texts: IEEE Copyright and replacing previous ArXiv/TechRxiv versions

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I know that similar questions have been posted before but i cannot find a specific and complete answer.
Suppose that i post a preprint article on ArXiv/TechRxiv. Then, i submit the paper to an IEEE Transaction journal. After revisions it is accepted. In IEEE author's FAQ i can read the following:

Can an author post his manuscript on a preprint server such as TechRxiv or ArXiv?
Yes. The IEEE recognizes that many authors share their unpublished manuscripts on public sites. Once manuscripts have been accepted for publication by IEEE, an author is required to post an IEEE copyright notice on his preprint. Upon publication, the author must replace the preprint with either 1) the full citation to the IEEE work with Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) or a link to the paper’s abstract in IEEE Xplore, or 2) the accepted version only (not the IEEEpublished version), including the IEEE copyright notice and full citation, with a link to the final, published paper in IEEE Xplore.

So, here is the question: how can i do that if ArXiv/TechRxiv does not permit to replace/edit previous version of a preprint? I am allowed just to update the preprint, hence create a new version of it. However, previous versions remain accessible.


texts: Does a PhD student need a co-supervisor?

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I am a few months into my PhD and my supervisor and co-supervisor are close friends.

Unfortunately, I find that my co-supervisor is not useful – he doesn’t provide any help or input into my project. Additionally, he has given me a hard time on more than one occasion, e.g. making a derogatory comment about the source of my PhD funding, not including me in discussions with his other PhD candidates (although I was physically present), and asking me to buy items for another PhD candidate using my budget.

I would like to stop being supervised by my co-supervisor, but I have not yet built a relationship with another academic that I could ask to take the role.

Do I need a co-supervisor? Can anyone recommend ways I deal with this situation?


texts: I'm applying to transfer, and am filling out the Common App. Should I put Yes to disciplinary action?

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I am currently applying to transfer colleges, and one of the questions the Common App asks is:

  Have you ever been found responsible for a disciplinary violation at any educational institution you have attended from the 9th grade (or the international equivalent) forward, whether related to academic misconduct or behavioral misconduct, that resulted in a disciplinary action? These actions could include, but are not limited to: probation, suspension, removal, dismissal, or expulsion from the institution.

Last April, I attended a dormroom party at which there was alcohol. This party was broken up by the RA. A lot of people fled, although I remained and cooperated. I was not drunk at the time.

The consequences were that I (along with a few others who remained) had to help plan a study session. At the time the hall coordinator told me that I was being placed on a probationary period of 3 months, and that if I wasn't caught attending another party within that 3 month period, the incident would be expunged from my record. There have been no other incidents since then, so I assume it was removed from my record.

Should I provide the details of this event to the Common App? Will this affect my chances of admission to another college?


texts: How to conduct an effective literature survey in mathematics?

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Due to Covid, I am unable to go to my University and access the University server. As a result I am unable to use MathSciNet. Is there any other way to do a good and effective literature survey on a topic in Mathematics?
If someone could help me,  I would be  grateful. I am also interested to know how researchers working at Universities that don't have a MathSciNet license conduct research?


texts: It is just to evaluate what is right and wrong in a script (i.e., an exam or problem sheet completed by a student), and making notes and comments on that?


texts: Can I get in trouble if I submit my own paper as a sole author while employed as a research fellow?

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I am a research fellow at my current university. I have been working under a very difficult line manager and we could just not be on the same page. I would be asked to publish 1 paper a month, expected to work 25 hours a day to meet deadlines and run personal errands. Our every technical meeting would be him saying, "you are paid to publish, publish in high ranking journals" and any paper I would write would involve his name even though 100% of the every work was mine. But I accepted this as a given since he was my line manager and the funding was with him, I would add his name to my papers along with other names suggested by him, usually I would get 5 authors for my paper, whom I never met.

I have been working on a paper idea, which I believed to be good, but it was an idea for a conference, not a high ranking journal. I presented the idea to him and he told me not to chase it further as he needs journals not conferences. And even if does get accepted he would not pay for it.

So I have been working on it alone at home and on the weekends. It is now at a stage I am happy with and I am most probably going to publish it in a good conference.

I have given my notice for leaving, and given the above history I want to publish this as a sole author. After all, he would not be paying for it and he refused to be any part of it.

Ive discussed this with a colleague and he painted a very grim picture, he suggests that if I do go ahead with this, my line manager can even take me to court and state that he was working under me and on my funded project, he went ahead and published without me and basically stole project time and project ideas. And he suggested not to publish this paper and just abandon it.

Sorry for being so bitter, but I worked very hard on this paper and would like this to be published. Adding his name would also not benefit as he's not very happy with me leaving and he would not give consent to publish, this would make it more complicated.

Im new to such problems and wanted a more experienced approach on what to do.

Thank you


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Writing a technical Master's degree thesis in the IT field, I need to cite sentences that are in the JavaDoc, where are no author and no year. Ex.

From: java.util.Queue

The Queue interface does not define the blocking queue methods, which are common in concurrent programming

From: org.springframework.boot.actuate.health.HealthIndicator

Strategy interface used to contribute Health to the results returned from the HealthEndpoint.

Unlike the first one, the second has a base webpage Spring Boot Reference Documentation which shows 14 authors (I know to cite multiple authors). Can be the latter JavaDoc be cited with these authors? How about the first one?
How to cite both of them?

Edit: I have checked the How should I cite a website URL? question, however, the point of my question is that I might cite from multiple classes, where the URL changes. Yeah, little, but still, so it is actually a different source.


texts: Should you send refined version of manuscript to editor three months after initial submission?

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I submitted a paper to a a good mathematics journal about 3 months ago, and have not heard anything yet (based on some of what I've heard this is fairly normal).  During that time I made some significant edits to the introduction and some of the proofs (the original proofs were not incorrect but now they are easier to read/understand).

Should I send the updated version to the editor?  If the paper is already being reviewed, then I wouldn't want to muddy the waters by submitting something new.  That's my only concern at the moment.  Thoughts?


texts: How can I find a list of my co-authors for a grant conflict of interest?

texts: Many funding agencies require a list of co-authors in the past n years. Is there an easier way to do this than to find all of my papers and copy and paste the names and institutions?


texts: How should I request a professor to restrict communication to email?

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My instructor for an undergraduate math course (a professor) has been interacting with me over WhatsApp lately, and I feel that that is very unprofessional (and uncomfortable), since I (and everyone) use instant-messaging apps for personal communication only. Moreover, from what I know, it is common practice in academia to communicate over email. Am I overthinking it, or is it really unacceptable?
I find this unprofessional because WhatsApp relies on one's private phone number. I think this professor got it when I called their office phone recently.


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I'm doing a research about air pollution . I have annual data that cover 2002-2009 , 2011-2014 ( two sets of data from two sources) and 2017 to 2019 . My question is how can I represent the missing data of the missing years? Will it be zero? Can I draw a line graph with these data or I should do it in a table?? And how to represent the two set of data for the same set years  ?
Thanks


texts: Do interviews require taking vacation days?

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When interviewing for a new position, is it common practice to count the days spent on interviews as vacation days?

It wouldn't seem unreasonable to count these as vacation days, except that I could also see them as being work days. If I were only visiting to give a lecture and speak with faculty in another department, it would seem like work, and presenting at a conference is certainly not vacation.

A few follow up questions - does it matter that I am a post-doc (e.g. would it be different from a faculty, in which case interviewing for another position would not be in the interest of the current employer)? Would it be different if I were interviewing at a company rather than a university? Does it depend on the country? I am in the U.S.

(this is related to the question related to Do presentations given during interviews count as invited talks?)


texts: On a form for a job application, I am being asked to list, among others, what “service lectures” I have given. What exactly is meant by that? What does, or does not, count as a service lecture?


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I have had multiple situations (ok, well only two) where after what I thought to be a positive Skype postdoc interview (in one case, two interviews), my follow-up questions/requests have been completely ignored. I've sent 2-3 follow-up emails spaced over weeks with nothing in reply. In one case it's been over a month. The weird thing is that the email exchanges prior to the interview(s) to set a date/time happened very quickly and were enthusiastic. I thought the interviews went well and they said certain phrases like "you seem to have very relevant skills and interests." I made sure to thank them in follow-up emails and I asked a few more logistical questions about their group that time did not permit in the interview. But nothing in reply.

Maybe they decided they didn't want to hire me. That's fine, I get it. But I'm very frustrated with this because its seems to be so unprofessional. If they don't want to hire me, why not give me the courtesy of saying no so that I can move on? The field is not that big, so it is very discouraging that I would now have two groups that I need to avoid.

My question is if this is typical for a group leader to just ignore emails like this if they don't intend on hiring an applicant? Or is it possible that they suddenly became very busy and aren't able to answer emails?


texts: Undergraduate international computer science student [Can i go to grad school?]

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I am Computer science major at University of Wisconsin Madison.
I just want to ask you if i can get into graduate school with such a low GPA.
My current GPA is 2.9 and i have 20 more credit which makes me possible to go over 3.0
But I have finished my freshman year with 2.0 GPA and took 2 years of ESL program.(English as a second language).
I have done 2~3 internships in korea and plan to do 2 years of more working experience after i graduate from college this summer.

