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2021/09/05 | 3,807 | 16,245 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing a M.Sc. in [artificial intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence) (AI), and I am collaborating with a computer vision company in a [deep learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning) (DL) research project that will eventually become my master thesis... |
2021/09/05 | 839 | 3,580 | <issue_start>username_0: I am always confused with should I capitalize something or not. Take the [talk](https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/avigad/Talks/prague.pdf) by [<NAME>](https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/avigad/) for instance, on page 8, he uses "Formal methods" and "Interactive theorem proving", but not capitalizati... |
2021/09/06 | 416 | 1,910 | <issue_start>username_0: A major revision was submitted to a journal. After some days, the status changed to 'awaiting reviewer scores', but there is also the status 'awaiting decision' right next to it. How should this double status be interpreted? Is the revised manuscript with the editor or reviewers, or both?<issue... |
2021/09/06 | 546 | 2,410 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently attended an interview in which my supervisor is a panel mate.
After the interview, I met my mentor and asked whether I performed well and her opinion about the interview happened.
She (my mentor) told, "you performed well and I think you will get hired".
After a day, I shared this... |
2021/09/06 | 1,051 | 4,754 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m interested in submitting a paper for a Student Paper Award at a conference. I’m wondering whether I can submit the same paper to a peer reviewed journal after the conference ends. Does the answer change depending on whether I win the student paper award or not? I’m a student in STEM in the ... |
2021/09/06 | 846 | 3,388 | <issue_start>username_0: Did anyone produce updates on existing published papers later on?
Or is it always that when it's submitted, then "that's the way it is"?<issue_comment>username_1: Actual updates are unlikely. Subsequent work is frequent and valued. The problem is that an "update" assuming content is changed an... |
2021/09/06 | 5,631 | 22,632 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is about countries such as:
* EU countries like Bulgaria, Romania or Poland and
* non-EU countries like Russian Federation, Ukraine or Belarus.
A PostDoc fellow might earn at most US$ 2500, say, in Poland, while they can earn $4000 at minimum, say, in Spain. The same argument is a... |
2021/09/07 | 486 | 2,046 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently doing my Master in physics in the University X. Previously, I did my Bachelor in the University Y. I am applying for a PhD positions that requires two recommendation letters. The supervisor of my Master Thesis agreed to write for me a letter.
For the second one, I could ask a pr... |
2021/09/07 | 981 | 4,343 | <issue_start>username_0: There have been similar questions but I believe my question is somewhat unique.
I want to apply to a PhD program in Physics somewhere in North America. I have now completed both my bachelor's and my master's in Physics. Although I have gotten great grades in my master's, my bachelor's performan... |
2021/09/07 | 798 | 3,563 | <issue_start>username_0: I am part of a paper with multiple authors (16). My name is unfortunately the last one. How do I mention this one my CV?<issue_comment>username_1: Most people will naturally weigh recent work more heavily than earlier work. If you need to give an explanation, then "health problems" is better th... |
2021/09/07 | 814 | 3,138 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc in finance and I have just developed an R package on my own as part of a research paper with three co-authors.
At the moment, we have a methodological paper in review and I would like to submit my R package to CRAN. I am now wondering if I should add my coauthors as contributors... |
2021/09/07 | 481 | 1,916 | <issue_start>username_0: I am just starting a PhD, and I have been in contact with the supervisor for about 3 months now, that means before the interview so you can assume I was SUPER polite when emailing him!
Since then, I have just been addressing him as "<NAME>", while everyone else ofc just calls his first name. H... |
2021/09/07 | 1,571 | 6,481 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an office job that should provide me solid financial base for early pensioning. I've lately developed passion for outdoor activities (mountaineering, diving etc.) when it was too late to adapt the professional career path.
I wonder if it's a viable way to use the opportunity to use the ... |
2021/09/07 | 2,934 | 12,424 | <issue_start>username_0: I have this doubt from last year. This doubt arose in me after an academic incident.
