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2022/10/20 | 1,568 | 6,413 | <issue_start>username_0: I plan to finish my PhD thesis this year, but I will likely not be able to defend it this year, because my supervisors obviously need time to review it.
However, I will leave the country by the end of the year as well and it is not clear yet, whether I need to come back for the defense or whet... |
2022/10/20 | 1,281 | 5,516 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been putting my name on university assignments even though I know it's not advised. Something to do with unconscious biases.
To me it's a moral principle to write my name on my work which is my way of claiming ownership. It's my work and me putting my name claims that. I feel like putti... |
2022/10/21 | 390 | 1,741 | <issue_start>username_0: Is the TA expected to solve the homework for the professor or is the professor supposed to provide the solutions to the TA for grading homework?<issue_comment>username_1: If the professor wants the grading to be good, then the professor will provide the solutions and guides to the distributions... |
2022/10/21 | 677 | 2,641 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a PhD in Math at US grad schools mainly because they allow you one or more years of coursework to figure out your research interests and potential advisors. Are there any other countries that allow you this opportunity outside of the US? I have an MSc that was purely coursewor... |
2022/10/21 | 1,500 | 5,237 | <issue_start>username_0: Specifically I am looking at [this paper](https://doi.org/10.1145/3301312), but I've seen these in other papers too. At the bottom of the first page, it has some metadata and copyright information:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com... |
2022/10/21 | 392 | 1,743 | <issue_start>username_0: I interviewed for a faculty position back in September 7 and 8. All interview for this position was done the next week. On October 3 I followed up with the search committee chair and they replied they sent the recommendation to the dean. I haven’t heard anything so far, although my interview we... |
2022/10/21 | 1,291 | 5,764 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a professor who is teaching two-credit medical terminology course. This course is being taught at a public university in Montana.
She taught the first class session we had with her, and now just sits in the back of the class room “filling out work notes from being a PT,” and is now havi... |
2022/10/22 | 740 | 3,304 | <issue_start>username_0: How can I write an adequate State of the Art section in the following case for the field of CS? Let´s suppose that I am writing an article that solely relies on using classic Machine Learning techniques to detect spam. However, nowadays, the research has pointed out the use of advanced Deep Lea... |
2022/10/22 | 1,289 | 5,199 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm finishing my first year as a PhD in a STEM field (say field A), although my main field is B. I have two supervisors (say S1 and S2, both very well-known). I usually work with S2 (younger, less famous), and report to S1 (older, extremely famous).
Much of the work in field A can be applied i... |
2022/10/23 | 875 | 3,593 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently completing a Graduate Certificate of Studies at an Australian university, taking subjects in history. I plan to apply to a Master of Arts - Thesis for January, 2024 with the eventual goal of upgrading to a PhD. I have a topic and have written a (rough draft) research proposal of 1... |
2022/10/23 | 1,012 | 4,353 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I decided to do an undergraduate thesis (in computer science). Since I just took a course related to the topic I'm interested in, I contacted the course lecturer and asked if he would advise me on the thesis. He immediately agreed.
However, after some chats, I realized that he is not... |
2022/10/23 | 1,316 | 6,006 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to ask how to deal with pressure and high expectations from supervisors.
I am beginning my 3rd year of a PhD programme and I am very close to having a mental breakdown. I have two supervisors who are extremely tough on me. They expect very good results *every week*. I am working s... |
2022/10/23 | 474 | 2,012 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, as a graduate student in the social sciences, my supervisor has given me a short list of federal institutions that give out the majority of grants to all levels of academia, they share similar proposal formats, and they're only mildly competitive. There are a few other bodies, usuall... |
2022/10/23 | 1,721 | 6,815 | <issue_start>username_0: What are considered appropriate mean/median grades for college-level calculus and linear algebra classes in United States (say out of 100 or out of 4.0)?
