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[ "Can I publish the reviews I write?", "This is a follow-up question to Open versus Blind reviewing process, and is somehow related to What happens to the reviews that people write for journal articles after they're sent back to the author?\n\nHowever, my question does not concern the reviews I receive for the papers I submit, but concerns the reviews I write for papers I have been assigned. Since the whole process is done under confidentiality, it is not clear who owns the copyright on a review I wrote, and what does the review include. \n\nFor instance, let us assume that X is member of a PC of a conference Y, and assigns to me a review of a paper Z, written by A and B (assuming it's not a double-blind). Can I publish on my blog: \"Here is my review for Y, asked by X, on the paper Z, written by A and B\"? \n\nI think that there are two points here: \n\n\nIs it legal? (for instance, publishing the camera-ready version of a paper might be illegal due to the copyright transfer, would it be also the care here?). \nIs it ethical? (who should I ask in order to do so? X? Y? A and B? everybody?). \n\n\nEDIT: There is been several comments/answer wondering why I would like to publish a review I wrote. To give a bit of background of this question, I believe that the current reviewing system, created when the academic community was small and there was no Internet (i.e. no easy access to information), might not be the best, although clearly working. This is for me a very interesting debate, but somehow out of the scope the Q&A format of Academia SE, which is why I tried to focus on my question on whether it was possible to do so, not if it was the best thing to do in the current system (and just to be clear, I don't plan to do it, but I just like to know what are my options). Anyway, thanks for the answers bringing a different light on this debate. \n\nEDIT 2: After seeing the update in Jeff's answer, I just realised that I didn't make it explicit that I was talking about reviews after the reviewing process. Jeff says that it's ok if the paper is accepted, and although I clearly understand the argument of why I shouldn't publish a review of a rejected paper, the question still holds: by publishing a review of a rejected paper, I publish the information that these authors submitted this paper to this conf/journal, which is supposed to be confidential between the authors and the editors. Would I break any rule by doing so?" ]

[ "publications", "peer-review", "copyright" ]

[ "I am lost with my career path. I am questioning my ability to be in research field, academia or otherwise. What to do?", "I am 31 soon to be 32, I don't know what I am doing with my life. I have a PhD in computational chemistry from a top 50 world ranking university. But, it did not turn out well and took too long to complete(6years), mostly my fault. I published few papers in applied journals, but my knowledge is just mediocre. My grades in the graduate courses were abysmal and many were irrelevant, so had to do a lot of self study. I believe I am just not smart enough for academia or research.\nEveryone in my research group and my friend circle were always high achieving as students, they have in-depth knowledge about their subjects. They also struggle during their PhD and Postdoc, but they are smart and knowledgeable in their fields unlike me. I have been a mediocre student throughout. In undergrad my GPA was 3.4, 3.75 in master's and PhD degree. I even flunked three subjects in my undergrad. I had to repeat them. I shouldn't have gone beyond my undergrad degree.\nI just got lucky with my master's degree and PhD completion. I would have been thrown out for not being upto the mark in any other university. I think my advisor and my committee members took pity on me.\nI have no industrial experience or internship experience. I am not confident about my career path. I like doing research and working in my research field, but I am no good. I just don't have the knowledge and intelligence to do work of any significance. No, it's not imposter syndrome.\nI am just making myself unemployable as time passes. I am suffering mentally and current situation is not helping. I am going to be stuck alone and poor in this world.\nCurrently I am a postdoc with my advisor as she probably took pity on me. I have a year contract to be expiring next year in April.\nAny advice?" ]

[ "phd", "research-process", "postdocs", "career-path", "emotional-responses" ]

[ "Supervisor does not give a research project", "I am a graduate student in pure Mathematics. My supervisor gave me an idea to work on, and in 6-9 months I found enough stuff to write 3 papers. After I did that, I was eager to work on some new idea, but my advisor only gave me learning projects, so that I just read many papers without doing any sort of research. After 6 months, I would like to start a research project, but all this reading didn't really help me in finding one (of course I thought about questions on my own, but since the area is quite old and competitive, I was not able to find a reasonable question that was not already answered). My advisor still does not give me anything concrete to work on, but merely suggests to read this or that paper. All of this is very weird, because his other students are treated very differently, they all have projects that started from ideas of the supervisor, and some of them even publish with him!\n\nI am quite desperate, because I get really anxious about wasting my limited time, and I would like to know what you think about this." ]

[ "phd", "supervision" ]

[ "Why are some research papers scanned with OCR instead of actual PDF?", "I have some research papers in PDF format that are actually scanned (and then OCRed) instead of being the original PDF. Some are so badly created that text cannot be properly searched inside. \n\nFor example this paper published in 1994 is all about advanced computer technology and there is no proper digital copy. This extended report related to the above paper is even more horribly digitized.\n\nedit: I am unable to access the actual horribly scanned paper. That extended report also had issues in copying. \n\nWhy is that? Why are some computer-science publications, which are not even so old, not available in a proper digital format?" ]

[ "publications", "literature" ]

[ "At good American PhD programs in the STEM fields, are there not enough American applicants, or are the international applicants simply better?", "This question is specifically about funded PhD programs, not self-funded PhD / masters programs.\n\nIn funded PhD programs in the STEM areas where there is a big international student body, e.g. students from China, India, Russia, is it because these international students are just objectively better, or is it due to a consistent lack of American applicants (because perhaps they choose business schools, medical / law schools, industry over academia)?\n\nAny data would be helpful, too.\n\nThanks," ]

[ "phd", "graduate-admissions" ]

[ "Contacted the head of a group I want to join, but she didn't reply. What to do now?", "An institution in New Mexico is offering a scholarship to people that want to join the institution, and I think I may be a good candidate. I contacted the head of the group I would like to join, with a long mail introducing myself, my work, and my passions, and what I could bring to the group. On her page in the Institution webpage is clearly stated that she is the person to contact for who wants to join the group. \n\nNow 6 days have passed and she hasn't come back to me yet. What do you suggest me to do? I can find on the internet other people that work in the same group under her supervision. Should I contact them? Should I wait more? Should I write again? \n\nI doubt she just found my professional figure uninteresting, as it really matches what they are looking for. Maybe my mail was too long, she put it aside, and forgot to reply? Should I write her again? \n\nIs it maybe uncommon to contact directly the head of the group you want to join through a scholarship? \n\nThank you." ]

[ "funding", "professors" ]

[ "Emailing a professor for points on an exam when you want a recommendation from the professor", "I recently took an exam in my master's program where I missed just enough points to change my grade from A+ to A (in my country, these show up differently on a transcript). I intend on applying to some extremely competitive PhD programs (otherwise I would not be concerned with this grade difference), and given my undergraduate background, this is a course where I am probably expected to get an A+. Furthermore, I am essentially depending on a letter of recommendation from the professor of this course.\n\nAfter having already looked at the exam with my professor, and hearing him explain the grade justification, I believe I did not yet make a well thought-out argument as to why I should have been given certain points.\n\nMy question\n\nShould I bother emailing this professor with my legitimate argument, or simply let it go? I will probably get a rec letter from him either way and while I want an A+ and genuinely think my work on the exam deserved it, I don't want to annoy my professor and make his opinion of me depreciate. \n\nEdit: In this scenario, I feel that an error was made on the part of the test-writer where a question could've been reasonably interpreted in two distinct ways. I was told that because I was the only person to make this particular interpretation, that it was an unreasonable interpretation. I don't agree with this logic." ]

[ "recommendation-letter", "grades" ]

[ "How is sexism unknowingly perpetrated in academia?", "Some sexism is obvious, blatant, and/or deliberate. Fortunately, my understanding is that this kind of sexism is mostly a thing of the past.\n\nHowever, female colleagues have told me that more \"benign\", but still harmful, sexism is still very prevalent in academia. In particular, I've heard that implicit assumptions that women are less capable, or more inclined to be teachers than researchers, are distressingly common. As a mathematician, the results are distressingly obvious: most math departments are overwhelmingly male.\n\nWhat are some ways in which sexism is unknowingly perpetrated by well-meaning people, in academia in particular? And how can those of us who are well-meaning make sure to avoid doing so?" ]

[ "harassment", "gender" ]

[ "How to include showcased work at a conference in a resume?", "I am working on adding to my fledgling academic resume and I'm not sure about how to cite one of the work. \n\nMy team designed an educational game that was showcased at a conference. There was no presentation per se. People could come take a look and try it but that is all. Is this even worth including in an academic resume? If so, how would I go about including this in APA? I don't want to make it look like I did a presentation when I did not." ]

[ "citations", "conference" ]

[ "What are the legal obligations of \"Editorial Board Membership Agreement\"?", "Basically, I have two questions.\n\nFirst question: Anyone knows EnPress publisher is just a scam/predatory publisher or not? Cause they sent an email to me to invite me to join editorial board of a journal, which is related to my field. But I'm wondering is this a predatory journal, which is called OA-Coating Journal, cause their website looks unprofessional to me besides that there is no any published article in their journal!\n\nSecond question: They (EnPress publisher) sent an \"Editorial Board Membership Agreement\" to me and somewhere in this document they mentioned: \"By this agreement, you acknowledge and agree that all ideas and improvements conceived by you in performance of your service shall be the property of the publisher\". I don't understand what they're pointing to exactly! Can any describe what's the meaning of this sentence? Which service that would be provided by me will be their property?\n\nAny idea or suggestion is appreciated." ]

