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2015/06/19 | 537 | 2,298 | <issue_start>username_0: I was asked to review an article written by non-native English speakers. I had never seen this before, but the manuscript includes a link to a certificate from a website called Textcheck that says:
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> We hereby certify that Textcheck has checked and corrected the English
> in the manuscript... |
2015/06/19 | 1,526 | 6,597 | <issue_start>username_0: After two years of extreme hard work I managed to finish my first manuscript. In my department there is a trend that if a professor has some collaboration with other people in any project then their name would appear in the publication originating from that collaboration... to which I totally a... |
2015/06/19 | 425 | 1,900 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a ninth-grade student in Bangladesh. I am alone in this research who is doing a research in neurophotonics. I have a dream to get published in *Nature* or *Science*. Can my age hamper my chances to get published there, even if the quality of the work is groundbreaking?<issue_comment>userna... |
2015/06/19 | 718 | 2,830 | <issue_start>username_0: Using Bio-sciences as an example, below seems to be the norm for admission prerequisites.
US grad school in Bio-sciences:
Have taken Bio 1 & 2, Chem 1 & 2, Physics 1 & 2 + some upper level Bio classes + GRE + a Bachelor's degree
European grad school in Bio-sciences:
Have a Bio or closely rel... |
2015/06/19 | 1,083 | 4,635 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper that is co-authored by researchers at several national and international universities. The collaboration is also interdisciplinary, meaning that conventions for authorship vary a little regarding where to set the bar for inclusion/exclusion and how to order the names.
One ... |
2015/06/19 | 1,178 | 5,029 | <issue_start>username_0: I've got a case where 90% of my academic publications are being claimed by a professor at another university with the same name on ResearchGate. I've sent several email requests both direct and through ResearchGate messaging to ask him to remove those publications from his profile. This has bee... |
2015/06/19 | 1,219 | 4,619 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I have a paper with the following text:
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> Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you [3],[4].
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As one can see, the author got the information from two other references.
If I want to add this information in my thesis, do I also have to reference [3] a... |
2015/06/20 | 2,771 | 11,340 | <issue_start>username_0: A person I know was in the process of publishing her first manuscript when her supervisor told her to add his newly acquired affiliation from a university in Saudi Arabia to his name. The Saudi Arabian university hired this Supervisor as guest faculty and were essentially paying him for adding ... |
2015/06/20 | 708 | 3,160 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing material for the academic job market and I would like to receive feedback from peers on my cover letter.
Additionally to the traditional personal contacts, I have thought about online forums as a possible location, but have not been able to find any that seem good. I am also not... |
2015/06/20 | 809 | 3,266 | <issue_start>username_0: When writing a (computer science) research paper, I have to describe my method in term in pseudocode. Because of readability and reusability, I want to break my method into smaller pieces. However, I don't know how to present them in my paper. As far as I know, there are two approaches:
* Top-... |
2015/06/20 | 2,304 | 9,545 | <issue_start>username_0: I got a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from a school which is among the top ranked of Europe. Nevertheless, this is a pure coincidence, I did it here because it was the closest to my home.
For purely personal reasons I am tired of living in a place where there is such high populatio... |
2015/06/20 | 1,003 | 4,744 | <issue_start>username_0: So, the title may be a little convoluted, but let me explain. My current interests are regenerative medicine and neuroscience. I'm an undergraduate working in a neuroimaging lab, and while I enjoy the research, I feel like I don't want to limit myself to a narrow research topic as is common in ... |
2015/06/20 | 1,004 | 4,203 | <issue_start>username_0: Besides hard work, is there anything that one can try to be creative in research? On this site, is there a lot of people who can publish more than 5 or 10 papers per year? I would like ask them, if it is possible to train oneself to do that.
I have been a hardworking student. For four years, I... |
2015/06/21 | 1,868 | 7,988 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm very new to being a peer reviewer. I agreed to anonymously review a paper for publication, and while reading it for the first time, I was a little annoyed by the writing style. It sort of reminded me of the feeling I get when reading a paper from a student in an undergraduate Liberal Arts M... |
2015/06/21 | 764 | 3,270 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student and I just had my half-time examination. My supervisor thinks my data is "crap", my report "wasn't good", and my presentation was "a disaster". Maybe he is right. However, he doesn't seem to know how to provide feedback constructively.
