texts: How should I deal with a professor whose weak language proficiency is disturbing our paper's writing quality?

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I am a first year PhD Student, writing a conference paper with an Italian Professor, very senior and renowned in our field. Every commit he makes to the SVN is riddled with spelling and grammar errors. I have been fixing the errors and also trying to improve the expression but I have this impression he is not very happy about me doing it. (Maybe something to do with him having dozens of publications and me having a total of Zero)

On occasion, he actually reverted my changes to stick with his wrong or inferior-quality expression. How to deal with this? I would hate to see this paper go with an inferior quality language when I could have improved it.


texts: A professor I know is becoming head of department, do I send congratulations or condolences?

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I don't know much more about the transition - only that the professor is becoming the new head effective [date], and that they have the support of the department.
Do I send congratulations (because it's a promotion) or condolences (because apparently some professors don't actually want the promotion, and only become the head of department reluctantly)?
Edit: what about the outgoing head of department? I clearly shouldn't send condolences in that case, but should I send congratulations?


texts: What is the best way to merge subfigures and convert to a required format for submission to a journal?

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I'm currently preparing a paper for publication and so trying to construct the figures. I'm finding it more difficult than making figures for a report mainly because journals expect one figure file for each figure, regardless of whether it contains subfigures or not. This leads to some problems/hurdles:

I can't use LaTeX's \subfig package, so I have to manually place an (a), (b) and (c) on the figure and keep track of the caption if the ordering of these changes.
Journals' rules about figure submission vary quite a lot, some can take pdfs, some want vector graphics, others raster.
I have to somehow merge the output from various programs into a single file; for example diagrams made with Tikz make up the same figure as a graph plotted with python's matplotlib.
With having to merge subfigures in such a way, my workflow becomes quite convoluted if I have to modify one of the subfigures, and then regenerate the single figure file.


texts: How do I reference the Python programming language in a thesis or a paper?

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I'm writing a scientific article and a dissertation in biology, for which I used Python for simulations. Some people in our department, especially the "non-computer-people", don't know what Python is, so I want to reference something helpful. Open-Source scientific tools such as CellProfiler usually tell you how to reference them, but Python doesn't.

How is the Python language properly referenced? Are there any articles in journals available I could link to?


texts: Is this ethical and what recourse do I have?

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My nursing instructor thought I was taking drugs while at clinical within ear shot of patient I just helped. Teacher made a comment about me shooting up drugs. She also caused embarrassment by throwing up her arms after asking me to take a drug screen and made comments where staff and other students could easily hear.

I was not on any drugs. Another teacher lied for this teacher when I had meeting regarding first teacher. The teacher who lied gave me a passing grade on a procedure, said I did very well. There is documentation that teacher passed me on procedure. She never said anything to anybody about me being under the influence. She allowed me to work with sharp objects and then drive.

Several days later, the day of the meeting regarding the first teacher, this teacher wrote a letter saying I was not capable of performing simple math, slurring my speech, and being high. How can she get away with this obvious lie? The letter she wrote was about my open lab performance--which she gave me a passing grade for.


texts: Does anybody link the compete work in Arxiv?

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Here is the scenario, can you give me your idea about 2 things?

A conference paper is published, you submit it to ArXiv. You journalize the paper (with a modified title and added material) and publish it.

A) Should you get a new arXiv link for it?

Let's assume you get a new arXiv link for it.

B) Can you update the fist ArXiv submission and indicate in the first page, in the footnote, that the complete work has been published in a journal and is available in the second arXiv link?


texts: How to translate foreign-language theses into English?

texts: i found many papers and thesis written in different languages than English, mainly Portuguese and Chinese. is there an efficient way to benefit from these papers and thesis instead of translating them using Google translate.


texts: Developing a framework publication - if I have developed a new method for data extraction, can this be published in a peer-reviewed journal?

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I'm new to publications, so I could use some advice.
I study in the area of agricultural remote sensing, and for a graduate degree, I have developed a method of extracting data from research plots and processing it, with the ultimate goal of looking for statistical differences between breeding plots. This was done in order to create a process for people to follow who are looking to use remote sensing to enhance crop breeding.
As this would be considered a multiple-step 'framework' for data extraction that others could follow, can this be published in a peer-reviewed journal? Using this framework, I have extracted data and have found significant relationships with ground-measured data, indicating that remotely-sensed data can potentially be used to identify certain plant traits. My concern is that since this isn't a traditional "method-based" publication, it might not get published. However, I do have many statistics that were generated as a result of using my newly-developed framework, so there is a lot of statistical analysis that can be included.
Bottom line: Can such a manuscript be published?


texts: Joining a group for PhD, how do I judge the atmosphere before I sign?

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I am looking to start a PhD project soon and I have almost decided on the group in which I will apply. But I know that I am a very sensitive person when it comes to any work atmosphere. I have to feel comfortable where I don't work alone in the corner of a room for 4 years.

What are telltale signs of the academic work atmosphere? When I visit the group with the professor, will he let me ask questions to students already there? What should I ask and to whom?


texts: GitHub repository ownership as a PhD student in a lab

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I'm a PhD student and use GitHub to track and share code for nearly all of my research projects, most of which are largely coding-based work in the field of remote sensing.
Our lab is discussing how to best keep track of all the software related projects we do. I generally start and manage projects where I'm first author under my own GitHub account. I recently started a organization account for our lab and I have a repository in there that is basically just a README listing everyone's projects and links to them. We also have this information on our lab website.
I'm considering the pros and cons of having projects owned by the lab account, but I am leaning somewhat away from this, because most of these projects are individually maintained by students or lab technicians and it seems fairer to have them get credit on their own accounts. But we all want the lab to get credit and for people to know certain tools were developed within and supported by our lab.
Anyway, I'm just curious what other labs do and to get a feel for best practices here.


texts: Chance of applying as a prospective PhD student in semesters

texts: Is it usual that the chance for a PhD student that aims to apply for the second semester of the educational year (i.e. spring semester) and sends his/her application for professors may be  lesser than who want to apply via connection with professors for the first semester in an educational year (i.e. autumn semester)? In other words, does volumes of accepted PhD students in the autumn semester influence on reduction of acceptance rate and opportunity for a Prospective PhD student who aims to apply in the next spring semester or each semester has its own capacity for accepting PhD students?


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I am a computational scientist and I often find myself much more productive when working with others with resonating mind. When working alone, my motivation level is lower, distracted more easily, and I feel the progress is slower. However, in academic jobs, I often hear that it is important to show that you are an independent researcher.

Q1. What are the defining properties of an independent researcher?
Q2. How can I show that I am independent?
Q3. I like working in
teams, is academia (esp faculty in research university) not a good
career path for me? (I could think independently, but I could do
better with others, so why be independent?)


texts: How does making notes of what you read help you in research/teaching?

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I have always refrained from making notes from my childhood. But now, my adviser wants me to make notes of what I study saying that it would be very beneficial for me in future. So, following his advice, I started making notes. But it turns out that it is quite boring and time consuming. And I feel that even if I want to look into something later, I can look it directly from a book. So, my questions are:

How does making notes help you in your research or possibly teaching?
What other pros/cons are there?


texts: Unable to present my accepted paper in conference. Can I now submit the paper to another conference?

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My one technical paper was recently accepted for one international conference.
But, unfortunately, I am not able to attend as the Conference dates are conflicting with my official assignments. I intimated the Conference about my inability to attend. On my request, the conference acknowledged that they will not publish my paper to their Journals/proceedings. (I have the full set of email communications with the conference secretariat.)

I wish to submit the same paper for an IEEE conference. Is there any issue? Please advise.


texts: How can one reference the unnumbered page of a book or thesis before page 1?

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I am reading a thesis that was printed from a microfilm copy. It is arranged like this:

Abstract...........................(3 pages with no page number)
Acknowledgements...................pages i-ii.
Table of contents and figures......pages iii-xvii.
Chapter 1..........................pages 1-18.

I want to cite inline in the ([LASTNAME] 1972:[PAGE]) format something from the abstract pages that is not said as well and explicitly elsewhere in the thesis.

This is quite unusual, is there a standard way of citing a page appearing before page i?


texts: Doing a PhD while being unable to travel due to disability

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I’m starting a PhD but I’m disabled and can’t travel. This means I won’t be able to present my work at conferences. Has anyone had experience this? Will it negatively impact on my research?

My tutor is aware but I’ve already had a sponsorship declined because I can’t travel to training courses.
(I agree that the rejection is unlawful but as I'm only just starting out I cannot risk offence.)

My intention is to publish work. I can never travel far from where I live. I'm aiming to work either in my local university or local industry. Networking and conferences just isn't possible. They would have to come to me. It's a shame because I'd love that aspect but I'm working within my limitations and trying to change my life.


texts: Conference proceeding in a regular issue of a journal (pros and cons)

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I am a graduate student considering submitting a paper either to Bioinformatics as a typical refereed journal article or to Bioinformatics as a refereed conference proceeding. A webpage providing information about submitting as a refereed conference proceeding (https://www.iscb.org/ismb2018-submit/proceedings) states the following:

"Accepted papers will be published as conference proceedings in an open access, online-only, section of a regular issue of the Bioinformatics journal with an electronic version distributed to conference delegates. The proceedings will be available online approximately one month prior to the conference opening."

and

"Publication of the proceedings as an online part of the Bioinformatics journal will result in fully citable articles, indexed by Medline and ISI. See the conference proceedings for https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/33/14/i1/3953992 for an example of online-only publication by Oxford University Press."

