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2023/03/23
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<issue_start>username_0: my professor stated that my thesis has potential to be published in a scientific journal. I have not come into contact with publishing in journals yet. He advised me to put my empirical results, which I sent him, into concise writing as is done in journal articles. Overall, I feel happy to r...
2023/03/23
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<issue_start>username_0: I am in the last semester of my master study in Germany and going to publish my master thesis. However, I still need about two months to graduate. Could I contact with the professor in advance and apply for a phd position? I have some project experiences and I can provide the extended abstract ...
2023/03/24
1,469
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<issue_start>username_0: During my second and third year, COVID made all my engineering exams online. The exams were not proctored. Some of the exams I cheated by working with a group of friends. One person would have the exam open and we all would help and gain extra time by working on the solutions before we did our ...
2023/03/24
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<issue_start>username_0: I have already written my master thesis. My professor encouraged me to publish the results in a journal. He said I should orient me on some of the articles published in there. Nonetheless I am curious if more seasoned vets on here could give me some first hand advice on e.g. pitfalls to avoid?...
2023/03/25
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<issue_start>username_0: After completion of peer review, the associate editor usually sends his recommendation to the editor-in-chief of a journal. The editor-in-chief is the one to take the final decision. On this forum I frequently read that the editor-in-chief would usually not overrule / outvote his associate edit...
2023/03/25
558
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<issue_start>username_0: I did a 3-year industrial PhD joint programme between a university and a company. Working for the company, I vastly improved their technology, but got no patents in my name. I wrote some papers, but they aren't submitted for publishing yet, and I will get my PhD regardless of that, because it ...
2023/03/25
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<issue_start>username_0: Recently, I stumbled over a CV in which the corresponding author included in the category of prizes and grants also Phd positions (with scholarship) which he/she was offered but declined. I never have seen it before. Of course, selection by the official committee of a PhD position together with...
2023/03/26
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<issue_start>username_0: What is the purpose of the “Comments only to the editors” section in peer reviews? It seems lack of transparency to me. What couldn’t you possibly tell the authors?<issue_comment>username_1: A few examples: * "I happen to know one of the authors personally and I know that they didn't consent t...
2023/03/26
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<issue_start>username_0: I am in the process of applying to overseas institutions for the phd programme. For this purpose, my referees have already provided me with the reference letters as I am applying to the multiple institutions. So, they are unable to find time for filling the reference request forms. Unfortunatel...
2023/03/26
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<issue_start>username_0: I am currently doing master's in mathematics and am applying for summer research projects in various institutes where they ask a particular question: What is your topic of interest and why? I asked a few people( professors, mostly) and Google, and they suggested I should tell my story. How and ...
2023/03/27
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<issue_start>username_0: I was recently asked to review a paper for a (reputable) journal in mathematics. This journal follows a single-blinded peer review process (which is quite standard in math). Reviewers are not revealed to the authors, but the reviewers know who the authors are. However, in this situation, the a...
2023/03/27
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<issue_start>username_0: Very recently, my feed suggested a new paper which was an extract from a thesis in an old group of mine. It was interesting for me, as I synthesised the material used. However, whilst the text referenced my paper in the "synthesis previously reported," I didn't have the expected acknowledgement...
2023/03/27
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<issue_start>username_0: Have you encountered such a thing? A thesis submitted jointly by two people? Is that allowed anywhere? I didn't realize it was even remotely possible until I looked up the [MSc thesis](http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108858) of one <NAME>u. Turns out he submitted it jointly with a Zeev Zurr, unde...
2023/03/27
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<issue_start>username_0: I've talked to several colleagues who have expressed frustration at the amount of and kind of accommodations that some students receive. I know the Approved Position is "the disability office knows what's best so you can't question them". But what if it seems legitimately unfair to the other st...
2023/03/28
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<issue_start>username_0: I met someone at a conference and we had a good conversation. We emailed after for a bit. He is the associate editor of a reasonably well respected journal. He asked me to referee a paper and I just said yes without thinking much about it - he went to my talk and we talked for awhile so I assum...
2023/03/28
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<issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing a review paper (for the first time) on an emerging topic, and the problem is that almost all the sources that I found regarding this topic are preprints on arxiv. I wanted to know if citing them in the review paper is okay or not. This paper is going to be a chapter in ...
2023/03/28
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<issue_start>username_0: One of my professors accused me of cheating because it appeared to them that I opened a link on moodle. I did, but did not look at what was open. It was opened by mistake as my laptop was lagging. I tried to talk with him, but he still insisted on accusing me. I asked him to repeat the exam in ...