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**Incident**
During last year, I presented my progress before a panel of four experts and it went almost well. The only issue happened when I kept a slide of "what I will do next?". In that slide, I kept... |
2021/09/08 | 1,422 | 6,040 | <issue_start>username_0: I have decided to take a new job, mid tenure case. I am having trouble finding information about how to job hunt in academia at my mid-rank. Specifically:
1. How to communicate my status
2. Whether to apply for Associate or Assistant level positions
3. How to socialize my search with my depart... |
2021/09/08 | 474 | 2,030 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a master's student in computer science, doing research with one of my professors. They are a good mentor, and pay well. However, our research interests aren't quite aligned - they're related but I'm ultimately a little unsatisfied, and would like to pursue a PhD elsewhere. I also... |
2021/09/08 | 434 | 1,951 | <issue_start>username_0: A not uncommon occurrence for students is that they only have a few days left before an exam for a course they are taking and may still have some topics that they need to revise. (This doesn't necessarily mean lack of commitment to the course, but there may have been other, harder subjects, or ... |
2021/09/08 | 586 | 2,434 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a Bachelor's degree in Statistics from a reputed Indian college. I struggled during my Bachelor's and failed many classes and retook exams. My CGPA is 6.18/10. My Master's grades are good though, amongst the top.
I plan on applying for Biostatistics/ Statistics PhD programs in USA this ... |
2021/09/08 | 942 | 3,758 | <issue_start>username_0: I researched an acquaintance's PhD dissertation and I saw that it doesn't qualify even as a master's degree. She sells herself as accomplished for finishing PhD in 3 years but the data is not there in the thesis, the thesis is very badly written and the whole introduction misses the references.... |
2021/09/09 | 878 | 3,494 | <issue_start>username_0: How much is "motivation" a factor in a scientist's work?
I find that "motivation" is sometimes underlooked due to the perception of "being unmotivated" being a personal choice or laziness, rather than some valid mental illness or something.
OTOH, "motivation" is discussed broadly in e.g. work... |
2021/09/09 | 1,060 | 4,300 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say a researcher has a somewhat controversial research project (such as a vaccine challenge trial). Is it considered legal to keep applying for [institutional review board](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board) (IRB) until you eventually get accepted? For example, you ... |
2021/09/09 | 585 | 2,406 | <issue_start>username_0: I have attended a university in Russia, and then transferred to Italy, and in Italy they recognized many courses but said to me we can't convert grades, we only recognize courses. Is this a common practice? I find it quite bizarre.<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, I have heard universities in Nor... |
2021/09/10 | 558 | 2,069 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written Professor X (Australia) for a Ph.D. position with my CV (in June) and he asked for 3 reference names in return. I sent it. As I did not write him seeing any advertisement so I waited.
Meanwhile, I got busy with my own project and published two of my articles in highly reputed jou... |
2021/09/10 | 889 | 3,648 | <issue_start>username_0: I just enrolled in a CS course and the instructor gave a list of readings for the course. There is a total of 4 books and each book contains around 15+ chapters and around 2 thousand pages and all the chapters of the book cover our course syllabus. But I am now pretty confused about which book ... |
2021/09/10 | 874 | 3,956 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a research software engineer for a behavioural science research group at a university, currently trying to help my academics with recruiting for and running psychology and economics experiments online. As part of this I have been reviewing the literature in the field and have come across a... |
2021/09/10 | 1,847 | 7,564 | <issue_start>username_0: I apologize in advance for such a long and possibly bizarre question. I have tried to find an answer to this issue but could not find it anywhere. First I want to provide some context.
I was a student taking an alternate high school education program to the one my area’s schoolboard offered. T... |
2021/09/10 | 535 | 2,378 | <issue_start>username_0: I did my Masters (by Research) from a premier institute in India. I had taken 6 courses and the rest of the time was dedicated to research. All the research and collaboration was done only with my advisor.
Now, almost all the universities ask for 3 recommendation letters for PhD applications. ... |
2021/09/10 | 2,381 | 10,252 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been on the faculty of a liberal arts college for over 20 years and have the rank of full professor. I have started to look for other academic jobs because of my college's financial problems, which are well known locally. I'm fortunate to be in a field closely related to computer science... |
2021/09/11 | 622 | 2,623 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for a post doc position in the USA. My interview was done with the PI and I had one-on-one interactions with all the lab members ten days ago. He then unofficially offered me the position and discussed the salary.