As a graduate student preparing for a career in academia, I am unsure whether I should submit my work as a typical refereed journal article or a refereed conference proceeding. I generally feel that conference proceedings have less impact, but in this case, I would also be able to present my work orally at the conference.

Moreover, I am unsure how I would handle such a conference proceeding publication on my CV in an honest manner. Could it still be included as a "refereed journal article" on my CV or would it need to go as something else like a "refereed conference proceeding". I am unclear as the statement "Accepted papers will be published as conference proceedings in an open access, online-only, section of a regular issue of the Bioinformatics journal" seems to imply it can be considered a regular refereed journal article.

I would be grateful to hear any advice on this subject matter!


texts: Ethics of not including a contributor as coauthor?

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Someone (call him Peter) contributed to part of a paper I've written.
 This occurred over the course of numerous emails (we've never met in person). I am including those results in the paper, and Peter is aware of this.  I asked Peter multiple times to be coauthor but he never responded to that request. I'm ready to submit the paper now.

(1) Can I submit the paper? I should be able to add Peter as coauthor if he   responds while the paper is being reviewed.

(2) Do I have to submit the paper with Peter's name, or can I submit with a a simple acknowledgement?


texts: Is it rude to call a professor by their last name with no prefix in a non-academic setting?

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I always address my professors as "Professor [Last Name]" in an academic setting. However, in an non-academic setting such as running into them out and about, would it be considered rude to say "Hi [Last Name]!" to greet them?

Would it be better to address them by their first name even if you have never used it before, or always prefix their last name with Professor?


texts: Getting a recommendation letter from a professor at the same university

texts: What do graduate programs think of positive and strong recommendation letters from a professor at the same university? Are they valued more than letters from other universities?


texts: How should I inform my advisor about struggles with Aspergers syndrome?

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Although similar questions have been asked before, I hope this is not a duplicate as I'm not asking about whether I should inform my advisor (that's already decided), but how and when to do it.

My situation is a little different than most in that I'm a biology major, and hoping to study autistic spectrum disorders for grad school. Aspergers almost became my "special interest" in a way, and so I'm trying to incorporate that into my work. Under these circumstances, I would expect my advisor to be a little more sympathetic to my condition. However, because I'm not officially her grad student yet (doing a summer project before lab rotations in her lab, with the possibility to become a permanent student made clear), I'm not sure exactly when to tell her. Specifically, should I do it before or after officially joining the lab? I'm leaning towards before since if any problems arise because of this, I'd like to know beforehand and seek out other advisors. But I'm wondering if this could also create an awkward situation since she can't legally discriminate me?

Also, how much should I disclose about my struggles? Should I be matter of fact and just state that I have this disorder (assuming she understands the implications), or actually outline some of my challenges.


texts: How can I ask for a recommendation letter from a lecturer for my postgraduate study that is a different field from my undergrad studies

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So I basically did an undergraduate study in Nursing and I'm applying for a MSc in Software development. I have always had a passion for all things software and the fact that you can create websites or apps from scratch is just too interesting for me. Given that, I decided to pursue a career in Software development and I'm currently applying and references (Academic references in particular) is the one thing I'm stuck on. Question is;

Is it okay for me to request an academic recommendation letter from one of my nursing lecturers (Personal tutor)
I don't really know anybody in the computing science field to ask for a reference so my nursing lectures are really my only option here.


texts: My manager wants to be the lead author for a paper which I have done all the work for. What ethical reasoning should I use to dispute this?

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I work as a research scientist, and I am about to write up the work I've been doing for the past year. I have done all of the big data formatting, set up, edited and run a complex ecosystem model, wrote analysis code, calculated the statistics, produced graphs and map outputs. My manager wants me to pass the final graphs, maps and statistics to him so that he can write up the paper. I have sufficient post graduate research experience and analysis skills to analyse the final data myself and do the write up.

My manager has a good scientific overview of the work but doesn't have the technical skills to run the model or do any of the coding/ statistical work himself. I feel like he should encourage his staff to write up their own work, but he said he needs more papers as first author.

Do you have any suggestions for the points I can raise when I discuss with him that I'd like to be first author?

I want to stay on good terms with him as far as possible, while also asserting my belief that I should be first author. A former colleague done some of the base work for this project, and I think his name should also come before that of my manager's. My manager's supervision of the project has been minimal (a 5 minute rushed catch up conversation every month or so).


texts: Is it okay to ask someone for an (electronic) copy of their PhD thesis if it is not available online?

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I am a PhD student and recently I came across a researcher who is currently an assistant professor. I don’t know them. But I want their thesis, which is currently not available online. I want to know details of their work.

Is it okay to ask an unknown professor or researcher for their PhD thesis via email?


texts: How to fend off someone putting their Name on my work?

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I'm a postdoc and a guy who used to be a part of our group dropped by today and said repeatedly that he wanted to collaborate with me and that he's too busy with other commitments to do any work. I suggested a project where he could write up some of his recent experiences in the area (I know of a publication that did something similar to this that we could use as a framework and am working with another man in our group on this), and he had no interest in that saying instead he was more interested in the data analysis I'm doing.

The message I got was "I don't have time to do anything, but I want to be a co-author".
He was "generous" enough to say he "doesn't need to be the first or second author".

How would you handle that?

During my PhD I had one of my supervisor's former students do this to me. He got 3 publications out of me, which he didn't understand well enough to present at a conference (he insisted that I create slides for him and write a word-for-word script for him to deliver - the conference was in his area of the world).  I eventually put my foot down and refused to have him as a co-author again (my supervisor was pushing to put his name on a 4th publication, I think she wanted to help him get tenure and / or was repaying some debt to him with my work).

I don't want to spend time trying to defend my work from people who didn't contribute putting their names on it, but I'm not sure the best way to get rid of him. My PI thinks quite highly of him.

I'm going out with my PI casually for dinner tomorrow and am planning to bring this up and ask him to be explicit about his authorship policy (my PI reserves the right to determine authorship of work from our lab).  I don't want to seem whiny, but also don't want to spend time / energy worrying about this.

Am I overly anxious about this?  Maybe it doesn't really matter as long as I'm the first author?  If that's the case, I'm tempted to just put everyone I know on it (I don't want to reward this guy for being obnoxious).


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I have M.Sc. in mathematics, and I was/am working on a PhD for almost 10 years now (on and off), but I haven't published a thing. I have many results (most in a single field) and potential paper drafts, but I never finish up and publish, because I always find something new to learn or a new problem to research. I left the university eventually and got a part-time job as a data scientist, but I was never satisfied about leaving things open. I was working completely alone and didn't get along well with my adviser.

Today, while I have the time, I lack the discipline and environment to finish. None of my close friends are mathematicians, so I can't really talk about math with anybody (besides Internet forums). I love math very much, and I'm learning new things all the time, and I want to have my results finally out there and have my resume match my skills.

I will be glad to hear any advice, if anybody was in a similar situation. Any help will be appreciated.


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My colleague and I intend to prepare a paper on occasion of our advisor's birthday (he turns 65 in two years). As the preparation and publishing of a math paper takes some time, I commenced planning now. We both have defended our theses.

I would appreciate any tip on this issue. For instance, the quality of journal and the number of authors. In addition, should we share our idea about such paper with advisor?


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As the title suggests, I am interested to know the chances of a middle-ranking journal's acceptance of a paper by an unknown author, detailing comparatively elementary results. By elementary, I mean results which are simply stated and simply proven: requiring knowledge only up to perhaps undergraduate year 3 or 4 courses. The results are new but do not have any obvious implications, nor are they usually considered as well-known interesting questions (not like open questions posed by previous authors). The "interestingness" of the results are mediocre at best. The methodology involved is new, but there is nothing to show that it is applicable in other related problems in the field, nor that it is significant in any way beyond the paper. Note that the field I am interested in is mathematics.

So, what are the chances of a journal accepting such a paper? My initial reaction is that perhaps this kind of papers would seem too trivial, given that often papers published in journals consider material from the PhD level or beyond. But then again, it is novel research with results interesting to some, so perhaps they are worth publishing.

(You can assume that the results and methodology given in the paper are truly novel and correct.)


texts: Where can I find free drawings or artwork to use for an article?

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These days I see more and more nice pictures in articles, particularly in reviews or articles covering global patterns.

I want to insert a nice drawing of a forest for example, to show ecological processes between different parts of the ecosystem. I don't have money to pay for an artist. Are there some websites with free drawings or clip art, etc., that might fit scientific publishing?

I have looked on deviantart for a while and google but couldn't find anything that fits and that is copyright free.