2023/03/29
3,483
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<issue_start>username_0: I am currently reading a paper in my area which is very poorly written in my opinion. It is hard to understand the bigger picture of the paper. Now, I am just a student and my opinions might not be of that value but it is really difficult to understand the paper. It appears that everything in t...
2023/03/29
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<issue_start>username_0: My Ph.D. student is stuck on some technicality of their project. It's taken months already, and there is no good progress. The problem lies beyond their project focus and skill set. Thus, even after repeatedly helping the student, the progress remains so slow that we might be unable to finish t...
2023/03/29
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<issue_start>username_0: I'm a Ph.D. candidate in physical chemistry. I have 13 posters and presentations on my CV, with a couple more upcoming. Right now, they each are listed as a bullet point on one line, in a format like this: * `Northwest Regional Meeting (NORM) of the ACS Oral presentation, Jun. 2019` * `Nationa...
2023/03/30
3,445
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<issue_start>username_0: As a grad student (or postdoc), past taking classes, is it ok to get a thank you gift for a professor who : * has helped you with something (e.g. introduced you to someone for a collaboration or wrote you a recommendation letter for an application, or offered life-saving help with revisions fo...
2023/03/30
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<issue_start>username_0: I am dual nationality. My surname on my both passports is totally different in terms of writing. Because some leters in country A has different writing style in country B. I already has determined my both surnames on my all academic platforms. Is it possible to publish papers sometimes with su...
2023/03/30
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<issue_start>username_0: I'm moving to Malmö, Sweden in three months and I just got admitted to a Master's programme in Lund university. I also applied to University of Copenhagen for a different set of master's programmes, that I have a preference for over Lund's. I originally had the idea of taking two masters at th...
2023/03/30
1,475
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<issue_start>username_0: I am working on a literature review of various machine learning models doing the same general tasks, both to learn the theory and challenges involved and also to find the current state-of-the-art and average expected performance to compare the experimental result to. In my search, I found that ...
2023/03/30
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<issue_start>username_0: When I applied to grad school it seems like the only places I got into were places that had someone on the faculty who knew one of my recommendation letter writers. How much does that matter? For example, if they are colleagues and/or work in the same area?<issue_comment>username_1: It does mat...
2023/03/30
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<issue_start>username_0: I am completing my postdoc position in about 9 months, so I am looking at eventual career opportunities. My postdoc did not go as expected: due to some internal problems, I reported my PI for misconduct. Although the committee reviewing the case did not confirm the misconduct, they stated that ...
2023/03/31
863
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<issue_start>username_0: My major advisor has asked another professor to be my co-advisor behind my back. What does that mean ? I have told the other professor that if the arrangement will be beneficial for him, I am ok. My question is whether, if I have a co-advisor, my major advisor can leave me without me having a...
2023/03/31
906
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<issue_start>username_0: I am in my last year as an undergraduate student at a top Canadian university (not sure if it matters). This is my second time publishing in the school’s journal. The requirements are 1) it meets the theme and 2) we received at least an A− in the paper. I am very excited to have my paper publis...
2023/03/31
907
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<issue_start>username_0: I am preparing to submit my first research paper to a peer-reviewed journal and am at the stage of writing a cover letter to support my submission. I am technically affiliated with 2 different organisations: the non-academic research organisation where I am physically based and employed by, and...
2023/03/31
3,858
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<issue_start>username_0: I run a lab in an applied computational field (e.g. computational biology/chemistry/physics etc.) One of my postdocs (“A”) has been working on a problem for the last two years. They have made good progress, but the accuracy of their solution is not quite where we want it. A new postdoc (“B”) ...
2023/03/31
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<issue_start>username_0: I was wondering how common it is that advertised PhD positions have actually already been given to internal candidates and if there are any signs indicative of this. I am currently looking for a PhD position in microbiology and had this happen to me and some friends. I find this rather frustra...
2023/03/31
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<issue_start>username_0: Both journals are indexed by major search engines and have similar ratings. From my point of view (with limited experience), if you are researching a narrow subject and you have found online an article matching your interest, would you care from which publishing house this article came from?<is...
2023/04/01
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<issue_start>username_0: Sorry this is a bit long. I really need some advice and opinions on what to do. Last year, I started my PhD program, but due to changing my field of study and suffering from anxiety, my grades during the first semester were very poor. These were mandatory courses that were not directly related...