I sent him a thanks reply the next day, but I got no reply from him. L... |
2021/09/12 | 2,128 | 8,394 | <issue_start>username_0: I will probably not be accepted to the Master of Cognitive Sciences program this year at a university in my country, but I don't want to lose my passion for learning and waste my time. So, I made an announcement on a website as a volunteer advertisement, as shown below:
>
> I will probably no... |
2021/09/12 | 1,276 | 5,799 | <issue_start>username_0: My colleague is an expert in biology. Using his data, I have developed a new algorithm that could change the way we explore data in general (not only in biology). I wrote a manuscript explaining the algorithm and submitted it to a highly ranked computer sciences-related journal.
Later, I got c... |
2021/09/12 | 500 | 2,037 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently working on adapting my statement of purpose from the 2020-2021 admissions cycle for use in the current cycle. Since the last cycle, much has changed. As a result of a severe ulnar nerve impingement (which randomly flared up), I had limited use of my dominant hand for the last few ... |
2021/09/13 | 922 | 3,794 | <issue_start>username_0: So I'm interested in a PhD in math, and my research area is in set theory. Kind of a niche place to be. Forcing, large cardinals, determinacy, etc. I know that the biggest schools (Carnegie Mellon, Ivies, MIT, etc.) have these researchers, but I'm not sure where to start searching for these pro... |
2021/09/13 | 4,268 | 17,454 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:** I am a Math Ph.D. student in the U.S. (originally from a developing nation) in partial differential equations (PDEs) but on the theoretical side of PDEs (no simulation, no numerical). I am starting my 7th year, and my advisor is expecting me to graduate this year. I am on the jo... |
2021/09/13 | 508 | 2,223 | <issue_start>username_0: I saw that various **postdoctoral fellowships** have different lengths. they are anywhere between 1 to 4 years.
Which one is more important to get a tenureship: number of fellowship positions, or length, or the variety of research?<issue_comment>username_1: If you try to base a decision on tha... |
2021/09/14 | 3,887 | 16,727 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student and I'm getting started in the field I want to work on after I finish my PhD. There were some very important works done by a very experienced researcher and collaborators that I've been trying to understand for a while. In fact there was claim in the beginning of one of the pa... |
2021/09/14 | 602 | 2,694 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently got one paper accepted. Then I added one paragraph given the reviewers' comments and run more experiments for this section. The problem is that I don't have much time to run the experiments so I did not fully understand the phenomenon behind the experiments. And I used a set of param... |
2021/09/14 | 580 | 1,832 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm having a hard time with a writing issue. I'm trying to write a paper on time-frequency transforms. These typically have a well-known abbreviation/acronym, and also a reference for their origin, e.g.:
* Constant-Q Transform (CQT), (Brown 1991)
* sliCQ Transform (sliCQT), (Holighaus et. al 2... |
2021/09/14 | 340 | 1,537 | <issue_start>username_0: This year, I submitted a research paper (case study) of a technology implementation to a peer reviewed journal. I waited approx. 2 months and the decision of the reviewer was to decline, because she considered it not to have the correct writing style for the journal.
What can be done, when is ... |
2021/09/14 | 850 | 3,698 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first-time PI of a large multi-year grant (specifically an R01, which is a 4-5 year research grant from the National Institutes of Health). I am looking for resources (e.g., books, detailed blog posts, papers, etc.) that would explain the details of successfully managing my grant, such a... |
2021/09/14 | 1,053 | 4,265 | <issue_start>username_0: I was writing answers for my assignment about corruption, I put an example I took from an article from the web and cited it in APA format. I found out that my reference has been tagged as plagiarism. The title of the article which I wrote in my references was flagged as plagiarism because they ... |
2021/09/15 | 1,016 | 4,444 | <issue_start>username_0: Google Scholar notified me this morning that I had a new paper in my profile, which I was not expecting. The work in question was published by a collection of former colleagues and regards work done a few years ago. I participated in the early stages of the work, but I have no recollection of h... |
2021/09/15 | 1,238 | 5,089 | <issue_start>username_0: I have symptoms of a mental health disorder not registered in the DSM-5 called 'maladaptive daydreaming disorder'. In order for this to be able to get into the DSM-5, more research needs to be done on it, by more researchers. I want to do research on maladaptive daydreaming disorder, but I'm no... |
2021/09/15 | 1,411 | 5,900 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for some PhD programs, and I don't know if I should mention my country's situation in those letters, like the difficulty in being a female scientist without having a friend at court or free speech problems in my country.<issue_comment>username_1: It’s generally okay to mention it,... |
2021/09/15 | 449 | 1,864 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a prepint paper uploaded with open access on arxiv.org. My university also has an open access repository and we are encouraged to upload our prepints also there. Now my question is whether it is allowed to upload the paper from arxiv.org (with the arxiv title page) also to another reposi... |
2021/09/15 | 3,337 | 13,985 | <issue_start>username_0: A group of researchers work in a problem that no one else works on, hence these researchers are cited only by themselves. They cite other papers, too.