EDIT: specifically I am not looking for photos but more cartoon kind of art


texts: PhD application interviews on same day for different programs

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I'm not sure if anyone has experienced this type of issue or has advice, but I've noticed that many of the doctoral programs I'm applying to conduct interviews at the exact same time. I'm applying to about 11 programs, and 10 of them have 2-3 day trips between Feb 1st and Feb 15th.

Granted, I will not get in everywhere, but I think there's a likely chance at least 2 or 3 interviews will overlap between schools.

Is this a common issue? How do I approach a program that I get into (and am interested in attending) without saying "yeah sorry I'm interviewing for a different school on that date?" I would imagine that this would tick off the program and possibly leave me hopeless for that program even though I made it far enough to get an interview. Are programs flexible at all to students who can't make their 1-time a priori determined interview trip?


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I have been toying with the idea of becoming an independent researcher, raising money by working very long/hard hours for a year, then taking a year off for solely for research. This would be partially for financial reasons (Post-Doc salaries are really awful), but also because I think my research would benefit if I could pour my undivided attention into algorithm design for a year.

The biggest problem with this plan however is that in order to publish my research after a year or so of intensive work, I would need to be affiliated with an institute - even journals like arXiv require this.

This got me thinking - what actually is an institute? From the little bit of research into it I have done, it seems to be no different to a standard company, although most have charitable status and are tax-exempt or non-profit.

If other people would also like to work for-profit for a year, then for-research for a year (or at some other frequency), then a virtual institute to publish under would be quite a useful thing. In fact I'm surprised such institutes don't already exist: we have scam journals and scam conferences - why no scam institutes?

Of course if I did set up an institute to publish under it wouldn't be a scam, (there are numerous benefits I can see a virtual institute providing for members), but the idea of a on-paper-only institute is applicable to both.


texts: How does peer review assess the validity of experiments carried out?

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In a research paper scientific experiments are carried out and their results recorded.  Anybody can just fabricate experiment data saying they did an experiment and these were the results. The only way you'd know if it was true is if other non related people repeated the experiments and found the same data.
Does the peer review process ensure experimental data being reported is accurate and how so?


texts: I came across plagiarism. Whom should I inform if at all?

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I have been reading a sample PDF of a book by a professor at a research university published in 2007 on the publisher’s website. For some reason the book’s title was not included in the PDF’s footer (as it should be) so I had to google a passage from the book with the hope that Google Books would provide me with the title. I was quite surprised when it provided me with two titles.

There was a second book by a completely different author (an engineer with a PhD who works in the industry) published in 2015. Not only was the passage there but the whole paragraph (possibly more) verbatim. And even though the second book had tons of references, the first book wasn’t among them.

Should I let someone know about it? If yes, whom?


texts: Including independent research (no mentor involved), with no publication, on application

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I would like to include the maths research I have done in high school on my college apps. It has been submitted to an AMS journal but, as I am sure you are aware, these journals take awhile to carry out the peer review process.

As such, my research is only on Arxiv as of this time. However, because I am not affiliated with a research institution, I had to go through the (grueling) endorsement process to get it published.

Is there any way I could best support my case that my research is not unverified on my application? Note that this research was independent, and aside from some mentors who do not know me well, I do not have anyone to write a recommendation letter regarding my papers. Also the schools I am applying to do not let me upload any files.


texts: How can I cite a report written by a Congressman in MLA Style?

texts: The report is called The Path Forward: Rethinking Federal Policy on Marijuana. I have no idea how to cite this online source. It seems confusing since it isn't a bill but rather just something he wrote to inform. Website: https://blumenauer.house.gov/sites/blumenauer.house.gov/files/BlumenauerReport_ThePathForward.pdf


texts: Accepting European math postdoc offers and leaving after a year

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I am a finishing Ph.D student in pure mathematics in the US.
In November, I received a 3 year postdoc offer in Europe on a PI's grant with a December reply deadline and accepted starting in 2015. Recently, I was offered an NSF MSPRF at an American school, starting in 2014. My plan is to use the NSF in 2014-2015 and 2016-2018 and go to Europe for 2015-2016--the NSF and my US host institution are OK with it.
However, when I accepted the European offer I did not specify that I would be staying for only a year (I had no other offers at that point).
A what point am I obligated to tell the European PI that I will stay for only a year? Now, before accepting the NSF? After starting the position in 2015?
More generally, in Europe is it considered normal or unethical/breach of contract to leave multi year (mathematics) postdoc positions after a year?
I know it's considered normal in the US but the postdoc hiring here is done at a departmental rather than individual level...


texts: Is it ethical for a CS profesor to assign development of real world systems?

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I am a CS major, currently enrolled (about to finish) in a Software Engineering (II) course. My teacher told us at the beginning of the the first course (SE I) that the main objective of the class is to develop real world systems, as such she asked us to search for an NGO who was in need of an information system and go develop it for them during the length of the course. It is supposed that it is a way for the university to socially  project itself (and supposedly us). To be fair to her it was assigned as a group activity but I decided to work by myself.

I went to an NGO and asked if they were in need of a system and told me that they were, but that if I were to develop anything for them I couldn't just go and install it, I would merely be presenting it to the local authorities and they decided it was good they would propose it to a higher authorities. So the implementation of the system was (obviously) not guaranteed, and that was a requirement (the system must be implemented).

My teacher said she wouldn't consider any systems that were not guaranteed to be implemented. I feel that is an overstretch considering we were (are) not certified professionals (yet), and the NGOs were not asking for the software. Other majors are (for the most part) not required to participate in real world activities (e.g. a civil engineering major is not required to go look for a real world construction and WORK on it, to ask for some information maybe, but not to go do actual real work).

To be clear this was not a research assignment, she asked us to look for a real world system that needed to be developed and just go do it.

The justification for this is that we would gain experience by doing it (both in systems analysis and working in teams) but she never really taught us any of that (no git, no unit testing, no UI testing, no integration tests, no nothing). To emphasize how she didn't even teach us how to work in groups: I told her that I had created a repository to host my project and show all the changes that occur, and suggested her to tell the others (who were working in groups) to do the same and make sharing code easier and she basically told me that passing the projects around in flash drives and making full copies of the different versions was a better way to do things.

The few lectures we had were about types of software and software lifecycle without which were really shallow in nature (merely definitions of concepts).

She would ask us to show her our progress weekly, and she didn't care of under the hood changes, if it was not visible on screen, she would say we had done nothing (with is something she even taught us: changes are not always visible).

In the end everyone had a horrible time with that class (specially me as I was working by myself) and had to relive it for the next class. I saw how my classmates were doing disastrous jobs with their software (dbs with no passwords, no sanitizing SQL queries, every client was making a direct connection to the dbs instead of through an API, etc...) and she really didn't care at all, indeed she suggested some of those things, she really just cared about the UI looking nice.

So the question is: Is it ethical for this teacher to require us to go work (unsupervised) on an unsolicited real world system (which was not backed, required nor supervised by university authorities), without being paid for it, and requiring that whoever accepted our work would have to guarantee that they would implement our software, and if they didn't we would fail the course?

I think it is unethical, and a potential legal problem for her, the university and us the students, given the high potential of these systems malfunctioning or being insecure, considering these are sort of high profile organizations. But still I want to hear what is the general opinion on this matter and could I do about it.

BTW since we had so few lectures we didn't even had a final test, instead we would have to prove that our systems were implemented to pass.


texts: What is the effect of a journal going open-access on its impact factor?

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I recently saw this reasonably interesting graphic regarding journals and open access.

As many of you know, there is a large discussion about open access. It appears to be most strong within biological sciences, though that may be more of a side-effect of their style of publishing. An interesting "timeline of open access" unfortunately stops at 2008. Obviously the graphic, while interesting, is a single data point.

What is the evidence regarding the effect of going open-access and a journal's impact factor? I am especially interested in utilizing resources that have undergone some kind of peer review and scrutiny.


texts: Is it professional to have a "cited by" section of a personal website?

texts: I'm not sure if there's a word or phrase for a "reverse bibliography", but that's what I'm looking to put on my website - a list of other papers that have cited my own work. The goal is to show that my work has had influence and has spread beyond just the paper itself. Is this common in academia, or is it only common to list one's own papers?


texts: How do editors publish in their own journals?

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I was invited to review a paper in which the journal's Editor-in-Chief is a co-author. I do not mind, but raised the question that this peer-review is no longer blind. The co-author can see who wrote the reports.

I do not say the editor takes advantage of his position, but the peer-review is not actually the same.


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I recently submitted my first ever conference abstract, and then discovered after submission deadline that in one of my citations I forgot to add "et al." even though the cited paper has multiple authors. So now only the primary author is cited in the text, even though all authors are, of course, included in the reference list. Stupid mistake, I know, and I'm really kicking myself about it. Especially because the mistake was simply a brain fart - I do know how to cite properly.

My question is - if the abstract is otherwise consistent and of high quality, may the abstract still be accepted despite the citation mistake? All other citations in the abstract are correct. There is just this one slip-up which I'm now afraid may cause my abstract to be rejected even though I am convinced the actual research is of sufficient quality for acceptance.


texts: Is making minor adjustments to an online tutorial for a coding assignment considered plagiarism?

