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2023/06/27 | 833 | 3,589 | <issue_start>username_0: In the indexing section of a Mathematics journal, out of several indexing (e.g., Scopus, MathSciNet etc), it is mentioned that the journal is reviewed by AMS Mathematical Reviews.
What does mean it ?
Google says Mathematical Reviews itself a journal published by AMS, but I am not sure it is a... |
2023/06/27 | 1,171 | 4,531 | <issue_start>username_0: The story starts on April 2, when I found a critical mistake in a semi-famous recent applied math paper with 100 citations. I admire the paper and I find a very simple counterexample that high-schoolers may understand in 10 minutes. I contacted the original author, who is an editor of a top jou... |
2023/06/27 | 1,389 | 6,076 | <issue_start>username_0: I won a grant that I wrote myself, but it was awarded under my PI's name due to the rules that prohibited including my own name. Nevertheless, I was thrilled about it as it is highly beneficial for my future career and aligns with my current and future research goals. I acknowledge that without... |
2023/06/27 | 951 | 4,136 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm from a social scientific field, so pre-prints are just becoming more and more "normal." Therefore, I'm a little in the dark regarding certain things. I'm planning to publish a pre-print of one of my manuscripts before sending it out to a journal. I tried finding answers to my questions, but... |
2023/06/28 | 5,563 | 23,048 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc in physics and was in an advisory role in a project with an undergraduate student majoring in math. It was my first time collaborating with someone junior to me. The collaboration was not extremely successful, and I think I need some advice on how to supervise students.
Backgrou... |
2023/06/28 | 1,114 | 4,443 | <issue_start>username_0: **Back story**: A new postdoc joined my research for a manuscript that I was working on with a senior research scientist for 2 years. The new postdoc wanted 2nd authorship but the senior scientist also wanted 2nd and felt she contribution more intellectually. After the senior research scientist... |
2023/06/28 | 1,757 | 7,002 | <issue_start>username_0: I was involved with a physician in the write up of a unique case report. In May 2022 we started the project. I wrote the introduction, case reports after interviewing the patients, prevalence data after running systematic review in three databases with 10,000 papers to filter and tabulated the ... |
2023/06/28 | 1,378 | 5,867 | <issue_start>username_0: A young colleague of mine got Ph.D. in mathematics in a field A. He spent one year elsewhere at a postdoc. Then he got a tenure track position at his alma mater. Meantime he realized that he better likes to work in a different field B. However he does not have enough background in the field B, ... |
2023/06/28 | 3,566 | 14,367 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my cousins is doing a Ph.D. in anthropology at Georgia State University. He is living with his wife and two kids. Clearly, his Ph.D. stipend is insufficient, so he works in a gas station and pizza shop.
On the other hand, I am doing a Ph.D. at a leading university in Poland in Computer ... |
2023/06/28 | 591 | 2,755 | <issue_start>username_0: My mother is very sick with colon cancer and I am living with her and also doing online classes at a private university in California. I felt depressed and had a lot on my mind and ended up falling behind in one of my classes, but I am on schedule in the rest with only two classes remaining. Th... |
2023/06/28 | 1,376 | 5,587 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently received an offer to join another university (in the US). I have not told my new university this, but one of the main reasons I want to leave my current university is because of another member of the faculty (let's call him "Joe").
Joe and I were in the same lab as PhD students and ... |
2023/06/29 | 1,180 | 4,852 | <issue_start>username_0: First time here.
My background is in biomedical science, so I have no knowledge of coding whatsoever.
Since I was tasked with building a website for my lab, I used WIX as my website builder. I based my query on this question asked half a decade ago:
[How to efficiently (and aesthetically) ... |
2023/06/29 | 3,745 | 15,990 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a biomedical lab. There are graduate students who don't do their work. Instead, both of them spend most of their time talking (not about their research). They also complain a lot and make a negative environment for others so other people do not want to join the lab. What do I do? I am up... |
2023/06/29 | 868 | 3,815 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Phd student working in the areas of mathematical physics and biology. It is known that papers in pure and applied mathematics follow alphabetical ordering, and it does not matter if your name shows first or last. However, my supervisor told me that when it comes to particular areas of app... |
2023/06/29 | 1,292 | 5,402 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm used to the UK system, where it is common for PhDs to take on studentships, and supervision roles to supplement their funding while pursuing their PhD. I've been told this is not common in the US (where I will be completing my PhD). My institution regulates that we can only work for the uni... |
2023/06/29 | 987 | 3,864 | <issue_start>username_0: Please assume I have a direct quote that contains: "found in the neighborhood". I wish to use this as a direct quote in my paper.