How does the academia consider these cases?
**Important update:**
From the answers received, I noticed that I have wrongly formulated the que... |
2021/09/15 | 1,208 | 5,520 | <issue_start>username_0: I am having a discussion with a colleague to define the metadata for data management protocol. The problem is that I cannot define the difference between data and metadata. For example, if I take the measurement of the size of a seagrass plant in a location, in that location I would also take t... |
2021/09/16 | 1,468 | 6,413 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a student in an Integrated Ph.D. course in Physical Science (Physics). Currently, I'm in the first year of this course where I'm taking core courses. I'm doing this course on Fundamentals of Astrophysics which is my first formal exposure to this area of physics. I find several problems with... |
2021/09/16 | 720 | 3,186 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:** CS Undergrad applying to CS PhD Programs in the US.
I have multiple posters published along with some mid tier conference papers. Along with these, I have 6 journal papers under review. Few of them got rejected earlier and now I have re-submitted them with significant changes. ... |
2021/09/16 | 817 | 3,540 | <issue_start>username_0: I am completing my M.Sc thesis from a Russel group university. I am applying for the PhD in US universities. I wanted a recommendation from my supervisor, but he had set up some unrealistic expectations for me and told me he can't give me "most enthusiastic" recommendation.
Other professors wh... |
2021/09/16 | 468 | 2,073 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a PhD in pure mathematics and completed a couple of postdocs in complex analysis. I left academia a year ago. Now I realise that I would be interested in returning to research, but in fundamental physics rather than math. Naturally, I would choose a research problem where my math backgro... |
2021/09/17 | 1,561 | 7,085 | <issue_start>username_0: So this happened to me multiple times.
**Scenario 1**: I'm sitting in a lecture or listening to a talk (STEM related) which is more or less aligned with my background (so I know the big picture), and then half way through, the lecturer or the presenter asks a question.
At this point, I haven'... |
2021/09/17 | 682 | 2,923 | <issue_start>username_0: While looking for literature relevant to my research topic, I came across a number of papers in Russian. **Russian** is **Greek** to me. What should I do? Is there an online platform that may help me? What about Google Translate? How effective is it?<issue_comment>username_1: First, ask an acad... |
2021/09/17 | 283 | 1,206 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received an offer from a university and I want to accept that. In their email they have sent a cc email to another person who is probably the head of HR. In my response, I want to know whether I reply to the sender or reply to all?<issue_comment>username_1: In such cases, it is clear tha... |
2021/09/17 | 3,186 | 13,738 | <issue_start>username_0: For example, in a classroom, if a group of students score 45%, the teacher tries to help these students by allowing them to take a second attempt exam. At the same time, a student with 70% can't increase their score (can't attempt the exam again because they have already passed).
This also hap... |
2021/09/17 | 3,162 | 13,661 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm aware that academic editorial work is to a good extent a voluntary service to the community. Peer reviewing, to my knowledge, is always a voluntary service, for a whole number of good reasons, e.g. to remain independent and impartial, or to avoid scientific misconduct. Anyway, because of th... |
2021/09/17 | 1,475 | 6,548 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a foreigner that learnt English as his third language. And I make mistakes all the time as a result. In general I like it when people correct me because I get to improve my English, which is crucial for paper writing and communicating with colleagues/students/anyone.