I am worried about my GPA because it is quite low and my CS GPA is only about 3.4
DO you guys think i have chance of getting into any top 30 or 40 graduate school out there in computer science field?

Thank you


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I am strugging to find a consistent answer on how to correctly reference a chapter in a book, that is an interview. (The book in question is avaliable as PDF here)

The book is edited by two authors who interviewing one person per chapter. I sometimes quote the interviewers (the book editors), sometimes the interviewee.

I have seen various ways of referencing in this situation.

A) Interviewee as author - which feels right when the interviewee is quoted, but wrong when the quote refers to the question.

  Barad, K. (2012). Interview with Karen Barad. In R. Dolphijn and I.
  van der Tuin (Eds.), New materialism: Interviews & cartographies (1.
  ed, pp. 48–70). Ann Arbor, MI: Open Humanities Press.

B) Interviewers as authors - which feels right, but when using more than 1 interview adds up as multiple citations plus disguises the interviewee in in-text citation.

(Dolphijn & Tuin, 2012a)
(Dolphijn & Tuin, 2012b)

  Dolphijn, R. & Tuin, I. van der. (2012a). Interview with Rosi
  Braidotti. In R. Dolphijn and I. van der Tuin (Eds.), New materialism:
  Interviews & cartographies (1. ed, pp. 19–37). Ann Arbor, MI: Open
  Humanities Press.

  Dolphijn, R. & Tuin, I. van der. (2012b). Interview with Karen Barad.
  In R. Dolphijn and I. van der Tuin (Eds.), New materialism: Interviews
  & cartographies (1. ed, pp. 48–70). Ann Arbor, MI: Open Humanities
  Press.

C) Using all authors involved. I have seen this in other author's references but I have not found any guideline that suggests doing this.

(Barad et al., 2012)

  Barad, K., Dolphijn, R. & Tuin, I. van der. (2012). Interview with
  Rosi Braidotti. In R. Dolphijn and I. van der Tuin (Eds.), New
  materialism: Interviews & cartographies (1. ed, pp. 19–37). Ann Arbor,
  MI: Open Humanities Press.

The voice of the author probably needs to be identified in-text, but which of these 3 bibliography versions is correct APA?


texts: How does Clarivate incentivise journals to market Publons?

texts: I've observed that MDPI sends out an awful lot of emails marketing Publons to me as a peer reviewer.  I think they are not the only publisher to do so.  It seems to me that Clarivate/Publons is an indirect competitor to MDPI.  How is Clarivate getting MDPI to market for them?


texts: How important is the time it takes to graduate?

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In some countries (e.g. Greece) there is no penalty if you fail a course. You can simply try again next time. Also, there is no limit to the amount of time it takes to get a degree.

I am a good student who works hard and tries his best to get good grades.

Unfortunately, on my 1st semester some very bad things happened and I passed no courses for 3 semesters. I will explain this in my essay.

Is it reasonable for me to expect to be accepted by top US/UK universities for a Masters in Computer Science given that I get high grades, but I take 5-6 years instead of 4 to get my degree?


texts: Answering Ambiguous or Outright Preposterous Questions

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Given the premise of any form of testing is the evaluation of one's knowledge in comparison to the population (i.e. class) as a whole and a set body of knowledge (i.e. syllabus).

How does one approach the issue of answering conceptual questions that are completely groundless in a multiple choice format? I know that as an essay format, one can take positions and point out the flaws in the prompt. But in a format where there is (in theory) always a correct answer, what options does one have?

The following are poor examples, but it summarizes the question succinctly.

  Vaccines cause autism. Studies have shown that Vaccine causes autism.
  When 100 people were surveyed by University X, 98% agreed that V = A.

Question: What causes Autism?

A: Vaccines

B: Genetics

C: Baseball

  The world is flat. If one were to travel too far in any direction, they will fall off the earth.

Question: What will happen if you travel too far East?

A: You will end up on the other side

B: You will fall off

C: Nothing will Happen

Does one exclude the knowledge that they have gained from learning in the greater world and operate within the "confines" of the question, or do they reject the confines and operate on what is and proven at the present?

I asked a friend of mine this question, he/she responded that I had to approach the problem as a logic problem within 'closed system', meaning not to infer any additional knowledge outside the realm of the question.

If one were to approach the problem with the intent of seeking to maximize one's grade, i.e. the choice that will generate a point, then the answer is evident from the examples provided.

If one were to approach the problem with the intent of seeking to answer with the correct answer, i.e. the choice that most accurately reflects a person's belief (or that of society as a whole), then the answer is evident from the examples provided.

But what if the question is political or advocates a hateful rhetoric that is only believed by the question-maker (and therefore the grade-maker)?

If a personal belief is in opposition to the greater whole (i.e. An abolitionist in the South before the US Civil War, learning about social structure) what is the 'correct' answer?

Does the 'closed-system' extend to the class as a whole, irrespective of the outside world, and one's personal beliefs seconded to the beliefs of the grade-maker?

What is the overriding prerogative? Maximizing one's beliefs or grade?


texts: First-authorship was taken by my Master's supervisor; how to strengthen my PhD application?

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I have two papers in CS published during my Master's studies. The idea, the experiments and the writings were done all by myself, but my previous supervisor took the first-author place forcibly.

I am planning on applying to US PhD programs. My questions:

  Generally speaking, will these publications still carry the same
  weight as if I were rightly listed as the first author?
  Are there any general strategies I can use to maximize the impact that
  these publications will have on my acceptance?


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I submitted a conference paper to an IEEE conference via edas system. I included the details of  co-author in the uploaded document but missed to add in the system. I noticed it when I received the acceptance notification. When i read the Commsoc policies, it says "it is not possible to add further co-author to a an submitted document". Is this means, I cannot add the co-author name? What will be worst case?
Thank you


texts: Teaching mathematics at the college level,

texts: Can I teach a college level math course at a community college with secondary mathematics certification.


texts: How to acknowledge a colleague's authorship of text in a syllabus

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Here is a situation that I have been in several times, but have only recently begun to give careful thought to.  Suppose you are asked to teach a course that you have not taught before.  A fairly common practice (at least where I teach) is to approach the colleague(s) who taught the course most recently and ask if you can adapt their syllabus (on the grounds that reinventing the wheel is in nobody's interest).  In every case in my experience, the colleagues have freely given me not only their syllabi, but also their assignments, exam questions, and any other instructional materials that they used, and have given me permission to make use of them however I wish.

Of course being something of a control freak, I never use those materials without re-engineering them somewhat; like many (most?) academics, I feel the need to take ownership of the course by putting my own stamp on it.  But I do usually take large chunks of those older course materials and incorporate them into my own.  I suspect this is not uncommon (although maybe I am just wrong on this point).

It has only recently occurred to me that if one of my students did something comparable to what I do -- copy large blocks of text from somebody else's work and insert it into their own without attribution -- it would be a clear case of academic misconduct.  And I would never dream of doing something like this in a work that was intended for publication.  But somehow until now, doing this in a purely instructional context has always seemed innocuous.

So my questions:

How common is this practice?
Is it generally viewed as a form of plagiarism (and have I just been oblivious to something that should have been obvious to me all along)?
If one does make use (with permission) of a colleague's course materials, is there an appropriate way to acknowledge that?  For example, by putting an "Acknowledgement" note at the bottom of the first page of the syllabus?  At the very least, doing something like that would model good behavior for one's students.


texts: Should I include reference section on a conference poster?

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I believe that including references is important, especially for a chemistry conference poster. However, I have more than two dozens of citations so it is way too lengthy.

Should I still include the reference section or should I simply explain when asked?


texts: How to Shop for a Good Advisor (In the sense of a Good Person and an Advisor)

texts: I want to know how I can shop for an advisor (between departments) that does his job: advises students without coercing them to put things in their dissertation they don't believe in or choosing topics for them so that they themselves can profit. I guess I want to find the signs of a not-bad advisor (not harmful) who is interested in the topic rather than a positively good advisor.


texts: Should I leave this PhD and start another one? Would I be in trouble?

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I am currently doing a fully funded PhD in a European country. I just finished my first year. The topic is ok but i dont feel very passionate about it. I dont feel i connect with the topic even though my supervisor is a nice person. the uni is depressing and i feel lonely. Both me and my partner do not really like the country we are living in.
I have another PhD offer from a better uni, in another country( i have close friends there) and in a field that i care much more about. The immigration status after graduating is also very important for me and in this country, i would have easier and faster ways of becoming a permenant resident.
I am very tempted to leave my current PhD and go for the second option. However, i have just finished my first year here, have been getting paid and my supervisor has been putting time and energy into helping me. I feel awkward talking to him about leaving and dont know how he would react.
What should i do? it is a very difficult decision for me. I am also worried my current supervisor would get angry and try to destroy my academic reputation. I know the funding i currently have is very generous and my supervisor worked hard to secure it for me. Im just simply not happy with what I am doing and where I am living...


texts: Writing a commentary about a paper from a collaborator -- is it research misconduct?

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I want to write a commentary (for a journal) about a paper a collaborator has published.
Is there a conflict of interest? Is it research misconduct if I write the commentary?


texts: What should I do if I submitted more recommendations than needed for an academic job application?

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I am applying for academic jobs in mathematics. Most of the jobs I am applying for ask for three or four letters of recommendation.

