undergraduate life and plan on continuing graduate studies (master's) at the same institution.
Applications for the fall semester this year open in April. I recently (around a week ago) emailed a professor whose lab I want to enter and expresse... |
2019/02/26 | 1,896 | 7,989 | <issue_start>username_0: I used to think that for research postdocs, faculty evaluate things like research potential. Now I think they still do, but they look a lot at whether the research topic interests the faculty. For example I have had a senior faculty member in some field (call it field A) tell me directly: "Fiel... |
2019/02/26 | 1,772 | 7,357 | <issue_start>username_0: A few weeks from now, I'll be traveling for a flyout interview to a SLAC (small liberal arts college) in the eastern United States. The college is very small, less than 1,500 students. If hired, I would be teaching philosophy and other topics in a traditional liberal arts and humanities curricu... |
2019/02/26 | 461 | 1,931 | <issue_start>username_0: After going through a quiz, I was surprised to see that we hadn't gone over half the material in class or in our reading. It was brought to the attention of the professor and she said she would take a look and consider the options. She saw that "most" did well regardless of the fact it was new ... |
2019/02/27 | 2,194 | 8,972 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is inspired by [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/125584/58912) recent answer that mentions that whether downloading articles from 'questionable' sites is *legal* (not ethical) may depend on local law. That is, law is *local*.
Are academic *ethics* global or local? Clear... |
2019/02/27 | 2,675 | 10,771 | <issue_start>username_0: I am quite surprised to find that a lecture slide for a course has 133 citations from highly reputable researchers across the world. The main contribution of the [lecture slides](https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~tijmen/csc321/slides/lecture_slides_lec6.pdf) (which seems to be the reason for the cita... |
2019/02/27 | 656 | 2,801 | <issue_start>username_0: I had an on-campus interview for a tenure track assistant professor position in mathematics about 4 weeks ago. The interview seemed to go well, I felt I was well-received. I was told at the end of the interview that they had more interviews scheduled over "the next couple of weeks" and would th... |
2019/02/27 | 1,068 | 4,809 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently reviewed an experimental molecular biology paper for a mid-tier journal. I found the work valuable but missing some important controls, and recommended a list of major and minor revisions. A few weeks after submitting my review, I received an e-mail from the journal notifying me that... |
2019/02/27 | 350 | 1,499 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a status for my paper " a review is overdue" after 20 days of reviewing my paper, however it is mentioned in the web site that review takes 1 month. What does this means?<issue_comment>username_1: Normally there are several reviews that an editor will request and then gather so that a de... |
2019/02/27 | 529 | 2,366 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen many professors also hold positions in industry, say Data Scientist at Uber or Machine Learning Manager at Google. How does this work? Do professors apply for these positions or do the companies reach out to them? Also, I know some of these professors take a break from being at the ... |
2019/02/28 | 1,438 | 5,993 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently an Economics MA student doing a referee report on a paper that employs a dated empirical method. This particular method was originally created in 1980 but then improved upon in 1998 by other researchers, after they had discovered certain issues with it.
This got me thinking about... |
2019/02/28 | 1,057 | 4,769 | <issue_start>username_0: The faculty interview is based on the context of a department stressing on industry interaction. When asked about how to buy lab equipments and find funding, may a theorist answer the search committee that he/she does theory work mostly and therefore doesn't need much money or experiment facili... |
2019/02/28 | 1,389 | 6,101 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently appointed to the editorial board of an academic math journal. I'm excited about this position, and I want to do the best job I can. I have no experience with the role however, other than my interactions with journal editors as an author and reviewer.
What makes a good editor? T... |
2019/02/28 | 2,346 | 10,300 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, my university has expressed that it wishes to enforce compliance with [Plan S](https://www.coalition-s.org/), an European-wide initiative to 'transition' towards open access publications, for all researchers employed by the university.
I think that while the plan has good intentions... |
2019/02/28 | 913 | 2,620 | <issue_start>username_0: I saw a strange sign on a door to a geophysics lab in a museum in Switzerland. I was really curious about what it means and wanted to know if anyone is familiar with this sign.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/usUNw.png)
Here's t... |
2019/03/01 | 1,574 | 6,797 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a master student, working for X lab of Y university as a research assistant.