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For one of my pieces of coursework I have to make a game engine and I wasn't completely understanding what my lecturer was going on about. So I looked online and found a tutorial on how to make one and its been really useful and I understand better how it all works but my coursework is basically just the tutorial code.

I submit it in a couple of weeks so it may be a bit late to start thinking this but isn't it just plagiarism? I'm not copy and pasting the code but I'm writing it practically word for word. But on the other had there only so many ways you can use OpenGL and make it look different and do what you want it to do.


texts: Are all master degrees fully funded for North American universities?

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For whatever reason I had the misconception that graduate study is fully self funded except for some opportunities for scholarship or, in extraordinary circumstances, a full ride scholarship. So you can imagine how surprised I was to find out that certain amount of money is automatically given on an annual basis for graduate studies.

Is this true through out North American universities? This sounds like a wonderful opportunity wonder why not more people go on graduate school.


texts: How to overcome losing of appreciation for the work done during manuscript preparation?

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As a fifth year PhD student, I am currently finalizing my manuscripts for submission having worked on them for over the past two years. However, everytime I am editing my manuscripts based on the feedback from my advisor, I feel disgusted with the quality of work done. I feel that I have done a really poor non-rigorous job and I should have worked harder or in a different topic to make the work more worthy of getting published. I also feel that the work presented in the manuscript won't get accepted anywhere and I have just wasted my time.

Is it something everyone experiences or am I suffering from self-esteem and confidence issues? How to overcome this feeling?


texts: Best practice of presenting running time results?

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Often I come across the following situation: I have some experimental evaluation of running times of a new algorithm. Printing the running times in a table is good. Adding a plotted diagram illustrates the results in a nice way. Unfortunately this brings redundancy in a publication and needs many space, because the runnings times are already listed in the table.

Which way is best practice?

Only print a table (precise results, but no illustration)
Only print a plotted diagram (none precise results, but illustration)
Both (precise and illustration, but redundancy)


texts: How to copyright unpublished work during Phd

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How do I protect my unpublished phd work (which i am planning on publishing soon)?
I am conducting expert interviews and I will have to send parts of my work to them for validation. But, how to ensure that they don't copy it or use it in their work before I publish it?


texts: Are Indian assistant professors eligible for tenure-track positions in the US?

texts: Suppose an assistant professor from a reputable Indian university wants to apply for tenure-track positions in the United States. Would he or she have any chance? Assume that his or her publication record is on par with faculty members at top-level US universities.


texts: Why arXiv version disappeared from Google Scholar profile once journal version published

texts: Based on a question I asked previously Uploading a revised version of published journal article on arXiv I uploaded a new version on arXiv which included minor corrections and enhancement to published journal version.  Once journal article came online the pre-print version disappeared from my google scholar profile. As the current version of arXiv is advanced version of journal article I want arXiv version to appear on my profile.How can I make arXiv version to apear in my profile?


texts: SoP for applying CS PhD program with research experience that is not my interest

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I am applying for a CS PhD program in the US, next year, as an international student. I will complete my CS undergrad in a few months. I already have research experience  with my project advisor. Also, I did a research internship at another well-known school with a similar topic. This project was presented in an international conference, too. I think this should be beneficial for my application.

However, I am not that interested in my research topic. It is related to computational neuroscience. At first, I just wanted to gain experience working with Machine Learning but I did not have an idea what problem I should be working on. Neuroscience sounded interesting to me, so I picked that sub-field. I did apply ML in my research project as I wanted but the neuroscience stuff was definitely not my thing. It has been an exhausting time for me to work on a project I do not like. I am still OK with ML and I am passionate about it. The thing is that I want to get away from neuroscience when I apply for a PhD. Right now, I have an idea to work with ML on low-power IoT device (such as camera) but I still have time to think about it thoroughly.

The question is that how can I write a strong SoP in this situation? If I write all about ML & neuroscience in my SoP, I am afraid that I will end up in a lab that I do not like. On the other hand, if I mention ML & IoT, I may have a weaker SoP since I have no experience in this sub-field. From my understanding, SoP is not a commitment but I am not sure that this will affect my journey or not.


texts: Reporting results that are significant even with correction, without losing my unadjusted ones?

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I have a study in which I have several promising variables, all concurring with previous literature and significant at alpha=0.05.

However, I have this one variable that is of special interest and this variable is significant even with the conservative bonferroni correction.

How do I go by slipping in my manuscript like "Hey by the way look at this guy, this guy is definitely not a coincidence"? Because I don't want to set a new alpha and lose all the other good and informative variables.


texts: Job Market: should one hide their (young) age?

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I am a 23 year old cis-woman in sociology. I entered college at 16 and grad school at 19. The program is in the US, so it is a five year program with a Masters along the way.

I have been reading a lot of advice about going on the academic job market (starting this year, ABD but with complete draft). Despite all my searching, there is one topic that I cannot find anything on: indicating or revealing one's age. I would never volunteer this information (like how women are especially aware not to reveal parental or marital status), but I am worried about accidentally dating myself with a comment. Would it be particularly bad? Would a committee be more impressed or wary? Any advice or insights would be appreciated.


texts: Funding situation if I have passed GATE but lack CSIR-JRF NET

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I have finished my M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics in 2016. I wish to pursue a PhD. Currently I am preparing for GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, a master’s-level national entrance exam in India). In this respect, I have a few questions.

If I only have a valid GATE score but no CSIR-JRF NET qualification, will I be eligible for the 25 k funding?
If yes to above, is this funding available for any NAAC-accredited university (public or private) in India?
Is there any written statement from the government which validates this?


texts: Can I send an email to the journal editorial board explaining a specific situation about the status of my paper?

texts: I submitted a paper to an Elsevier journal, and the status is "Submitted to Journal". That was a week and a half ago. I know it's not a long time, but I have an additional issue. I just need the article to be "under review" to defend my doctoral thesis. Can I send an email to the editorial board explaining this situation? Would it be wrong to do that?


texts: Is it appropriate to apply for assistant professor positions a few months before obtaining my PhD?

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I am finishing my PhD at a famous research institution located in Europe. I am quite delayed due to COVID-related disruptions, which forced us to devote most lab equipment to vaccine development and trial assessment instead of doing some experiments I needed to validate my hypotheses.
Nonetheless, I will obtain my degree within the next few months. My thesis has already gone through a mandatory internal assessment process, which is similar to peer review. And my advisor has already appointed examiners.
I have some interesting publications in good journals (Nature Comms and equivalent ones), but a big part of my thesis is only published as a preprint in medRxiv. My findings are very novel and, in the words of my supervisor (who is a big name in the field), it's a major breakthrough. We've contacted other big names in the field, who are also really interested in this new approach, and they are helping to validate things. We already have enough for submitting to a top journal, which is good.
My advisor and his peers are writing grant applications and preparing clinical trials based on my findings. I am interested in continuing with this line of research, but I will need to find a different host institution once I graduate. I would like to continue as soon as possible in order not to loose a head start on my own ideas.
I am a bit confused with research-oriented Assistant Professor openings. Is it appropriate to apply at this stage? I have contacted one US professor behind an open position, and he encouraged me to apply. However, is this the norm for most American and European positions?


texts: Follow-up project on a paper in submission

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I submitted to a journal a fairly novel psychology theory in the form of a manuscript that our research group put together. I am the first author and did most of the research. The paper is currently with a journal. I see the first reviewer has returned his report. We are waiting for reviewer two.

My next follow-up project would be to create a type of questionnaire to measure the theory. My key question: Should I start working on such a project before receiving comments from the peer reviewers on my initial project/submission? Couldn't the peer reviewers/editor ask for major revisions which would affect my questionnaire?

My PI has continuously been asking me for the project status but I've been telling him: I'm waiting to first hear back for comments from the "main psychology theory" before building a questionnaire. Is this the correct way of doing things in academia - my approach?


texts: My supervisor appoint me as a sub reviewer of one conference. Am I paid for this?  Should I tell him or negotiate about the cost of reviewing? I have finished my masters program and defended my thesis.


texts: What masters level courses should one take to prepare himself for a future career in the Internet of Things?

texts: I am a graduate student looking to pursue MS in Computer Engineering. I wish to have a future career in the Internet of Things domain. Can someone suggest me the courses I should take that would prepare me for the same?


texts: What can academia do with the flood of bad or subpar paper currently online?

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I am currently researching some STEM-related topic on X, and I have been bombarded with a flood of bad papers on Google or academic databases.

Of course, bad is subjective. But I am talking about papers that don't even have proper font or typesetting, virtually no equations/equations that don't make any sense, poor examples, and papers that are literally less than three pages long (standard are 10 pages): introduction, some made-up equations, one experiment that those equations does well on, conclusion - we have solved the problem.

In addition, many of these papers are published in low-tier journals and conferences (with very legit sounding titles, mind you, such as "International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics") and it is taking a while for me to dig through them to find quality content.