At other times, his feedback is either v... |
2015/06/21 | 577 | 2,708 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a paper about a web data extractor (an application, I developed based on a unique approach). In the introduction I had a short review on the history of such applications (from hard-code to graphical user interface) and said my application belong to this latest group. However, I ... |
2015/06/21 | 477 | 1,936 | <issue_start>username_0: I need a picture from the Internet of micro bacterium which I want to use on my Thesis cover. Now just coping the picture and using it will be like stealing someone else's property. Hence I want to know if there is any proper and legal method by which I can get the picture. [This is the picture... |
2015/06/21 | 2,873 | 12,395 | <issue_start>username_0: I am responsible for the exercises for a graduate course (which happens to contain only international students). The students submit their solutions via email and all of them send a normal email: greeting me and telling that the solutions file is attached then (most of them) wishing me a good w... |
2015/06/21 | 2,784 | 11,905 | <issue_start>username_0: In the research I'm doing for my master thesis I use the [ACM Computing Classification System](https://www.acm.org/about/class/2012) (2012 edition).
I mean I literally use the data they provide as an RDF graph. How should I cite this classification system? Ideally I'm looking for a bibtex sni... |
2015/06/21 | 1,908 | 7,412 | <issue_start>username_0: With respect to some cultures, in particular Asian ones, one often hears statements such as the following:
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> In this country, copying is regarded as flattery and thus people do not know the evils of plagiarism.
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or (taken from [here](http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/library-instruction/p... |
2015/06/22 | 562 | 2,425 | <issue_start>username_0: I've looked at the resumes of the type of candidates that get into computer science PhD programs at the top few universities (e.g. Stanford, MIT etc.) and a lot of them seem to have multiple publications (2-4) done during their undergraduate years. Is this representative of the entire pool? Or ... |
2015/06/22 | 988 | 4,329 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently reviewing a paper and feel suspicious about their numerical results. I feel their results have been slightly modified to exhibit their superiority compare to other comparative methods.
I cannot give an exact mathematical reason why I think their numerical results have been mani... |
2015/06/22 | 1,811 | 7,814 | <issue_start>username_0: There is always a bibliography in a research article, for each quoted paper there is plenty of information (title, authors, year, journal, etc..) and this is very convenient for the reader.
But in the article itself, those articles are always named using the author(s) name(s) rather than their... |
2015/06/22 | 2,300 | 8,794 | <issue_start>username_0: In general, mathematics papers have [no first author](http://www.ams.org/profession/leaders/culture/CultureStatement04.pdf); instead, authors are listed alphabetically. Therefore, citing “Smith et al.” is at best misleading (it implies that Smith did all the work) and at worst insulting (Zelman... |
2015/06/22 | 692 | 2,922 | <issue_start>username_0: I make extensive notes on the material I encounter all over the Internet (video courses, textbooks, blogs etc). I want to make my hard earned notes available free over the Internet. But if I do that, then it won't be fair as everybody will want to read the notes and won't buy textbooks.
Is it ... |
2015/06/22 | 7,293 | 30,515 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in 4th year postdoc working in applied math areas in which 1-3 papers a year is considered a good publication rate. I have been publishing 10-13 papers a year for the last 4-5 years (have never gone for a 'low-quality' journal as considered in my respective areas). I would think that my ha... |
2015/06/22 | 851 | 3,918 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to a journal, and the decision was "accept with minor revisions." As I was addressing the reviewer questions to submit a final copy, I realized that I may have misrepresented the data.