2023/04/01
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<issue_start>username_0: I am going on fieldwork to UAE in a couple of days' time. I'm researching parts of the local music scene in Abu Dhabi/Dubai. What is the right thing to say to check-in/passport control? Does one say one is going on research leave? Fieldwork? Or is it just simpler to say it's a holiday? I take ...
2023/04/01
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<issue_start>username_0: I've applied to several US grad schools for PhD math and one of my rejection letters stated that I can contact them regarding their decision. I would benefit from knowing whether their reason of rejection was something I can change (SOP, research experience, test scores etc.) in which case it m...
2023/04/01
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<issue_start>username_0: I've searched the articles, abstracts, and keywords using Scopus. I narrowed down the time for the exciting period/range. I limited the subject area to the relevant ones. Now I've 40 papers instead of 3000. I don't know what the next step is. I want to do a systematic review and publish my fin...
2023/04/01
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<issue_start>username_0: A few weeks ago, we (2 authors) published a hypothesis paper in the medical sciences. Some days after the manuscript was published online, a researcher wrote me and asked for the full text. I did not know said researcher at that stage. We exchanged some emails back and forth about the content ...
2023/04/02
1,379
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<issue_start>username_0: There is a figure that is unbelievably clear and efficient in getting my point across. More specifically, I'm doing a presentation about modeling a certain real-world object to math students who are not familiar with the problem, and the figure beats any sort of clumsy explanation I can give. N...
2023/04/02
4,107
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<issue_start>username_0: I have conducted my PhD in Austria on a very hyped field in the international community. During my work I have been able to start an international collaboration and publish some relevant papers. In particular, I really want to continue working with my main collaborator and they indeed said that...
2023/04/02
4,253
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<issue_start>username_0: I am writing my B.Sc. in Computer Science. I am currently writing my **methods** chapter and adhering to the **IMRaD structure** (<https://writingcenter.gmu.edu/writing-resources/imrad/writing-an-imrad-report>). I am designing and implementing an interpreted programming language. I do classify...
2023/04/03
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<issue_start>username_0: I have a new boss, who is experienced and has published a number of scientific articles. He is telling me that I should not have any tables in my articles, but rather make graphs for everything. I agree that graphs are better, but I also think it's ok to add some tables for the less important v...
2023/04/03
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<issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in mathematics. Recently I received back a request for revision of an article I had submitted to a journal. The referee made several good suggestions; the chief editor also provided some suggestions. When I resubmit the paper, it is natural I will thank to the referee. But *...
2023/04/04
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<issue_start>username_0: I rarely hear of students signing FERPA release forms when asking for letters of recommendation. Yet letters of recommendation commonly talk about student's performance in a class, projects they did in a class, their GPA/courseload, etc. Mentioning such things imply that a student took a given ...
2023/04/04
805
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<issue_start>username_0: I am early to mid-career academic in the field of business. Leaving a tenure-track job, I am currently considering two different offers with very different pros and cons. While I do not consider this next job to be my forever place and do wish to settle down in a balanced tenured role in the fu...
2023/04/04
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<issue_start>username_0: I typically use the following workflow when citing papers: * search paper name on Google Scholar chrome plugin * click cite -> BibTeX -> copy BibTeX into references in Overleaf (LaTeX) I once had a conversation with a PhD student (whom I don't know personally or have any contact with) who sai...
2023/04/04
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<issue_start>username_0: I'm a graduate student in (pure) mathematics, and I just finished up a project and am planning on publishing it. It's a short paper, only about 10 pages, answering a few questions from the literature. I'm writing to ask about conventions on acknowledgements; during this project I have gotten a ...
2023/04/04
4,168
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<issue_start>username_0: I've posted a few questions regarding research and I'm trying to make my progress on a project more fruitful, and while the answers/comments have been quite helpful, it still doesn't seem like I am really enjoying the process - I have a hard time in following through with the advice and getting...
2023/04/04
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<issue_start>username_0: As the title mentions, I am wondering how to approach an upcoming teaching presentation I will be giving as part of an interview. To be clear, this is a 30-40 minute teaching presentation on a topic related to the humanities-based field in which I work. My main concern: I am fairly certain tha...
2023/04/04
1,036
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<issue_start>username_0: I am on my 2nd year of PhD. Some months ago, a woman from another department had similar PhD ideas to me and my advisor's other student. Our supervisor was furious when he realised this and he accused of us sharing our work without authorization. It turns out that my colleague had informed her ...