Please don't just say "it is different with different universities and colleges". Can anyone give me any **specific examples** where only a ... |
2022/10/24 | 1,033 | 4,486 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to cite a theorem from a book written by two computer scientist that I consider to be influential and renowned. If you want the specifics, I want to cite **Theorem 11.8** from the book *Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach*, by <NAME> & <NAME>. If it affects in any way, I am plann... |
2022/10/24 | 737 | 3,279 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm halfway through my PhD studying abroad and due to a series of problems with my current advisor and the way the university is handling these issues my mental health has been affected and I'd like to move my current research elsewhere. My question is that if my situation here doesn't improve,... |
2022/10/24 | 558 | 2,493 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing my dissertation for master's degree course and I intend in the future to join a sandwich doctorate in my field.
Do you have any experience to share?
What advice would you suggest to me?<issue_comment>username_1: Sandwich doctorates are used in countries without develope... |
2022/10/24 | 1,018 | 4,397 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate student in Biology located in Montreal, Canada. I've contacted a researcher at Stanford University and he's interested in hiring me. Since this is a very expensive place to live and he will not be paying me for my work, I'll rely only on scholarships and grants.
I'm still i... |
2022/10/24 | 1,924 | 8,438 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to create a database of notes and previous exams for classes at my university, however, I am not sure if this is legal. I just want to know if this is OK or would I get a cease and desist or something similar from my university? And does posting the exams with/without answers make a diff... |
2022/10/24 | 1,434 | 6,435 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently received an email asking to review for a *reputable* journal (I recognize the journal, and the person listed as Associate Editor is listed as an associate editor on the journal's editorial board).
I am not currently in a graduate program nor do I have a doctoral degree. However, I w... |
2022/10/25 | 878 | 4,077 | <issue_start>username_0: I read some email about some paper submission:
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> Here are potential COIs [Conflicts of Interest] found by our automated tool, which uses DBLP to detect recent coauthorships: [Alice, Bob]. Per [conference name] submission guidelines, it is the full responsibility of all authors of a paper to... |
2022/10/25 | 1,082 | 4,857 | <issue_start>username_0: I am from Spain and I recently graduated from a masters degree here and now I'm applying for a PhD in the US. I'm having a hard time finding people who will write me a letter of recommendation for my PhD application. I already have two (one from my thesis supervisor and another from a counselor... |
2022/10/25 | 1,829 | 7,343 | <issue_start>username_0: I was reading through the post [Is it possible to work full time and complete a PhD](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/8747/is-it-possible-to-work-full-time-and-complete-a-phd) and had a few follow up questions:
(1) I read somewhere that one can complete a PhD without funding from a... |
2022/10/25 | 1,190 | 5,193 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently applied to a PhD program (computational chemistry) in the United Kingdom. I am from the United Kingdom and I have autism. I have asked this question because I would like to build a scaffold of sorts as due to my autism I find it easier to understand when I have things planned in... |
2022/10/26 | 1,013 | 4,156 | <issue_start>username_0: The other day I was reading a paper on IEEE. To access the paper I needed to sign in through my institution. On the bottom of the paper, it read:
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> Accessed through [my institution name] at Oct 24, 9:30 PM
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Will my institution be able to see all the papers I'm reading?<issue_commen... |
2022/10/26 | 1,065 | 4,297 | <issue_start>username_0: I need to italicize a word in the title of my submission. In the final preview page before submission on arXiv, the word is not being italicized rather I see:
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This is the case for both title and abstract. Screenshot:
[arXiv submission page](https://i.stack.imgur.co... |
2022/10/26 | 555 | 2,510 | <issue_start>username_0: My coauthors and I have submitted a paper to a fairly prestigious journal. We have received favorable reviews and were in the process of incorporating the reviewer's suggestions into the final revision.
Unfortunately, a few days ago a crank paper was published in the very same journal. The pap... |
2022/10/27 | 290 | 1,236 | <issue_start>username_0: I need to inquire about the expected date for the final decision as I sent the minor revisions since one month . should I message `Editor-in-Chief` or `Journals Editorial Office (JEO)`. what is the time expected between sending minor revision and the final decision in general, please ?<issue_co... |
2022/10/27 | 621 | 2,682 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say that while browsing the Internet, I come across a font that I genuinely like and decide to use it in my thesis or my academic research article that will be published. Should I care about if it would be correctly licensed or not?