My spelling checker flagged on "neighbourhood" since I am using Canadian English. If it was part of the citation I would use [this answer](https://academia.stackexc... |
2023/06/30 | 1,624 | 6,935 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm aware this is similar to questions which have been asked previously (e.g. [this question about PhD supervisor requests](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/132057/do-i-have-any-obligations-to-my-phd-supervisors-requests-after-i-have-graduated)), however I believe due to the specifi... |
2023/06/30 | 906 | 3,799 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m aiming for a BA degree. Basically, I’m taking classes for a AS degree in Computer science and AA, but now I’m nervous since I don’t know the answer for: will both of my AS degrees transfer to a 4? Should I just focus on a AA degree? Am I losing time and money? Especially since I’m going to ... |
2023/07/01 | 585 | 2,426 | <issue_start>username_0: I currently work in a small 4-year college and wanted to hear from people who have been part of the hiring process for tenure track faculty in mid rank R1 institues in the US.
What makes a candidate competitive these days in terms of (but not limited to ) the following:
1. Publications (both ... |
2023/07/01 | 1,396 | 6,234 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I had a PhD interview for a very good university in Europe. The application was for the School of Mathematics, as I posses a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Pure Mathematics.
During the inteview I was quite nervous as it was a new experience for me and the questions posed were only ... |
2023/07/01 | 579 | 1,964 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD contract is about to end soon. I got a postdoc position in the Netherlands after that but I don't have the PhD degree yet. Which salary step will I get in scale 10?<issue_comment>username_1: Note that a postdoc position in general requires a PhD. If all you are missing is some bureaucrat... |
2023/07/01 | 327 | 1,422 | <issue_start>username_0: More specifically, for mathematics journals. Would a publication in [Qeios](https://www.qeios.com/) disqualify a paper from also being published in a traditional mathematics journal?<issue_comment>username_1: I don't know about the site you name, but math journals are quite understanding in gen... |
2023/07/02 | 2,186 | 9,015 | <issue_start>username_0: I struggle with people, communication, and trust. I managed to publish a few papers as a PhD student (with the guidance of my PhD advisor, obviously), but since then I've failed to publish a single paper. It's been 4 years.
At this point, I'm fairly convinced that I'm a ***complete idiot***, b... |
2023/07/02 | 1,136 | 4,543 | <issue_start>username_0: Of course, the no-brainer is using chatGPT. I have done something atrocious and unjustified. I realize that I have made a massive mistake after handing in my own assignment. I wrote a thesis with one section from chatGPT copy-paste (the dumbest). In a few days, my thesis will be analyzed throug... |
2023/07/02 | 507 | 2,164 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to apply for a physics PhD in the fall of 2024.
I have trouble finalizing the main research area to mention in SOP because I am interested both in HEP experiments and theory.
Suppose I wrote my interest in hep experiment in SOP, but after being being admitted to grad school,, I got... |
2023/07/02 | 2,506 | 10,730 | <issue_start>username_0: I am asking on behalf of a friend who is in their second year of their PhD in the US. This month, without any notice or warning, their stipend is reduced by two-third (normal stipend is $2300, now is $725, which is way below minimum wage).
This had happened before but never at this extreme rat... |
2023/07/02 | 603 | 2,409 | <issue_start>username_0: I just graduated in May this year (2023), and in my last semester of senior year, I was caught cheating on an exam and have academic dishonesty on my record, and I'm trying to apply for accelerated nursing schools for 2024/2025. If the application on NursingCAS does not ask you about past insti... |
2023/07/02 | 1,182 | 4,888 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently graduated with a PhD in biology and I'm staying in the same lab as a postdoc for a year. I need to look for postdoc positions elsewhere soon, so I need to update my CV. My CV from undergrad lists my undergrad honors, including Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, highest departmental hon... |
2023/07/03 | 1,073 | 4,622 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a soon-to-be fourth-year doctoral candidate in Applied Experimental Psychology who earned my Master's in Experimental Psychology back in December 2020.