Specifically, I may have over-reached with a statistical model. The model involved repea... |
2015/06/22 | 368 | 1,525 | <issue_start>username_0: In a lot of research you have to site sources from a "reputable" journal. I've seen journals that have opened simply to post that bigfoot exists and won't take anything other than more or less garbage papers. Not to mention the problem with people "fixing" data to make their paper look legitima... |
2015/06/22 | 929 | 4,032 | <issue_start>username_0: I am presenting a paper in a conference with a 20% acceptance rate. However the conference is just 3 years old and does not figure in the tiered rating system for conferences in my field Computer Science (that some universities use) . Recently I found out that another reputed international conf... |
2015/06/22 | 1,880 | 8,035 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student working under a PI in a research laboratory. My PI pushed out a paper very recently, and I was not mentioned as an author. My PI did not even notify me that he was going to publish this paper. I can comfortably say, without inflating, that I did roughly 1/6 - 1/5 o... |
2015/06/23 | 756 | 3,213 | <issue_start>username_0: This past spring was the second semester of my PhD program. A professor of a core course refused to grade my final assignment because it was late after deadline had been extended. The professor had read and provided feedback on various drafts of the manuscript throughout the semester.
However,... |
2015/06/23 | 1,205 | 5,220 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been considering returning to university to continue my education and further my knowledge. I have a strong interest in finance, but before I dive in to a second degree/diploma at this stage in life, I want to take one or two courses to see if I can get back in to real coursework.
Havi... |
2015/06/23 | 764 | 3,288 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be applying to philosophy phd programs after completing my BA in philosophy and while completing a one year masters program (immediately after college) in philosophy. I impressed a certain professor in my third year of college during which I took two classes with her. If I want a recomme... |
2015/06/23 | 1,665 | 7,340 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an MSc graduate and work as an independent researcher. I spent 10 months on a paper. I wrote many scripts in Matlab to implement four other comparative methods as well as a new method that my MSc professor had proposed. Each of these methods was so difficult to implement.
Unfortunately, t... |
2015/06/23 | 427 | 1,756 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an offer for a full time job with a contract for 3 years in which I would be a PhD candidate in Germany at a reputed firm. I would have a supervisor at a technical university besides a supervisor at the company. The area of specialization is wireless communications. My plan is to go back... |
2015/06/23 | 948 | 3,929 | <issue_start>username_0: When writing a paper with a collaborator, they didn't like that I used the word "exciting" in the abstract since they said that they don't like when people use personal personal qualifiers in writing papers. In particular my sentence was
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"With these exciting results in mind, we study..."
... |
2015/06/23 | 525 | 2,320 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently got my paper accepted by a "look-descent" conference (indexed by ACM, a leading association in CS). Now, I am considering to withdraw the paper for some considerations, yet, need to know first if that would be fair?
The problem is that i didn't got individual reviews but only a summ... |
2015/06/23 | 1,403 | 5,986 | <issue_start>username_0: Back in the Fall of 2013, I attended a masters program straight out of college. Turned out to be extremely overwhelming relocating to NYC, living on my own and starting grad school. I knew I was in the right field but my anxiety got the best of me and I struggled speaking up in class which of c... |
2015/06/23 | 1,099 | 4,468 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any research/study that looked at the impact of the quality of a presentation in a conference on the number of citations the corresponding article receives? (quality in terms of form, not the content itself)
I am most interested in the United States and the field of computer science.<... |
2015/06/23 | 1,248 | 5,318 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently expelled from doctoral program in English for plagiarism in qualifying exam. Although it was for the lack of a citation, I attended a major research university with a zero tolerance policy. What are the chances I can reapply to another doctoral program? Specifically, I am in crea... |
2015/06/24 | 299 | 1,269 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a BSc and an MSc degree on Computer Science. My BSc CGPA was too low. I somehow got accepted to an MSc degree(two years) and got 4.00 CGPA. I think I am good at my field.
Now I want to apply for a PhD degree, but all universities I checked requires transcripts received from all higher e... |
2015/06/24 | 2,737 | 11,992 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing for my Ph.D. oral defense in mathematics and am reading tips from various resources. It seems that the usage of slides is usually assumed, though it is generally not required. For me, I am more used to the more traditional way; that is, using whiteboard and markers. I have almost... |
2015/06/24 | 2,060 | 8,048 | <issue_start>username_0: I was rather shocked when hearing in a conversation that journals sometimes have explicit limits on the number of references that can be included in one article. I understand that there are space concerns for print publications, and that word/page limits, as well as limits on the numbers of fig... |
2015/06/24 | 4,341 | 16,021 | <issue_start>username_0: [*Question originally found here*](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/47691/36222)
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In the past few months, I have been diagnosed for depression, anxiety, and ADHD. While learning this has been helpful, treatment made my already poor performance worse. Jumping around medications as well ... |
2015/06/24 | 788 | 2,813 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working on a project report which we plan to publish as a research paper later after some more work. In my report I have used some images from the [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) and Wikipedia. They all are either in the public domain or licensed under the ... |
2015/06/24 | 890 | 3,821 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a summer student working on a project suggested by my supervisor. While the project will not directly result in any publication, it will open up avenues for further research for the group. I have completed the main objective for the project ahead of schedule.