On top of it, there seems to be a flood of student projects on these topics that are otherwise properly formatted in conference style templates. I am guessing a lot of undergraduate courses are making their students learn how to write a paper as their project, and the students, in turn, publish them somewhere. Unfortunately, almost all of these papers are poor quality and totally not peer-reviewed. They show up in search anyways.

Is there anything academia can do to solve this problem? I can only see it get worse and worse over time until it is totally impossible to properly cite previous work.


texts: How to select a journal for publishing when my priority is to publish soon?

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I am a PhD candidate in a small country. I have two Master degrees, one from an American university. I am also an experienced professional and an expert in the subject of my PhD studies (in my country, clearly). I need to publish a paper in an international journal as a condition to obtain my PhD. How do I choose a journal? I cannot afford years of waiting for the paper to be published, submit it and be rejected many times. I am looking through the journals, and there is simply no way to know which one is suitable for me. Any help? I understand about looking for journals which had previously published similar articles, but how to know that it is a journal which is likely to accept my article?

Thank you!


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At my school, we call a list of courses (or classes) a semester or a term - as in Spring 2014 semester that includes 5 classes.

I'm looking for a word that means "list of semesters", whether it has been completed or not, for the actual degree. I've heard this called an "undergraduate career", but I think that can get confused for one's actual employment career. Does anyone have another word for this that would specifically refer to their college career?


texts: Do publications outside your primary field of study help or hinder your early career?

texts: I'm an interdisciplinary PhD student and I've heard conflicting reports on your publication record in your early career. Some members of my host department say that you should stay focused while others outside the department say it can help. Given that my dissertation is by publication and I've got one core field and two secondary, what would a hiring committee expect my CV to look like? Would publications in tertiary field (as primary author) be looked upon negatively?


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I am applying for jobs and certain job postings specifically "welcome applications from" certain groups that "contribute to diversification."

I am in one of these groups that they state, but you have to get to page 4 of my CV or page 2 of my teaching statement to find out.

Why are they especially welcoming these groups? Is there part of their evaluation criteria that considers this diversification? Should I make the committee more aware of my belonging to such a group? If so, how?

[Nota bene: This is a North American job.]


texts: Harvard referencing: same year, same last name, same initials

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This is a question about the Harvard referencing system.

I've written a paper and cited two publications, each with a single author, both published in the same year. These authors are unrelated - one is a man and the other is a woman - but they have the same surname and the same two initials. They do have different first and middle names, but neither has a second middle name. So it's as it were Alan Brian Smith, 2012 and Alice Beatrice Smith, 2012.

How do I handle this? I'm guessing my inline citations should be either (Smith, Alice, 2012) or (Smith, 2012a), but can't work out which. Or maybe it's something else. Plus in the bibliography, should they be listed by alphabetical order of author first name? Chronologically?

Many thanks for any help.


texts: Is "liberal arts" a unique feature of American higher education?

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Liberal arts programs are very common in the US but not in Europe (correct me if I am wrong). As I see here in discussions, the environment of liberal arts colleges is different: for example, student-faculty relationships.

Have such historical liberal arts programs and schools changed the overall higher education in the US or are they just different types of programs.

Are the universities which are not focused on liberal arts influenced by the culture of liberal arts programs/schools?


texts: What are the benefits for a PhD student working on small problems vs solving a big problem?

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I am a PhD student working in theory (computer science). I am confused about one thing, and I am only the researcher in my group. I work on 2-3 small problems which I am trying to combine and publish. Although my results on these 2-3 problems are not big (the idea is also not big), I have tried to solve 2-3 small problems and have gotten a result that makes a paper, according my colleagues in the university. I have seen researchers (very senior) whose work seems to be very non-trivial to me (as compared to me). I am confused about this: should I work on one particular problem for a year and get a result (there is a high risk with this thing) or should I work on 2-3 small problems and combine them to make a result?

Question: For a PhD student, what is good about working on a few small problems vs solving a big problem? I have heard and have seen the profile of some professors in which they say/write that PhD students (mostly) do survey kind of things. I don't know this is true or not.


texts: In Computer Science, does a presentation of findings at a conference constitute a "publication"?

texts: Most of the research I have done so far is in Computational Chemistry, where the major emphasis is on publishing in journals. But I also research aspects of Computer Science,and I have read here that in Computer Science the standard for publishing is different. I have recently created a data structure, and will be presenting my findings at a regional Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference later this year. Is this considered a publication in Computer Science? While I do not mind presenting my findings--I've done similarly with posters in my Chemistry research--I would prefer to have my research published in a printed journal.  Does the conference lead to a journal publication?


texts: Recommendation Letter: the final position of a student in the class

texts: Suppose there are 25 students in a class, where two students scored 100/100, and four students scored 96/100, while the rest of the students scored below that. The question is: Should I mention the position of a student who scored 96/100 as "3rd out of 25 students", or is there a more appropriate way?


texts: I need help please about being accused on cheating

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My prof is accusing me of chatting on an Online exam. I did not cheat. The exam was 30 multiple-choice and 3 short answers.
I got all MCQ right, except I made some mistakes in the short answer.
In the exam, His concern only on the last 3 short answer questions.  he claimed that he cheats from the test bank ( Answer key of the test book). Also, he claimed that I answered one question similar to the textbook; however, this question's answer included only simple mathematical addition of some numbers. This does not show any valid reasons for his accusation. Moreover, during the meeting, he blamed me for choosing the wrong answer for a question. Thus, I am being blamed for answering questions, whether they are right or wrong. and another question was because I answered similar to the test bank  as he was like," this part of the question was not in the test bank)
Secondly, he accused me of violating academic Integrity in my online quizzes, and his concern was, "My other concern is that you spent on average 18 minutes on all online quizzes following the first quiz that included short answers, whereas the class spent anywhere between 40 minutes to 2 hours. The majority of students use a second attempt to improve their score on the first attempt." Note: all the quizzes are theory 30 MCQ, except the first quiz was 25 MCQ and 1 short-answer.
He sent me an email to discuss, and then during the online meeting, he asks me to do an oral exam." he was like, so I can prove some evidence,"  and I refused to make the oral exam as it's unfair to be exam orally for something I don't do it.
He gave me zero on the midterm and put me under academic integrity. Please advise me what I should do? I have my review of the hearing next week.


texts: What is considered credible evidence in computer science?

texts: Is it books or lab reports or technical reviews or something completely different?


texts: How should multiple anticipated degrees be listed on the CV?

texts: I'm in the process of completing a PhD and will be concurrently awarded an MS in a different field when I graduate (i.e., PhD in A, MS in B). While there is a fairly fixed format for the PhD listing (e.g., "In Progress" or "Defending YYYY") to provide relevant information for search committees, how should other degrees in progress be listed?


texts: Fine line between "figuring it out on my own" and "asking for help" in research labs?

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For some background: I'm very new to graduate school, in fact I just started unofficially doing research a few months ago, my official PhD program starts in the Fall (I moved out there early). Currently, I'm at a big R01 institution, coming from a pretty low ranking obscure undergraduate school, and there is an intimidation factor when I'm surrounded by accomplished postdocs (they pushed out more papers than my professors with tenure in my undergraduate). It's slightly amplified when I consider that, so far, I effectively only have a Bachelor's degree.

Anyway, I was given some code to modify for a specific device. I'm not really pestered or swarmed for deadlines, and I'm trying to figure it out. I honestly think there is an error in the syntax that prevents me from being able to carry out a colleague's request. I have prior coding experience. I'm a traditional "I want the challenge of figuring it out so I can develop and learn" kind of guy, but where do you draw the line between the latter mentality and requesting help? I don't want to come off as stupid or needy, and I want my lab to be able to depend on me. So far I have been pretty reliable (and that's saying a lot considering I'm a big critic of myself), and I don't want to kill the momentum.


texts: Can journals share information about your submission?

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Can journals share information about your submission or for that matter your entire submission at will? Is that fair game? Is this a varying practice based on who you submit to?

Is the general idea that the implications of sharing the notes and related content is trivial?


texts: Anthropology vs. Religious Studies graduate programs

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This is my first post here and I'm looking for advice on the outlook of the field I guess. My undergrad background is in Anthropology, but my research is in anthropology of religion and can easily fit into a religious studies department.

Right now I am in a dilemma weighing what path to take. I was offered admission to a Religious Studies program in the U.S. at a top university, and I was also offered admission to a small university's Anthropology PhD program. It's not very highly ranked at all, but the department is a pretty good fit...but so is the Religious Studies department.

I have visits coming up to both these schools and right now I think the deciding factor is the future job market. Religion vs. Anthropology. I've heard mixed things from various people in both fields, but there is some bias I think. Anthropologists tell me that anthropology is more versatile, while people in RS tell me that it's more marketable. I'm also trying to weigh if prestige matters on the job market as well. Would it look better to go to Excellent University for RS or Fairly Good University for Anthropology? The smaller university is in no way a bad one, and I am excited about the prospect of going to both.

These are of course things I will be discussing with my past mentors and grad students at both places, but could I enlist kind internet strangers for any new perspectives?


texts: Will attending an Online degree in UOL be beneficial to my graduate/career?