I recently viewed my master's program's website after I saw a job listing for a professor position on Indeed and noticed that the program... |
2023/07/03 | 797 | 3,273 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been researching getting into a Ph.D. program for neuroscience, and I'm seeing stuff like this:
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> A minimum average of 3.00/4.00 for the final 60 semester hours (90 quarter hours) of undergraduate study. - <https://catalog.uic.edu/gcat/graduate-college/neus/phd/>
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This appears... |
2023/07/03 | 174 | 755 | <issue_start>username_0: How to withdraw a submitted (but not under review) manuscript from a journal? The reason being it has taken a lot of time (around 5 months) and has not gone under review process as of yet.<issue_comment>username_1: You email the journal/editor. That's it.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: T... |
2023/07/03 | 321 | 1,455 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a member of a mathematical organization which is not tied to any university, but rather has members from several different institutions (who are mathematicians). Furthermore, the organization even has its own journal that it publishes.
Currently, I am affiliated with a university, and this... |
2023/07/04 | 496 | 2,261 | <issue_start>username_0: I plan to show a picture in my scientific paper. This picture is a modification of pictures from another scientific paper. How can I annotate, explain and quote the picture ?<issue_comment>username_1: It is important to provide credit where credit is due. If you see a figure and modify it to su... |
2023/07/04 | 668 | 2,938 | <issue_start>username_0: We have hundreds of thousands of scholarly articles containing lab data and mathematical modeling results - published every year.
But what to do with a gray area in scientific research where there is no previous research? A conceptual brainstorming of topics outside of academia mainstream subj... |
2023/07/05 | 2,493 | 10,337 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student and I want to start writing my research paper on chemistry modeling. I don't know how to organize my ideas or how to highlight my results.
I'm looking for a strategy to follow, and even though I've been reading a lot of papers about my topic, I still don't get the starting po... |
2023/07/05 | 2,477 | 10,282 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to the journal with a homepage statement that reads, '7 days from submission to first decision (median).'" After one month it’s “Editor assigned “. What does this means? What is the meaning of 7 in this situation? Thank you.<issue_comment>username_1: I'm assuming that your p... |
2023/07/05 | 501 | 2,044 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing an essay as a university project and I would like to cite the following website: <https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/if>.
My problem is that this website has no author in the conventional sense, but it is rather like a wikipedia page where multiple authors contributed over... |
2023/07/05 | 1,070 | 4,528 | <issue_start>username_0: My group is about to publish a research paper with another group. We mostly only provide funding and general oversight. It is important that me and a few colleagues are noted as authors on the paper, simply to make sure we get funding in the future and to indicate that this project was a succes... |
2023/07/05 | 613 | 2,739 | <issue_start>username_0: For instance, I'm imagining a website where you could type in a query, like
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> Does exposure to sun cause cancer?
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And it would lead you to a page which had an either human curated or automatic overview of scientific research that is related to attempting to answer this question. Ob... |
2023/07/05 | 1,393 | 6,198 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a math paper to an Elsevier journal around 2.5 months ago, it is now under review (reviewer invited) for around 2 weeks. I understand that this is a relatively short time for a math paper. However, I am post-doc now and with huge amount of luck I found my ideal job in a nationa... |
2023/07/06 | 584 | 2,181 | <issue_start>username_0: So my professor lost a family member a couple of weeks ago and went back home. I have not communicated with him since he announced this (in a lab meeting), work-related or otherwise, because I was just too scared to say anything that soon (yes, scared; although he's not scary at all).
Anyway, ... |
2023/07/06 | 756 | 3,034 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a student that I helped a lot which I shouldn't.
Now I don't like her to attend my defence while she has the same supervisor as me.
Can I ask her to leave if my supervisor invited her by any chance? (I just don't like this person around me for taking credit of my ideas)<issue_comment>u... |
2023/07/06 | 957 | 3,229 | <issue_start>username_0: I was searching for Journal Impact Factor on internet, after that I came across a website named [Journals Insights](https://www.journalsinsights.com/).
