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Questions tagged [paper-submission]

On the process of submitting a paper for review or publication by a conference or journal. Typical questions with this tag relate to selection of preferred or conflicted reviewers, timeline of the submission process, and typesetting or compilation by the publisher.

On the process of submitting a paper for review or publication by a conference or journal. Typical questions with this tag relate to selection of preferred or conflicted reviewers, timeline of the submission process, and typesetting or compilation by the publisher.

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What is the point of a cover letter in journal submission?

Many journals do specify that cover letters are optional. From my experience, most people write cover letters in journal submission, but I am also aware that articles can also be published without the cover letter. Therein arises the question: why…
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Almost 14 months after submission the associate editor informed me they still did not start with the review process

Few days ago I received an email from the associate editor. He apologized for my paper has mistakenly been left outside of the normal review process. This happened almost 14 months after my submission. I asked the journal editor for information on…
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Advisor forcing to publish paper in high profile journal

One of my graduate students, doing their PhD in another university, is doing quite well. Recently, he told me that he is having a tussle with his supervisor on communication of his work to a specific journal. His supervisor insists he submit his…
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A weaker version of a published theorem with a simpler method; what should be done?

A paper contains three theorems. After submitting the paper, the author finds out that one of their theorems was already published by someone else with stronger result. Although their result is not as strong, the author’s method is much…
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What can I do if I don’t completely understand a paper?

Our team finished a paper 3 months ago. However, we use a result from another paper in a very top journal (one of the best). There are quite a lot misprints and somewhat mistakes. We can fix most of them but one inequality which they didn't have…
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How to write a white paper for a non-academic?

I am an apprentice employed to do mechanical engineering but my real passion has always been computing. I recently came up with IMHO a good idea to help mitigate DDoS attacks on web servers. I would like to do a write-up of my idea to help…
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Including a note to reviewers in a submission

I submitted an article to a journal, and it was rejected. The reviewers criticised some configuration values I used in my software. The comments were very helpful. I have since improved the software, re-run the experiments, and extensively rewritten…
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Wrong article submission

I submitted an article in a Reputed journal in mathematics. It is in review process. After 4 months, i realized that there are some trivial mistakes... Article is still under review with journal. What should I do? If I have a corrected…
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Submitting paper when leaving academia?

Is it a good idea to submit a paper when you are about to leave academia, say in the next year? In my field (Mathematics), the review progress is typically very long (At the moment I'm waiting for the first review for almost a year). I do not want…
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Do I need reference when writing a proof paper?

I am in the process of writing a paper which proves some conjecture. What I want to know is: Is it standard practice to include general commentary on the conjecture and other research around it as references, even when I didn't need any of it to…
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"Please enter any comments you would like to send to the Journal Office"

I'm submitting a paper to an Elsevier journal. One of the submission steps says that: Please enter any comments you would like to send to the Journal Office. What does it mean? What should I exactly enter as a comment? I thought it means the…
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Discovered that my research was not so original after it was complete. Is there a policy I should follow here?

I'm a student researcher in high school. Over the summer, I did some research on a rather obscure math topic, so there was not much research done on it. I found some decent results on the topic, and through all my searching for articles or other…
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How can I best edit a paper to help get it published?

My friend wrote a fantastic paper in their scientific field. I believe it is truly ground-breaking but it calls a lot of existing theory into question. If he's correct it will force many accepted articles to have to be rewritten. Perhaps because…
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How do I contribute to the scientific community without publishing research in a scientific journal?

I do not study physics at the university, but I have a very important scientific research. I do not think that a magazine will accept my research, though, because I am not sufficiently specialized in the field. Is there any way to obtain…
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How should I address a possible mistake to co-authors in a submitted paper

I am co-author of a submitted manuscript. I think I found a mistake in a methodological approach in our paper. But I am not sure if I am right. But if that mistake is really there, then some conclusions in this paper could be changed. It will not…
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