2023/04/04
1,216
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<issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in the USA in the field of Aerospace Engineering. My supervisor had mentioned that he will be the sole 'corresponding author' in all journal publications. Consequently, I am not the corresponding author in any of my publications. I have noticed that some postdoc fellowships ...
2023/04/04
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<issue_start>username_0: I'm a 1st year math PhD student and wish to transfer. I applied to transfer fall 2023 to 16 schools but didn't get in anywhere. I'm going to try again, but first I'll answer why I wish to transfer and how I ended up in my situation to give more context. **Why I wish to transfer:** I want to be...
2023/04/06
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<issue_start>username_0: In a research field that math is frequently used, while sending a long note/paper, attaching a pdf is of course the best. But for a short email that only involves few equations, a pdf file might be too much I guess (is this correct?). What is the best way to facilitate communication and not sca...
2023/04/06
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<issue_start>username_0: I'm planning to attend a top 25 school in the US for a Ph.D. in Mathematics. Are research collaborations with professors outside of the school generally encouraged? This could include short or long-term visits to other universities or just an online collaboration. I understand that an answer t...
2023/04/06
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<issue_start>username_0: If a big publisher provides access to a paper of famous author but only in its original language and from a deprecated journal. Can I submit an English translation of such a paper to the same publisher indicating that it is a translation? If yes, why is this not done more frequently? If not, wh...
2023/04/06
2,463
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<issue_start>username_0: I used ChatGPT to polish my essay, now I’m freaking out. As above, in Feb I had to write a reflective piece about 1000 words for university. The essay was based on my real experiences and reflection. I wrote the essay myself then fed it into ChatGPT with prompts like “ revise this to make it m...
2023/04/07
763
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<issue_start>username_0: Since my university doesn't have algebraic geometry courses or professors (\*), I'm self studying algebraic geometry with the goal of finishing prerequisites before transferring. I've already started on commutative algebra and algebraic toplogy, next my goal is to read *Royal Road to Algebraic ...
2023/04/07
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<issue_start>username_0: Summary: Coming from Russian university student, cheating at exams seems normal and encouraged. Why is it so much more frowned upon at the North American/western universities? --- Ok, I assume that most people viewing this question are from the US, or at least from the West. This question is ...
2023/04/07
1,474
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<issue_start>username_0: I'm confused as to whether an "official offer letter" that i have signed is actually a contract. I have received a tenure-track offer from a US university, and they have sent me a 1.5 page official offer letter specifying salary, starting date, etc. However it does say employment is subject to...
2023/04/07
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<issue_start>username_0: I'd like to write a scientific article from my master's thesis. My supervisor offered to collaborate on this, and become co-author. I would answer positively if it wasn't for the following considerations: * he wants to target journals of a certain level, and I don't think my work is up to thes...
2023/04/07
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<issue_start>username_0: My thesis title is: > > Study the phase-shifting behavior in the complex reaction mechanism. > > > My external examiner suggested changing it to > > Study of the phase-shifting ... . > > > But due to university rules it is not possible at this stage of Ph.D. Can I continue with the ...
2023/04/08
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<issue_start>username_0: The situation I am asking about goes like this: I am writing a math paper that I hope to publish, and want to use a certain math technique that I found in a paper from 2021. In that paper, the author gives credit to two other papers, one from 2011, as well as the original 1887 paper by <NAME> c...
2023/04/08
2,638
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<issue_start>username_0: As the profile indicates, my name is <NAME>. I've recently started working on a dual PhD on process mining and natural language processing at a university and a governmental institution in the Netherlands. According to [this overview](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_common_surnames_...
2023/04/08
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<issue_start>username_0: I want to do good work, but I don't have the benefit of a postdoc advisor to bounce ideas off of. I applied for postdocs but didn't get any offers. Now I'm just reading papers in my room on my own and trying to generate stuff, but I end up with "observations." At this rate I'll never publish in...
2023/04/09
1,499
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<issue_start>username_0: I am a first-year Ph.D. student in an engineering field in my home country, and my Ph.D. supervisor is my master's supervisor. The central problem is that he is very busy with administrative work, thus he has no time to guide his students. I must emphasize that this is very common, at least in...
2023/04/09
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<issue_start>username_0: I got a notation of academic dishonesty on my BSc’s transcript after I received the conditional offer from a top graduate school. I submitted the application very early before the notation was added to my transcript. Now I received a conditional offer from the school. They’ll give me the offici...
2023/04/09
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<issue_start>username_0: I submitted an article to a certain top IEEE transaction journal, and after a year and a half of peer review, it was finally rejected. During this period, we got a chance to make minor revision.The paper was then sent to two new reviewers. One of the new reviewers made several rounds of incorre...