[ "editors", "disreputable-publishers", "scams" ]

[ "Failed PhD qualifying exam, must it be mentioned it in SOP? can I ask my advisor not to mentions in recommendation letter?", "I failed my written PhD qualifying exam twice in Computer Science from a middle-ranked university. Instead of kicking me out, I can get a terminal master's degree. Please note that this will be my second master's degree. \n\nNow I am planning to re-apply to PhD programs at other Universities. My questions are:\n\n\nSince I am getting a master's degree, is it okay not to mention about failing in the PhD qualifying exam in statement of purpose (SOP)? Please note that the Graduate committee informed that it will not be reflected in the transcript.\nIf the answer is yes for the previous question, then my advisor is ready to give a strong recommendation, so can I ask him not to mention about failing in the PhD qualifying exam in his recommendation letter?\n\n\nPlease note that the written qualifying exam is about getting good grades in 4 subject areas of Computer Science, it has nothing to do with research. This is one of the main reasons I do not want to mention in SOP, I wanted to highlight my research potential saying that I submitted a 10-page research paper in a top tier conference in one year. I have industry experience of more than 5 years.\n\nPlease help, since my goal is to get into academics, help students and do independent research. I want to pursue my dream irrespective of this setback." ]

[ "phd", "university", "qualifying-exam" ]

[ "Changing links in Google Scholar Profile", "I'm sorry if this has a very obvious answer, but I've looked around and haven't been able to find one.\n\nI set up my GoogleScholar Profile and added my publications to it without a problem. So far, so good. \n\nHowever, most of them are linking to publisher websites that people won't be able to access. Is there any way to change this so that the links point to, for instance, my institutional repository instead? \n\nClarification: The links are definitely there under the different \"versions,\" but I'd like to have them be the FIRST link." ]

[ "google-scholar" ]

[ "Relational Reference Management Software?", "I'm looking for a reference management program to do three things:\n\n(1) Manage references. There are plenty of solutions for this.\n\n(2) Manage quotations. Similar to this question, whose suggestions were surprisingly lacking.\n\n(3) Map relationships among references. Somewhat similar to the problem posed by this question. When doing research, I often (naturally) find new sources via reference from a current source. It would be extremely useful if my reference manager could look at all sources referenced by all of my current sources to reveal data gold mines like which sources in my library are referenced by other sources in my library, or (even better) what sources are referenced most frequently by all of the sources in my library.\n\nFor instance, if my library/collection contains sources A, B, C, D, E, then I want to see that A references B & E, B references D & E, and C references E. This information would also lend itself to useful descriptive statistics like \"E is referenced by 3 sources in your library {A,B,C}\" and even visual mapping of references.\n\nWith the vast array of reference management software available, I am amazed that I haven't found anything even close to this. Does anything like this currently exist?" ]

[ "reference-managers" ]

[ "Math postdoc in Europe or the USA", "I am a PhD student in mathematics in the US. I got a 3 year postdoc position at a R1 university in USA and I was extremely happy about that as the department is pretty strong in my research area and my postdoc mentor, say Prof., is a top researcher in my area and also works on similar things as me. But Prof. informed me that he has accepted a position in Austria (he is Austrian) but he can offer me a postdoc there for 3 years and it will also include teaching (which I prefer). \n\nI am now really confused about making a decision as to where to go. Since I am from Mauritius, staying in US or going to Austria are bot fine with me. One of the main reasons for accepting the US offer was that I was excited about working with Prof. I am hesitating a bit about moving to Austria because 1) I have heard that the North American job market for tenure track is a bit harder for candidates from Europe and 2) my partner is in the US. I asked my advisor and he suggested that I stay in the US. Below are my questions:\n\n1) How common is it for math postdocs to work without a \"mentor\"? If I end up staying in the US, then even though the department has a good research group in my area but they work on different type of problems and there won't be anyone \"officially\" assigned to me as a mentor and I am a bit scared that I might feel to lonely there in terms of research.\n\n2) Will it be considered ok, if I ask the department in the university in the US to maybe defer my position for a year, during which I go to Austria and (hopefully) start a collaboration with Prof. and then come back to the US? Is this something which is common with postdocs? Are universities in US, generally ok with such an arrangement (I haven't consulted the university yet)?Comments from people who had similar experience (either as a postdoc themselves or as a faculty who have seen this happen) will be greatly appreciated? Thanks." ]

[ "mathematics", "united-states", "postdocs", "career-path", "europe" ]

[ "How can I develop leadership skills in graduate school?", "I am currently in my second year of a PhD program. I have not yet decided on academia, industry, or entrepreneurship for a career, but in all these cases my success will be strongly influenced by my ability to lead and manage a team of students/postdocs, research engineers/technicians, or co-founders/employees.\n\nI have found that graduate school offers no opportunity for practicing the kinds of interpersonal skills most relevant to leadership (delegating tasks, maintaining motivation, creating an inclusive atmosphere, resolving conflicts, etc.). Note that I distinguish leadership from teaching and mentoring. The closest thing I can think of would be to mentor an undergrad in research. The situation will likely be similar if I do a postdoc. \n\nHow can I practice or develop these skills while still in graduate school? Or what would be some important surrogate skills I should focus on instead?" ]

[ "graduate-school", "career-path", "lab-management" ]

[ "Should I remind my potential PhD advisor to know his feedback regarding my solutions to a problem set given by him?", "About a month ago, I emailed a potential PhD advisor in the field of theoretical physics expressing my interest in a PhD position he had advertised. He replied back by saying that he normally gives a problem set for PhD applicants to solve within 2 days. A week later, while sending me the questions, he added that he wanted to understand how reliable I am with calculations. The problem set included questions of increasing difficulty. I solved the problem set in the specified deadline and sent back the solutions but he hasn't replied since then.\n\nShould I send him a reminder email to know the status of my application process?" ]

[ "phd", "graduate-admissions", "professors" ]

[ "Citing a citation from a paper?", "So, I have a sentence in a paper I'm writing that looks like this:\n\n\n This result was first discovered by Person X (PaperX 1915).\n\n\nThe issue is, the paper I cite, let's call it Paper X, written by Person X, is in German, and I have not read it. I know that the result is there, because another paper, let's say Paper Y, also cited Paper X and stated that this result was there.\n\nDo I need to cite Paper Y as well as Paper X, since it is where I found the citation and the result? Or is this not necessary, as the information which I am repeating from Paper Y is information that they themselves repeat from Paper X, which I cite?" ]

[ "publications", "citations", "plagiarism" ]

[ "PhD applications: ethics of not informing other universities after accepting an offer", "I have accepted a PhD offer from university A. I have informed a not so prestigious university D that they should dismiss my application (they invited me for an interview, offered me to pay the flight, etc.). I am still waiting to hear from very prestigious universities B and C (which, as A, are top 10 in most rankings). Is it ethically acceptable for me to wait for the decisions of B and C and inform them about my choice of A afterwards? I am curious whether they would have taken me. Informing B and C late means wasting their time, but I paid application fees for B and C.\n\nTo clarify: I do not intend to attend either of B or C." ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "ethics" ]

[ "Completing undergrad in 4.5 years", "I'm currently in my junior year, doing CS and math double major. For the next year, I have the choice of spending a semester abroad at a top 20 CS program. I have completed nearly all of my required courses, except one. \n\nThe thing is that, if I cannot take an equivalent of that course in the semester abroad, I won't be able to graduate at the end of four years, I will need an extra semester just to take that. \n\nOn the positive side, in the semester abroad, since I do not have much course requirements, I will be able to spend time doing research (the school I will be going has undergrad research program).\n\nSo, my question is, how much one extra semester (probably with only one course in it) would affect my chances in graduate school admissions (for US)?\n\nNote: I know that the extra semester would cost me a whole year due to the admission cycles. In that semester, I can stay at my current home instution (maybe again working with a professor), because double major students are allowed/expected to complete in 5 years." ]

[ "graduate-admissions" ]

[ "Is there a general way to find or get notified of relevant conferences and meetings in your field?", "Here's the problem: I don't know what are the relevant conferences and meetings for me to potentially attend/present in. Every conference I've been so far has been passed down to me by a much older professor who knows it by experience.\n\nI feel like this is an important topic, and yet all the tools I tried to use to find conferences (such as allconferences and conferecealerts) fail to find me relevant things.\n\nIs there a method to reliably find relevant for you conferences worldwide?\nIdeally it would be good to get notified when a new relevant conference is announced.\n\nI know there are some websites (such as arxiv-sanity and google Scholar) that suggest papers for you to read based on previously loaded papers, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was some similar tool where you put some conferences with a few keywords and it spits out suggestions.\n\nCheers" ]

[ "publications", "conference" ]

[ "Should undergrads list affiliation?", "If I am simply an undergraduate of an institution, am I affiliated with it? I do not want to lie about my affiliation but also do not want to permissibly lie by putting \"Independent Researcher\" if I should in fact list my university." ]

