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Questions tagged [publications]

Questions related to academic publications including online and traditional journals, books, and conference proceedings.

Publications include articles in journals, magazines, and conference proceedings, as well as books, where academic outputs are published and made available to both the technical community and the general public. Questions can include topics such as copyright, submissions, and open-access scientific communication.

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PhD Student : Publish Paper with Wife?

I am a PhD student, working on Applied Math while my wife is a software engineer. I plan on going to academia after PhD and will start to job hunt soon. A few weeks ago, I thought of an idea that hadn't been done before. I wrote a crude C++ code to…
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Where do bad papers go to die?

After a paper is rejected several times by several journals it begins to become clear that the research was off the mark no matter how much editing, fixing, and revisions are done. Therefore, What do scholars do with unpublishable papers? Do they…
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Is it a bad idea to point out flaws/weaknesses of your model in your paper?

In a modeling paper I am writing, I know that there are some limitations. Is it a bad idea to point out the limitations? Am I just giving the reviewers more straw for them to reject my paper?
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I found published results of my mentor to be wrong. How to tell her?

For the last few days, I have been trying to reproduce things in a published paper (in quite a reputed journal) from my field. My postdoc mentor is the last author of the paper and the main work was carried out by her collaborators from a different…
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Is there a way to search for more recent papers than the one I'm currently reading?

Authors of scientific papers usually use the introduction of the paper to introduce the subject of the paper by reviewing previous work in that field, i.e. the works that serve as the foundation of the current research they have…
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Forgetting what you have published

I was discussing this topic with an older professor of mine who had published more than 90 papers and couple of books in his field. The papers are highly specialized and half of them are with different co-authors from the same or a different…
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How common is it to inadvertently "reinvent the wheel" in academia?

When engaging in research, I know its a good idea to read lots of papers and talk to others about what has been done before and what is currently being researched to avoid "reinventing the wheel". That is, to avoid researching/publishing a result…
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Why is Brill selling chapters of my book for $30?

I just found that PDFs of chapters of my book (Semitic Noun Patterns, Harvard Semitic Studies 52, 2003) are being sold for $30 each by Brill, a giant academic publisher, who did not publish the book. The whole thing can be bought on paper for $32…
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How was this weird paper accepted?

The following paper was published in Annals of Medicine and Surgery. How to approach supervisors for research opportunities It has nothing to do with medicine or surgery. How can one think of submitting a paper like that (to such a journal)? And…
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How should I respond to full text requests from other researchers I don't know?

I am an early/mid-career academic in a science field and have enough publications where I sometimes get random other academics asking me for electronic copies of papers (published in non-open-access journals) where I am the corresponding author.…
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Why are most papers not dated?

Many of the research papers that I have read are not dated in terms of publication date. By dating I mean including at least the publication year. The papers I refer to are mostly free PDFs from the internet on various topics, usually affiliated…
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How to manage publications on a local computer

I would like to find a better way of naming publications which I store on my local computer as PDFs. So far I have been doing something like this: Albano R., Sole A., Adamowski J., Mancusi L. (2014) - A GIS-based model to estimate flood consequences…
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Co-authors on a study have cut communication, what can be done?

During my first post-doc one of the primary researchers just dropped all communications. The upshot is that I have 3 years worth of research that I can't publish without his consent. He was initially keen to publish but when pressed to do his side…
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Error in master's thesis, I do not know what to do

I successfully defended my master's thesis last December. I had 18/20 and it went well. However, my adviser invited me to carry out research in the area, which I accepted. When I was writing the first paper, I noticed a big error in the data…
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Publishing an algorithm that may not have many applications?

Suppose I came across a problem, say in graph theory, that I need to solve for my application, or a problem that I just created out of the blue. I find that it is not a standard problem by any means. Also, it may not have many applications. I then…
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