For instance, it might be a licensed font that I'm unaw... |
2022/10/27 | 1,748 | 7,260 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm attending university 100% online. I have the same professor for three classes, which are all structured the same way. Every week there is assigned reading, videos, and a discussion board post with a prompt written by her. We have to make an original post, reply to any comments and comment o... |
2022/10/28 | 1,191 | 4,952 | <issue_start>username_0: The title is a bit long but let me explain. I am a final year undergraduate student and am currently applying for a PhD in my field. All the universities I am applying to require three letters of recommendation (LoR). My supervisor for my Bachelors Thesis is writing me one letter and a Professo... |
2022/10/28 | 1,060 | 4,336 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed masters in 2017. After then I did internship as a software engineer in one company X for 6 month in 2018. And then did another company Y job in 2019 as a full stack developer. But during that time(2020-2021) my family was infected by COVID-19, so insistly I quit my job for look afte... |
2022/10/28 | 754 | 3,272 | <issue_start>username_0: Many subscription databases only offer subscriptions to libraries and not to individuals.
Do the legal requirements of registering as a library require the library to have a physical building where patrons can attend, or is it possible for a library to only offer services online, through a web... |
2022/10/28 | 1,285 | 5,245 | <issue_start>username_0: As seniority increases, admin tasks increase, and effective time for research decreases. There's no way around investing long hours in replying to e-mails, filling up budget forms, and screening/interviewing prospective lab members. Assuming there's no additional staff to help, this can take al... |
2022/10/28 | 3,395 | 14,840 | <issue_start>username_0: As an advisor, at what point do you decide that a PhD student no longer deserves authorship on a paper?
I am an associate professor who is very active in engineering research at a low-ranked R2 institution. Most non-top-10 institutions have a hard time attracting good PhD students, but here it... |
2022/10/29 | 394 | 1,839 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, I submitted my article to the frontiers series and received comments from the reviewers. After revising the article, I let a native English speaker help me to check it.
She made great revisions for me, especially in improving the writing (eg. grammar/choosing a better word/changing ... |
2022/10/29 | 3,009 | 13,006 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a difficult paper for my PhD. My first draft is rambling and long, so I'm cutting it down for the next round of edits.
However, I find it difficult to discard old writing. Some of the paragraphs I'm discarding may still be valuable for my future PhD, so I put them in 'discard' docu... |
2022/10/29 | 2,991 | 13,052 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a math professor, and we've just moved back into our building after a year-long renovation. One of our rooms, currently piled high with junk, is to be made into a seminar room.
I'm on the committee charged with coming up with a design for the room, and making recommendations to the depart... |
2022/10/29 | 2,487 | 10,516 | <issue_start>username_0: I am finishing up my undergraduate degree in mathematics in my home country and expect to apply for PhD studies in statistics in the US (I am also willing to consider Canadian options but more on this later). My wife will also have finished her bachelor's degree in statistics by then and we int... |
2022/10/30 | 911 | 3,412 | <issue_start>username_0: (Considering the fact that this question is specifically about the UK academic system,) [this webpage](https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/staff/research-information-staff-applying-funding-and-managing-projects/i-need-my-salary-be-covered) says
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> Applicants are expected to spend an average of at least... |
2022/10/30 | 839 | 3,444 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an accepted paper (yay) going through copy-editing at the journal, and several changes suggested by the editor I disagree with:
* joined two barely related sentences with a semicolon in the abstract because "the background has to be one sentence"
* replace all spelled numbers ("two") wi... |
2022/10/30 | 917 | 4,114 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student interested in doing research.
There is a paper I have recently read. In the paper, a new (general) algorithm is proposed (in a bottom-Q1 journal). It is not a groundbreaking discovery. However, because the algorithm is very general, there are many possibilities to... |
2022/10/31 | 419 | 1,709 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for Ph.D. in the United States. During my undergrad, I had worked with a postdoc in the research lab I was working. Presently, the postdoc student has joined an esteemed university as an assistant professor, but has not yet started any research there. Can I approach him for a Lett... |
2022/10/31 | 1,546 | 6,704 | <issue_start>username_0: I was involved in several projects which got considerable funding from the US federal government.