[ "publications", "affiliation" ]

[ "What are the trade-offs of working in the office versus elsewhere (as a professor)?", "I find that when I'm working on research in the office, at least with the door open, I often get interrupted and am generally less productive. On the other hand, I often have students ask to meet with me outside of office hours on days when I don't plan to be in my office, and they're unhappy when I mention that I won't be available that day. I suspect this hurts my student evaluation scores (which are the primary basis for the evaluation of our teaching in our tenure process).\n\nAdditionally, as junior faculty, I'm aware that getting tenure is partly about \"fitting in\" with your department. In mine, many (most?) folks are in their offices for something closer to 9-5 five days a week, perhaps leaving early on Friday. When I am in the office, I make a point to stop in and say hi to colleagues, but I'm sure that I'm less visible around the department than many others.\n\nSo rather than a specific answer, I guess I'm looking for guidelines in how you approach this type of decision." ]

[ "research-process", "professors" ]

[ "How should I list multiple pick-ups of the same published media interviews on a CV?", "I am updating a physician's CV where there are many instances where a printed or online interview he did was picked up and published by several different (unrelated) publications. I am unable to find the best way to show these as consolidated listings, rather than repeating them as individual listings. Is there an approved MLA or another gold-standard format that I can use? Thanks for your help.\nRandi Pincus" ]

[ "cv" ]

[ "I'm applying for a faculty position; should I mention that my research interests align with those of the department's faculty (stating their names)?", "I am applying for a faculty position. I am very familiar with the works of two professors in that department and we share similar research interests; Also, I have them cited in my articles. As I'm writing the supporting statement, do you think is it okay to mention how my interests align with those of these professors (mentioning their names)? stating something along the line of : my research interests are in alignment with those of Professor A and B." ]

[ "job", "faculty-application", "application-cover-letter", "faculty" ]

[ "If my papers are always accepted, should I submit future papers to journals more diffficult to get published in?", "I have written several papers, all of them got accepted (by different journals) with only minor (or even very minor) revisions. Naturally, I am happy about having my research published, especially since I am only in the first half of my PhD.\nBut I recently read a comment (to an unrelated question) that said:\n\nThe other half of the advice: If your papers are always accepted the first place you sent them, then you are aiming too low.\n\nThat made me wonder: If my papers are not only always accepted, but even accepted with only very minor requests for change, should I try to submit future papers to other journals with higher impact factors/ better reputation/ higher rejection rate?\nAs an added note: I work on a pretty interdisciplinary side-branch of engineering, and thus, there is quite a wide variety of journals that I could submit my articles to. The journals I have submitted my previous articles to have an ok impact factor/reputation, but are not at the top. The choice to submit there was made by a combination of: previous submissions from our working group, suggestions from my supervisor, research into what journals might be a good fit as well as where articles covering similar topics have been published previously." ]

[ "publications", "journals", "paper-submission", "bibliometrics" ]

[ "How common are interviews for Computer Science PhD programs?", "I am applying for admission to several CS PhD programs (in the US), and I am just wondering how common it is for schools to request interviews with the candidates. I will be out of the country for much of January which seems like a prime time for interviews to take place, so I am wondering if I should start making alternate plans. Thank you!" ]

[ "phd", "graduate-admissions", "computer-science", "united-states", "interview" ]

[ "How much course preparation, grading, and student question handling can be reasonably expected of a graduate TA?", "I am creating all homeworks, quizzes (two per week), exams (2x75 questions), review questions (2x75), projects, 20-page lecture notes (two per week), and answering all student e-mails, along with grading, every week for a large class.\nThe professor is new to this course and only has the lecture slides ready by Friday night so I am expected to prepare everything for the week within a few days. The professor has created no content for this course at all, and I put in at least 40 hours a week.\nFor context, I am a biotechnology graduate student at a large R1 US university. My contract says that I am paid $15/hr and set at 20 hours a week.\nIs the professor allowed to have me doing this much work?" ]

[ "graduate-school", "united-states", "teaching-assistant" ]

[ "Existing hypothesis, same country, but different years and setting – is it plagiarism?", "I am working on a master-thesis research paper. Recently, I have chosen a research topic and found a related survey dataset to work with. However, just now, I have found out that other authors did the same work for the same country, but used a different survey and for years earlier. Now, I am confused about what to do. If I would carry on the research, would it be considered as a plagiarism, even though I will use another survey for later years, and work in a different setting?" ]

[ "plagiarism" ]

[ "Does publishing a manuscript in a respectable journal increase chances of getting a scholarship?", "I am a second year physics undergraduate in a not so famous University. However, I have constantly received top marks in my class and I have just published a paper of mine in one of the highest ranking journals in my field, with reviewers expressing extreme interest in my work and I am working on a second paper. My question is will this help me get a masters scholarship in a western university?" ]

[ "publications", "graduate-school", "funding" ]

[ "How to \"dress up\" a CV that has a PhD but no peer reviewed publication record?", "I have a glaring omission in my CV because I do not have any scholarly (peer reviewed) publications to my credit. However, I have good industry-based experience (more than 10 years when I have written a number of manuals and submissions), and have recently completed a Social Science PhD from a reputable university. I am after some guidance on ways in which a person in my position would address this glaring omission in a CV so as to better highlight/present his credentials for academic purposes (e.g. to apply to join a university etc)." ]

[ "job-search", "cv" ]

[ "Usages of \"sic\" when citing old spelling", "I am citing a Dutch work from the late 19th century. Not surprisingly, the spelling differs from the contemporary spelling. In APA, how would I use [sic] in such cases of old spelling? In the guidelines it is advised to \"insert the term sic in italics directly after the mistake\". It seems dull to me, though, to insert [sic] after each word that is spelt differently." ]

[ "citations", "grammar" ]

[ "How can I cite a previously given, unavailable talk without self-plagiarism", "In University, I was part of a philosophy reading group where people would occasionally give talks about their on-going research. Several years ago I gave one such talk, and presented original and new ideas that were never published or presented in a more formal setting, although the ideas were also presented in a term paper I wrote that same year. There is no public record of the contents of the talk, or even that that talk happened.\n\nNow I am in a situation where I wish to reference that same idea in a research paper. It is outside the scope of the current paper paper to present those ideas as a new thing, but it would be something that would be appropriate to reference as existing.\n\nHow would I do that? I could get a DOI for the talk and reference it using that, but I would feel weird about referencing an unavailable talk that I gave, as it would feel like citation padding. This is doubly true since it is early in my career. I could write up a summary of the talk and put it on a publicly available repository, but I’m not sure if that’s a thing that is done. Are there other options?" ]

[ "publications", "citations", "self-plagiarism" ]

[ "What if clinical leadership refuses to protect research time?", "I'm a physician-scientist currently on year 4 of a K23 (early career grant for physician scientists in the US), recently awarded first R01 (multi-year major research grant for biomedical science in the US) with 20% effort. Problem is that despite the 'protected' time from these awards, my division/section chief refuses to commit, and as the only non-full time clinician in the section I seem to to be the first one asked to cover the clinical scut work (calls, service, etc.). My division chief specifically said, \"No one really holds to the protected time\", so it doesn't matter if I get three more grants, it's not clear they'll ever actually protect my time.\n\nIt seems like the only option (other than leave) is to sacrifice myself by reporting to NIH, in which case I'd probably just lose the grants. Has anyone ever successfully managed this situation without leaving? Anyway brought in ombudsman, or other independent institutional resources? \n\nObviously, I'm posting this anonymously..." ]

[ "funding", "medicine" ]

[ "What typically happens when a research field becomes \"dead\"?", "I'm interested in knowing what typically happens when a research field is largely regarded as being \"dead\". \n\nDo professors in the field treat this dead period as a permanent effect and look to build new skills to do research in another field? \n\nFor instance, I recently had a conversation with a well-known topologist; he mentioned how topology had become dead ever since the Poincaré conjecture was solved by Perelman. And now, he looks outside of mathematics, to physics, because he feels many questions in physics can be formulated as questions of topology. Is this the typical thing to do when one's own research area becomes dead?" ]

[ "research-process" ]

[ "Graduate Program - Re-application etiquette?", "I'm re-applying to several of my top choice graduate programs (comp. lit. programs in the U.S., specifically) after being rejected last year. I'm making some substantial improvements to my application materials (writing samples, personal statements, etc.) and applying with a somewhat different and more clearly articulated focus. \nFrom other posts I've gathered that re-applying to a program doesn't necessarily lower chances of admission. However, how advisable/appropriate is it to acknowledge the prior rejection while re-applying? What about contacting the department as to what the weakness were in the prior application - is that advisable, or even possible?\nDoes anyone have general advice for the re-application process?" ]

[ "graduate-admissions" ]

[ "Resubmitting book proposal?", "Would it be allowable (or prudent) to resubmit a book proposal to a press where it was once rejected, provided it was revised afterwards? If so, what elements should be different or included in the new proposal, besides an updated writing portfolio/CV (i.e. a note on how and where it was edited)?" ]

[ "publications", "books" ]