I find that at my uni... |
2021/09/18 | 676 | 2,909 | <issue_start>username_0: I have some contacts on a social networking site who are much more knowledgeable than me. Some are PhDs/professors and some work in big tech companies (Google, Facebook, etc.). Every now and then, I would have some questions to ask, and often times I cannot get the (timely) answers from Q and A... |
2021/09/18 | 4,933 | 20,739 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a teaching assistant at a US university for a calculus class. My major duties are to write worksheets and then grade them along with the homework.
I have been a TA long enough (5 years now) to understand the usual responsibilities of one. I have also worked with a variety of instructors wi... |
2021/09/19 | 421 | 1,635 | <issue_start>username_0: So I've been instructed to write an essay that has citations for research that must be within the last 5 years. The exact phrasing is "Minimum of 20-30 up to date (within 5 years) references". One of the key and major concepts was defined in the 70s and simply can't be avoided in the discussion... |
2021/09/19 | 374 | 1,457 | <issue_start>username_0: I defended my thesis in Spain with *cum laude*. My PhD program was research based. Now I am in the employment process and I have been asked to provide equivalence to *cum laude*. Could you please help me to obtain this information?<issue_comment>username_1: Did the instructor say **all** refere... |
2021/09/19 | 418 | 1,712 | <issue_start>username_0: As title suggests. First year Doctoral fellow with a scholarship. The article has no bearing on my Doctoral thesis. It is a side project. My synopsis hasn't even been finalized yet. So should I have mentioned and declared ny fellowship as a funding source while submitting the paper?<issue_comme... |
2021/09/20 | 979 | 3,792 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is related to [this one](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/97008/choosing-ones-best-papers-for-job-applications), but is more specific (and has no answer there).
I am a postdoc in mathematics, applying for tenure-track jobs for the first time. Some departments ask me to ... |
2021/09/20 | 1,747 | 7,261 | <issue_start>username_0: My university is an "at will" employer. Graduate students are not unionized. I'm a PhD student and I'm sensing a possibility for a TAship termination, so I want to explore possibilities.
(1) What should I expect to happen if my TAship is terminated? For example: am I likely to get severance pa... |
2021/09/20 | 1,157 | 4,696 | <issue_start>username_0: This may be a stupid question, but I can't quite figure it out. For an academic career, it seems to be quite important to be "principal investigator (PI)" on cool research projects. Now, say for some reason you're not eligible to be an official applicant on a grant proposal (e.g., because you'r... |
2021/09/21 | 993 | 4,128 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a largely misguided journey through college, then fell in love with scholarship in the last 3 semesters when I began studying philosophy. The change in attitude is extremely clear on my transcript: before beginning philosophy, I had a smattering of every grade from A to F, and after begin... |
2021/09/21 | 598 | 2,686 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a manuscript accepted with major revision. I have now revised it and will resubmit shortly. The editor requested that I highlight any changes in the text, which I have done in yellow. However, I have also simply removed certain parts of the manuscript. How do I indicate this?
The editor ... |
2021/09/22 | 2,357 | 9,807 | <issue_start>username_0: TLDR: Is it normal that an applicant for a limited term fellowship should have to justify why that fellowship would be more advantageous than a permanent academic position? If so, why?
The details of my specific situation:
I recently applied for a 5-year research fellowship in the UK. The fel... |
2021/09/22 | 2,183 | 9,072 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing an article with a senior colleague. Although English is not their first language, they keep re-writing the entire article in their own words.
I would not normally care, but the way he re-writes it is semi-grammatical and very hard to comprehend, so that I feel I have to change it ... |
2021/09/22 | 657 | 2,675 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently had my delayed graduation ceremony and met up with an old lecturer who supervised my dissertation. It was nice to see them but we sadly didn't get the chance to catch up.
I was considering maybe sending them an email. Do you think this is a good idea? I'm sure they'd love to keep in... |
2021/09/23 | 1,927 | 8,156 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an instructor for a machine learning course and I need to make a presentation on all the recent architectures or models. I have to include a lot of images from several research papers and need to **keep them in public on my website** for all the students to study.