In retrospect I feel there was a substantial amount of equipment that should have been purchased/built but wasn't and the PI did something else with the funds but I don't know what. I always felt ... |
2022/11/01 | 4,487 | 18,520 | <issue_start>username_0: I've received an email from a student [name changed for privacy] that goes like this:
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> My name is <NAME> and I am in your Biology 101 class. I am here at this college on a soccer scholarship. I am the oldest of 4 and I am from Southern California. I am not intelligent. I understand that hi... |
2022/11/01 | 387 | 1,797 | <issue_start>username_0: If you don't have a certain minimum number of published papers, will that be used to reject applicants in the first round? Is that common?<issue_comment>username_1: There is no general rule for this. The hiring decision for post-docs is essentially up to the PI. They will be looking for the bes... |
2022/11/01 | 609 | 2,560 | <issue_start>username_0: I saw a job advertisement recently with this line:
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> We are looking for candidates [for this teaching position] who are able to inspire women undergraduate students to seriously consider careers in physics, engineering, and related professions.
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I'm aware there's a large gender imb... |
2022/11/01 | 1,779 | 7,524 | <issue_start>username_0: I know a professor who claims he was hired because he was, in his words, "better than everyone else." But isn't it possible that one person on the hiring committee thought he was the best applicant, another person thought someone else was the best applicant and that he wasn't even close, and a ... |
2022/11/01 | 1,961 | 8,138 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in math but not currently in academia (completed PhD). I had to leave and I'm trying to get back. Recently I've been working on some small problems that I made up myself from reading some papers. But it's not part of any sort of larger program or is related to stuff that people work on. So,... |
2022/11/01 | 1,178 | 4,603 | <issue_start>username_0: In the US, competition for admission to elite universities (whether for an PhD, MA, BA, or even for a position as a professor) is fierce. Race is a more or less official consideration in admissions.
How do universities check racial declarations? If a person does not look a given race in an int... |
2022/11/01 | 1,680 | 7,291 | <issue_start>username_0: Basically, I think research groups form "inner circles" where people generate important problems. But I am not in any of these "inner circles," so I don't know where the potentially important problems that will lead to papers in top, prestigious journals are. The people who publish in top journ... |
2022/11/02 | 482 | 2,167 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the start of my second year of PhD studies. I have identified a gap in the literature, a research question and half way thorough my research proposal. Unfortunately, the rising costs of living, electricity and the extreme housing crisis in the country have rendered our already low (350 ... |
2022/11/02 | 1,520 | 6,505 | <issue_start>username_0: Lately I have noticed few job advertisement (that range from PhD to Assistant Prof. positions) for which the deadlines for application was literally a couple of days after the job posting.
As a matter of fact, just today (2nd November) I get one announcement with application deadline 4th Novem... |
2022/11/02 | 374 | 1,535 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a master's student doing theoretical physics and am currently preparing for PhD applications. I just started working on a dissertation for my program, and I'm expected to have it completed by May next year. I wonder if it is appropriate for me to include the title of my dissertation on my ... |
2022/11/02 | 788 | 3,471 | <issue_start>username_0: In my paper as well as in others there is a specific person that acquired gift authorships. How do I speak about that anonymously? Should I send an anonynous email to integrity office? or to the journal? I don't know how to handle the situation and I need some guidance. Apparently something is ... |
2022/11/03 | 1,103 | 4,906 | <issue_start>username_0: I was in a manuscript which was not accepted in the first journal. They resubmitted it to an other journal and left me out without telling me a word. They reproduced my data with the protocol I gave them (what I developed actually) and now they are telling that my data were not used and I was n... |
2022/11/03 | 1,544 | 6,794 | <issue_start>username_0: I've a teaching position in an engineering college in France since September 2021, and in a few years' time I'd like to get either a research-only or a mixed research and teaching position. With that in mind, I'm trying to get some research done in the fields of statistical/theoretical machine ... |
2022/11/03 | 1,203 | 4,974 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been seeking a full time research position in psychological research since I graduated and moved to a new city. Breaking into it without any connections was hard, so I took a part-time temporary position doing educational research in the public school system. The work is challenging but ... |
2022/11/03 | 709 | 2,986 | <issue_start>username_0: I have read that even in published papers there are citation mistakes such as putting an incorrect word in cited text, missing a word, etc. I have even noticed these mistakes myself in some papers.