[ "Unexpected long delay with paper review and no answer from editors", "We've submitted a paper to a well known journal, but it's been more than one year without a reply, despite multiple e-mails sent to the editors. We got a reply once, just pointing to another editor which did not answer our requests. \n\nJust to clarify:\n\n\naug/2014: paper submission;\nmar/2015: first e-mail sent to editor (no reply);\nmay/2015: second e-mail sent to editor, which answered pointing to another sub-editor and saying that the delay might be caused by a late reviewer;\njun/2015: e-mail sent to sub-editor asking for clarifications about the delay (no reply);\naug/2015: e-mail sent to editor and sub-editor asking for news about our paper (no reply);\noct/2015: again, another e-mail for both editors (no reply), and we even asked to confirm the receipt, without reply either.\n\n\nWhat is the next thing we should do? I guess that withdraw our submission is the logical step, but we don't want to lose all this time of reviewing without any feedback and knowing that our paper was probably reviewed by one or two reviewers, and it could be near completion." ]

[ "publications", "peer-review", "paper-submission" ]

[ "How can one find journals paying authors or reviewers?", "How can one find journals paying authors or reviewers? \nI've read about some old examples (probably about a relatively small university I can't recall) but I'm wondering if is there a directory or shared keyword or do they just go by word of mouth?\nCan I write on topics I don't have a PhD about but I'm otherwise competent on?\n\nThank you" ]

[ "publications", "journals", "peer-review", "online-publication" ]

[ "How much experience is required to apply to be on the editorial board of a journal", "Background: I am a pretty early career academic (a couple years out of post-doc) and am junior faculty at a research intensive school. My CV is not bad, but is also not overly impressive. I'm a quantitative researcher in a science field and have around 20 publications, many of them in good journals but most of them not as first author, and a small amount of success in acquiring funding (have 1 small NIH grant as PI). I can say with confidence that I do NOT have a \"national reputation\" at this point. \n\nLike many people in my career stage, I am on the mailing list of many journals I've submitted to, etc., and have some experience as a reviewer. One slightly-above-average journal has made an open call for statistical editors and has solicited applications. This interests me but I've always imagined editors as the super-experienced researchers who have had long illustrious careers, which I most certainly have not. \n\nMy question: when open calls are made for editorial positions, what is the general requirement for those who apply? Would an early-career researcher who has the proper expertise, but not necessarily the name recognition/reputation, be considered? I.e. the issue is not about \"how much experience do you need to perform the duties of an editor\"--it's about what kind of credentials do you need to have your application taken seriously. To be clear, these are volunteer positions." ]

[ "editors" ]

[ "Starting a PhD without wanting an academic career afterwards: should I tell my advisor?", "I'm about to start a PhD in Europe. I'm seeing the PhD as a "normal job" that I'll do for a few years, because I'm interested in the job and I find it stimulating and interesting, and I want to do research in this field. I'm 100% committed to finishing the PhD and do as best as I can to produce good and consistent research, but I must admit that I'm not doing this with the goal of climbing the academic ladder later in mind, quite the opposite.\nFrom what I can gather, getting a permanent academic position involves moving a lot and having a lot of uncertainty until you finally land a position (if ever). I seriously doubt I will want such an uncertain life beyond my PhD, I've accepted to move for it because of the reasons above and because I'm young, but in fact I intend to go back to my home country afterwards, whether or not I find an academic position there. What I'll do, I'll see later.\nI have not discussed this with my future advisor, but I don't think I've deceived him either, we did not talk at all about my future plans for after the PhD. On the other hand, I fear that he might just have assumed it - who does a PhD without wanting to be a researcher?\nShould I talk about this to my advisor?\nOn the one hand, my future beyond the PhD is mine to decide, and if he wanted to know about my future plans, he would have asked. Also, it seems too late now to bring this up, there's not much either of us can do about it and I fear it would just spoil our relationship before the PhD even starts.\nOn the other hand, I feel that I'm almost being dishonest by omission. If the default goal for a PhD student is to pursue an academic career, by omitting my unconventional plans I'm (unintentionally) deceiving my advisor into believing I fit into the default. What should I do?" ]

[ "phd", "advisor", "ethics", "career-path" ]

[ "Are you limited to the interests of the professors or your advisor during graduate research?", "I am applying to school for a degree in food science and am looking at potential schools and advisers. I've stumbled upon a particular subset of food science that I really want to get into, but only seems to be currently pursued by a couple professors at a certain University.\n\nIf, for some reason I am not admitted to this University, or the professors conducting research in this field do not accept me in their labs is there still the possibility of gearing my studies towards this type of work? If my graduate studies advisor had similar research focus, just not exactly the same, would this increase my chances of getting to work in this area? Is it worth it to mention your interest in this field while contacting potential advisors, even if it does not relate to the reason you consider the professor a good match?" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "advisor", "research-topic" ]

[ "Is it ethical if I do paid tutoring in a subject taught by my department?", "I was asked by a student to help him/her with a subject (probably for money). I previously taught a similar subject at a different university (that is where the student got my contact info from) but now I am at the exact department whose subject the student is attending, though I am not teaching or in any ways affiliated with that subject.\n\nDoes this situation constitute an ethical problem?" ]

[ "ethics", "tutoring" ]

[ "My master’s thesis’ results will be published without my consent. What should I do?", "Last year I finished my master’s. I spent the whole year working on experiments for my master's thesis. Part of the results I obtained were published in my master’s thesis, which was submited via an online tool to my university; so there is proof that that work is mine, I guess.\n\nThen I was offered to stay in that research group and do a PhD, but I refused. They went as far as to threaten me with publishing my data without crediting me. I still refused.\n\nNow it has come to my attention that my data has been used to write a paper that will soon be sent for publishing. Besides that threat from months ago, no one has asked for my consent or permission to use my data, and I don’t even know if my name will be among the authors. Even if it does, I won’t be first author, because they will be assigning that to the person who wrote it.\n(I’m not sure how much they have written themselves, as I already had written nearly everything myself for when I had to hand it in for it to be graded for my master.)\n\nMy questions are: if I am actually asked for permission before they send it to a journal for publishing and they say they will include my name but not as first author, is it worth accepting or should I refuse? In the case they don’t ask me for permission, what should I do? Mail the journal once the paper is published along with my master's thesis and the raw data (all I have are excel files) to prove the data is stolen?\n\n\n\nI understand the confusion in some answers, as my case is very chaotic.\nAs far as I'm concerned, my thesis is not available to the public. Only my advisor and the director of the master have access to it (maybe more people at the university, but it's definitely not available to the public). \nI also know from a case of a person who did his master's thesis in this same research group and then left, and he was asked for permission before the paper using his data was written. He was also credited as an author. \nSadly, the fact that the boss holds a grudge against me for not wanting to stay and her having a favorite (the one who will be credited as first author) also plays a major role in this.\nIn my field, being a first (or last) author means you are who worked the most in that paper. It's usually the boss/advisor and the person who obtained most of the data by working in the lab." ]

[ "publications", "plagiarism" ]

[ "Asking the primary professor of your target grad school to review your statement of purpose", "I'm applying for a PhD in the US (I'm from Italy).\n\nI was thinking that maybe I could ask the primary professor of the school I'm applying for to review and give me his opinion about the statement of purpose I'm writing.\n\nI'm afraid though, that in the US academic environment, this could be seen like ethically not fine. In Italy this would not be a problem, but I want to avoid to hit a cultural difference.\n\nIs it something appropriate?" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "application", "statement-of-purpose" ]

[ "Is copying paragraph structure plagarism?", "While helping a friend with a research assignment (basically find some studies on a topic, compare them, and then evaluate the work as a whole), I noticed that the professor had provided a sample paper.\n\nThey had one paragraph for every study, and they were all in the same exact format. For example:\n\n\n [Authors] conducted a [type of study] to investigate [phenomena]. The\n study was conducted at [institution] and involved [N] [types of\n people]. The strengths of this study were [...] etc.\n\n\nIs it plagiarism to copy this exact format? Or is the structure of paragraphs not something to worry about?" ]

[ "plagiarism" ]

[ "Swap Postdoc position", "I was offered a post doc position in a top level university about 2 months ago, which I have already accepted. \n\nHowever, I was recently called for an interview in another equally prestigious university for another postdoc position which I applied to before getting the previous position offered. \n\nThe second position is, in my view, much better than the first one in many senses (I like the country more, a substantially higher salary, closer to my home town), however I am worried that if I decline the first offer (which I already accepted) now, the supervisor from the first university will get annoyed and that will carry repercussions in my future career and my image to the scientific community. \n\nI have heard that many people do these things (declining offers already accepted) for academic positions, but that this is seen as much worse for postdocs positions. However, I think that everyone would agree that the second offer is a substantially better option, even the supervisor from the first university. \n\nShould I give up the position I already accepted in order to pursue the better option?" ]

[ "postdocs" ]

[ "Term for a document between an article and a monograph?", "I'm looking for a term for describing this writeup of mine which is too long and detailed to constitute a paper, but seems to short to merit being called a monograph. Is there such a term?" ]

[ "publications", "terminology", "monograph" ]