I'll like to know if the Impact Factor mentioned on the website is correct or not?
Specifically, the IF for the [Indian journal of medical ... |
2023/07/06 | 1,686 | 6,847 | <issue_start>username_0: I got several SPAM messages about conferences every week and know that most of them are scams, and can easily figure out what the scammers want (attend a weak conference, be an "estimated invited speaker", send credit card info, etc.) But today I got one that puzzled me -- a nice, educated offe... |
2023/07/06 | 875 | 3,833 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to evaluate the difference between two professional figures in the field of scientific computing, they are called Alice and Bob:
* Alice has earned a PhD in applied mathematics at a top 10 university, she has two publications in rather good journals, and had to write a certain numb... |
2023/07/06 | 585 | 2,544 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first-year PhD student, and while I have an idea of what my research will involve, my path isn't very clear yet. My supervisor suggested that I work on a review paper as an achievement for the first six months of my PhD. I wrote the paper and sent it to my supervisor a month ago. However,... |
2023/07/06 | 1,331 | 5,389 | <issue_start>username_0: I was navigating the [Graduate Journal of Mathematics](https://gradmath.org/), which is a comparatively new peer-reviewed mathematics journal. In its mission-statement, the journal mentions that it takes inspiration from a similar journal that was discontinued in 2000: *Le Journal des Elèves de... |
2023/07/07 | 527 | 2,294 | <issue_start>username_0: I intend to apply for a green card in the US after my PhD. I want to use my family name in my publications. However, it's not the same name in my passport (legal name). How difficult will it be to prove that these are my publications when I apply for a green card? Will that be an issue at all?<... |
2023/07/07 | 1,779 | 7,532 | <issue_start>username_0: There are many "international conferences" that seem predatory (with a high degree of certainty). They usually provide a space for you to talk about any general issue you consider worth mentioning. In short, it's **pure punk**. *To some degree, this is really nice...* For a relatively reasonabl... |
2023/07/07 | 1,339 | 5,632 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a possibility that an NSF proposal recommended for funding might not be awarded the funds? If so, what could be possible reasons? Also, how long does it typically take for a recommended proposal to be awarded to the university?<issue_comment>username_1: From an [NSF FAQ](https://www.ns... |
2023/07/07 | 568 | 2,356 | <issue_start>username_0: I just discovered that the postdoc application I submitted two days ago contains a typo. It's likely due to accidentally touching my keyboard before the final compile. I mistakenly added a character to the journal name where my manuscript is currently under review. Should I send an email to the... |
2023/07/07 | 695 | 2,923 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it common for labs with postdoc positions to ask candidates to request recommendation letters to be sent rather than directly asking from the references?
I've noticed a pattern where labs that ask for letters to be sent to them are less likely to consider me for the position seriously, i.e.... |
2023/07/08 | 923 | 3,979 | <issue_start>username_0: **TL; DR:** I want to switch my supervisor that I confirmed with before beginning my neuroscience PhD in September. I'm officially accepted into the program under this supervisor, signed the letter of intent and everything. But Ive been working with this supervisor for 6 months now and I really... |
2023/07/08 | 492 | 2,056 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Taiwanese undergraduate student in chemistry studying in Taiwan (National Taiwan University). I want to apply chemistry PhD programs of top US universities (MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, etc) right after getting bachelor's degree. Although my target schools don't explicitly require journal... |
2023/07/08 | 435 | 1,835 | <issue_start>username_0: My thesis is structured as:
1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Study A
4. Study B
5. Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography.
I have a plot that summarizes both study A and study B. The logical place to put it would be the conclusion chapter, but my guide told me to make it text based. I think it'... |
2023/07/08 | 1,533 | 6,522 | <issue_start>username_0: I just finished my first year studying physics but honestly I didn't like it at all. I started studying a day before every exam and skipped almost every class. However, I love physics, I read books at home, watch documentaries and research on my own. I think it is the most beautiful field of hu... |
2023/07/09 | 627 | 2,450 | <issue_start>username_0: In the publications section of the CV, what is the best title for articles that have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed conference or journal and have only been published in the [arxiv.org](https://arxiv.org) ?