At the beginning of my application process, I spoke with an academic who has served on multiple search committees, but who is not a mathematician, who told me that it is ok to send more letters of recommendation than asked for. As a consequence, I obtained five letters of recommendation, and used all five for almost all the jobs to which I have thus far applied.

Recently, I read some things on this site (here and here) that made me wonder if this decision was an error.

In addition, I reflected more on my choices of recommender, which had really been made with the first job application in mind, and wondered if some of the letters really didn't make sense for some of the applications. (I am applying to a variety of positions.)

The question is what to do now. Almost all the applications are through the website mathjobs.org, which allows me to change them at any time. But in many cases the departments are supposedly already processing applications. I wouldn't want to just make a change to an application that is already being reviewed, without comment. The options I have thought of:

1) Don't worry about it. Leave everything as is. Let the departments contact me if something needs to be changed.

2) Contact the search committees and ask them if I should withdraw a letter or two.

  What is your advice for me? Are there other options I should consider? What is your recommended option?

I am particularly interested in hearing from people who have served on search committees, or who have gone through the search process and received feedback from departments about issues related to the above. So if you fit either of these descriptions, please say so.


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I am applying to PhD programs in astronomy this fall, and I will need letters of recommendation. I have been working with a research group for about a year, have done a poster session at a major conference based on work I have done with this group and have written a piece of software that will be used in a collaboration with another group at a different university. In these examples I worked most closely with a post doc in the group, but the PI was aware of what we were doing. The PI is well respected and widely known in the field, and the post doc recently received a prestigious and well known fellowship.

I am unsure whether to ask the post doc (who knows me better) or the professor (who knows me but is also more established in the field) for a letter of recommendation. I am in the fortunate position that I have more potential letter writers than I need, so I would prefer to have only one from this research position to show the breadth of my other research experience. Would I be better suited by asking the PI or the post doc? Is it common to have jointly written letters?


texts: How to effectively use blogging as a tool to gain visibility in academia

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While a lot has been said in this site about the importance of visibility in academia, I specifically want to know about the effectiveness of blogs: are blogs an effective means to communicate your presence in the field? I envisage the blog to contain posts which informally talk about selective publications.

What points should one consider when writing blogs about published papers? It is a significant challenge not to exceed the usual blog lengths when writing on a technical paper. Are there effective tips an academic blogger should keep in mind?


texts: Does not taking Vector calc in undergrad (US) affect my chances for grad school application

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So I'm a current junior Biochem major thinking of doing a phd in a bioscience/life science field (something related to virology/immunology/biochem). One of my final math requirements is either Vector Calculus (Calc 3), Intro to ordinary differential equations, and a math course tailored to biochem/chem majors called Mathematical Physics for chem/biochem majors.

Would (US) grad schools care as to which of these 3 classes I took (vector calc is worth more credits and is accepted to be harder/more time consuming)?
I don't feel I will have time during my semester to take Vector Calc.


texts: Can I submit a non-research "article" on ArXiv?

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Can a generic article be published on arXiv? For example, can I publish an article on "Introduction to Linear Algebra," or does it have to be an innovative research paper or preprint?

If not, are there any journals (e.g., open access) that accept "articles" as papers?


texts: How to correct citations in Google Scholar?

texts: Some of the publications have cited my work. But Google scholar is unable to identify those citations and link with my account. I think it is because my name in the references of article has been written differently. Is there a way I can change that?


texts: PhD first-year transfer including credits

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I'm currently in graduate school A as a first-year student. However, due to some personal reasons, I really want to go to another graduate school B, also as a PhD student.
I have been accepted by B now. The application portal I used is not specifically for transfer students though. So, is it possible for me to transfer my credits earned at A to B? And how should I begin this discussion with my current advisor that I'm leaving for non-academic reasons? Thank you in advance.


texts: Can my doctoral adviser take my dissertation and publish it without me?

texts: I'm a doctoral student who is trying to graduate. The requirement at my university is that students write 3 publishable manuscripts. Because my adviser knows that I don't want to stay at my current university for a post-doc, she wants me to submit my manuscripts before she'll let me graduate. I spoke to the assistant chair of my department to ask if this was normal, and she said that it's understandable because if a student leaves and doesn't publish, the adviser has to "take responsibility for finishing and publishing the papers." This sounds weird to me - shouldn't I be able to decide if I want to publish my dissertation work? Obviously, I'd like to get them published, but it seems unreasonable that my adviser could take my papers and publish them herself if I don't do it in the time frame she wants.


texts: What are interests of a country to fund international PhD students?

texts: I would like to understand positive and negative effects for a host country and for a home country of a student.


texts: Kinds of jobs that ex-biologist can apply?

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I am in need of some “brainstorming” help/advice for my job search.
Here is a brief re-cap of my situation: a person from Eastern Europe, did a lack-luster Ph.D with zero supervision or mentorship in Germany. Moved to Canada, spend 3 years at the third-rate university as a "research associate/postdoc" (in reality - as a technician, it was only job I was able to secure after a “bad” PhD). I quit my stay at that university, as soon as I could.

Through my grad. school and research associate I've be doing a lot of standard molecular biology jobs: PCR, DNA isolation, cloning, protein/nucleic electrophoresis, blotting, production and purification of recombinant proteins, genetically modified bacteria... anyway, all this hands-on experience belongs to the landfill now.

Have been working as a project manager at another small university (mainly liaising, talking, sitting on meetings, writing documents /emails). Became a Canadian citizen. My job has nothing to do with the Uni, I am employed there because the Uni is a holder of "grant money" for multi-partner project. Genuinely enjoying the job and people interactions, but this is all “soft-money” position, which gives me very little stability and no bargaining chips whatsoever. Besides that, the situation gets "shaky" in terms of project continuation.

I am thinking about embarking on job search again. Just checked NatureJobs - academic job market is pretty anemic in Canada, nothing new. No biotech either.

A Few big negatives:
1)  I have no demonstrable record of academic achievement, bunch of useless middle-author papers and one useless book-chapter;
2)  I've been out of lab for 3 years and no one will hire me do the lab stuff anymore, neither in academia nor in industry R&D;
3)   I have never taught any courses to students either (the last PI was all too busy using me as a technician);
4)  I am not a native English speaker, so nobody will hire me as a science writer.

I would love to hear your suggestions as to what jobs I can realistically apply to? I would really like to “brainstorm” though the list of job titles/descriptions.

I am thinking about two regions (1) US – it might be easier to get a job as a Canadian and there is a bigger market out there; (2) Lately I thought of going to SE Asia as "English teacher", but can I possibly aim for something better? I know I will not make it into any decent Korean/Japanese University. What about some places in China? Is it worth it? Are there chances of finding a “lecturer” position somewhere in SE Asia?

Any reasonable suggestions are appreciated!


texts: Business School professors - how different are they?

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I recently saw a listing of professor salaries at various departments in Stanford. I found that the folks at GSB earn significantly more than what other Dept. people do. This is the motivation for my question:

How different are B-school professors? Many of them work on areas that lie on the intersection of Operations/CS/Economics/Applied Math. But why do they enjoy a greater pay (if at all they do)?
Are industry contacts available easier for B-school faculty when compared with engineering or science department professors? What sort of projects do B-school professors work on in collaboration with the industry? How is the pay-sharing deal between the industry, the prof and the university worked out?
How different is teaching MBA students from engg. or science undergrad students? Does teaching MBA eat up more time or is more demanding than usual?


texts: What is the difficulty of landing a tenure track professorship at a top 25 program nowadays? I am considering pursuing a PhD in mathematics (thinking applied or computational) and curious on what the market is like. For example, If I attended a top math program (just say Columbia), what are the chances of landing a professorship at a program like UCLA or UT Austin?


texts: Special museum visiting hours for academics?

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Anyone who has been to the Louvre knows what a zoo it is. With creaking floorboards and gawking tourists stacked up five deep in front of popular works it is not a conducive environment for study.

Are there special visiting hours at major museums for art historians and other academics that allow them to examine works undisturbed by large crowds?


texts: Is it plagiarism to publish a table that was published earlier in a different journal?

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I need to a include a table which contains the basic characteristics of study participants. However, in a related previous publication that dealt with a different hypothesis, the table was published. The present submission deals with the same study population but a different study than previous one. I need to give the basic clinical characteristics of the study population.

Will it be appropriate if I just cite the previous publication in the table title?
Will that prevent me from getting accused of self-plagiarism?


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I have a question on publishing papers from my PhD thesis. I found this topic in other answered questions, but never exactly the same (forgive me if I am wrong), and I need some more comments on this.
I wrote my thesis as a collection of few papers, following the model of my research school, but never went on submitting those, for several reasons and for several years. Now I think the right time came, but I am doubtful I can publish the papers in the thesis "as they are", since the thesis is publicly available. Well, to publish papers from thesis chapters is a common procedure in the research school I attended, but normally it is done in the same year, or few years later, while I graduated 6 years ago.
I contacted the editor of the journal I wish to submit one of the papers, asking if I can publish data already presented in my publicly-available-thesis. He replied that data can be reused, provided that it is clearly stated they are not original. Can the text be reused as well? I will make some changes, add comments and update literature reference, but a greta portion of the text will remain the same. Can this be a problem?
Thank you very much for your answers,
Clelia


texts: Thesis defense months after thesis submission

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I submitted my PhD thesis a few months back, and it's still not clear when I will have my final defense.