To keep the details abou... |
2021/09/23 | 2,490 | 11,029 | <issue_start>username_0: Our group (western Europe/Switzerland) has submitted a review on a device that generates a lot of money (*i.e.* multibillion $ industry). Our results speak mildly against the use of said device, although we have low confidence in those results (meta data warns about the possibility of a false p... |
2021/09/23 | 709 | 2,950 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a double master's from two prestigious European universities with the highest grade, but my Ph.D. was a nightmare. My advisors were at loggerheads, never read any drafts, and finally gave me a cum laude, which in Germany is equal to "just pass" and It took me more than a decade, working ... |
2021/09/23 | 3,872 | 16,778 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD-student in (hopefully) my final year of my thesis, but there are still some open tasks before handing in. Since funding has already run out some time ago, I am trying to wrap up everything as soon as possible. Thus, I try to be more pro-active, i.e., do not wait until colleagues or my... |
2021/09/23 | 1,126 | 4,707 | <issue_start>username_0: UPDATE: Lost funding and leaving the program. I continued my search and tried to establish contact with around 10 faculty of interest. Most did not even reply to my emails. Contacted gradutate coordinator and could only receive a rejection response after then. At the end of the semester they st... |
2021/09/23 | 1,420 | 6,393 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a general question inspired by an interesting [question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/175816/) where a researcher investigated the efficacy of a product produced by a company and made adverse findings against the product. In that question, the company became aware of the... |
2021/09/24 | 979 | 4,298 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student at a US university, and earlier this week I asked a former undergraduate mentee if in her evaluation I qualified for an "excellence in mentorship" award. She responded enthusiastically, and just today wrote the she finished it. She also offered to let me review it to mak... |
2021/09/24 | 712 | 3,075 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently signed an offer letter for a faculty position.This is not a permanent position. One of the required documents in the offer letter was the names of referees. As far as I know my referees have not been asked for letter of recommendations yet. I am confused about why they asked me ... |
2021/09/24 | 722 | 3,262 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just accepted a paper for reviewing for a journal in neuroscience. While skimming through the paper, it **appeared** that the authors had heavily cited literature originating from the country where the authors are from. Since then I have carefully read through the Introduction and most o... |
2021/09/25 | 913 | 3,715 | <issue_start>username_0: We have 3 days gaps during exams. It takes me about two days to get tuned into a subject, i.e ., to get into the state of flow. I get tuned to studying around the middle of the second day. Is there anything that I can do to get tuned in faster? I think that would greatly help me increase my GPA... |
2021/09/25 | 709 | 2,923 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a new assistant professor. I have been invited for a conference discussant and said yes. However, I just realized that I am required to register for the conference (fee is $710) to serve as a discussant; my school doesn't pay for it because it is not my own study.
In this case, can I ask ... |
2021/09/26 | 859 | 3,791 | <issue_start>username_0: There are several types of tasks in academia. Some may be simple and some may be complex in nature. Although some tasks are very simple for many, they can be quite complex for me. If those tasks are institution-specific, then I need to get clarified from the concerned authority or from the othe... |
2021/09/26 | 1,967 | 6,660 | <issue_start>username_0: For a study, I want to analyse the writing style of (contemporary) world-famous academics who were not educated in the West, yet I can find few examples. My focus is on Eastern Europe, but I will be happy to consider any non-Western academic (regardless of the discipline). Due to the nature of ... |
2021/09/26 | 318 | 1,428 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to submit a paper on arXiv which is accepted but yet to be published. In the accepted version, we have thanked the referee, as their comments helped us in many ways. Should I add this acknowledgement to the arXiv version? Or post without it?<issue_comment>username_1: Generally, peopl... |
2021/09/26 | 982 | 4,071 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently preparing my applications for various theoretical physics/physics master's programs in Canada and Europe. Canadian institutes typically require you to write a 1000+ words SoP. Now I am mostly certain about what to include in my SoP and how to do so. However, I am in a dilemma reg... |