When I originally s... |
2015/06/24 | 927 | 3,986 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a brand-new (read: started 3 weeks ago) Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering at an R1 institution in the U.S. I was offered a position in a particular lab due to some prior experience I had on a topic of interest; my funding isn't tied to this particular lab though. The faculty member head... |
2015/06/24 | 557 | 2,176 | <issue_start>username_0: How to write a proper reference for an image I'm going to use for my thesis?
This image is a screenshot of a software installed on my own PC and I am the one who took it myself. It's not from another website.<issue_comment>username_1: You don't need a citation if it's your own creation like th... |
2015/06/24 | 1,414 | 6,150 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd like to find a suitable research topic (specifically, in mathematics) to work on, where 'suitable' means that it's publishable and amenable to being completed in, say, 6-12 months. While there are plenty of topics I'm interested in and plenty of questions I'd like to answer, I'm not sure ho... |
2015/06/25 | 1,177 | 4,986 | <issue_start>username_0: After failing the first year of the PhD program at a top university, I know that my poor performance resulted from dealing with a tremendously debilitating psychological condition, but it all was exacerbated by a serious lack of time management skills and poor organization. This academic year, ... |
2015/06/25 | 1,846 | 7,422 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been out of school for 5 years. My previous writing experience was nearly 10 years ago as I completed a BA in 18th century literature of a foreign language, and a BA in cultural anthropology. I've changed field for my masters degree and I am currently working on a PhD in a biomedical/pop... |
2015/06/25 | 821 | 3,279 | <issue_start>username_0: We all know how important proper attribution of ideas is. At the same time, certain things have become basic enough that citing the paper where they were first discussed is overkill: to give an extreme example, if you need to do some differentiation in your math/physics paper, you don't need to... |
2015/06/25 | 1,651 | 6,822 | <issue_start>username_0: I am teaching English for an Employment course; the entire course usually takes 2 months.
This semester I have a student who is **talking too much** in the class and for anything that I teach he has something to say—sometimes related to the course and sometimes not. However, he performs well ... |
2015/06/25 | 637 | 2,442 | <issue_start>username_0: Having a paper accepted at an IEEE conference I would like to upload it to ArXiv. From the [FAQ](http://www.ieee.org/documents/author_faq.pdf):
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> Can an author post his manuscript on a preprint server such as ArXiv?
> Yes. The IEEE recognizes that many authors share their unpublished
> ma... |
2015/06/25 | 757 | 2,755 | <issue_start>username_0: Once or twice I had encountered papers which used quite convenient citation styles, which combined numbered and parenthetical references. The list of references at the end of the paper is sorted alphabetically, as in Harvard referencing, but also all references are numbered, so it looks like th... |
2015/06/25 | 1,142 | 5,228 | <issue_start>username_0: My supervisor is going to leave to work at another university before I finish my thesis. I'm not sure how this process works. Will this cause problems with me graduating?<issue_comment>username_1: This is a fairly common situation, but there are lots of ways in which it can be handled. A lot de... |
2015/06/25 | 659 | 2,494 | <issue_start>username_0: (This question is about US work authorization for foreign students.)
The [list of STEM fields](http://www.ice.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Document/2014/stem-list.pdf) which will permit one to get a 17 month OPT extension include only two fields that containing the word "economics".