Since then, I have moved on to industry, and I'm very much worried that the state of my knowledge will not be at its peak when my defense finally comes. I feel that at the time of my thesis submission I knew "everything" about my thesis and could answer any question about it, but now, even if I will read it a few times, it will not be the same.

I do have papers published, so one can say I have some "proof" of the thesis merits, but I probably won't be able to defend them to the fullest, so to speak.

I'm wondering, is that something the committee realizes, or do they expect of me to be in "top shape" when coming to my defense, in that every little question I cannot answer will reflect badly on my part?

Thanks.


texts: How do weekly seminar speakers get picked by a STEM department?

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When there's a weekly seminar in a STEM department that professors and grad students attend, how are these speakers given slots?
Are they invited?  By whom?
Can they apply to speak at some weekly seminar, e.g. apply to give a math talk at Harvard?
Do the seminar speakers then get their airfare and hotel paid for by the department's own budget?


texts: Seeking undergrad research position at another university: is it OK to email PI and copy lab member? What if there's no response?

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I am an undergraduate research assistant in a laboratory at my school. Starting last year's fall semester through the summer and up to now, I have been working in the same laboratory, and I am hoping to gain additional knowledge, skills, and exposure by working in another research lab this summer. I have been looking for opportunities in different schools, but it appears that they encourage me to contact the labs directly.

I am thinking about emailing the lab's PI and copying one of the lab members on the email. Is this an appropriate action as an undergraduate student seeking internship? Also, if I do not receive a response within a reasonable amount of time, is it okay to contact another member in the lab?


texts: How to decide whether to referee a math paper?

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When approached to referee a mathematics paper there are of course a couple of factors to consider in the decision of whether to accept the task or not.

Expertise:

Do I have sufficient background knowledge to referee this paper?
Am I an "expert" in this particular field?

Why did they approach me?

I guess there are two possibilities:

The authors suggested me as a possible reviewer (the authors might know me).
The editor came across my name (either through connection, studying cited papers of the paper at hand, search for similar papers, asking a colleague).

This will mostly just be speculative as editors don't seem to typically reveal such information.

Workload:

The number of papers that I am currently already reviewing. There is only so much one can do without greatly affecting one's own research productivity.

My question is:

How do people weight these factors?

How do experienced reviewers decide on whether to accept to review a paper?

With how many papers to review on the desk do people say no? (of course length of the papers is a factor here too).


texts: Does living in university housing mean that they will own intellectual property you create there?

texts: So I was wondering. Most IP policies at Universities state that you must work on inventions, software, etc. on your own time in order to keep your rights to it. Most also say that you can't use University facilities in the process. But if you live in student housing, wouldn't this count as a "University facility." So wouldn't it technically be impossible to patent something while keeping your rights?


texts: Is it appropriate if my current affiliation is different from the ending of my email address?

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I have a permanent email aliasing from my previous institute. My current academic affiliation (let's pretend it is Horvord University) does NOT give me a permanent email address.

Now, I am going to submit a paper to a journal and I wonder if it is considered professionally appropriate if I list Horvord as my affiliation but list my previous email as the contact?


texts: Can I add my current supervisor name in a conference paper if he pay for me the conference fees without taking a consent from my ex-supervisor?

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I have completed my master‘s degree work one year ago under supervisor A, and now I am doing PhD under supervisor B.
I have presented a part of my master’s degree work and included supervisor B’s name in the abstract since he paid the conference fees.
I have not requested for a consent from supervisor A about that and now supervisor A seems to be very upset and wants to complain.

Please advise me what should I do now?


texts: Research fellowship after undergrad helps with PhD admissions?

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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 computer vision and machine learning.


texts: Is doing a 1 year MBA after many years of experience in the IT industry worth it?

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I have over 13 years of experience in IT industry, but no consistent domain / specialization. I have worked as UI developer, project manager, scrum master, business analyst, recruiter, etc. for few years each. Now my career seems stuck and I am not getting further on the career ladder.

I couldn't go to college due to financial constraint in my early years. I am 35 now, but the itch to attend a regular university is still there. I want to do a regular MBA (preferably 1 year) from a foreign university. (I am a native Indian).

Sometimes I think that doing an MBA might give a kick to my stalled career. But these are my fears / constraints.

I still do not have enough money. My entire life's saving is around 45K USD. Should I do MBA or not? If yes, should I go for an ed loan (saving my current money for unforseen events) or empty my bank accounts (to avoid paying interest)?
If I leave my job now, with current slow economy, what will be the ROI of doing a 1 year MBA?
As per my little research Germany is a country for students (less tuition fee)! If I go for non-US universities (like Germany, Spain, Australia, NZ) I will have to learn their native language to survive there, which needs another 6-8 months.

TL;DR
Please advise if doing a 1 year regular MBA after 13 years of experience worth it? Which universities with good rankings offer affordable MBA?


texts: What should I do if a professor's grading makes me feel bad?

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I have a professor who grades all his exams by himself (homework, midterm and probably the final). For whatever reason he seems to be a likeable guy during the lecture but he absolutely "wrecks" the homeworks, etc. when he grades.

For example, if you make a little error he will put a huge X across the page or over the entire question. Absolutely massive. And sometimes he will circle a solution or step he does not understand and write ??????????? in red. Finally, this didn't happen to me but happened to a class mate of mine, he wrote "fail" on a question that had some problems with the solution. Now I remember he put "big problem" on one of my answers, taking out all marks, without further comment.

Also he sometimes do not thoroughly read through a question but just marks it wrong, then he changes the marking a few moments later i.e. he will write a huge X over the entire question and put a minus whatever the total points and then scratch out his reading mistake but leaves the huge X there. His marking is also uneven, sometimes he will put -5 for a question and then for whatever reason scratchs it out with a red pen and put -10.

(picture this, but imagine that the X is over your entire answer)

Honestly, I find that not just homeworks, but also emails. I think he has a way of overreacting to any little thing he doesn't see fit. For example, I asked him a simple question I had regarding some reference I found online which disagreed with his lecture. He said I need to review basic "insert course name here" because everything I said to him is totally wrong. Then I emailed him back telling him that the claim was contained in the link, by another professor. He just replied I should write my emails more clearly next time...what a guy.

By the way he never clarified that issue I emailed him about, which I think he believes is trivial and only tangetial to the course (he tends to cover only portions of his sum total lectures), but a question is a question even if it is not on the exam, isn't it?

Is his behavior reasonable? It just feels like he is on this power trip whenever he grades stuff. I am scared to approach him because I feel like he marked one of my question wrong after he wrote a huge X and probably discontinued to read my solution which was written on the back of the exam. What should I do?


texts: What typically happens when two or more professors from the same department want the same prospective PhD student?

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If a talented PhD applicant names (in their statement of purpose) two or three professors at a department that they'd like to work with, and this student is accepted by the department, with all of the named professors equally desiring to hire this student into their respective research groups, then what lands up happening, typically?

A coin toss?

Give the student to an academically younger prof.?


texts: Asked to write a Letter of Recommendation about myself

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I am a student applying to a graduate program. Part of the application requires submitting some letters of recommendation.
I asked a former professor whose class I enjoyed, but she surprisingly asked that I write one myself, send it to her, and she would sign and submit it. This feels disingenuous at best and fraudulent at worst.
Is this a common practice, or should I seek letters elsewhere?


texts: Is participating in professional meetings helpful from a CV point of view?

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My professional society (a physical sciences one), arrange an annual meeting where almost 10,000 people attend and almost one third of them present. The benefits of participating are overwhelming, but I was thinking whether or not such participation is useful on a CV, especially that what you present is not going to be published (although normally you present your work which is to be published or has just been published).

Note that this is a meeting, not a conference.

EDIT: by participating I mean presenting.


texts: Are there any decent online undergrad computer science degrees or courses

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To keep it short I already have a BS and MS in a physical science from decent schools.  I want to apply next year for a MS or PhD in ECE and thought I should get some formal programming on my transcript first.  I have only one intro class on there now.

I'm not having much luck finding any online courses that don't look like scams or poorly set up at best.  I was pretty excited to see that Oregon state is offering a post-bacc BS degree but the tuition is $600 a credit.

So I guess I'm looking for legitimate courses that aren't crazy expensive.  Is there anything else out there like the Oregon state program?  That's exactly what I'm looking for.


texts: Review asks me to demonstrate "what is the new thing done"; what should I write?

texts: The referee has asked to demonstrate ' what is the new thing done" so that the paper will be accepted. I feel, though the fundamental theory is same for the work, the experiment at various machine is carried out and result is being published. So what should i write to the journal for convincing the matter.


texts: How much does a FAIL grade in thesis credits affect PhD admission chances?

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I am doing an integrated BS-MS in Biological Science from an Indian university and currently am in the 6th (post-final!) year. In this MS part of the program, I am supposed to take a few grad level classes and mainly focus in research. I also need to pass 8 MS thesis courses (worth 3 credits each), in which my supervisor grades me on my research work that particular semester (I can take as many as 4 of them in one semester). The grade for this course is either S or X i.e. Satisfactory or Fail.