How about "**near future publications**" ?<issue_comment>username_1: If your... |
2023/07/09 | 1,494 | 6,346 | <issue_start>username_0: I am the first author for a review paper with ~10 authors. I wrote the full first draft entirely alone (about 8,000 words and 200+ references). Then, I opened the (very polished) draft to all authors for contributions.
Some authors made very small revisions. Another author (Author A) sent me o... |
2023/07/09 | 1,264 | 5,478 | <issue_start>username_0: Summary: I want to apply for a grant with current group at university X. However, I will likely decline it if awarded because I actually want to work with different group at university Y (no hard offer yet though). Is it ethical to apply knowing I might decline the grant?
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I am currently a... |
2023/07/09 | 2,770 | 11,727 | <issue_start>username_0: I have graduated last year from a PhD in pure mathematics and I intended to do some machine learning in industry. However, seems like no place takes me seriously so I began asking colleagues from industry why. They claim I am on the one hand overqualified to do a "usual" programming job but on ... |
2023/07/09 | 687 | 2,945 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the process of submitting a research paper to an IEEE journal. While going through the submission guidelines, I came across the following instruction:
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> * The use of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any p... |
2023/07/09 | 4,332 | 18,520 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in my last year of studies for a bachelor's degree in software engineering and I am currently considering different options for my career path. I don't have any background in medicine, but I would love to work in the medical/research field, specifically relating to cancer treatments. What ... |
2023/07/10 | 936 | 4,111 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was reading prior works for my master's thesis, I found a conference paper whose proposed architecture to solve the problem really caught my eye. So I decided to base my work around that architecture.
Of course over time I ended up changing a lot of details and even added a new block to... |
2023/07/10 | 1,871 | 6,977 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand that Google Scholar searches only journals, academic publishers, etc. Does that mean that Google will always include the results of Google Scholar?
If Google searches the entire web, which also include the results of Google Scholar, then why not just use Google and then manually s... |
2023/07/11 | 1,996 | 7,460 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an applied math and data science student currently doing undergrad research in statistics. I don't want to dox myself, but it falls under optimization research. It's a good mix between math and data science, but I want to understand my chances when applying to graduate school in a couple of... |
2023/07/11 | 722 | 3,267 | <issue_start>username_0: I had the opportunity to interview with a professor and two of his PhD students for potential supervision in the mm-wave circuits group. Unfortunately, during the initial interview, which focused on the bioelectronics group, I struggled with some basic electronics questions that I had not revis... |
2023/07/11 | 1,792 | 7,750 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a senior postdoc in a American university. My PI and myself have written a NIH grant that extends some of the work I have done. If awarded, it will have money to support me for next 3 years (starting Dec 2023).
However, I am actively also pursuing non-academic sources of income because of... |
2023/07/11 | 781 | 3,111 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a good research idea and practical plan how to do it. I don't want to stay in my PhD lab and have found a group where I can do this but I prefer to be on my own grant/fellowship (and they also do as they are short of funds) of which they are supportive and would write with me. My questio... |
2023/07/11 | 316 | 1,447 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the etiquette on listing your academic interests on a personal or academic webpage?
For example, if I list "optimization" as an interest on my webpage, but don't yet have any publications in mathematical optimization, and am not an expert in the field (but perhaps do have personal proj... |
2023/07/12 | 403 | 1,718 | <issue_start>username_0: My question is the following. Should references in math papers be arranged according to author’s last-names or first-names?<issue_comment>username_1: Usually according to last names. Alternatively you can arrange them in the order of citation. Both work, and if the aim is only arXiv then it's p... |
2023/07/12 | 2,765 | 11,742 | <issue_start>username_0: We have a manuscript that has been rejected from different journals twice: once after initial review, once after the editor felt we didn't address the reviewer comments appropriately.
In both cases the same reviewer pointed out what he thought to be a fundamental flaw of the study. We disagree... |
2023/07/12 | 761 | 3,135 | <issue_start>username_0: Impact factor for individual journals can be found on their website. There are several impact factors in use, like the 2-5 years impact factor, real-time impact factor (i.e., monthly update), Scimago impact factor.