3 months ago, a post-doc(my direct supervisor) recruited me into a project when he wanted to submit his paper within a month, telling me "You can coauthor if you join." Since then I worked overtime to finish exac... |
2019/03/01 | 687 | 2,857 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been working for one of the big tech companies for the last year, but I plan on leaving in August to start a Ph.D. The company I work for has a reputation for not always treating all of its employees well under all circumstances (e.g. making people they don't like miserable until they qu... |
2019/03/01 | 3,860 | 16,599 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in a lab where we conduct research on data acquire from human subjects. As we investigate the effects of different diseases and the related treatments, the data is highly sensitive in regards to data protection.
Most of the lab members work with Windows 10 and I am supposed to set up a... |
2019/03/01 | 425 | 1,795 | <issue_start>username_0: For an article that I want to publish, I would like to report the results from a survey in a table format but I do not know if I should put Zero or just a blank space/dash (-) whenever the score/percentage is zero. I cannot find any requirements from the journal concerning this issue. I cannot ... |
2019/03/01 | 983 | 3,949 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. I have already completed my 5 years, am writing my thesis and will be submitting my thesis in 4 months. I have published 1 paper till now. That was 2 years ago. Till then, I have completed 3 more manuscripts, but my supervisor does not have the time to go t... |
2019/03/01 | 487 | 2,101 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an assistant professor of mathematics (and pursuing in service Ph.D in mathematics ) a non native English speaker. I was not bad at English during my school days. Gradually, my effeciancy in speaking English seems to have gone down badly through years of pursuing mathematics (a dry subject... |
2019/03/01 | 888 | 3,928 | <issue_start>username_0: I am soon submitting my first paper to a journal (in the humanities) and am unsure of the proper etiquette/practices of doing this. Some questions I have are:
1. Do I include the acknowledgements in the initial manuscript I submit, or should these be added after review and acceptance?
2. Is it... |
2019/03/01 | 788 | 3,456 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on two projects now and both of them have similar methods. What if I write the same text in the method part? Will it be count as plagiarism? I am almost finished working on them and both of them will be submitted in a different journal(one already accepted; under review, another on... |
2019/03/01 | 2,636 | 10,913 | <issue_start>username_0: Probably this concern has been addressed several times here but I will give a try to get other people's perspective from my situation. I am feeling sort of hopeless these times.
I am in my last year of my PhD in mathematics and doing my dissertation soon, my research was mainly devoted to alge... |
2019/03/01 | 773 | 3,032 | <issue_start>username_0: Should the first author be the one that worked the most? And then by the amount of work order (descending), but the last one the most-senior researcher?
Are there other ways? Which ones?
Does it vary from field to field? I've heard some areas or even some conferences always ask for alphabetic... |
2019/03/01 | 710 | 2,874 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated from by undergrad two years ago (this May) and now I am applying to law school and require letters of recommendation from my undergrad.
Although I did well in their classes and spoke with them to some extent outside the classroom, I haven't stayed in touch with my professors, so I... |
2019/03/02 | 702 | 3,206 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm actually an United States citizen who has been living and being educated in Malaysia. So currently my family decided to send me back to the States to continue my future studies. Some people told me that I need TOEFL/SAT results to prove my English but some of them said that I don't need it ... |
2019/03/02 | 683 | 2,833 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently read a paper that conducted an experiment, analyzed it, and reached a conclusion. However, the way they conducted the analysis is seriously flawed and cannot be used to support the conclusion.
As far as I can tell, the experiment is valid and only the analysis is problematic. Thus t... |
2019/03/02 | 205 | 820 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for Colleges for my MSc. But all of my letters of recommendation address me by my first name. is it okay, or should the complete name of the candidate be included?<issue_comment>username_1: Letters of recommendation are proper documents, and as such they must include candidate's fu... |
2019/03/02 | 992 | 4,170 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to ask professors that I haven't seen in two years since graduation for letters of recommendation.
I want to ask in person so they can see and remember me, but I want to set an appointment ahead of time for this meeting. I really don't want to drop in on the during office hours r... |
2019/03/02 | 2,746 | 11,614 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that I found a technical flaw in one of the papers coauthored by my previous advisor. This mistake will substantially change their major result, but their contribution will be still worthwhile after the correction. I am 90% sure about my findings. It is not a difference of ideologies or... |