* 45... |
2015/06/25 | 584 | 2,584 | <issue_start>username_0: I am not sure if this is the right fourm for this question or if it counts as opinion based/subjective (if its not moderators feel free to remove or delete it, I should know better by now), but **are their any "objectively better" ways for studying for biology tests/material than simply reading... |
2015/06/26 | 2,210 | 8,833 | <issue_start>username_0: When I started at university I could perform with a fresh mind all of the time -- doing a problem set all weekend without reduced performance.
A couple of other students and myself seemed to be several times faster and have larger working memories than others. I made quick work of my studies.
... |
2015/06/26 | 1,426 | 6,304 | <issue_start>username_0: What would be the practical difference in terms of quality, experience, and future prospect if a student studies at a 4-year undergraduate degree in a world famous university like Harvard compared to a top university in a developing country, like, for example, in an [Indian IIT](https://en.wiki... |
2015/06/26 | 769 | 2,705 | <issue_start>username_0: In writing a phd thesis, if a sentence is copied as it is and given proper references, then will it be considered as plagiarism?<issue_comment>username_1: Verbatim cited text is preferably put between quotation marks. E.g., Smith et al. (Smith 2008) state: "literally copied text goes here."
If... |
2015/06/26 | 884 | 3,853 | <issue_start>username_0: Many journals allow to submit an extended version of a conference paper as, for example, Springer:
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> Expanded versions of papers which have previously appeared in
> conference proceedings will be considered and this request must be
> made at the time of submission; the authors must clearl... |
2015/06/26 | 222 | 874 | <issue_start>username_0: I had applied for PhD Scholarship. Today i received a email from that foundation. They told me
**"As soon as you are ready with your PhD Study Proposal, please send it to Prof X"**
How to Acknowledge this mail in formal way that i am going to send my PhD Proposal to Prof X as soon as it is re... |
2015/06/26 | 526 | 1,892 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to cite a senior project of a student in my thesis. However, I don't really have much information about the student.
I know, the *title* of his work, his *name*, his *university* and the *link* to the pdf file. I know that it is a senior project, because the link is something like
univ... |
2015/06/27 | 2,461 | 10,367 | <issue_start>username_0: I am 23, I have a Russian diploma in Computer Science and I am interested in getting into PhD in Computer Science in the US. But after reading [this](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/38237/how-does-the-admissions-process-work-for-us-ph-d-programs-particularly-for-wea) post and some ... |
2015/06/27 | 942 | 4,025 | <issue_start>username_0: I have two closely-related questions:
First:
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> What are the possible pitfalls of a university employee (faculty or staff) and a student at the same university being roommates?
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And, in the event that I need to take on a roommate as a faculty or staff member at a university:
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>... |
2015/06/28 | 818 | 3,229 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it unethical to work for two professors (two seperate research lab in two non-related fields) at the same time? I am an undergrad student currently working for professor A in a full-time research assistant co-op job. On the other hand, I volunteer using my spare time working for another rese... |
2015/06/28 | 870 | 3,718 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying to my first postdoc position, and I've been asked to attend an interview that will start with a 5 minute presentation on how I meet the job criteria. The work that I'm going to talk about is all from my PhD at University A. The postdoc is at a different institution (University B). ... |
2015/06/28 | 493 | 2,057 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student, and I'll soon be presenting some of my work at a conference. In the program, my presentation is labeled "invited" while others have "oral" and others "Keynote". I am a bit confused, as I was never invited (maybe one of my professors was) and would like to know the difference ... |
2015/06/28 | 336 | 1,432 | <issue_start>username_0: For an application, I have to fill in the contact information of somebody who wrote me a recommendation letter. The person owns three e-mail accounts: permanent (on Gmail), my university’s e-mail service and another university’s e-mail service (where he is the chairman).
So, I feel a little bi... |
2015/06/28 | 316 | 1,392 | <issue_start>username_0: Does taking a year off, to work as a junior research fellow or as a research intern, immediately after one's undergrad help with admission to a better MS (research track, not professional) /PhD program?
If it helps, the field in question is computer science, specifically at the intersection of ... |
2015/06/29 | 904 | 4,184 | <issue_start>username_0: Before asking, it's probably better that I give some background first. I do research on thin films for solar energy applications. A part of that job is to search for new materials that may be suitable for these applications. Basically, I'm somewhat of a glorified (unglorified maybe?) treasure h... |
2015/06/29 | 515 | 2,146 | <issue_start>username_0: We performed some bioinformatic work during thesis. Output of these analysis are more than 10 tables with 2000 rows each. We cannot add these in the printed version of the thesis, so we thought about:
* link to the online version, since paper containing this data was published.