Can such a mistake ruin a career? Obviously there is no intention to use someone's words as your... |
2022/11/03 | 203 | 862 | <issue_start>username_0: We have submitted a manuscript to a reputable BMC journal. A few days ago, we received a mail stating that our article was accepted. In the Editorial Manager software, it says " accept " under "current status". Our previously submitted manuscripts to that particular journal have the status "Fin... |
2022/11/03 | 4,100 | 17,233 | <issue_start>username_0: My wife and I are international students planning on applying for PhD programs in the US (at nearby universities, post-bachelor's, stat/AI/ML area). We would like to know how manageable it would be to have kids while in the middle of our PhD programs. This is different from similar questions th... |
2022/11/03 | 616 | 2,630 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a postdoc position.
1. I am wondering if it's acceptable for one of my advisors to write a letter of recommendation for research and teaching? I have been TA for my advisor a couple of times. Does this look good for hiring committee?
2. In mathjobs, I listed the name of my ad... |
2022/11/04 | 838 | 2,902 | <issue_start>username_0: How did medieval universities discipline their students? What classroom management techniques did they use?<issue_comment>username_1: In the US, you can get Rait's Life in the medieval university from Amazon for free.
There were a number of different punishments for various infractions, which ... |
2022/11/04 | 490 | 2,124 | <issue_start>username_0: I did an undergraduate thesis with my partner. It don't have any missed, wrong or theft information. I was ill and long away from my dorm that time. So I told my partner to print and submit it. He had to sign my declaration page too by my name becasue I could not that time.That paper have two d... |
2022/11/04 | 3,130 | 12,572 | <issue_start>username_0: I published a paper that received a bit of attention several years ago. A few months ago, I received an email from a student who expressed interest in my work. I don't know her, she is not in the same institution as I am, and she appears to not be located in the same country. I thought I was co... |
2022/11/04 | 2,883 | 11,546 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it ok to form a model based on several papers and omit something from newer papers? Of course, not that someone else proved what you're researching, just that authors said that something was important for one segment and you investigated another segment and neglected that. Later, the author ... |
2022/11/04 | 455 | 1,916 | <issue_start>username_0: I like a PhD position. If they give me offer, I definitely will take it.
I have submitted my application, and the dealine is the 20th of this month. But now I have a working offer with a ddl for acceptation or rejection. I don't think I have time for waiting for them.
Could I message the prof... |
2022/11/04 | 609 | 2,560 | <issue_start>username_0: In a graduate course (master's level), during topic assignment for coursework, I mentioned that I came up with a research idea of my own. The professor asked me to present it in front of the class. Afterwards, he encouraged me to write my final thesis on it, but assigned me one of the predeterm... |
2022/11/04 | 3,398 | 14,413 | <issue_start>username_0: I don’t understand where "reproducing results from other labs" fits into the running of a given research lab.
(I'm not in academia, and I confess I only consider this function in the context where it's News due to fails - ie, "So & So breakthrough is published, but other labs were not able to ... |
2022/11/05 | 613 | 2,263 | <issue_start>username_0: I checked the W1 salary of junior professors in Germany but noticed that there is no health insurance, unemployment insurance, and pension contribution.
Source : <https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/beamte/bund?id=beamte-bund-2021&g=W_1&s=0&f=0&z=100&zulage=&stj=2022b&stkl=1&r=0&zkf=... |
2022/11/05 | 677 | 2,911 | <issue_start>username_0: Once I published a few math papers which contained new ideas in a new direction. This was closely related to my usual field of interest, but went somewhat beyond it. It was not obvious to me how many people in my field would be interested in it. Anyway I naturally wanted to promote my ideas to ... |
2022/11/05 | 849 | 3,529 | <issue_start>username_0: Here's what one faculty member told me about how hiring works at their department.