I have found [Academic Accelator](https://academic-accelerator.com/Journal-Prof... |
2023/07/12 | 446 | 1,902 | <issue_start>username_0: There is one of the members of my committee that is extremely old (like 80+) and smokes like a chimney. I was already wary of my supervisor pretty much forcing me to include him in my jury committee. Right now he is, supposedly, the only member that has to submit his comments after my initial s... |
2023/07/12 | 416 | 1,803 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to create a database of publicly funded research projects related to the topic of environmental assessments in trade agreements, so that I can map these and do some other analysis. Does anyone know if there is a database or online resource already out there?
My best idea so far is ... |
2023/07/12 | 371 | 1,541 | <issue_start>username_0: Since I did not have decent grades in my bachelor's (2:2) and master's (pass with merit). What can I do for applying a funded PhD in the future? For example, working as a research assistant in a similar field? Thank you!<issue_comment>username_1: Who knows? It depends on the specific rules in y... |
2023/07/13 | 339 | 1,423 | <issue_start>username_0: <https://conferenceindex.org/>
Is this a reputable website or a scam/predatory conference collection?<issue_comment>username_1: Who knows? It depends on the specific rules in your institution, which may or may not cover this particular situation. If there is no rule in your institution for tha... |
2023/07/13 | 2,581 | 10,637 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first year PhD student in cognitive neuroscience, and I've been working/studying in this institution since my last year of master's degree.
My PhD project is the extension of my master's thesis project, which involves the use of rodents, and extra-cellular invasive recordings. Since the ... |
2023/07/13 | 1,058 | 4,423 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently submitted a paper on which I worked on for quite a long time to a social sciences journal. It’s a data science paper based on quantitative analysis.
Within a couple days, I received an immediate desk rejection saying that the paper is not developed enough, nothing else.
Has anyone ... |
2023/07/14 | 704 | 2,892 | <issue_start>username_0: Can the experience of being a university lecturer in one of the best universities in the UK enhance the chances of securing a faculty position in top universities in the USA and Australia? Additionally, do other English-speaking countries place equal or greater value on experience gained from U... |
2023/07/14 | 1,754 | 7,650 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent an email to a professor to ask for a PhD position for one of his "few listed" projects, in which I am genuinely interested in to pursue my future research career. He responded that he would want to see my academic transcripts, which I provided. Next, he shown interest to talk over Skype ... |
2023/07/14 | 4,254 | 18,164 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper with a co-author. I spent a considerable amount of time (several months) writing a first draft of the paper. I then sent it to co-author asking them to revise the draft and add their contribution in specified sections.
The co-author returned the draft within a few days. Th... |
2023/07/14 | 675 | 2,112 | <issue_start>username_0: My coauthors and I recently published a paper on <https://www.ijnrd.org/viewpaperforall?paper=IJNRD2307102>.
The doi which was assigned to us is <http://doi.one/10.1729/Journal.35162>.
According to my knowledge doi.org is the sole provider of doi.
Were we scammed into registering for a unscr... |
2023/07/14 | 924 | 4,011 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in economics. Before starting the PhD, I graduated with an MA in engineering. During my MA, I worked as a high school teacher in computer science. Should I list this activity on my CV in the ``teaching activities'' section together with my TA jobs, mainly as a signal of abili... |
2023/07/14 | 1,144 | 4,790 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate student majoring in physics and mathematics, who is preparing to begin applying to graduate programs in physics. In doing so, I've reached out to a few people for advice, and I've received a lot of conflicting opinions on various topics. Among them is the importance of reac... |
2023/07/15 | 1,235 | 5,392 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my Ph.D. in the Social Sciences and I am reflecting on how to optimize the workflow with my thesis committee (three advisors) in the implementation of feedback on chapters or papers. I understand this is a matter of negotiating between us. However, it would be useful for me to hear y... |
2023/07/16 | 871 | 3,565 | <issue_start>username_0: Perhaps I can contextualize the question better, but I’m curious if there’s a kind of incubation trajectory by which new academic fields emerge.