[ "Unsure of Convention for In-Text Citations", "I'm writing a longer paper for a course as part of a final project. The paper is on a topic we didn't cover in class and is obviously intended as a way to let me teach myself something we didn't have time for. As such, I'm using other people's ideas for my paper nearly every single sentence. I'm unsure of the convention for determining exactly what bits I need to cite and how often I should cite it, but I'm pretty sure it's not that I need to cite something every sentence. Is there some sort of convention for this sort of thing?" ]

[ "citations", "writing-style", "coursework" ]

[ "How to find new advisor after being let go", "I'm a PhD student in US. I've been tipped by my advisor that I would be let go if I do not get results by a deadline. I am working on my options:\n\nSwitch advisors: I have seen people switching advisors and finishing their program, but I'm not sure how that works. Why would someone take another faculty member's (seemingly red-flagged) student, who is in middle of the program? How to approach with a red flag like this?\n\nApply elsewhere: How can I apply for another PhD position without my (potentially masters) advisor's recommendation? I want to email faculty members at other universities (as a master student, which is the potential case), but if I state that I have research experience and have submitted abstracts, that would lead to wanting to know more from my advisor. How can I represent myself as a good prospective and raise minimum question?" ]

[ "phd", "application", "application-cover-letter" ]

[ "How to encourage self-archiving of preprints in science?", "As the background, I am a graduate student in high energy physics, mainly theoretical physics. Recently, I have sen that there are a few scholars who don't put the preprint versions of the paper in the preprint servers such as arxiv. I must add the fact that for many of the journals the self-archiving of the preprint is allowed, and I see no point for not putting the preprint version submitted to peer review on arxiv. I have seen that there are some old researchers and also some not so old ones who don't put the preprint versions of the paper on arxiv and sometimes make it difficult for some papers to be read. Hence, the question would be on how to promote open access and convince people to be opened within this direction." ]

[ "publications", "arxiv", "open-access", "preprint" ]

[ "Do I owe potential collaborators an explanation for late follow-up?", "I had a meeting with a potential collaborator month ago, and at the meeting I had agreed to email them within a week. However, shortly after I began going through a stressful divorce. I am worried that the potential collaborator may judge me for failing to reach out in a timely manner. Should I give them some form of minimal explanation for the delay?" ]

[ "email", "collaboration", "networking" ]

[ "Am I too old for an Ed.D?", "I know that similar questions have been asked regarding PhD's, but I was hoping for specific guidance on my plans for an Ed.D. \n\nI am 38 and I am a career changer; I went from being in the Army, to working for a distribution center. Now, I'm a third year elementary teacher overseas in Hanoi, Vietnam. \n\nI love my new career and I just finished an MSED in Elementary Reading and Literacy. I've been accepted into the Liberty University Ed.S. program in Curriculum and Instruction. In the beginning, I planned on finishing my education there. But, I realized that going for an Ed.D. would require only an additional 30 credit hours. So, I have really been considering it.\n\nI would love to continue teaching while I chip away at the Ed.D and I would continue to teach until I have 10 years experience (making me 45 years old). \n\nMy question is: would I be too old to get a job teaching at a university at this age? I would love to continue teaching overseas, but would return to the US for the right job. In addition to being a career changer, I'm new married with two young babies. So, I want to make sure that I set us up for a good future.\n\nThanks in advance for your help." ]

[ "career-path" ]

[ "Is it acceptable to cite a textbook for basic background in a master's thesis?", "There's one theoretical concept I feel I need to explain briefly in the literature review portion of my MA thesis, but it's very slightly tangential and I don't want to spend more than a paragraph on it. A textbook provides the most all-encompassing, thumbnail sketch of this concept, which would allow me to explain it while citing a single source rather than three or four journal articles. \n\nWould it be déclassé to use a textbook as a reference in a MA thesis for this purpose?" ]

[ "citations", "thesis" ]

[ "How should one deal with fellow students constantly asking for notes?", "I'm an undergraduate student in the Netherlands, and as the title states, I'm encountering an annoying situation. How should one deal with the situation of constantly being asked for the notes of a lecture, summaries of book chapters, flash cards, etc by other, fellow-students? \n\nI do not mind to share my stuff with my study-group, because everyone is working hard in the group, and we all benefit from each other, however what I do mind, is strangers (from my course) approaching me for my work; it even went as far as people offering me money for summaries, and other work of mine. \nAlso, I don't mind when someone approaches me asking for an explanation to something; I like to explain material to other people; since I benefit from that as well. I, and others, however feel that it would be unfair to give away the work, on which we worked on very hard, to someone who didn't do anything. \n\nI know it would be easy to just give in, and thus having dealt with the problem. I just fear that: \n\n\nThe students will come back for more \nThey will give me the guilt if they can't study with my notes and don't receive the grade they wanted \nIt will go around and more and more people will come to ask \n\n\nSo, how can one politely deal in such a situation? I do not want to appear as hubristic or miserly." ]

[ "students", "coursework", "interpersonal-issues", "homework", "netherlands" ]

[ "Interdisciplinary PhDs?", "Is there such a thing as an interdisciplinary PhD, where the student chooses the fields, courses, etc.? If so, which U.S. universities offer such a thing?" ]

[ "phd", "united-states", "interdisciplinary" ]

[ "Contacting a potential advisor: Where should I go from here?", "About two and a half weeks ago, I contacted five potential advisors at a school that I am planning to do my master’s at. Three of them got back to me and said they are not expecting any graduate students next year, but seemed interested in me (they said they would consider me for the future). Two others got back to me, very interested, and I scheduled phone calls with them. I have one phone call next week. \n\nHowever, I had a phone call with a potential advisor nearly two weeks ago. It was really casual and he seemed very interested. He suggested an area that I could do a project in. We exchanged a few emails after the phone call where we discussed what I could potentially research. He sent me a link that I checked out. He said that he had some students gathering data in the area that I said I was interested in; so we could use some of that data. I responded with “that sounds compelling, I would be interested in doing research in that area”. \n\nThat was the end of our email exchanges. I am not really sure where to go from here. He never confirmed that I will be a graduate student, but also seems like he is very interested. Should I expect him to make the next contact or should I contact him? I am not really sure what I would say since I threw the ball over to him in my last email. I have to apply for a scholarship by the end of January though (which includes a research proposal) and he knows this..." ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "advisor", "email", "communication" ]

[ "Factors determining a feasible research field", "It was discussed in prospect of PhD research proposal previously, but this question is for all ages of researchers. \n\n\nWhat factors should one take into consideration before selecting a research field?" ]

[ "publications", "research-process" ]

[ "Finding papers that report results on a dataset", "I am doing a literature study, and I would like to identify published research papers that report results on Reuters dataset RCV1-v2 (as comprehensively as could possibly be expected). The results should preferably be comparable (i.e. use the exact same subset of this dataset, e.g., some tend to use only a smaller subset)\n\nHow should one approach this problem?\n\nSo far, this is what I did:\n\nThe dataset was introduced in this paper: Rcv1: A new benchmark collection for text categorization research.\n\nI went to scholar.google.com, found the paper, clicked on \"citations\", then marked \"search within citation\", and used keywords such as \"results\", \"comparison\", \"evaluation\". Is there a better way? \n\nThere are 1651 citations (according to Google scholar...), at what point should one feel reasonable comfortable that one has (comprehensively) identified the papers which have reported (comparable) results on this dataset?\n\nThe goal of the literature study is to motivate my choice of method (I want to inform myself of what methods have been applied, and how they compare to each other)." ]

[ "literature-search" ]

[ "Keyword tagging across scientific papers making it searchable", "One year into the research project I have now a nearly exhaustive list of keywords / themes characterising my topic. There are about 100 words, though some of them are so closely related that probably this can be a little bit reduced. However there are nuances, so for what it is worth I would like to keep it for now.\n\nThe plan is now to be able to go through all the literature again and tag the keywords when they or a close synonym is mentioned in the text. \n\nI have most of the literature in PDF, though some items are old school books. Now what I would like is eventually to have a search function where I can then search for a keyword and it finds all the text items where I tagged it. \n\nThe keyword system of Citavi is close, but not quite. OneNote is great for searching, but pulling in 300 PDF research papers into OneNote is simply no option. What would be best is an annotation Program for PDF, that saves notes in a database format, e.g. saving 'Note Bla bla bla,Keywords abc, file X, page 7, line 20'\n\nWhilst that is wishful thinking, thousands of people have come before me and tried to figure out this personal knowledgebase research thing, so I am a bit surprised there is no software for this, and all the discussions either peddle reference tools (Mendeley, Zotero) or Mindmapping (Xmind, …) which are really addressing different concerns. \n\nI also want to keep the original paper and my notes separate.\n\nAny thoughts / suggestions ?" ]

[ "research-process", "software", "keywords" ]

[ "A PhD in Informatics vs CS?", "I just had a conversation with an adviser who mentioned that there is little value in a PhD in informatics (specifically biomedical), when compared to a pure CS PhD. I have a background in computer science now, and am looking to stay in this field. However, my adviser makes the argument that to truly bring about innovation in this field (or really any interdisciplinary one) one needs to be grounded well in the basics of one of the pertaining fields. What is the truth to this, and would I be able to get this with a PhD in informatics? \n\nEDIT: Sorry, forgot to include the location. I'm from the United States." ]

[ "phd", "graduate-admissions", "career-path" ]