There are maybe 10-12 people on the hiring committee and they rate applicants on a scale. There are a bunch of different fields, but two different fields are sometimes lumped together, say field A consists of fi... |
2022/11/05 | 1,304 | 5,500 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm particularly interested in the condition in mathematics. In [this post](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/163025/is-there-a-max-number-of-authors-for-a-paper-of-math#:%7E:text=Papers%20in%20%22mathematics%22%20had%20an,in%20%22mathematics%2C%20applied%22), I find that the average... |
2022/11/06 | 1,195 | 4,777 | <issue_start>username_0: An international student or postdoc from a list of certain countries has to obtain an [ATAS](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/academic-technology-approval-scheme) certificate before being able to applying for a UK visa, and **that certificate has to be obtained again every year**. In the link above,... |
2022/11/06 | 1,094 | 4,593 | <issue_start>username_0: A colleague of mine recently suggested to wait with the re-submission of a revised article until the very end (e.g. the deadline day). His rationale is that reviewers might be less inclined to dig in the matter again after a certain time has passed. Based on his experience, the chances of accep... |
2022/11/06 | 838 | 3,669 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing my master's thesis about an already published method which I improved and modified.
When writing the background section of my thesis about the existing method I am tempted to use the graphics of the original paper/thesis when explaining why this method was created in the... |
2022/11/06 | 289 | 1,359 | <issue_start>username_0: I have read many articles where the description of respondents (their characteristics) are put at the beginning of results section. Is it ok? Will your manuscript be rejected if you did so, but reviewers require it to be in methodology section?<issue_comment>username_1: It depends: If you chose... |
2022/11/07 | 3,078 | 12,961 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Grad student and this is my first time as a TA, in a first-year undergraduate course.
My concern is students that come to office hours completely unprepared, asking things that have already been covered in lectures or answered in the course's mailing list multiple times. I am always try... |
2022/11/07 | 752 | 3,229 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I am an international student X living in country Y and I apply to university Z in a european country/developed asian country Q. Would my chance for admission into Z, if applied, depend substansially on whether I did my previous schooling in Q or not? Would this be different for differe... |
2022/11/07 | 1,800 | 7,915 | <issue_start>username_0: Top math grad programs in the U.S. will receive tons of applications from people with excellent grades in grad or advanced undergrad math classes, high math subject GRE scores, and some research. No doubt there are other factors like competition results or awards from the student's department, ... |
2022/11/08 | 966 | 3,916 | <issue_start>username_0: I work at a faculty which is completely dedicated to open access and open science. They do everything in accordance with best practices. Very cool.
But at the same time they are totally embedded in the Google infrastructure, using Gmail, Calendar, Drive and so on. Even I, a Google skeptic, fin... |
2022/11/08 | 832 | 3,896 | <issue_start>username_0: A colleague and I, early-career researchers, are planning to submit a research funding proposal. The research program we are envisioning would need a third PI with complementary expertise and resources. Of all the collaborators we might invite, one of the most qualified would be our former supe... |
2022/11/09 | 2,887 | 9,188 | <issue_start>username_0: If I publish a 22,000 word article in a journal, can I call it a monograph in my CV? It seems too long to call it an article.<issue_comment>username_1: You can call it whatever you want in your CV, but if it is in a journal with other articles, it would not usually be called a monograph, but an... |
2022/11/09 | 3,364 | 14,410 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student at a university in Germany.
After about four years of research, my supervisor told me to write my thesis.
After I sent him my thesis, he told me that he now thinks my work did not have enough scientific soundness and that I would not be graduating anymore.