In contemporary scholastic publishing, is there some graded sequence of steps, like, first, a paper is published in some existing, established field’... |
2023/07/16 | 853 | 3,565 | <issue_start>username_0: I came across a paper from a tweet by a researcher (in the field of computer science, specifically interpretable AI or Explainable AI). I had a query in that field, to answer which I could not find sufficient information online. So I was wondering if it would be a good idea to directly tweet th... |
2023/07/16 | 1,004 | 4,137 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been applying to some universities for semesters starting in Jan 2024, and I expected that I can receive the decision letter in 2 or 3 months later.
However, 2 months ago, a professor actively emailed me (he knew me because another professor forwarded my Ph.D. inquiry to him) and he wan... |
2023/07/17 | 3,166 | 13,324 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Ph. D. student just entering my third year. Last winter, I submitted a proposal for a major fellowship/grant in my field, and last Friday my advisor told me that I had been offered funding. However, for quite a long while, I've been debating with myself about mastering out, and haven't ye... |
2023/07/18 | 2,048 | 8,272 | <issue_start>username_0: **What happened:**
I got caught cheating on an online exam consisting of 25 multiple-choice questions and a written part of my exam worth 55/80 marks. I had access to a one-page cheat sheet, but I still went to another website to double-check a few of my multiple-choice questions. However, I d... |
2023/07/18 | 1,652 | 7,464 | <issue_start>username_0: In the Fall I will be completing my last year of undergrad. Once I graduate I want to get my PhD, and so grad school applications are approaching.
I’ve been doing research with a professor at my university over the past year, and I’m continuing this research into the Fall. Generally speaking, ... |
2023/07/19 | 3,774 | 15,325 | <issue_start>username_0: I help students in a lab for 10 hours a week then have to grade their labs every other week. Does anyone know what the norm is? Are they supposed to assign grading hours for you as well?<issue_comment>username_1: If you are hired as a TA for 10 hours a week, that includes all activities, unless... |
2023/07/19 | 1,000 | 4,136 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently had an interview with a professor regarding a PhD opening in their research group, for which I applied and successfully interviewed. The professor has offered me the opportunity to pursue a PhD at their university, which is located in the USA. While the university is excellent, I hav... |
2023/07/19 | 1,358 | 5,660 | <issue_start>username_0: I had applied to Florida State University, among other schools for a PhD math for fall 2023 and the application is still showing "under review". Recently I finished a 5-week summer research program and I updated their grad admissions office about the work I did there. I received the following r... |
2023/07/19 | 1,235 | 5,109 | <issue_start>username_0: I just had a paper accepted for publication in an Elsevier journal. It is to be published open access, so the journal has a sizeable open-access publication fee (or "APC") ~$2000.
I've sought financial support for these fees from external entities (waiting to hear back confirmations), but I'm ... |
2023/07/19 | 1,412 | 5,281 | <issue_start>username_0: TLDR: zero interest in the topic, bad relationships with supervisors and colleagues, I think I'm not suitable for this, thus, I must leave.
Hello all, I would like to ask for some advice from people out there, since I am not getting good feedback from people here.
So I'm an international stud... |
2023/07/20 | 588 | 2,662 | <issue_start>username_0: As a newcomer to research I'd like to ask a question about submitting papers to conferences. My supervisor has been telling me before that my project can be submitted to the top conference and she's always been super confident, but in a recent meeting she suddenly told me that the top conferenc... |
2023/07/20 | 675 | 3,017 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm new to this. I've written research papers before, but never one about a computer-science topic. So, I was wondering how exactly I should approach the methods and results section, as it seems more natural to simply do it all in one section, explaining how I did what I did and what I found fo... |
2023/07/20 | 682 | 3,039 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a high school student who has recently established a few theorems regarding geodesic convexity in metric spaces. Most of the proofs are accessible to undergraduate students. I don’t want to publish in “top” journals, nor do I think my paper would be accepted for that matter. What are some ... |
2023/07/20 | 1,652 | 7,413 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in the final semester of my engineering bachelors degree.
Right now I'm working in a lab with the former supervisor of my bachelor thesis which I successfully defended in late march.
My advisor encouraged me to work towards turning it into a conference paper and for the last three... |