2021/09/26 | 4,016 | 17,049 | <issue_start>username_0: If someone has a paper which could be published in a peer-reviewed journal, but they choose to not publish it in a peer-reviewed journal, what can they do to help the research to be taken seriously? By "taken seriously," I mean that this paper would not be significantly disadvantaged; that is, ... |
2021/09/26 | 925 | 3,398 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been selected for a PhD position in a medical school at Lower Saxony in a DFG Transregio Collaborative Research Project. Even though I'm yet to receive my contract, I am curious to know if my salary will be according to the DFG payscale or the institute payscale (which is significantly low... |
2021/09/27 | 779 | 3,332 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted manuscript to a reputed journal(computer science field). It was desk rejected after 6 weeks. Summary of reason given by the editor are
1. It is purely a paper applicable in the field of "computer network" and do not match the scope of the journal
2. Performance evaluation is based ... |
2021/09/27 | 426 | 1,942 | <issue_start>username_0: My paper got accepted for publication last week, and I have not received the galley proof yet. I recently learned that one of my results implies another interesting result, and I want to mention that in my publication. Deriving the new result takes no more than three lines, and I do not think i... |
2021/09/27 | 786 | 2,922 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing an article that cites some scientific works of a [religious sister](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_sister_(Catholic)). I noticed that some authors cite her works including the title "Sister", as in "Sister *Surname* [ref] was the first..." or "see (Sister *Surname*, year)",... |
2021/09/27 | 3,108 | 14,125 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reviewing a paper of a top-tier computer science conference. After reading the abstract and introduction of the paper, I think that the paper does not have that standard to make it up to the conference reputation. In other words, the problem that they have solved is a minor one and perhaps... |
2021/09/27 | 4,946 | 21,835 | <issue_start>username_0: My research supervisor wanted to produce a cost-benefit analysis for an infrastructure project (civil engineering). First he had someone else work on it, then he involved me. When I got involved, I noticed that the benefits were inflated and the costs downplayed to convince the reader of a mass... |
2021/09/27 | 980 | 3,245 | <issue_start>username_0: Can any piece of media be described as a text to be discussed in academic research?
I have found several conflicting definitions online. Those that disagree seem to be working on a different definition of what constitutes a “text”, referring more to what could itself be published rather than w... |
2021/09/27 | 737 | 3,235 | <issue_start>username_0: I have two papers. In the acknowledgment of the first one I thanked my adviser for his mentorship and there was no problem. When I finished my second paper and I sent it to him to review, he replied back with bunch of comments, mostly reasonable. But one of the comments was that he asked to be ... |
2021/09/28 | 1,153 | 4,647 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to go to graduate school for mathematics in a few years. I want to know which math graduate school(s) have the most rigorous math courses. I live in the USA, so I would prefer an USA math graduate school. By rigorous, I mean that all the statements, except the axioms, are proven.<... |
2021/09/28 | 1,143 | 4,758 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper that was resubmitted following a revise and resubmit around 18 months ago. I have been in contact with the editor several times and she has been sympathetic to my enquiries but has explained that the referees are proving unresponsive due to covid. The resubmission was a meaty one... |
2021/09/28 | 672 | 2,887 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm returning to the office and haven't had the opportunity to physically meet the 10 or so people I'll be sharing it with in the coming year.
Not all of them are researching the same thing as me and most of them are in their final year of postgraduate education so I'm kind of overshadowed as ... |
2021/09/28 | 2,245 | 9,287 | <issue_start>username_0: So I'm taking an architecture class and there was a word limit for the essay of 500 words. I was wondering if I could go over the 500 word limit and in the email tagline/heading I wrote:
"How strict are [assignment] guidelines?"
And then in the email I asked if I could go over the 500 word li... |
2021/09/29 | 796 | 3,412 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working on a book but it's far from done, so I'm thinking of uploading much of its content on Academia.edu first, in the form of stand-alone articles. This would be without copyright, I presume, unless Academia.edu automatically adds copyright to articles that are uploaded to its website. S... |
2021/09/29 | 513 | 2,110 | <issue_start>username_0: Theses are exercises, rather than "full work"?
Does this view hold?
It's a bit vague sometimes, because a thesis is supposed to practice "real work", but since a thesis is often an author's first work of such kind, then I find that expecting it to be "fully professional" is same as asking som... |