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I am a 16 year old student with a high school diploma through a Korean GED test, planning to apply for an online degree in computer science next year. Reviews about the coursework provided by the University of London seems to be satisfying. My goal is to proceed to an offline Master's degree after the online course. My research-focused alternative school would likely push me to write some papers in journals, and make some sort of portfolio in Github.
Would I be available to successfully apply into a US/European top-tier university's master's degree program? Or would there be alternative ways to proceed? Experiences and experiences on UOL's online degree program would also be helpful.
Thank you for your time.


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I imported many pdf articles into Mendeley but saw that Mendeley did not capture all the fields correctly. So, I needed to change them manually. It would be a tedious job to do so with many documents. Fortunately, many of the documents share common journal names and years. So, I needed a way to edit them together.

Is there a reference manager where we can edit selected references in one go without having to do this for each reference individually?

I have tried Endnote. Mendeley, and JabRef so far but could not find such a way. I will be grateful if someone has any idea/experience in this direction.

Edit-1:
After solving the batch editing problem, I also had a problem with getting the syntax for the authors correct.


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I have to submit a paper in NIPS 2017 which is an extension of a paper submitted to ICDAR 2017. As this paper is still under review, I want to put on arXiv using an anonymous submission for double blind review for NIPS. Here are my questions.

Can I submit an anonymous submission on arXiv
If yes, can I refer to the paper on arXiv


texts: Pedagogical pros and cons of requiring undergraduate students to follow open/reproducible research practices?

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I regularly teach an undergraduate course in which students are expected to complete projects that involve writing code. I also supervise undergraduates in other project and thesis work that involve writing code.

I am considering requiring future students to publicly release their project code, and any other materials needed to reproduce their work, under an open source license. (This would, of course, be stated up front in the syllabus, or before I agree to supervise a thesis student.)

(Fortunately, the research platform on which my students work is very well suited for reproducible research, having been designed specifically with that goal in mind.)

On the one hand, I have this vague idea that it's to the students' benefit to practice participating in open, reproducible science.

On the other hand, students may feel reluctant to release their code (for all of the reasons documented here). Furthermore, I want to avoid things that distract too much from the main goals of the course, which don't directly involve reproducible research.

Are there any specific pedagogical arguments for or against instituting this requirement?

(Note that I'm asking about the pedagogical impact on my students, not the benefit to the broader research community of having my students do open science.)


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Recently, I got an invitation from a professor to contribute a chapter in one of his/her upcoming books. I am a novice in this field. I am still a student but simultaneously I do not want to lose this opportunity. I have a few published articles. I am quite confused about the content of the chapter. Can I use my results from the accepted manuscript and add them as chapter content of the book? Is it totally ethical? Kindly help me. Suggestions are most welcome by heart. Thanks a lot.

P.S. Checked their profile. They are some professors in an university but I never met them. And they did not talk about whether its a normal chapter or some proceeding type chapter in the book. And no mention of money also.


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I'm a student in the mathematics department that's close to graduation and I've TA'd a few classes and been around.

One thing I've noticed is that a lot of professors in these junior and senior level courses seem to put transfer students on the back burner. Maybe it's because they didn't get to form early bonds with them in their freshman and sophomore years. They just don't seem to be treated the same or maybe just not as involved in classes.

One thing I can say for certain, though, is that our "Orientation Day" for transfer students is weak and petty compared to the one for new college students. Is this common for transfer students to sometimes get lost in the dust, unequal opportunities, or simply different treatment? Clearly universities have an interest and a phenomena does exist because they send out "Transfer Student Survey"'s all the time, so the colleges are aware that something is different.


texts: What makes someone deserving of a Ph.D.?

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Few days back while attending a thesis defense, one Professor was asking the defender why does he think, he deserves the degree. I was wondering since then, is there really any general answer for that? or the answer should be given describing my own work and then emphasis them how it is important for research field?

I asked the question here to know your opinion about it and to list down what could be the possible answers to this question.


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Is it ethical to submit to a journal if I know the editor-in-chief?
I'm curious about 3 different cases:

Case 1: We know each other (from talks and emails) but never worked
together.
Case 2: We haven't worked together, but are currently in contact
about a potential collaboration.
Case 3: If I am one of the editor-in-chief's collaborators (but the
paper submitted is not part of the collaboration).

In all cases, I don't know if the editor-in-chief is going to give me an easy time (I am not even looking for that) or a hard time. I mean no promises. I will even ask, in the cover letter, for my paper to be reviewed by at least two referees to comply with my University's regulations (so that I can use it for promotion purposes at my Uni).


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I am in my third year of postdoc in Germany. Working in CS, I published only very few papers (3 in A* venues) during my postdoc. There are several reasons why I couldn't publish a lot of papers including a lot of teaching and working in industrial projects and no collaboration (due to the difference in topics between me and my colleagues), etc. Also, my published papers are not cited too much and comparing to other colleagues who publish in lower level venues, my publications get 1/4 of citations without knowing what are the reasons. I assume the number of publications, the quality of publications and the number of citations are the criteria to evaluate researchers.
My goal was to pursue a career in Academia and apply for a professorship but with this achievement, it does not seem feasible. I am thinking to quit academia but I am not sure whether it is the right decision because it is not what I want but what I think I have to do.
I am afraid if I wait longer, I won't find a place in industry and cannot get a professorship/tenure position.
EDIT
To generalize this situation with direct questions:

When is it too late for a researcher (postdoc in patricular) to catch up?
What to do to increase the number of citations (or it is not important) given that the papers are published in well-reputed venues.
Should a researcher focus more on paper quantity over quality when the low quantity is noticeable? (with the assumption that a good paper need more work, time and effort)

For (3), chosing quality over quantity will obviously lead to less papers and less citations.


texts: Should I paraphrase or quotes definitions?

texts: In the literature review when I have many definitions from the literature can I paraphrase them or do I have to put them in quotes as they are?


texts: what is the hyphotesis in computer science research(especifically AI research)?

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I'm a computer science and software engineer that worked in industry for some years with deep applied knowledge in ML and AI, i commonly read research papers and this year started a graduate scientific research program , in this first weeks we are studying basic concepts like what is research, and common descriptions like :"research seeks to generate new knowledge" , "you observe a problem or a phenomenon , create hypothesis about that which then you seek to prove experimentally and collecting data" , my question is in computer science and AI, what are the problem and phenomenon? and what are the hypothesis in AI research? Commonly in papers researchers propose new algorithms or new models but what were the common "observed problem" and the hypothesis? it's not clear to me how CS and AI research fits in this classic research definitions.

If possible can anyone provide examples on specific AI research papers ,how they fit in the classic definitions, what are the problems under study,hypothesis and all scientific method parts in the paper?


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I am currently applying for PhD scholarships using the following strategy:

Contact the potential supervisor via email (75% very positive replies so far).
Apply via the official way.

So far there was always only one supervisor listed for the projects I was interested in. Now, however, I came across an advert with 4 cosupervisors listed as well. What would be the proper etiquette for my first email? Should I put the cosupervisors in CC, write separate emails for them or leave them out entirely?
The university in question is in Prague in case this is relevant.


texts: How do I ask a professor for a summer research project?

texts: I am a student of IT in India.  I'm in my fourth semester and want to work on some project during summer.  How should I write the email to the professor asking for the same?


texts: Implementation of a journal article in a Graduate research

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My supervisor told me to select an article so that I implement that as my graduate research undertaking. After a year, I am in a deadlock now. Reasons:

the article is abstractly written (apparently, the writer didn't write the article very clearly in order to stop it from being replicated).
my supervisor is prepared to do nothing. His opinion is it's my job, and I am the only one who should come up with the solution.

Now, I have several questions:

Is there any other alternative way to undertake a graduate research rather than implementing a published research article (this form of research seems to be very rigid in nature, as I need to replicate the exact result which has been talked about in the article)?
What precautions could have I taken in order to avoid any more deadlock in future (as I am planning to change my graduate school due to livelihood-related issues)?


texts: What should I do when my supervisor wants to delay my graduation?

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I am MASc (two year program with a thesis) student in a Canadian university. Right now, I've finished my course requirements and I want to graduate in five academic terms. I have two supervisors. One of my supervisors has said my research accomplishment is good enough to start working on my thesis. But my other supervisor isn't willing to let me work on writing my thesis. He doesn't give any specific reason why my accomplishment is not good enough or what I can do to get his approval. He said he wants me to stay for six terms and then he will approve my graduation. He is also pushing me to do PhD under his supervision. Whenever I want to discuss my masters graduation, he diverts the whole discussion into doing PhD with him. Sometimes he ends up threatening he won't approve my masters. So discussing this issue has become pointless. Anyway, I've contacted two other faculties; they said my research accomplishment is already good enough for research milestone set by university. What should I do?

Relevant question: My MS thesis advisor wants me to delay my graduation for one semester. What should I do?

My situation is different because it's not the issue of time or my supervisor is careless. My supervisor wants to delay my masters for his own benefit.


texts: My publications listed on other author (highly similar name) publication list

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I am an early stage researcher (just progressed into my first postdoc) and I have made some effort to keep my online presence (e.g. Google Scholar) correct and up to date. I have recently noticed that an author with a highly similar name (identical first and last name) has my publications listed in his google scholar page as well as his own.