I took one of the 8 courses in the summer following my senior year. I worked very little and met my supervisor only 3 times in the term. As a result, I received the X grade in the thesis course. In the following semester (Fall), I took 3 MS thesis courses. My performance was better, I met him more often but according to him, it was not worth passing all 3 - he said it was only good enough to pass 1 of the 3 thesis courses. But since failing 3 thesis courses would have led to termination of my degree, he gave me pass grade for 2 of the 3 courses and cautioned me that another fail course would mean the end of the program for me.

After this, my performance research-wise has been good, I have been more regular. My relationship with my supervisor has also improved, although it could be much better. I have received a pass grade in all the remaining thesis courses and retook the 2 I had failed. Since I had not made enough progress in the one year, I continued my work further until it reaches a publishable position. I am finishing my second year this summer (6th year overall) and the work seems to be coming to an end.

I applied to for PhD positions at US universities last fall. When I asked my supervisor for recommendation, he said - "Ya, I will write one for you, but it won't be a glorious recommendation. I will mention what you did, your performance in my course...". Anyway, the results came out, and it was not good (1 accept out of 9).

(hope this was enough of a background!)

My question is - How much does an X grade in thesis research course (2 such, in my case) affect my PhD application. Are these thesis credits looked at closely? Such X grades are rare in my department, so I don't know how bad the situation is.

EDIT - I think this question is sufficiently different from others asking about a failed subject course. I am asking about failing thesis credits, which is different because a) these can be easily retaken and one can take as many as 4 of them in a semester and b) they directly corroborate with your research performance as opposed to normal courses.

I would be SINCERELY OBLIGED if someone could help me with this. It has been troubling me for months, and any answer towards this question/situation would be enormous for me!


texts: Would successive rejections of different papers by the same journal lower the probability of acceptance of the next submission to the same journal?

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I have tried to submit some of my papers on unrelated topics to a journal and gotten rejected, either desk rejection or rejection after peer review, by the journal. Recently I worked out a new paper and would like to submit it to this journal again.

The reasons for rejections have never been elementary ones, say "poor English" or "of poor quality" or something like these (I know all these reasons from my peers). For most of the time parlance such as "the results are not significant enough to warrant publication in ..." is the reason.

Then I would like to know: Does my records in that journal significantly affect the viewpoints of the editors on my current submission?


texts: Is there a website where people around the world can discuss research during writing?

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Authors and readers can discuss about the writing of authors including ideas, experience design, hypothesis etc., like what people discuss at stackoverflow, rather than authors only get feedbacks until publishing the paper after all work done.

I am wondering if there is any website for researchers around the world to discuss about their research.  (Thanks for Buffy.)

I know researchgate but it seems not for the purpose.

Thank you.


texts: Inquiring about the possibility of a job

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I am a fairly new Assistant Professor at a liberal arts university. I know from Facebook that a professor at my undergrad just retired and I specialize in some of the same classes this person taught. I would love to work at my undergrad.

Is it appropriate to email my former advisor and ask to be notified if/when they choose to fill that position? How should that email be phrased?

[I'm fairly certain that there hasn't been a search begun already for this position, so it may be even be a few years before one begins.]


texts: Is "working from home" a bad thing in academia?

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Is it a bad thing in academia if a student works from home? Missing department talks and seminars is obviously bad, but in case a student is pursuing a problem alone and he feels comfortable researching at home, is it viewed negatively? At times the time spent on travel and a crowded lab may disrupt one's flow of thoughts, so in those cases home provides an edge.

Is physical attendance deemed important by the department as long as they are kept in the loop regarding your progress?


texts: How would you write to your in-class team, that you are going to drop the class, leaving no hard feelings?

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We have a project to do with them but I don't have the time and am not sure if this email is appropriate for them. What do you think? I would greatly appreciate your advice.
Here is what I am thinking of sending them.
Hello guys,
Hope you having a good weekend
I’m writing to you to let you know that unfortunately and for personal reasons, I have to drop this class. I have sent an email to the professor, so he should be aware of it very soon.
I hope you understand, and I wish you guys all the best on the project.
Sincerely,


texts: How to cite a paragraph from a paper with a citation in it

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In my paper, I want to cite a paragraph from another paper that looks like this:

  Universities are an ideal target for attackers because they have high bandwidth and open systems.“A university is not a high security area,” says Andreas Pfitzmann, professor for data security at the Technische Universität, Dresden.

How can I do that citation?


texts: Undergraduate seeking advice about future career and working relationship with PI

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I am currently a second year undergraduate student at a public university in the US working in a lab run by a successful new PI who is on tenure track and is currently in their 3rd year at this university. I started working in this lab my first month of undergraduate, and have continued working ever since.

I am uncertain of whether or not I am cut out for research and feel like my time and skills are being taken advantage of. I was also wondering if I should continue to work here.

I'll briefly outline some examples below to make the situation clearer:

As a freshman, I was uncertain about course selection and I asked my PI for advice where I was told to take Class B over Class A. In hindsight, by taking Class A, I could have saved a year but now have to stay one more to get my degree.
I have been working a lot during the semester, between 40-80 hours/week. I spend the time on my own volition because I enjoy the work I do and learn a lot while keeping up with my coursework. However, my PI expresses disappointment when I don't keep up the same time commitment during weeks with midterms for instance, and I feel guilty that I can't do as much.
One stipulation that my PI gave me was that if I work for the lab for 2 summers, I would be given a recommendation and be able to do research with my PI's old advisor during the summer instead of a traditional REU or internship. My PI's postdoc advisor is very well known in the field and is also at a prestigious institution. I am unsure about the best way to ask for compensation during breaks such as summer for instance, and I am not being fully compensated compared to traditional REU students due to "lack of funding" or "investments already being made" in my research.
I have expressed doing REU's or internships instead of staying at my institution doing research with my PI, but when I ask for a recommendation letter the topic quickly changes, or my PI asks me to write it myself. To my surprise, my PI writes recommendation letters for other undergraduates in the lab applying to graduate school.
For the past year I was working on a project in which I was able to give a talk and two poster presentations at 2 large international society meetings. Ultimately, I was placed on another project and my old one was left to be determined and I'm left wondering where these projects would go. My PI has 2 PhD students, but they are also in their 3rd year and have not published at all yet. I am also wondering if I have to wait for them first before I can send my material off for publication.

I am conflicted at this point since I enjoy my research and it is in the field I would like to do my graduate studies in. I would like to have some compensation to cover at least housing or otherwise do an REU instead, however, most REU deadlines have passed. For clarification, I want a strong recommendation for wherever I apply, but it seems like it has to be on my PI's terms, in that I am being strongly pushed into working here instead of somewhere else.


texts: Accidentally submitted to predatory journal, did not pay fee, already online?

texts: I am a first time researcher and naively submitted to an OA predatory journal (on BEALL'S LIST) which requests a publishing fee. Having read the terms and conditions, there was no comment stating that I needed to pay if accepted for publication and did state that i retained copyrights to my work. My work was accepted and they requested the publication fee but I have now found that my work is already on their website without the fee being paid or me signing anything. Is there anyway to retract my work without being penalised?


texts: How to translate German "Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz"?

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I'm drafting a job offering for a paid PhD position at a German university. It's a temporary position, so it's offered under the terms of the Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, a German law that limits the number of years that people can be employed with temporary contracts by German universities and similar institutions.

As I wish to invite applications also from people whose first language is not German, I need an appropriate translation of Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz. Is there an official English translation of the title? If not, is "Law on Temporary Employment of Scholars and Researchers" an appropriate translation?


texts: How do I politely tell a student to take a shower?

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There's a student in my class who obviously has some serious body hygeine issues. To preface, this is a fairly packed class -- about 60 students in a small lecture room.  The class is about 2 hours long. The problem has been so bad that when the student comes up to ask a question the stench hits hard. The problem is so bad lately that in the past month, people will leave a seat distance away from this one person, even standing up for the entirety of the lecture just to avoid sitting next to this person when the only seats available are next to the person.

I don't know how to approach him and to ask that they take care of their body. Or will I be a prude if I do try to get him to shower? Maybe it's a unique body issue that he can't fix (unlikely), but I really want to solve this before exams come up, which are going to cause issues. No one has come up to talk to me privately about it but the problem is incredibly obvious.

What should I do?


texts: Can you submit to Arxiv without an institutional affiliation?

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I have recently taken an interest in Arxiv because of how easily accessible it is to the public and I've used it myself a few times. There is some work I want to submit to them which was not through an institution, but rather purely on my own.

I still wouldn't submit something unless I had feedback from others, so I am still having the content peer-reviewed by colleagues who would be willing to endorse the the article if they thought it was thorough. But, the problem is Arxiv specifically "requires" that I put an institution I am affiliated with for an article submission even though this work is not affiliated with any.