* give a CD-ROM... |
2015/06/29 | 2,410 | 10,479 | <issue_start>username_0: With tenured hard-money positions being increasingly competitive, some researchers spend their entire career on [soft money](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/30621/what-is-a-soft-money-research-position) untenured positions. To me, it would seem quite bad to never know more than one... |
2015/06/29 | 1,153 | 4,902 | <issue_start>username_0: I contacted a professor by email in order to introduce myself to him and ask for a research position in his group at some point in the future. He expressed interest in me, but, when we finished our email discussions, he said "keep in touch."
I'm confused about what this means. Specifically, I... |
2015/06/29 | 1,209 | 5,339 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it ethical to a professor to accept a manuscript for review, and then have a graduate student referee it? What about assisting as a referee?
I understand that graduate students can be involved in the review process- this isn't my question. As far as the journal/editors are aware, the profes... |
2015/06/29 | 257 | 1,046 | <issue_start>username_0: When writing a scientific paper, one of the important sections to fill in are the possible *conflicts of interest*. Typically, I get to write
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> The authors declare no competing financial interests.
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Now, however, one of my co-authors has moved to a for-profit company before the stu... |
2015/06/29 | 676 | 2,747 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't care much for being rich. I don't mind a modest life if I can just do research in the field I love.
Thus I am curious to know if it is possible to make a living just by studying. (Suppose I could hypothetically get funding for every Master or PhD program). Is there an age limit or a li... |
2015/06/30 | 650 | 2,886 | <issue_start>username_0: I do research in math. A lot of times, I get stuck. I wonder if it's considered ethical to post questions on which I get stuck on internet sites, for example Math Overflow or Math Stackexchange.
If the question is just a small step or something already well-known, it is probably a waste of ti... |
2015/06/30 | 763 | 2,831 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm the executive editor of a PubMed-indexed journal. Last year The journal published a paper with four authors in the byline. Today I received an e-mail from the first author admitting that she translated large parts of a research paper published in a local language and used it in the paper's ... |
2015/06/30 | 1,323 | 5,861 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a journal paper for a review. The paper suggests a solution to an important problem, but the solution is very complicated and has mediocre performance. While reading the paper, I thought of a different solution, which is much simpler and has better performance (to give some scale: th... |
2015/06/30 | 687 | 3,066 | <issue_start>username_0: I have some analytical articles published in reputed national newspapers,local magazines relevant to my subjects. Do those count as publications?
I have to fill a form (graduate school) and bit confused about it (bit worried how it would be perceived).
Some of articles were quite long and ext... |
2015/06/30 | 1,205 | 4,642 | <issue_start>username_0: Sorry if the question is weird but I have not seen this terminology before. Who is the president of a university?
In my country, *a rector* is the leader of a university. A *dean* might run a faculty, possibly containing several departments. A *department head* is in charge of a single departm... |
2015/06/30 | 644 | 2,551 | <issue_start>username_0: I know, the question of how to cite source code has been asked before, but I did not found anything helpful for my specific situation.
I am currently writing my master's thesis. My university does not dictate any particular citation style so I just use biblatex's default settings. My work is q... |
2015/06/30 | 201 | 884 | <issue_start>username_0: Next week I am going on a summer school meeting where the organizers encourage us to bring a poster. I would like to make a poster on a topic that I have covered in an article that is currently under review. Is that fine?
The rules of the conference to which the article is submitted state that... |
2015/06/30 | 1,028 | 4,408 | <issue_start>username_0: I would appreciate clarification on the following aspect of joining academia as a *junior faculty* member. I have seen a number of advertised positions for junior faculty, which often involve a teaching component. However, a particular *timing* aspect is not clear enough to me: if, for example,... |
2015/06/30 | 1,069 | 4,347 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the process of submitting my PhD thesis, and have been offered a 1yr post-doc role at my current institution. If it matters, I am in UK and work in applied mathematics at a well-known faculty.