I have tried contacting the author directly as I have heard that someone that was interested in my work actually sent an e-mail to the other authors. However, the other author has not responded.

Should I contact google directly or am I overthinking this whole situation and should I just ignore it?


texts: How to politely reject co-authorship offer from a colleague?

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I work in computer science. I wrote few simulation programs, designed the experiment for a chemistry work with my colleague. I have no idea about the principal aim of the research; I was only involved with simulations and computer experiments. Also, I know that this publication (paper) will not advance my career option.

Recently, I have been offered to become a co-author of the article about the analysis of the results of my experiments. I understand that quantum of my contribution is reasonable; I am wishing not to co-author the work.

How to say politely reject this co-authorship request?

Note: There was no discussion related to co-authorship before I started writing the computer experiments.

Related, but very different questions:

Is it common to claim co-authorship by helping writing a paper without doing any research
Should a colleague receive authorship for identifying a research gap and reviewing a manuscript?


texts: My advisor gave my main project to an undergrad and now I have no project, what should I do?

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My advisor doesn't have funding so I had to teach a class this summer, which consumed most of my time.  My advisor knew I would be busy teaching, so he got an undergrad to work full time on the project.  Now the summer is over and I don't understand any of the code anymore, because the undergrad has been working on it without me.  I also don't have another project so I am basically doing nothing with my time.  What should I do?  I still go to project meetings but I feel like it is not my project anymore.

Edit to answer questions:

(1) I was working on the old project for a semester before the undergrad started working on it.  But I didn't make much progress because I was TAing a class while taking a notoriously difficult breadth requirement, while also taking medication that impaired my ability to concentrate.

(2) The project was entirely my advisor's idea and in fact he has expressed frustration with the fact that I don't have any ideas of my own and I am not an independent enough researcher.

(3) My advisor doesn't seem to think I'm a very good grad student and I think he may have given up on me.


texts: How do I encourage learning to an underprivileged group

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Some faculty members are required to perform service to the community. Providing free education that improve societal value is one of the many ways to deliver the service. However, we recently are faced with a difficult situation in this channel, and I hope faculty here who had experience in teaching outside the school or social science researchers working in underprivileged groups will be able to point us to the right direction.

We are a small group of software developers and teachers who give free computer lessons to pretty much anyone who is interested. So far we have taught 32 students and they are all working as programmers in various places. However the dropout rate has been 8 to 1 so far. But lately the big problem is finding new students.

We don't charge money, there are no contracts to sign and we even provide required software and books free of charge. Sometimes we even supply the computers. The classes are online last about a hour a day. Still, even with sharing success stories and having former students themselves talk to new students, we are finding it hard to find new students who would be interested in taking the classes. I personally know people who would rather complain about the unfairness of life than take a job working as a paid intern somewhere.

My question is: What can we do to make free learning more appealing to people who are not in a school environment?


texts: Scientific Research Publishing - Unspoken Rules

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I would like to know more about some (unspoken) rules in scientific research publishing. More precisely, i am interested in computer science field.

Can someone expect his papers to be published in any top level journal (M23, M22, M21) without completed bachelor studies or master studies?
Is it true that professors have better chances their papers to be published than graduated students or it is just a justification for academic exploitation?
Can someone who works in IT industry or is unemployed expect his papers to be considered or even published?
What are the differences between the first author and other authors? Taking the academic exploitation into account, is it profitable for a student to be the second author after the professor?


texts: Can a university claim patent rights for inventions performed on my own time?

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I'm working for a university as a research programmer (prof staff, exempt) on an external grant ("soft money"), and there is a clear understanding between me and my immediate supervisor/PI, and at least one other PI, that I can use a certain non-trivial amount of my time each week to work on my own projects (the so-called "20% time").

I've tried investigating what the university would officially think of any such endeavour, and I found the IP policy (IU) that seems to suggest that patentable inventions unconditionally belong to the university, whereas general copyrightable work does belong to its authors (unless they perform such work specifically for university use, e.g. course materials).

Apparently, the policy even says that it covers even non-paid individuals, part-time individuals and students (which are not even just "non-paid" for their activities, but are actually required to support the university by paying tuition and various other fees).

Supposedly, it basically applies to everyone who uses University resources, however, the term University resources itself is not defined amongst all the other terms that are, in fact, defined very specifically for this exact IP policy directly within the policy.

Does a public university in the US really have such powers to implement a policy like that, and to claim patent rights to inventions which are not performed in the official line of duty and even oftentimes outside of the work clock?
Have such policies ever been reaffirmed through courts?  Especially when applied to non-compensated employees, or the various slave labour?
What do I do to avoid being covered by such policy?

Must I never perform any parts of my own research on any equipment purchased through university, even on grant money?
Cannot use the monitors owned by the university together with my personally-owned laptop?
Cannot use university's internet connection to connect to my externally hosted personal servers, where the use of university's internet connection is merely coincidental to my own research on my own computing resources, and could easily be replaced by an off-the-shelf 30$/mo service from elsewhere without any significant side effects? (I'm just using ssh, basically.)
Cannot use my non-trivial work time that was allowed for my own research by my supervisors to do my own research?  Do I have to request to be re-classified from being a full-time employee (1.00) to being a part-time employee (e.g. 0.80) to have my 20% time unencumbered?
Cannot sit in my office space doing my own search?
Cannot sit in a university building whilst doing any such research of my own?
Cannot be anywhere on campus doing any of my own research?


texts: How to avoid student favoritism in the classroom?

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FYI: I am teaching undergraduates, and am fairly recently out of grad school myself.

I find myself unconsciously treating/regarding students differently based on their engagement with the class. I find that I tend to favor students who do their work, arrive on time, and participate in discussions over those who do not.

By "favoring" I don't necessarily mean that I give them special treatment or higher grades - but I find that I do treat them better, visibly. I am more patient with them and speak to them warmly. Enough that students have noticed.

I believe I am having trouble being professional, having been in their position so recently. I can see that certain students are really enjoying the material and find the work to be exciting, and I respond emotionally to that energy.

I realize that it is inappropriate to treat students differently based on the level of their engagement with your class, so how, if you teach, do you not take it so personally?


texts: How to find who cited a researcher the most

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I'm doing some history of science research. I want to build networks of researchers that cite each other (or otherwise do similar research).

I'd like to search: For a researcher X, find which researcher has cited them most frequently.

Is there some tool that can do this kind of thing? I've tried Google Scholar and Web of Knowledge.


texts: Why do universities have to spend money on journals?

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Obviously this is a question in the light of the recent Elsevier boycott. Currently we do have an arXiv, maintained by academia and where researchers regularly upload parts of their work. In such a case,

Why do universities spend lots of money to publish in third-party journals?

The question especially applies to journals that operate with a rigorous profit motive. The subscription is very high, so wouldn't publishing in such journals affect the paper's citation count and deter the spread of knowledge about the work within academic circles?

Why should not universities collaborate to create free, open access, peer-reviewed journals?

Moreover, given the need to conserve paper, why should journals spend on printing research papers? Wouldn't an online version suffice, as most people use only local computer printouts anyway? In other words, why can't we have a Wikipedia-like system of sharing research knowledge, having properly established standards for such journals?


texts: How to write a Literature Review when I'm not researching anything

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I am doing a degree in Computer Science. I am not in my final year, however my lecturer has asked me to do a dissertation over the whole of this year as a sort of dry run. This is so when I go to do my actual dissertation next year - the whole process won't be foreign to me.

My project (which I have had signed and approved) is to write a piece of software which converts SVG images into front end application code (converting a button design into an actual coded button which can be used in c# applications).

My problem is that I'm struggling to find areas to research for my literature review. My project isn't innately about any topic of research, it's just creating a piece of software.

Methods and results of what I've tried:

From what I've read, this part of the essay should include literature for/against (or opposing thoughts) of the topic at hand. The only way I can break this down to fit my project is - Should/Shouldn't User Interfaces be created from deigns. Could this possibly lead to less accurate representations of what was needed? Will the controls created be as efficient as a control created by a person based off of the designs
What is known or already understood about this topic. I've not yet found anything suitable that another person has done with regards to converting SVG's to code.


texts: How can editors and reviewers detect data manipulation?

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I am preparing a paper in the field of Computer Science.

In order to report test results, we usually run a number of tests and report the average of those tests.

For each test, we generate random data.

Because of the randomness, at some points, the results may come out not as expected.

For instance, a graph may be like:

Usually, one should explain why on points 8, 11 and 12 there is a decrease on the plot.
Probably, it is because of that randomness.

Not hand-crafting all the graph, but just manipulating a few points makes the graph acceptable:

Since three weeks or so, I work my ass off and try to figure out why my resulting graph looks like the first one. Sometimes I feel like yielding to temptation and just modify the raw data before I go crazy.

I believe, at this point the title became misleading, so let me make it clear:

I am not seeking an advice on data manipulation. I will not manipulate my data. However, I ask to myself "how the hell this can be detected?"