What should I put if I do not necessarily have an institutional affiliation? Does Arxiv accept anything that isn't through an institution?


texts: Can my old supervisor publish my work without my say so

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So I completed my PhD in Jan this year and have graduated. Since then I have left academia/research and ended up in a regular job I love despite it being something that is unrelated to my PhD. My supervisor and I have had a not great relationship, mostly down to my decision to leave research, which she views as a "waste of a PhD" according to people I know still working in her lab.
I was happy to let it all be in the past but three months ago she messaged (with a throwaway "hope you are well" but no attempt to ask how I was doing) and said I should publish some of my work to ensure I make the most of the time I spent getting my doctorate.
I initially said okay and have been working on it and pulling it together, but lately I have things going on in my personal life which needs more time and to be honest it's all taking its toll. Ive been looking at the publication as something that is sapping a lot of my time and energy and, despite my supervisors insistence, it's not critical to my future career success.
I tried to explain I have a lot on and this paper was taking a lower priority and they responded that I wrote my thesis when I started a new job so getting this done shouldn't be too taxing... The idea of commiting anymore time on my doctoral work is filling me with dread. I just want it to be over and my husband has noticed whenever I think about it because it's just like I receed.
So Im wondering can my supervisor force me to publish? Ive checked and apparently the IP belongs to the university, but my only other concern is if my supervisor decided to publish the work in my name (or without me as an author), could she actually do that?  That concerns me as I know the work has flaws in it (e.g. Low n numbers and unblinded assessments) so if it were to get published it would no doubt be in a low impact journal and I honestly wouldn't put it past her to assign the low quality of the paper (or the fact she couldn't answer questions on the research, because she hasn't been in a lab in 6 years) to me not assisting. The whole situation just has me a nervous wreck.
TLDR: after finishing a PhD can a former boss force you to publish? Or can they publish your work without your input or consent?


texts: What is Cumulative Impact Index of a journal?

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I recently came across the term "Cumulative Impact Index". I came to know about it here, which includes the statement, "publication of
5 International Journal papers, each Journal having a cumulative impact index of not less than 2.0".

I knew of peer-reviewed, but as this term was bit new I surfed the web and visited Impact Factor on Wikipedia, but it is still not clear.  Can any one of the learned members may kindly explain to me, preferably with an example?


texts: How to reply to reviewers on an unintentional wrong proof in my research paper?

texts: I submitted a research paper and the reply has come back. The reviewers are positive overall, but one of them pointed out a flaw in one of my proofs. This happened because I made a wrong assumption regarding the proof. Now I have found a way to get around this and have a better proof. How do I present that my previous proof was wrong, the reviewer was right in saying so, and that now I have a better one?


texts: How badly does failing a core class and retaking it hurt your chances at grad school programs?

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I'm sorry if this is in the wrong place.
I'm an undergraduate majoring in biology. I think, this semester, I'll fail a class on Statistics (the class is titled "Statistics for Life Sciences"). While I have the option this semester to use "Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory" and protect my GPA, this is nonetheless a failure that will show up on my transcript.
I know I messed up and I feel really bad... I could have taken an introductory Math class (an option available to those with only an AS Level in Mathematics) before taking this Statistics class and I stupidly chose not to (officially, an AS Level meets the prerequisite for this Statistics class, though most students taking it have a full A Level in Mathematics). But this is no excuse (it's officially allowed, and plenty of AS Math students succeed in this class) and I think in fact reflects worse on my judgement.  :(
I fully intend to retake this course (I can't not take it anyway; it's a core class, plus Statistics is important in Biology) and do much better in it.
How badly does this hurt my chances at a graduate school program in biology? Assuming my other biology-related classes are okay (A grades). I don't know how I'm going to explain it. I was hoping to take a research Master's, then a PhD. Am I screwed?
Thanks for any input and and have a nice day.


texts: Moving a detailed literature survey in Appendix to reduce size of chapter?

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In my dissertation, I am solving a problem by using techniques used to solve another problem. As a result, I have to do two literature surveys for both problems. I ended up with a huge chapter!  - most of it is basically a literature survey.

I do not want my examiners to hate me when they find a long thesis, but I don't want to get comments such as: "Why have you not considered the work of X in your survey?"

Is it a good practice to move part of this huge chapter's survey to an Appendix chapter, while keeping a section that speaks about the general approaches followed in the literature?


texts: PhD without compulsory publications hurting profile

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At the University of Cambridge, PhD students are not required to publish papers in order to be able to defend a thesis. One consequence of this is that some supervisors, especially in more experimental areas (e.g., some fields of biology), adopt a policy of deferring all publications until after the end of the PhD, to suck up as much of their students' time as possible for lab work.

This has a detrimental effect on the PhD's career: at the end of the PhD, he/she cannot apply to most positions since virtually all of them require publications. So the student must convince the supervisor to leave extra time for publishing during the thesis, and some supervisors are clearly against it.

In such situations, what can the PhD student do? In theory, if there was postdoc funding available for the student immediately after the thesis, this could be allocated for publishing the accumulated results, but this is not the case.

Is there a way to pressure the university to require such publications, to minimize the amount of "paying technician"1 work? How can PhD students change this perverse incentive system?

1At Cambridge, PhD students in such fields end up paying to work (as technicians), instead of being paid to work, which is a huge incentive for supervisors to keep the status quo.


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We are thinking about a joint submission to Physical Review Letters, and PRA per these guidelines. I'm however not entirely sure how the two submissions should be exactly related, e.g. how much overlap the works may have.

Does anybody have some insights here? Or just a few example papers that have been jointly published like this.


texts: Citing an article under a double-blind review process

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This is my case: I've recently co-authored and sent an article to a journal that follows a double-blind review process, so that reviewers shouldn't be able to know the name of the authors. ---I mean, I (as the corresponding author) am responsible for hiding any authoring information to them.

Now I am writing another paper and I want to cite the article that is under double-blind review.

So, it is not only that I should add the typical "under review" label when citing that article, but moreover I can't give any information about the article that may spoil the double-blind process. For instance, if I add the name of the authors and the name of the journal it was sent to, then I can't include the title of the article (because it could happen that the citing article is sent for reviewing to one of the blind reviewers of the first article, or that it is even published before the first one...).

Anyway... How can/should I cite an article that is under review by a journal that follows a double-blind review process without potentially revealing too much information?? How is this problem usually solved?

I must say that I usually publish pre-prints as technical reports, but I didn't do it this time, in order not to reveal any information that could be accessed by the blind reviewers.

EDIT:

I was thinking about putting this label instead of the title of the cited article: "[Title is omitted to protect the double-blind review process]". But I still have some doubts. If I mention the name of the journal it was sent to, could the article be potentially recognized by the blind reviewers?


texts: How to prevent being intimidated by juniors in your group publishing before you

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I am working towards my PhD for 2.5 years now. A few of the students who joined after me under my advisor have recently published in top-tier conferences. Though I have worked pretty closely with them and mostly have been involved in troubleshooting their problems while they were conducting experiments or studying for those papers.

I am very happy for them and have nothing against them, but when I see that I don't have a single publication to my name, I get a bit depressed. Earlier, this used to give me motivation and my killer instinct just made me work harder. But as the time has passed, I feel demotivated. My advisor still considers me amongst his best students. Mostly, I didn't publish my work till now because I didn't find it doing justification to my expectations. And I wanted to send it to a top-tier journal which would require extensive evaluation and mathematical rigor, which I am still working upon.

Is it common to be intimidated by such such situations and what is the best way  to overcome the feeling that you haven't done anything.

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I have a lot work but unable to overcome this feeling when every few months, someone gets a paper accepted to a conference.
I am reluctant in sending papers to conferences since I am a self sponsored student and also not full time. So I want to utilize the funds available to me judiciously. The conferences won't fund me since there's a rider of being a full time student.


texts: Tactful way to discuss an error in a published paper

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I am currently working on my masters thesis in mathematical biology. The work I am doing extends previous work by introducing new biological findings that are relatively recent.

Initially the plan was to take the models in an early paper in the field, reproduce the results, and apply my extensions. But, after a fair bit of work I discovered an error in a model which was bad enough that I couldn't continue to use it as a basis for further work.

This paper is significant in the field (lots of citations, good journal, respected author etc, etc). The error I spotted does have a significant effect on some parts of the analysis. But, to be perfectly honest it's not exactly a world shaking discovery - the original purpose of the paper was to convince researchers in this field that certain mechanisms were plausible and shouldn't be over looked and it certainly did that.

Now, because I found this error, the path of my thesis has taken quite a turn. I've had to propose my own model, perform a similar analysis as the paper, and then apply my extension. In other words I've had to redo a non-negligible amount of the authors work in order to do my intended work.

Discussing the error is important for motivating the extra work I've done. How can I do this tactfully? What is fair to say, and what should I avoid saying? What kind of language should I use? Should I avoid mentioning it altogether?


texts: difference between symposium and workshop?

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I am not sure if it is too naive, but can anyone please let me know the difference between a symposium and a workshop.

I aim to submit my paper to a conference where call-for-paper is for the symposium and workshop both. I cannot understand where I should submit this paper.

Where are the chances of getting submission more? and what are the criteria in both?


texts: How acceptable are self-citations? I noticed that my advisor cites his own work quite much, even when the cited articles are not directly related, e.g. type of analysed data is different. Actually, I did not notice this myself - it was pointed out by a reviewer (I authored my first paper with him just now). Looking at his citation records, I found out that he has papers with about 15 citations, of which about ~10 are typically from himself. Our field existed before my grandmother was born, so I'm a little alerted.. This puts the offer to do a PhD with himself to a new light.


texts: What are the different roles between a program committee member and reviewer?

texts: Does someone know what are the different roles between a Program Committee (PC) member and Reviewer for conferences (e.g., in the field of machine learning)?


texts: Are reviewers required to check for originality?

texts: Suppose a person writes a research paper without doing a complete literature survey, and sends it to a peer-reviewed journal. Assume that the results in question have been obtained before by someone else.  Is it mandatory for journal editors to check the novelty? If not and if the editors also don't know about the pre-existence of this research, then who is liable for the aftermath?


texts: Found a severe error in a conference paper after presentation but before the proceedings

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I am a final year undergraduate student and had worked on a very fundamental project(there is no available literature on this field presently) during my sophomore year. The results obtained were quite interesting but there was no available literature to back up my results. My supervisor suggested me to submit it to a conference and get reviews on the work.