2023/04/09
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<issue_start>username_0: I graduated with a BS in math from [Cal Poly SLO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Polytechnic_State_University,_San_Luis_Obispo) in 2015. My grades in upper level math were about B-. I feel like my understanding of the motivations for them was a little weak because my study habits duri...
2023/04/10
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<issue_start>username_0: I'm a math major and I'm finishing my bachelor thesis. I was lucky enough to find a hardworking and caring advisor to work with. I'm very grateful with him for his guidance but, during this time, I noticed he likes to give a bit too much guidance and sometimes restricts my creative freedom. He...
2023/04/10
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<issue_start>username_0: I published a paper in a reputable journal in 2021 December. I had proved a conjecture. Today I discovered that another author published a special case of the conjecture and published it, in another journal, in 2023. I think it is wrong on the journal's part. Why did the Editors publish the pa...
2023/04/10
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<issue_start>username_0: I come from a signal processing background and I have even published in a signal processing conference with a PhD student when I was an intern, therefore, the publication process isn't unknown to me. My PhD supervisors insist on publishing at top-tier conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, etc); ho...
2023/04/10
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<issue_start>username_0: I have presented in conferences A and B. The work presented in A is published in the conference proceedings (in case it is relevant, it is indexed by IEEE), and the work presented in B is published in a special issue dedicated to conference B. My CV has sections for conferences and articles. Is...
2023/04/11
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<issue_start>username_0: I read on JRR Tolkiens wiki page that he was asked to be a tutor in the early stages of the women's colleges at Oxford because he was married. This was apparently not common for professors at the time. Why would marriage status have anything to do with his work as a tutor? Did the people who t...
2023/04/11
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<issue_start>username_0: I am currently a final-year undergraduate student of economics. I am among the top ten of my class. I am in Europe so my degree program would usually take me 3 years; I am going to complete it in two. My plan for the last semester is to take some advanced/graduate level courses while working on...
2023/04/11
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<issue_start>username_0: A few years ago, I discovered that someone (Mr. A) had copied almost the entirety of his master thesis report from a course report I submitted to the same department two years earlier. Mr. A copied my report word by word including the figures and the captions. He defended his thesis, graduated ...
2023/04/11
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<issue_start>username_0: **Short version:** After spending 4 very successful years as a postdoc at a top university in Switzerland, I was offered a promotion. However, the new contract comes with a very high teaching load (75%) for at least 3 years. It is also not a permanent position. I am afraid that the new position...
2023/04/11
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<issue_start>username_0: I am in the 5th year of my Ph.D. studies. My Ph.D. supervisor always likes to mentally and verbally abuse me and some of our group members. This time, I really could not take it anymore and I want to share my story here. I started my Ph.D. program with a slow start and only published my first ...
2023/04/11
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<issue_start>username_0: There is a professor at a certain university (in EECS) whose webpage states that they are 'currently on leave at [other school].' They are also listed as a professor at the other school. I am interested in working with said professor, and so there status is relevant. Every sign points to them ...
2023/04/12
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<issue_start>username_0: It is 12 days since the editor-in-chief told me our appeal against a publication rejection is "currently being processed". I have received no further information. Should I inquire for an update?<issue_comment>username_1: You *could*, but 12 days is not an especially long time, and anything is p...
2023/04/12
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<issue_start>username_0: I have been reading about potential impacts of ChatGPT on education, and one thing that came up time and time again is something referred to as "college essay" or "undergraduate essay". Nobody ever explained the term and what exactly it refers to, so I have to assume it is a ubiquitous type of ...
2023/04/12
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<issue_start>username_0: I am currently noticing that students are submitting essays where they have used ChatGPT to produce the text of their essay assignments. On some occasions, they have used it to correct the writing of the text. However, on other occasions, they have used it to answer the essay question directly....
2023/04/12
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<issue_start>username_0: My master's advisor proposed to me a research point that was already published. I found another question, modified the methodology, and got new results, and I am planning to publish the work. He didn't help me during my work and was always telling me that he is not convinced of my ideas. When m...
2023/04/12
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<issue_start>username_0: I am currently working in the field of my undergrad study in "computational systems and microelectronics". I have pursued my graduate masters project in Quantum Transport which have gotten me an A+ along with a Frist Class CGPA and the praise of my professors for laying the foundation of quantu...