[ "Is it acceptable for a researcher PhD or PostDoc to pay a freelancer to re-implement a Benchmark", "I have heard of PhD students struggling to re-implement a Benchmark paper. Many of those I know struggle hard to do this on their own which could take up to 2 semesters or more, in some cases. Others pay programmers to re-implement their benchmark paper for reasons of insufficient skill, time, etc. For the latter, is this acceptable especially when the student is not paying the programmer to implement his PhD contribution?" ]

[ "phd" ]

[ "Asking Professor for teaching assistantship", "I am an undergraduate student and have taken a course which interests me a lot details won't matter I guess). \n\nThe course is split into lectures and lab sessions. The lab prof had a graduate student as a teaching assistant, who simply sat next to the professor doing nothing for the whole semester the course was held (for free it looks like).\n\nBeing very interested in the course, I read many textbooks, constantly asked prof questions, answer fellow classmates' questions on the course's forum(which amazed my professor). Finally, I met her in the campus after the course grades were released. She revealed that my coursework was the best in the class and showed my enthusiasm for the subject (150 pages long with complete bibliography list and references). \n\nBeing highly interested in the subject, I am interested in helping my professor during the lab hours, during the final year of my studies.\n\nI have helped other students when I was taking the course, excelled in it, and my professor acknowledged my dedication.\n\nAs with any requests made to professors, I am highly worried how to express my will for being a teaching assistant to the course (having in mind that I am an undergrad) without seeming like the arrogant student trying to \"replace\" the teacher as a result of (falsely showing) she was not doing her work right.\n\n(Stuff that come to mind I'd have to do during the course are - preparation of lab lecture notes, helping students - software problems during lab sessions, help/guidance on the forum, coursework grading, and extra lab sessions.)" ]

[ "professors", "teaching-assistant" ]

[ "Should there be a theorem or proposition that uses lemma?", "I was thinking the following: suppose that one writes an article or lecture notes where he or she uses some lemma. I have understood that every lemma should be used somewhere in the document. But is it enough if I use some lemma in an example, or should there be a theorem or proposition that uses that particular lemma?" ]

[ "publications", "mathematics", "writing", "lecture-notes" ]

[ "Where to find journal impact factors stripped of self-citation?", "Where can I find a database of impact factors where self-citation has been removed? A journal's self-citations are defined as those citations by that journal's papers towards other papers in the same journal.\n\nThe reason I want to know this is to know which journals are engaged in coercive citation so that I know which journals I should avoid." ]

[ "journals", "publications", "citations", "reputation", "impact-factor" ]

[ "Is it necessary to report every single finding, even if they're not relevant?", "I conducted a study a while back that I'm writing a manuscript on for publication.\n\nThe study was broken down into 5 different parts. Let's call them parts A, B, C, D, and E for simplicity.\n\nSuppose that parts A through D were all connected to each other, but part E only provided descriptive data from a set of items that hasn't even been tested for Cronbach's alpha. I included part E more or less out of sheer curiosity, but it presents no reliable data or relevant information to the understanding of parts A through D. It also isn't important in replicating the study, nor does it counter any findings in parts A through D. In other words, it's more of an extension to the first four parts, but not directly related to the findings of them.\n\nIs it necessary to include part E in the manuscript (i.e., in the methods, results, and discussion sections) since parts A through E were administered in the same overall study?\nOr is it okay to simply not report parts of the study, so long as it does not bias the results of the parts you are reporting?" ]

[ "publications", "research-process" ]

[ "Do my country and the standard of my supervisor affect the quality of my PhD?", "I'm almost going to start my PhD. Out of curiosity, I searched for several effective researchers in several fields over the internet. Most of the common property among almost of them are\n\n1) Working under the supervision of another effective researcher.\n\n2) Not doing PhD in my country.\n\nThe second rule fails if and only if his/her supervisor satisfies both rules.\n\nI considered some other factors such as time of spending, passion on the subject. Although many people I saw in my colleagues, friends, seniors etc., have these qualities are not as successful as the people who have the above two points (country, supervisor). \n\nIn this context, even I have so much aspiration, the two factors are pushing me back due to this empirical evidence. \n\nThus, my question is, whether the country and the standard of the supervisor affects my PhD quality and hence my career? \n\nNote: I was neither a child prodigy nor an exceptional person but an average student. Hence please answer realistically." ]

[ "phd", "supervision", "developing-countries" ]

[ "Preventing Verbatim Answers that Match Examples?", "When teaching students (especially in code, but this can apply to any subject), how do you prevent near verbatim answers that match your examples?\n\nFor example, I tell students how to find a document by ID in an array of documents. I show them the code foundDocument = documentArray.find(singleDocument => singleDocument._id = id). I then ask students to find a fruit in fruitArray. The answer I'll get is foundDocument = fruitArray.find(singleDocument => singleDocument._id = id), which works, but not the ideal answer.\n\nSome notes based on the content discussion and answers so far:\n\nThis is sort of for a project. I teach both one off weekend classes and long term coding mentorship and this comes up in both. The goal of the weekend class is to build a website by the end. The goal of the mentorship is for the singular student to have built an MVP of their product.\n\nThe array example above was the simplest and shortest example I could think of to demonstrate my issue. I also see this happen where whole files get copied and the students expects something different to happen.\n\nWhat I'm hoping to prevent is the pattern matching that students sometimes do but they don't fully understand the why of what they are doing. I've also seen (and done this myself) often in the STEM fields. You find a formula that works and re apply it but not understand what you're doing." ]

[ "teaching" ]

[ "How to find an internship place in a different city than my university is?", "Long story short: I moved to Germany to do a Msc in molecular biology. Since corona, all my lectures and exams are online. Because of financial reasons, I decided to move to a different city (Berlin). But I have 2 internships to complete.... one is for about 5 weeks and the other is for 10 weeks (for my thesis). They should be at the same place.\nBut I don't have connections here. I tried to cold-email professors, but some of them don't answer, another ones simply don't have time because of corona. I tried to get some advice from my home university, but ofc they can't help me (apart from advising cold emailing :D )\nHow could I approach research groups? I am kinda lost in this situation. My last option is to move back to my home university, only for the internship, but it would be very costly and I don't want to do that." ]

[ "masters", "job-search", "germany", "internship", "masters-post-phd" ]

[ "Program to manage research", "I'm searching for a PC program, that syncs to the cloud (to Dropbox?), that will allow me comfortable management of PhD research, kind of a digital lab book. That includes -\n\nComfortably adding daily/weekly progress reports\nOrganizing material on several projects, including pictures, summaries, presentations and analytical results (build in Latex/Overleaf support?)\noptional small calendar/event feature - manage PhD progress reports, talks, travels, etc.\noptional link to Mendeley, or comfortable resources management.\n\nPreferably free programs, but not expensive solutions (less than 100$ per year) are welcome as well.\nMy friends recommended Microsoft OneNote, however it's less comfortable for me.\nMy field is physics, so biology or other field focused programs are less desirable." ]

[ "research-process", "software", "productivity", "time-management" ]

[ "Using others' dissertation theme and layout", "I have been working on my dissertation and when doing the literature review I stumbled across another dissertation with similar research ideas as myself. \n\nWhen reading it I reallly like the layout and structure as they based it around a specific well known framework. I have found myself using a similar layout and theme but with my own content, data collection, analysis and findings. \n\nCan someone confirm if this is ok? Or will I need to restructure it?" ]

[ "thesis" ]

[ "If I have an academic dismissal from a school should I ever go back there?", "As a 19 year old I had to withdraw from a university because of depression. However, at the time, one professor refused to let me withdraw and gave me an F. On the strength of that grade I was dismissed from the university.\n\nI got myself together and went to DePaul and graduated Cum Laude. Now I have received an offer for an assistantship (full ride) and a stipend from the university I had to leave as a young student.\n\nI want to teach at university level and will someday be sending transcripts on to a PhD program from my MA. Will the dismissal show on my transcript? Will it matter? I appreciate you help and input." ]

[ "graduate-admissions" ]

[ "Peer-review: Reference to unpublished work", "Paper I am reviewing\n\nI am reviewing a paper from authors Xs. In their paper, they assume that a function f was equal to g. In my opinion (see below paragraph), the particular choice of the function f can have important impact on the end results. I would note that most people in the field assume that f is equal to g (without good justification for this assumption).\n\nUnpublished work from a colleague\n\nA colleague of mine (let's call him Y) had the idea that depending on the field of application the choice of f might be important. He worked on it and we recently talked about his first results which suggest that he was right; if f equals to h for example, the results of interest might differ. He has not published his work yet.\n\nIssue\n\nI would like to suggest to authors Xs to comment on the potential importance of the f they chose. However, by doing so I would give author Xs the credit of being the firsts to recognize the importance of the choice of f while it is Y who first came up with this idea. I obviously want to avoid that. If the work of Y were published, I would just suggest Xs to cite this work but it is not published.\n\nShould I just remain silent?" ]

[ "citations", "peer-review", "authorship" ]