I did the same and when I submitted the final paper, I got a strong accept with quite positive feedback. I presented the paper at the conference and was also appreciated by my conference chair who said that it was an interesting finding. However, while working on the journal version recently, I discovered a severe error in my paper which completely invalidated the claims I had made in my work.

The conference was highly reputed and delegates from all over the world were present. I feel really ashamed of presenting the wrong work at such a big stage. I discussed this with my supervisor and he told me that we will decline for publication by stating the reason when they will send the copyright form for inclusion in the digital proceedings. This gave me a sense of relief.

However, I cannot stop thinking about having presented the wrong work and seems like I should not have gone for it in the first place. Please suggest me what should I do. I have a deep interest in research but I am in constant fear that my habit of premature celebration will land me into trouble someday.


texts: International Code of Ethics for order of co-authors in research papers

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In many cases it so happens that multiple workers are involved in a research problem under the supervision of group leader. We will assume that group leader is the corresponding author of a manuscript. Now, I have the following queries:

Who will decide who the first author will be? I am talking about a scenario when all the co-authors are PhD holders. If there is a dispute, who has to resolve and how?
Who decides the sequence of co-authors in the manuscript, first author or corresponding author? Is there any international code of ethics in this regard?
Again, we have to assume that it is practically impossible to quantify the contributions of respective co-authors in a well-funded, well-qualified research group. And qualification sometimes comes along with ego. How can the corresponding author decide that the second co-author has contributed more than the third co-author, and the ordering will not change (whosoever had decided based on point 2)?


texts: Coming up with an activity to replace a quiz

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I will be teaching my first Calculus I class this fall (USA) and 5 percent of the grading is discretionary. Other sections are doing three quizzes over the course of the semester, with each taking about 10 minutes. The quizzes are on limits, derivatives, and integrals, one for each topic.

I don't want to have quizzes or extra homework or make the 5 percent depend on participation or attendance. I was considering making a quiz-style activity that would be less stressful than taking an actual quiz, but I'm having trouble seeing what this would be like. By "quiz-like," I mean that it would be part of the 5 percent for the grade, which is worth more than a homework assignment.

Ideally I'm imagining a situation where two students work together, maybe even at the board, to solve the problems that otherwise would be presented as a quiz. But then there are issues with grading (two students share the grade?), or possibly cheating (looking over to the board of the neighbor group). It would still need to be around 10 minutes.

I'm open to new ideas about what this could be like. I'm not entirely against quizzes, it's just that the workload is heavy in this class and a quiz would be something else that students could obsess over.


texts: What are the average salaries for the steps of an academic career in Italy (RTDa, RTDb, Associate Professor, Full Professor)? In the vacancy announcements that I've seen, this information was not included. Are there any tables containing this information? Are the salaries or bonuses individually negotiated or fixed nation-wide?


texts: How to cite where names are not of [firstName lastName] form, in particular patronymic?

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In academia in the US, the dominant name format is [firstName lastName]. And in APA citation format you typically cite by referring to the last name. So e.g. if John Doe wrote a paper in 2014, you might cite it as Doe (2014).

More generally you'd cite by referring to the family name. So e.g. if the Chinese basketball player Yao Ming wrote a paper in 2014, you would cite it as Yao (2014), since Yao is his family name and Ming is his given name. But there is typically no confusion anyway, because when East Asians publish in Western academia, they simply give in to Western convention and reverse the order of their names. So Yao Ming would typically simply have his name printed as  Ming Yao. And so we're back to the [firstName lastName] format and there is no confusion.

My question is: What about patronymics? E.g. if Osama bin Laden writes a paper in 2014, should he be cited as Osama (2014) or bin Laden (2014)? It seems that unlike with East Asians, people with patronymic names have been less inclined to give in to Western convention and reverse the order of their names. So his name would still appear as Osama bin Laden  on the title page.

Suppose I notice that everyone simply cites his paper as bin Laden (2014). (Indeed, in the real world, this is how Western media outlets often refer to this historical figure, even though this makes as much sense as referring to George W. Bush as simply George.) If I want to cite this paper, should I simply follow what is now the convention and cite it as bin Laden (2014), even though this is mistaken? Or should I cite it as Osama (2014), at the risk of my peers having no idea which paper I am talking about? What is or should be the proper convention?

Note that this 'problem' is not limited to Muslim names. Even in Europe there are e.g. Icelandic names. There are also some cultures where people go by a single given name (i.e. no last name/family name/surname) but which may sometimes be composed of more than one word (e.g. sometimes in Mongolia, Burma, South India, Indonesia).


texts: Pursuing the field of computational physics professionally with a physics PhD

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Please let me know if I should migrate this question elsewhere if it is inappropriate for this site.

This fall, I will begin my PhD program in physics at Johns Hopkins, and I would like to continue my education in theoretical condensed matter physics with a strong emphasis on computational methods.

As an undergraduate, I took Computational Physics I and II (grad level courses) and I absolutely loved them. In particular, I enjoyed the process of doing pen-and-paper theoretical calculations and turning those results into code from scratch. Note the latter part: many computational physics groups utilize packages like LAPACK in their work, but I'm not a fan of that; I'm a fan of writing my own code. I guess you could say I enjoy coding, just as much as I enjoy doing theoretical calculations. Additionally, I have been doing research in computational condensed matter physics for two years now. The conclusion has been a robust, multi-layered MD code for correlated systems that is super fast. The process of developing the code and seeing how physical calculations can turn into simulated observables was amazing.

Having enjoyed the field of computational physics, I'd like to pursue it professionally and end up with a career in industry regarding this field. As such, I would like to master it! My problem is that I don't know how. First, there aren't that many classes focusing on computational methods at my university. Second, there aren't many condensed matter physicists at my school who actively write their own code (if they are computational people, they use already-built packages for massive simulations). To me, it seems like becoming an expert in computational physics would be more of a self-taught situation. If so, how can I ensure I get a comprehensive overview of the subject and adequately educate myself?

In general, I'd like your expert recommendations as to what I can do to professionally develop myself in the field of computational physics.


texts: How did graduate schools come into existence?

texts: When did universities start to segregate their certifications into undergraduate degrees (bachelors) graduate programs (master's and doctorates)?  More importantly, why did this separation occur?  What prompted the need for separate levels of certification in academic settings?


texts: I am an editor for a lousy paper and I found a better algorithm than theirs. Must I share it with them?

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I am handling a paper as an associate editor that proposed an algorithm that I find to be weak.  In fact, I was able to show that a very simple, brute-force approach actually has a better running time than their algorithm.  Therefore, I will recommend rejecting this paper.  Do I have an obligation to share my proof that the brute-force running time is better?  I want the higher-level editors to have confidence in the rejection, but it also occurs to me that I might be able to improve my own result and publish it independently.  Is this a violation of ethics?

UPDATE:  Well this certainly took off!  I would like to add the following:

The overwhelming consensus is that it would be unethical for me to "scoop" the other authors, so I will not do that. The advice from all is greatly appreciated.
The journal is the top in its field, so we have to be extremely selective. The problem proposed is fairly interesting, but overall the paper does not meet our threshold.
When I say that brute force is better than their method, I mean it in a provable, big O sense.
The authors' proposed scheme is not only inefficient, it is written in a very confusing way. In fact, I asked them to compare their approach to brute-force as a way of helping them clarify their argument, and they did a bad job of it, which is what led me to look into it in the first place.
The fact that brute force performs better than their scheme is not totally trivial because it relies on a combinatorial argument that is not amazing, but not completely obvious either.
I will share my proof with the Editor in chief, but I have decided not to give it to the authors; I will consider publishing independently in the future if their work ever appears elsewhere.
Their paper is not on arXiv or any other website.


texts: Giving up good position because of studies

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I earned my Bachelor Degree in Computer Science 5 years ago. From the moment when I have a diploma in my hands, I thought, enough I never return to academia, no matter what happens. I was very keen to start working.

By the moment I changed few workplaces. I wanted to try all kind of positions that computer science man can get. All my positions were not very interesting. I wouldn't say I became very experienced programmer, I have some experience, but I don't have a field I am good at, and actually I am not too worried about that. The main problem I think is I don't feel that I do something useful or something challenging, actually, I feel that I waste my time. I do my job, but I don't feel I contribute to myself.

Few years ago I realized that may be it's worth returning to academy. Simply, just because I remember it wasn't boring. I sent few application letters to few good universities in my country, but they didn't apply me. There were universities that just refused without any explanation, and in few of them I fault in interview.

In this situation, I decide if no official program is allowed, I can just take few courses of Master Degree in any university. The result of my first course was very terrible, I think I was the worsen student on the course. But afterward there was a gradually improvement in the grades (I never took the same course twice). This year again I sent few application letters with my grades, and I was applied by all universities.