2023/04/12
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<issue_start>username_0: I am approaching the end of my PhD. My relationship with my supervisor has been really complicated: I get on very well with her personally, but in terms of supervision/research it's a struggle. I didn't get any help in terms of feedback or the direction of my thesis, she barely knows about my t...
2023/04/12
1,511
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<issue_start>username_0: Until I told it not to, Google Scholar automatically added articles to my profile by scholars with the same name. I deleted those articles, but they still showed up on my university Google Scholar's page. I have now deleted my Scholar account and had the university delete my Google account, bu...
2023/04/13
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<issue_start>username_0: I'm in the process of applying for an editorial position in Mathematics Books, where the key responsibilities are as follows: \*Evaluate book proposals and manage the peer-review process \*Liaise with authors throughout the publication process, including negotiating contractual conditions \*...
2023/04/13
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<issue_start>username_0: I have started and completed 4 years in a theoretical physics PhD program. I was ABD ("all but dissertation") and have published a couple of papers on that topic and been employed in a research project. I quit about 1 year before completing it and was considered ABD because all that was left wa...
2023/04/13
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<issue_start>username_0: I teach courses in which, as homework, students implement data analysis algorithms from scratch, apply them to real and simulated data, and then reflect on the results. As a student in such courses, I felt that implementing analyses from scratch and conducting in silico experiments provided me...
2023/04/14
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<issue_start>username_0: I published my first author papers in 2021 and 2022. My supervisor wants to write a commentary on my Ph.D. work and she will be the first author and corresponding author of that commentary inside which she stresses my already published hypothesis. Could anyone please advise whether I should a...
2023/04/14
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<issue_start>username_0: **Background:** Consider a postdoc P in the field of natural sciences. P has completed her PhD rather recently and is lucky enough to be in a group where she has a lot of independence. P gets to decide what projects she can work on. P has also been told my the group leader that she can go ahead...
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<issue_start>username_0: Asking a slightly unusual logistics question about changing academic jobs with future plans in place. I have organised a conference which is due to take place at my current institution next year, but I have just been offered a new job elsewhere (and therefore would no longer be employed where t...
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<issue_start>username_0: I have an article accepted in a journal. I have already submitted the final corrections to the publishing group, but the article is not yet published (We have not paid the publication fee yet). I have just discovered a misplaced axis label in a figure. Basically, it is labeled incorrectly, and...
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<issue_start>username_0: I am a Master's student in the US. I am in a course and was discussing an idea with the professor and TA for the course. Both of them seemed pretty excited about the idea and said it can become a paper we submit rather than just a term paper for the course. I later fleshed out the ideas and ask...
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<issue_start>username_0: I am a current 4th year Ph.D. student in social science. In my first year, my advisor asked me to focus on my courses so I did no research even though I wanted to. In my second year, I proposed my own project and I collected data for it, with feedback from my advisor. I have yet to publish the ...
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<issue_start>username_0: What is the best approach for resolving this issue with the help of the supervisory committee, when my main supervisor decided to be the first author on an accepted abstract without my consent?<issue_comment>username_1: From your comment > > When I shared the abstract with him I sent it mysel...
2023/04/15
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<issue_start>username_0: I'm a grad student in the final term of my 2nd year. In a weekly meeting with my supervisor yesterday, I brought up an upcoming conference in our discipline. This conference is twice-annual and very general, and it is far enough in the future that I don't know how many speakers from our special...
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<issue_start>username_0: I'm a junior student at a competitive university in my home country and I major in a mathematical field. Last year, I went to the (tenured) professor who matched my interest and she said she normally doesn't give students problems, but we should find our own research problems and write a resear...
2023/04/16
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<issue_start>username_0: In open-source software development communities, if someone has already implemented a module well enough, we re-use it over and over again, in different projects. If there is any room for improvement, people update the original module and all the project that use the module, get the updates. O...
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<issue_start>username_0: I completed a First class Honours degree in 2000 and I am now considering doing a PhD. In Australia, degrees older than 10 years are no longer considered valid academically and I was wondering if it was the same for Honours? Thanks<issue_comment>username_1: I'll suggest that whether the answer ...
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<issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a paper and found some straightforward additional things to do based on what I wrote in the Results and Discussion section. I want to add a new experiment based on the findings and I am thinking about explaining the new experiment in the Results and Discussion section right away so...
2023/04/16
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<issue_start>username_0: I was invited to review a paper for a well-known SAGE Journal in my field. The editor of the journal invited me specifying that “I was highly recommended as a reviewer” by the authors. The review is single-blinded; I can see the authors’ names. I do not know the authors and I have never worked ...