And now, I don't only ask to myself, but to whole community. How is this detected? For editors, referees out there, have you ever detected something like this?


texts: What's my chance of getting into a good math or statistics graduate program, if I don't have impressive grades the first three semesters of college

texts: I'm a sophomore majoring in math and statistics at a large state university who has top 30 math programs. I really want to go to a very good math graduate program. However, my first three semester is full of Bs, and overall GPA is 3.5. And I happened to have a C and W on my transcript. My major GPA is pretty good though, a 3.98. But I'm still afraid that first year and half is going to hurt my chance of going to graduate school really bad. What do you guys think? Do you know where I stand? Anything I can do to counterbalance my unfavorable GPA? Thanks.


texts: Professor charging class cash for magazine

texts: I'm in a writing comp class and my professor is charging the class each a cash fee for a New Yorker magazine which is part of the required classwork. Is this allowed and is it considered ethical, especially knowing there are textbooks and other avenues that she can get our classwork from where we can go through school sources such as our book store or library to get our course work? Personally it is not even the fee I'm worried about, I am worried about a professor taking advantage of her students for her own personal gain, it just doesn't feel right or professional, and it definitely doesn't seem like it is good conduct.


texts: What is the usual process for a paper after getting accepted? Can you still make edits for readability?

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We have submitted a paper to a journal,
and received comments from the reviewers.
We are about to submit revised paper and response letter to the journal.

As we revise the paper,
it sometimes bugs me that the paper is not quite perfect.
There are things like minor typos, grammar,
and even some more major flaws like parts where the phrasing should be improved.

I am trying to think ahead about what happens after the paper is accepted.
Assuming that the paper gets accepted,
do we get the chance to make final edits
to correct some of these bugs in the paper
(that do affect readability but do not affect correctness)?

Note
I actually have two published papers to my name,
but in both instances,
after writing the first paper submission together,
my collaborators performed the work of
responding to the reviewers
and getting the paper into the final product,
without involving me in the process.
(I am speculating that this may be because those two papers
were done during my Master's study,
but the paper revision was done when I had moved away to do my PhD.)
While I appreciate that I didn't need to do more work,
unfortunately, this meant that I did not have any experience
with what happens after getting reviews,
and I don't know what is the process to close the loop
and get the paper published.


texts: Writing two papers on two different topics with the same data = two protocols?

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I am a Ph.D. student and a member of a large interdisciplinary team of researchers working on a health related topic. We are shortly to commence data collection related to our topic of interest with a sample of around 250 participants.

I have two very different research questions in mind that I would like to address with the same data set.  Q1) relates to the accuracy of the instruments used and Q2) to the association of our variable of interest with a range of psychosocial factors.

Being highly aware of the potential minefield that is salami slicing, I am being careful to be very transparent about my process. So I have written a protocol in which I set out both of the two questions and list all of the instruments collected. Consequently, I have had (entirely fair) feedback that this makes the protocol a bit incongruous and confused.

So, I'm wondering at this stage what I should do? Write two protocols, one for each question? Abandon Q2 and stick by a rule of one data set = one research question (this doesn't seem to me to be very efficient given the costs of doing research)? What of all the longitudinal data sets out there that have been used hundreds of times by different research groups?

Would appreciate your advice, thanks!


texts: How to shorten an article before submitting to a journal

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Does anyone know a good online source for guidelines for shortening journal articles?  I've just finished a paper that I'm going to submit soon, but I think it is far too long.  Its current length is 30 journal pages.  (I know that because I've obsessively figured out what formatting would get me to have 1 word processed page for each journal page of a specific journal.)  This is in the humanities.

So I just want some good guidelines for things like "get rid of 'the fact that'."  The only such things that I found online were directed at people writing their college-admissions essay, which has to be very short, like 500 words.


texts: How can I anonymously store supplemental research data that I submit with papers?

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I'm writing a contribution for a double-blind submission system.

Since I would like to supply more data than I could show on a small number of pages, I'm looking for a way to reference supplemental data in my manuscript, such as software scripts, figures or databases.

I could upload on GitHub, RPubs, Figshare and Zenodo, but all of these would expose my real user name (and I don't feel like making a throwaway e-mail account with a new repository for every anonymous publication that I intend to write).

Is there any way to get the above services to do what I want? Or is there a similar service that would allow anonymous hosting of research data?

It would be even better if I could later (e.g. after publication) declassify the information, with the link from the manuscript still being intact.


texts: Do you have to have PhD or employed in academia to publish a textbook?

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I am interested in publishing a statistics textbook (e.g. through Duxbery, Springer, etc.). I do not have PhD in Statistics, nor am I employed in university or college as an instructor/professor (but I have BS and MS in Statistics).

Do I have to have PhD and/or have career in academia to publish statistics textbook with those publishers?

Thank you,


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I'm writing a Bachelor research paper using netnography or virtual ethnography.

I've found that this new methodology was mostly advanced by two scholars: Kozinets and Christine Hine.

I managed to get Kozinets' book (2010) published by Sage, in addition to some of his papers, which I think is good in terms authority and currency.
I also have authoritative sources by Christine Hine but are more theoretical and do not offer step-by-step guidance like that of Kozinets.

Will my methods chapter be less solid, if it is based on one book or the work of one scholar?

Thank you


texts: Will working after bachelors reduce my chances of getting into a PhD program?

texts: I am an 'overseas' student in a university, currently pursuing a bachelor's degree. Although I am really interested in signing up for graduate school, I am bonded to work for at least three years as soon as I get my bachelors degree. I am afraid that this might weaken my application and my chances of getting into a good university after I fulfill my bond obligations. Are my fears unfounded? Do professors really care about how long it has been since someone finished school when they review applications?


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I was on an internship with professor A at University B in China. We were working on a computer science project. During the internship I implemented professor A's idea and got some results. Three weeks ago I finished a paper draft and left University B for a new internship. Me and professor A were planning to submit the paper draft to a conference (deadline: May 20).

Until yesterday (May 17), the order of authors was: me, professor A, other students & collaborators in the lab... And professor A had no objection with that. However, last night I received an email from him. He said he wants to be the first author... His reason was for intellectual properties and patent issues. My understanding is that because I was merely an intern at University B, if the first author was me, it would cause IP troubles for him?

I feel deceived. But, should I feel like this? I was counting on a first-author paper because I'm planning to apply for a PhD program in the US. One paper may not mean a lot to someone who's published a lot. But for someone who hasn't published yet, it means something.

Looking on the Internet, I found something that might explain professor A's motivations:
In China specifically, corresponding authors are often underappreciated by universities and research institues. This might be the case for University B. Given professor A is relatively young, he may want first authorship for promotion.

Summary of my questions:

Should I go discuss with professor A and try to persuade him to let me be the first author?
If I want to apply for a PhD program in the US, would being the first author be more helpful or being the second author is as well helpful?

Edit:

My affiliation for the paper has always been University B. I didn't mention my current university or internship in any sense.
I emailed back to professor A yesterday, saying I think I should be the first author, because I did most of the work; because the idea was originated from him he should be the corresponding author. He replied this morning, saying he agree with what I said. He explained that because I was doing an internship in his lab and not a student of University B, putting me as the first author could cause IP and patent troubles for University B... So this problem is fixed now.


texts: Advantages to article submission in LaTeX from the publisher's side

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Many journals in my field accept both Word and LaTeX formats for article submission. From the publisher's point of view, what are the advantages of using the LaTeX format for submission?

Do publishers eventually use LaTeX to typeset the final version of the article? In that case, I can imagine that having the references ready in BibTeX and equations in TeX (among other things) can save quite some time in the typesetting process, and be less error prone. Are there any other advantages?


texts: Evaluation criteria for 3-minute teaching demonstration over Skype?

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I have been asked to participate in a Skype interview for an academic position in a STEM field.  One focus of the institution is innovative and non-traditional teaching methods.  This is the first interview/contact after submitting my application package.

The Skype interview is scheduled to last 15 minutes.  As part of this interview I have been asked to teach something I am "passionate about" in only three minutes.

I am struggling with what the evaluation criteria might be for such a short demonstration.  If I were evaluating a short teaching demonstration, these are the things that I would be looking for:

enthusaisiam
the ability to communicate in the language of instruction
the ability to engage students
use of appropriate visuals
including an interactive or active learning segment
checking up on the audience to see if they are understanding the lesson

However, I don't see how I could authentically include the last three items in a 3-minute lesson.

Questions:

What do you think would be the search committee's evaluation criteria?
Should I try to incorporate active learning and visuals?
Is it appropriate to ask what the evaluation criteria are?


texts: How to write an introduction for a conference or journal paper efficiently?

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When writing research paper, I am often stuck and spend a lot of time working on the introduction. Most of my time spent is staring at a blank page... The introduction takes me significantly longer to write than any other part of a paper.
How can I speed up the writing process for the introduction? I feel that once I can get a reasonable draft that I can iterate quickly, but if I just write nonsense, iterating isn't that useful.
My field is computer science/engineering.