[ "When should we contact the editor to follow up on our submitted manuscript?", "We have submitted our manuscript for publication on June 18, 2020. Until now, we haven't heard any decision from the journal. The status of the manuscript on the online system is 'under review' since July 09, 2020 (this was updated twice). According to the journal's website, the review speed is 5.0 weeks for the first decision and 7.1 for the final decision. I am a bit confused if I should contact the editor or if I should wait until I receive an answer without contacting them. Do you recommend me contacting the editor in order to follow up on our manuscript? Most importantly, if yes, when should we contact the editor to follow up on our submitted manuscript? Thank you in advance" ]

[ "peer-review", "paper-submission", "editors", "journal-workflow" ]

[ "Can I have multiple research jobs totalling > 1.0 FTE in the United Kingdom?", "Is it permitted in UK academia to have more than one Research Associate post which totals greater than 1.0 FTE? *. What's the general opinion if no definitive answer is possible.\n\nObviously 2.0 FTE would be a stretch, but I was thinking more along the lines of 1.2 FTE or 1.3 FTE.\n\n\nFTE = full-time employment." ]

[ "research-process", "working-time" ]

[ "How to deal with scooping when doing open-source tools development?", "I am developing a tool for bioinformatics ... it is an application that will be open source when finished. It is something that has use outside of bioinformatics as well.\n\nI am also using some open source tools to develop my application. When I need help with the open tools I'm using, it's kinda difficult for me to get the help I need without telling the people what I'm using it for.\n\nI asked my prof if I could make the app public while it's in development, and he suggested it might be a bad idea to do that because of the potential of someone scooping the work and publishing it before we get a chance to do so.\n\nMy questions are:\n\n\nHow serious is this problem? Do people really just take someone else's work and publish it as their own? And do journals really allow this?\nMy prof mentioned this in terms of someone developing the tool on their own and then publishing it (i.e. take the idea but not necessarily the code). Is there anyway I could have my cake and eat it too - i.e. make the tool public and still guard against scooping?\nHow does your lab deal with open source tools? Do they get released to public before the publication?" ]

[ "publications", "open-access", "bioinformatics" ]

[ "Ask PhD committee member as reference", "In Europe, is it common practice to ask an external member of your PhD committee to be a reference on a resume for job applications?" ]

[ "application", "job-search", "recommendation-letter", "thesis-committee" ]

[ "How can I convince my postdoc advisor to end my contract early?", "I am currently a postdoc in a Computer Science discipline.\nBy some odd artifact of the way our university handles postdoc contracts, we are given fixed-duration (1 year) contracts with no exit clause. The only way to amend the contract (i.e. end it early) is through a mutual agreement with the advisor.\n(Side note: this came as a nasty surprise to me when I started looking for jobs.)\n\nI have found a job that is a great career opportunity for me, and I intend to take it as I believe it's acceptable to leave my postdoc early.\nThe job is in industry (again, my choice), and while I would much prefer to not burn any bridges I understand this is a lot to ask of my boss.\n\nI am personally aiming for the smoothest transition possible, \nwith a reasonable notice period (1.5 months) and a plan for transitioning my duties, but obviously this mutual agreement issue is a big sticking point.\n\nI am looking for good arguments to help my case, ideally focusing on the positive (it's great for them), for example:\n\n\nit looks good on their \"CV\" to have lab members go to great places\nThis increases their visibility in the community\npeople are defined by where they've worked previously, this can increase the reputation of the lab\n\n\nWhat arguments can I use to convince my postdoc advisor that we should end the contract early?\nI realize there are many \"legal\" reasons why I can/should be allowed to leave, and I would have posted on workplace.sx to look for those.\nMy hope here is to look for some of the often-intangible \"academic\" benefits, and take a step in the direction of a win-win compromise." ]

[ "postdocs", "contract" ]

[ "Supervisor with no expertise in the field", "How feasible it is to be supervisored by a professor who doesn’t know the area? She told me it’s my research and she will only provide general research guidance." ]

[ "phd", "advisor" ]

[ "When applying to grad school: GPA vs Prestige", "For undergraduate studies is it preferable to go the a prestigious school and get decent GPA or to go to not well known school but be top of the class?" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "graduate-school", "undergraduate", "gpa", "ranking" ]

[ "Does translating an article for a magazine require permission from the author?", "Is translating an article (that could be found written in a popular science magazine or online in a science blog or personal webpage say) for a public newspaper or an online blog ...etc, requires permission from the author?" ]

[ "publications", "copyright", "online-publication", "translations" ]

[ "Grants: how to acknowledge collaboration, techniques from postdocs or students?", "Grants for the NSF/NIH/many other government agencies often only allow people who are in \"faculty-level\" academic positions to be PIs and co-PIs*. When this is true, what is the best way of acknowledging a postdoc/student's contribution to the grant if they wrote large portions of it or made significant intellectual contributions? In addition, sometimes a postdoc/student has significant relevant experience that a PI lacks. What is the best way to highlight this, both to credit the postdoc and prevent reviewers from raising this as an issue? (I'm most interested in NSF here, but NIH/others would also be interesting.)\n\nPossible answers:\n - including the postdoc on the grant as a co-author, but not a co-PI (I believe this is possible for NSF) \n - Highlighting the postdoc's skills in the proposal itself/including postdoc's bio. \n - Adding a \"letter of collaboration\" from the postdoc. (If, for instance, the postdoc is in a somewhat independent position and can't be listed as personnel.)\n\n\n(* This of course depends on the agency, the institution, probably even the type of grant.)\n\nThis question is essentially the PI-side version of this one: What to do when an advisor takes credit for a grant proposal?" ]

[ "advisor", "funding", "postdocs", "authorship" ]

[ "Old Cambridge examination: Draw, from memory, a wheelbarrow turned upside down", "I came across the following story about the exams students sat in 1858 see page 4 here.\n\nThe following questions are taken from the first examinations set by\nthe The University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate in 1858.\nThe Junior papers were for candidates “under 16 years of age” and the\nSenior papers were for candidates “under 18 years of age”. [...]\nOn another paper, candidates were asked to draw, from memory, a\nwheelbarrow turned upside down. They were allowed an hour to do so.\n\nI was hoping someone could provide more context for this wheelbarrow question. Such as, what was the purpose of the exam? Why was such an usual question on the exam?" ]

[ "exams", "academic-history" ]

[ "Physics Courses in Undergrad to Apply for Physics Grad Program", "I am a sophomore physics student with an interest in studying applied physics or engineering in graduate school. I will take as many applied physics courses as I can in undergrad (and CS courses), but was curious as to what opinions most physics grad programs have toward Chemistry courses in undergrad. I have a strong feeling that Chemistry (2 semesters of it) would look great, but it would be hard for me to squeeze them in to my schedule. I know that it will vary by grad school, so I am wondering if anyone has a general rule of thumb when it comes to this?" ]

[ "graduate-school", "physics", "chemistry" ]

[ "PhD Student reapplying to other PhD program, what to indicate in CV?", "My advisor decided to move to Industry and it is likely that he might not come back. I do not have an option of continuing with my current PhD program or finding a co-supervisor as suggested. I am in my second year at the moment, and I think it is best to reapply to other PhD programs.\n\nI was enrolled as a full time PhD student and our department does not offer a Masters+PhD program, so officially I was enrolled just as a 'PhD student' and not as a 'MS/PhD Student'. I might likely be given a Masters, give that I have completed the course requirements.\n\nHowever, for writing Statements of Purpose and CV for my applications, I am stuck with the following:\n\n\nHow should I describe my 'education' section? I did have a PhD topic assigned with a pending publication on the same. Should my current status be of a 'Masters' or a 'PhD' student?\nDoes it make sense to explain my situation in my CV or Statement of Purpose to describe what exactly made me reapply to PhD programs?\nMy advisor is less responsive these days and I am unsure if it is a good idea to give his name as my potential recommender. A fallback option is to ask my course instructors at Graduate school which would probably not guarantee a strong recommendation as compared to recommendations from people I have actually worked with during my undergraduate. If I do not have any recommenders from my current program, will that go against me?" ]

[ "phd", "graduate-admissions", "graduate-school", "cv", "statement-of-purpose" ]

[ "How to improve my Analytical Writing skills for the GRE?", "I took the GRE for the first time recently and my Quantitative and Verbal Reasoning scores were somehow good. However, I've scored only 2.5 on the Analytical Writing section and I believe that would kill my application even to a small graduate program (I'm an international student applying to chemistry grad schools).\nNow I am studying to retake the GRE and I've found plenty of materials for quantitative and verbal reasoning, but I am struggling to find (free) content on the internet on how to prepare for the AW part of the exam. Are there any resources online or books that can help leveling my writing skills in the short term? (I'm planning to retake it by october)" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "writing", "gre" ]