I published more... |
2022/11/09 | 1,164 | 4,917 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to pursue a PhD in experimental particle physics and am looking for a supervisor. I know that the first advice to students like me is to go through the professor's most recent paper. However, the journals in my field are usually published collaboratively, which means the number of author... |
2022/11/09 | 326 | 1,333 | <issue_start>username_0: A reviewer's comment:
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> some sections, such as A, are very short and they need to be expanded or removed; other sections such as B and C are very superficially developed
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So I am wondering if I am supposed to revise section only A, B and C or any other sections with same problem?<i... |
2022/11/09 | 438 | 1,884 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper in submission and only managed to revise it after more than 8 months when I emailed the editor a reminder about my paper. I have re-submitted my paper about a month ago but from the website status regarding my paper, an invitation on my revised manuscript had been sent to the rev... |
2022/11/10 | 570 | 2,509 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it ok to use a question similar to a question from someone else's questionaire? The question is not that specific, but the possible answers are similar. For example the question similar to yours measures level of involvement on a 7 point scale, while you measure level of importance on differ... |
2022/11/11 | 787 | 3,182 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a postdoc in the US working under the supervision of a not-very-known PI. Whenever my supervisor gets tipsy, he brags that he has also a full-time job in a German university and receives a 100% E14 salary in his German account. I knew that he is also affiliated with this university as he us... |
2022/11/13 | 1,173 | 5,607 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen a definition of research in the [Cambridge Dictionary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Advanced_Learner%27s_Dictionary). It says:
**a detailed study of a subject, especially in order to discover (new) information or reach a (new) understanding:**
Here we see that two news ... |
2022/11/14 | 3,137 | 12,648 | <issue_start>username_0: Most people try to work in the academia of rich and developed countries. I suspect that the rationale for not working in developing countries includes factors such as low-quality healthcare, weak transportation, corruption in the system, etc. I wonder if there is any rationale for working in de... |
2022/11/14 | 2,045 | 8,378 | <issue_start>username_0: I was invited at a conference to give a contributed talk. I was given 12 minutes to speak and 3 minutes for Q&A, but to keep my talk simple I didn't go in details (probably I spoke faster also). In all, I finished the talk in ~10 minutes. I know this somewhat disturbs the flow of the schedule, ... |
2022/11/14 | 568 | 2,537 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing my methods section where I want to stress that I am not looking at the effect by condition, but exploring the continuous relationship between my predictor variable and the dependent variable. Both are continuous variables in my analysis, but the original study where the data comes f... |
2022/11/14 | 666 | 2,627 | <issue_start>username_0: This is essentially a continuation to my previous question [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/169913/how-to-study-a-field-on-which-no-professors-specialise-in-your-university). In one of the answers, it was proposed that I find people who did active research in the field I want... |
2022/11/14 | 572 | 2,391 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a tenured professor. I recently moved to a new R1 university (less than a year) but always had a different school as my dream university. How odd is it to apply to another university given that I have been in my new university for less than a year? Is it something the new university will c... |
2022/11/15 | 1,009 | 4,186 | <issue_start>username_0: Can a researcher work full-time in two universities on a rotational basis?
For instance, say someone works in a university 'A' in Europe from February to May and then works in a university 'B' in the Middle East from October to January, etc.
Is it possible?
Has anyone done that before?<issue... |
2022/11/15 | 1,120 | 4,859 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student in my final year of Electrical Engineering. I enrolled in an RnD course last semester and tagged it as an honor course. This is a semester-long research project where you work closely with one of the professors in your department. The work I did in the semester was... |
2022/11/15 | 1,570 | 6,796 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing to ask for the community's advice in both reacting (regulating my own thoughts) and responding (whether worth the time to respond at all) to situations involving questionable publications.
I mentor high school students to work on computer science projects, and one of my students w... |
2022/11/15 | 844 | 3,615 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc. One of the students in the class I am teaching has reached out about getting involved in research. I would be happy to work with them on a project. *Are any ethical issues with this given that they are currently in my class?*
Obviously, PhD students frequently take classes with... |
2022/11/16 | 659 | 2,736 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student in the US. Whenever I wish my PhD advisor on holidays (over email), like on Christmas or on Thanksgiving, he never responds.
Is it impolite to wish your advisor on such holidays? Is it common to maintain professional boundaries with one's student by not responding... |