The problem is by now I have a very good position in very successful start-up company. The position is very hard and almost all the time in the office I am under a high pressure, but of course, there are benefits of a successful start-up company, fast promotion, investment, but still I have a feeling that I am doing something wrong.

I don't have a decision yet, either postpone my studies or give up good position. Have you found yourself in a similar situation, when you have give up a lot, just because you want to do something you was dreaming about? Particularly, have you gave up you job for studies, and do you regret about your decision?

tl;dnr: A few years ago, I didn't like my computer programming job.  I was good enough at it, but the job wasn't very challenging and didn't offer much room for personal growth.  I felt like I was wasting my time. Even though I had sworn that I never would, I applied to grad school.  I was not accepted as a full-time student, so I just started taking classes as a non-degree student.  Initially I did badly, but over a few years I improved.  Recently, I was admitted to grad school.  But by now I have a great job in a fast-paced startup.  So I'm torn about whether to quit my job to return to school.  What do you suggest?


texts: As a supervisor, what feedback would you expect from a PhD who quits?

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I’m quitting my PhD. The decision has been made. The reasons boil down to diminished interest in the research subject and disappointment with the university’s managerial practices (nothing is done on time or well). A while ago I informed my supervisor about these concerns and gave him the heads up that I may be leaving after a period of self reflection. He found my concerns justified and made reasonable adjustments, what was within his power, but it finally rained down on me that no matter what I won’t pull forward the PhD.

We have an amiable professional relation and I’m sure he may be interested in knowing what went wrong and when. I also want to diminish the blow as I suspect he had put lots of hope on my research, not to mention that I was his first PhD student and my departure will be a hindrance to his tenure. He also has a bit of an ego which I'd rather keep appeased (This is in Europe, in one of the countries with more hierarchy-based academic systems.)

In hindsight, what concrete information would an experienced academician expect to get from a PhD who is leaving?


texts: What are some good ways to take a break during the academic workday?

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Solving research problems is hard. After a while I feel mentally spent. I want to be as productive as possible but I don't know of many good ways to "recharge my batteries" after I have been thinking hard.

I have tried taking walks but in the winter it is snowy and cold outside. I have tried socializing with my colleagues but I find it hard to focus when I get back to work. I have tried switching to easier tasks (like email) but that doesn't seem to recharge my energy levels much.

What are some good ways to take a break so that I can come back to my work refreshed, energetic and enthusiastic?


texts: Should I send follow-up email one week after post-doc interview if interviewer said they will make decision in "week or two"?

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I had an interview with an UK Institute for my postdoc application last week. At the end of the interview, the PI told me that they will make the decision in a week or two. However, I googled online and I found articles which state that UK Institutes usually make their decisions in two or three days. If you don't hear anything beyond a couple of days, it basically means you are rejected.

I am nervous now. I understand the PI said they will make the decision in a week or two and until today, a week's only past. However, would it hurt my application if I send an email to follow up the decision process? For example, could I send an email to the secretary to ask about the decision process?


texts: Is it acceptable to postpone my admission in a PhD program for a year?

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In my country, we have to do a year of military service after graduating. The service starts in January. If I applied for a PhD program and get accepted, I won't know till March or April, after I have entered the service. Will the university accept postponing my admission for another year?

I will apply before the service, in case I get excused.


texts: How to write a review for a strong paper?

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I was asked by Program Committee members to be a sub-reviewer for some papers related to my research. The PC members are big shots and I really want to impress them.

It is easy to write a review if I can discover weaknesses in the paper. However, if the paper is strong or I am unable to find any weaknesses, I feel my review is useless.

Unlike the flaws, the authors tend to repeat and highlight their contributions. So my review is just rephrasing the contributions and how I am impressed by them.

If I'm unable to give any suggestions to improve the approach or the narrative of the paper, what should I do to write a good review? How to show the PC members that I didn't just skim through the contributions, and agreed with the authors (strong papers are often written by well-known researchers)?


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My professor is extremely busy and has still not send the letter (application deadline was 15 Dec).

What can I do here? I am mailing him polite reminders and he is very willing to help but unfortunately very bad managing his time.

This letter is crucial. Should I contact the department letting them know or something? I am getting desperate.


texts: Is it possible to do a PhD in one field along with a bachelor's degree in another field, all at the same time?

texts: I have an MBBS (Medicine bachelor and bachelor of surgery) degree and I am currently doing my master's in biotechnology and planning to move on to a PhD in the same (or a very closely related) field, Meanwhile I am very eager to study theoretical physics and I was initially planning to get going on it right after the PhD. But, for time purposes, is it possible to do both simultaneously?Is it applicable/ practical?


texts: How much cost a graduate student to a supervisor?

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In order to hire a certain number of student in an office, I was wondering how much should one supervisor should think about the money involved. To restrict the answer, I'd like to focus in a biology program in a Canadian university.

Beside the stipends (which can be very different depending on the country or the university), what is the "basic" cost of the activity in which a student would need to develop professionally.

By basic cost, I would for example say, paying for conferences, fees of the equipment needed (laboratory accessories, computer, field equipment, office supplies, etc.), cost of publication or any activity you deem necessary to put.


texts: How to find out the first name of a professor whose home page lists only first initial?

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This is probably a soft question. I am interested in complex analysis, and I want to ask the first name of this person, S. Ponnusamy, whose name I wish to mention in a paper.

What is the best way to go about asking such stuff?


texts: How is the training for MS students different from MBA students?

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How do universities train MBA students differently from MS students? Statistics and quantitative reasoning are vital parts of the MBA as analytics have become crucial to many aspects of business. In what sense does an MS in Statistics have better training in analytics than an MBA?
How do MBAs add value to a person's career? Is their broad (if not deep) command of statistics, economics, finance, etc., the reason behind their astronomical salaries? Is there specific training that makes them 'managerial'? If yes, what is that training?


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I used to use this website to get the research papers that are not freely available online. So, passing the right name of any research work for this Russian website will derive the paper directly to your browser in Pdf format.

I used this website for the last 2 years when I was doing my Masters in Jordan. Now, I am doing PhD in Germany, So is it known this website in this region ? is it legal to explore or download the results?


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We are preparing a manuscript to be submitted to a peer-reviewed international journal. We have an author that contributed significantly to our research work in which we would like to include her as a first author of our manuscript. The main problem is that she doesn't have an affiliation.

Our question is to advise us please under what institution should she be affiliated?
Can we list her as a first author without an affiliation?
What type of institutions other than research centers and universities could  generally be listed as an affiliation on a research paper?

Thanks a lot!


texts: Why there isn't provision for writing comment on published articles like social media?

texts: Although there is system for writing comments on an article by proper submission through editorial system. But sometime, we feel need of commenting on article like; the content is very good or content is lacking in certain aspect etc. I think, if there is provision of writing comment directly on the online published copy of article, it would be very useful for both the author and the readers.


texts: Is it wise to mention any personal struggle in a statement of purpose (for doctrate program)?

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If there is a gap in my CV, or perhaps an anomaly due to some personal struggle, is it worth explaining the situation? Or just not saying anything in the SOP?

If one was perhaps wrongfully accused or terrorism/murder or suffered depression? which forced them to take a year out.

On one hand it can demonstrate resilience on the other hand it might be negative.


texts: The order of Aims, Objectives, and Research Question in the grant proposal application

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What should be the order of my Research Questions, Aim, and Order in response to the following section. The order that looks logical to me is Research Question => Aim => Objective . Any suggestion?

Aims and Objectives (up to 100 words): Please state what the proposed project intends to achieve, what the achievements will look like, and what tangible activities and benefits are expected. This may
include a statement of research questions, if appropriate.

The manner that looks natural to me is the following. Any suggestions?

Research Question

This is the research question that has intrigued me.

Aim

This is my aim that I want to achieve.

Objective

This is Obj 1 that I will deliver.
This is Obj 2 that I will deliver.


texts: Can research experience in one subject area be relevant to applying to a master's in a different subject area?

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I'm a computer science undergraduate student at a Canadian university, going into my second year this September. I am interested in going to graduate school in the future.

I don't know specific topic of computer science that I want to study in graduate school yet, but so far I have been looking into human computer interaction. I've been trying to speak to faculty in my department about research opportunities but none of their areas are in human computer interaction, rather their research is in computer science education. (I'm not exaggerating when I say that all of the computer science faculty is on education because the university I go to is new and the department isn't huge, but nonetheless it's a chance to know your professors more).

Anyway, I was thinking, if I do have a lot of research in computer science education and I apply for a graduate program that isn't computer science education (eg human computer interaction) how sufficient is my experience?


texts: How to identify studies that should be replicated?

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In psychology voting on which studies should be replicated is established on a website. The ReplicationWiki (that I founded) offers a voting option for studies in economics and related fields, but it is not yet used much. I already saw a couple of questions on specific papers here in the academia stack, in the cross validated stack (c1, c2, c3), and in the quantitative finance stack, and added the studies to the wiki and a link to questions here (1, 2, 3, c1, c2, c3, quant).

There are many other places where such questions on replication of specific studies can be found, e.g., in the forums for specialized software (d). To get further suggestions I would like to know if you have already replicated studies yourself or with your students. What would you think would be a mechanism that motivates to share such experience and help to identify the studies that should be replicated? And the replications that are already available somewhere but not yet listed in the wiki? Where would be the right place to ask?