My question relates to "traditional" career paths after the initial post-doc, or more specifi... |
2015/07/01 | 537 | 2,082 | <issue_start>username_0: I often see people abbreviate faculty teaching loads ("course loads") as 2:2 or 3:2:3 or 2:1.
Sometimes a note such as "3:3 with 2 preps" is added.
What do these abbreviations mean?<issue_comment>username_1: They refer to the number of classes you teach in each semester. ie 2:1 would mean two... |
2015/07/01 | 646 | 2,491 | <issue_start>username_0: In Germany there is a wiki-like webpage that investigates PhD theses for plagiarism: <http://de.vroniplag.wikia.com/>
On this webpage PhD theses that are suspected of plagiarism are investigated by an online community. Anybody can contribute in an anonymous way. For the thesis manuscripts that... |
2015/07/01 | 1,280 | 4,835 | <issue_start>username_0: I have graduated three times from UK universities. First was a bachelors' degree, then a Masters' degree, then a PhD. The graduation robes associated with my PhD graduation are absolutely horrible. I am now a lecturer in a UK university and if I attend graduation ceremonies at this University (... |
2015/07/01 | 1,225 | 5,119 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently enrolled at a Japanese university in the doctoral program of Mathematical and Life sciences, and have already been a student for last 4 years. I am waiting for the acceptance of research paper, and based on it, will submit the thesis for defense soon.
But I came to know that Ja... |
2015/07/01 | 436 | 2,105 | <issue_start>username_0: I often find in many conference papers submitted by US research groups that paper writers would thank their "shepherd" in the acknowledgment section. What is the exact contribution of a "shepherd" to a paper submission?
I'm speaking about my domain which is computer science and I'm not sure ab... |
2015/07/01 | 418 | 1,731 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my Ph.D. in mathematics and did not have my thesis carefully proofread before submission (which is definitely a mistake that I wish to correct). My thesis was approved after submission and I am now preparing for the oral defense.
Now as I reread my thesis in detail, I found that the... |
2015/07/01 | 839 | 3,360 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently on the job market. One of the positions uses the online application system where I am able to open the letters of recommendation and read them. I found out that there are "errors" in my advisor's letter.
* First, she put the name of University A in the letter that goes out to U... |
2015/07/01 | 2,907 | 12,332 | <issue_start>username_0: I've previously asked a question on this forum about leaving grad school and moving to a new field. I'm a chemistry PhD student in my (now) second year. I've decided to leave my PhD program because my heart is not in my work, nor am I very passionate about my field (word to the wise - don't go ... |
2015/07/01 | 1,612 | 7,146 | <issue_start>username_0: I just started my PhD in computer science (first year) and I enjoy reading the high-rated journals related to my field. It is true that I find them, sometimes, complicated (in some sense) and I cannot continue the reading. The reason why I like reading such journals is that (1) there are many b... |
2015/07/01 | 375 | 1,548 | <issue_start>username_0: I received an anonymous review from a journal. This journal does not hide the identities of authors from reviewers. Should I quote the reviewer's remark that the work is "impressive" on my CV?
Does the answer change if the manuscript is not accepted?<issue_comment>username_1: Unless the articl... |
2015/07/01 | 224 | 983 | <issue_start>username_0: It is time for me to apply for graduate studies.
I am wondering, if I have a paper accepted at a journal or conference, is it OK for me to show this accepted paper to others (such as potential advisor for my graduate study) even if the journal or conference has not yet formally published (or ... |
2015/07/02 | 951 | 3,930 | <issue_start>username_0: Some universities that offer a DSc as the doctoral degree, while most of them also offer a PHD degree in science. What are the differences these degrees in terms of academic standing? What are the pros and cons?<issue_comment>username_1: It depends on the university and the country.
In England... |
2015/07/02 | 1,729 | 6,903 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate student (20f). I have 2 academic advisors - one in the Honors College & one in my department. I met with the Honors advisor recently to discuss study abroad and we somehow got on the topic of me not ever taking breaks. My GPA had fallen the past semester, and she warned me ... |