[ "Editor rejected manuscript claiming it is similar to a not-yet-published manuscript (that I haven't seen). How to proceed?", "A few months ago, I submitted a manuscript. After the reviews were completed I received a rejection decision from the Associate Editor (AE). The rejection was based on the basis of a single rejection recommendation by one of the four reviewers. The journal has very high standards so this is not uncommon. However, the reason for the rejection appears really awkward to me. The reviewer wrote in his/her report that another paper with a similar idea was submitted (not published) in another journal. He/she wrote that the submission date of the other paper was earlier than mine so the originality of my idea is questionable. The AE agreed with this report and adopted this argument in the rejection letter. \n\nI want to emphasize that my results were independently developed and I have no knowledge whatsoever of the other manuscript which according to the reports that were attached has not been published yet. The whole situation seems rather awkward and I am not sure how to react. Of course the reviewer's identity is not known to me, but I find it hard to believe that he/she is not an author or somehow related to the author of the other paper. \n\nFurthermore, I feel really offended by these comments as it appears to me that I am implicitly being accused of plagiarism. I am considering writing a letter to the Editor in Chief. I do not want to change the decision, but I would like to make clear that my results were independently obtained. Also, what are your thoughts on how should I proceed with my manuscript?" ]

[ "peer-review" ]

[ "Should I list my degrees chronologically, or in order of relevance in my CV?", "Say that I have achieved a Masters degree in Physics, then a Masters degree in Mathematics. Then for a couple of years, I focused on different fields. I have had placements related to agriculture and botany, as well as taken online courses in Machine Learning. After careful consideration I decided want to pursue a PhD in Physics and so I am preparing for applications.\n\nNormally CV's are written in (reverse) chronological order, most recent experiences first. However, my path is not straightforward, and so I am confronted with a choice.\n\nOn the one hand, since I have been told that a CV could be glanced at in less than 10s, I would want to put the most relevant (and prestigious) elements first. On the other hand, I am required to have those degrees to simply be eligible in those courses, and to provide the relevant certificates. This makes me want to keep the CV in reverse chronological order, for the sake of clarity and simplicity.\n\nIn the motivation letter / note of research interests I can also briefly explain my path, highlight my relevant experience and thus perhaps reduce the need of highlighting it in the CV." ]

[ "application", "cv", "europe", "application-cover-letter", "italy" ]

[ "Is there any limit to the amount of data that can be taken from a research paper for writing a review paper?", "I am writing a detailed literature review of some twenty papers available on a newer topic of interest, which form the core of the topic. I am extensively using data from all of those twenty papers.\n\nI want to know whether there is any limit to the amount of data that can be taken from a research paper (with proper citations and referencing) for writing a review paper. Will the excessive use of data (methodology, experimental results, author's proposed and unverified hypothesis etc.) from a research paper be called plagiarism?" ]

[ "plagiarism", "copyright", "review-articles" ]

[ "To what extent are reviewers influenced by other reviews?", "Is there any research/study/survey/... that looked at to what extent reviewers are influenced by other reviews?\n\nFor example, ICLR 2019 published reviews publicly before all reviewers had written the reviews.\n\nI am especially interested in the field of computer science (machine learning / natural language processing)." ]

[ "peer-review", "reference-request" ]

[ "Transitioning from pure research to a teaching position", "I have a PhD in Computer Science and have been working as a \"pure researcher\" in an academic setting for the past 10+ years. I have a decent publication record, with a large number of citations to my work. As part of the research role, I have also been a co-supervisor/advisor of several PhD students and done presentations in front of conference audiences. I've done a bunch of \"guest lectures\" in a few undergraduate classes.\n\nI'd like to transition from the current pure research position to a mixed teaching and research role. My motivations are to have more contact with people (as research can be lonely) and better job security. To than end I've applied for several teaching positions (tenure-track associate professor), but I've been told that the lack of teaching/lecturing experience (undergraduate students) is a problem.\n\nWhy would the selection committee see the lack of teaching experience as a deal-breaker?\n\nI do understand that teaching requires a different set of skills than research. However, teaching skills can be learned, so is this a case of demonstrating the capability of learning such skills? If so, what would be some acceptable strategies for obtaining such skills?" ]

[ "career-path", "teaching", "job-search", "computer-science", "tenure-track" ]

[ "Is it fair to reject manuscript with few words of comments after long 9 months of review?", "In January 2016 I had submitted my work to Elsevier mathematics journal. For 8 months they kept my manuscript under review and for one month under status 'Decision in process'. Now the editor responded rejection with comments like following; \"The manuscript is of limited interest to the readership of this journal, and I can not recommend it for publication\".\nIs this fair to respond with such short review after such a long period of review ?\n\nI am not in anyway want to justify that my work can not be rejected, but after such long wait I was expecting some decent comments." ]

[ "peer-review" ]

[ "Want to get MS in Computer Science but in a predicament due to low GPA and lack of references", "I have a BS in computer engineering from a state school with a GPA of 2.56 (out of 4.0). I had a pretty serious and unmanaged illness from the second half of freshman year of undergrad to one year after undergrad graduation. I went from doing physical training for ROTC with no problem to throwing up from doing 7 jumping jacks. It practically happened overnight. When you look at my transcript, I have had probation over two semesters due to extremely low GPAs and a leave of absence due to illness. Yes, I could have taken a longer leave of absence while figuring out my health problem but I was told that I would lose my financial aid and would not get them back. I was advised to just plow it through since it would be the best course of action for me. \n\nA lot of courses I took had attendance integrated into the final grade. I would often get A's on exams but end up with C or B as the final grade. I tried explaining to professors that I was not physically able to get to the class to attend the lectures. Even with doctor's note (although it said \"reason unknown/severe pain\" at the time). Some professors even scoffed at me and told me to \"take Tylenol and man up.\" \n\nI had the option of retaking some courses before graduation to improve my grade but that is when the state started cutting the budget so a lot of courses were canceled. I was stuck with F's in some instances without being able to remedy them. \n\nAfter graduation and finally being able to manage my health problem, I was able to refocus on education. Since I knew getting into a grad school with my academic record would be near impossible, I even considered going back to school for a second bachelor's degree in computer science. That proved to be a challenge since not many schools would accept me since my degree is too closely related to the major I am applying for. A lot of classes I should take to prove my competency for grad schools are not available to non-degree seeking students. If they are, those are only offered during work hours. \n\nNow I have 2 years of experience as a software test engineer (more like DevOps) and 1.5 years of experience as a software engineer. During my professional career, I learned a lot. And fast. I taught myself a lot of computer science topics since those courses weren't available for my major in undergrad (thank you 2008 financial crisis). I did not get along with managers at work due to differing opinions on how much/fast I should learn... Managers didn't like that I became de facto tech lead for some projects under a product as one of the most junior members in the company. \n\nNow that my background story is over... How do I approach grad school applications with my GPA? It seems near impossible to make up for the GPA while working. And how do I approach the letters of recommendation problem? I'm only able to secure one from a professor in undergrad days. My former colleagues at all levels are more than eager to write me letters. None of my direct managers nor other professors are willing to write me a letter. Managers from a different organization within the company are willing to write me one. Do those carry any weight? The ones not from direct managers/supervisors?" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "computer-science", "recommendation-letter", "gpa" ]

[ "Should I mention the reason I changed labs so often on my C.V. and/or cover letter? (Due to lack of funding)", "I have changed labs 5 times in the past 13 years as a research lab technician. Every time the reason was only because a lab ran out of funding. Unless the recruiter contacts my references, they might think it is due to a personal problem.\n\nSo should I mention that the reason was due to a lack of funding on my C.V. and/or cover letter? If so, which one(s)? If not, why not?\n\nThese are molecular biology and biochemistry nationally-recognized labs in the U.S." ]

[ "research-process", "job-search", "cv", "application-cover-letter", "biology" ]

[ "Automatically updating ORCID, etc, from arXiv?", "Generally, whenever I write an article, I will always upload it to arXiv first. So, my list of publications on arXiv is essentially the most official version of my publication record.\nIs there a way to automatically update my profiles from other websites (ORCID, Google Scholar, ResearcherID) directly from my arXiv record? (I do have an arXiv author identifier). i.e. whenever I upload a new article to arXiv, it will automatically be populated on those other platforms I mentioned." ]

[ "arxiv", "digital-researcher-id", "automation" ]

[ "Who should I ask for recommendation letter after graduation?", "After graduating for two years, I decided to apply for the Master program. I have prepared essays and scores but now I am stuck with recommendation letters. I have got 2 - one from the current manager and another one from my undergraduate institute. However, I am struggling with one last letter.\n\nI came from a big public school (UC system) and for some reason, a lot of my upper-division classes were taught by instructors, not professors. And unfortunately, at least three of the instructors either left the department or left academia (got into the industry) and I am not exactly sure if I can contact them (even if I could, they are no longer in the department and that might be an issue..). \n\nI have previously contacted one faculty that I have TA(undergraduate IA) for months ago. But that doesn't work due to some complicated issues (the faculty's schedules). My latest research volunteer experiences(short) were 4~5 years ago and it was extremely hard to contact supervisors as well.\n\nIs anyone can give me any suggestions? I am living in another country right now, so visiting the campus is not really feasible. Understanding that Master's program does not care about LORs as much as Ph.D. programs, I am worrying that I couldn't have all the required documents." ]

[ "graduate-admissions" ]

[ "Handling collaboration requests from the authors of double-blind reviewed papers (after submitting the review)", "(I apologize if this is a duplicate, but I was not able to find any similar case on AcademiaSE)\nI am finding myself in a very odd and unpleasant situation. The subject is "ethical" peer review in Computer Science.\nI am a sub-reviewer of a conference. As such, I was assigned some papers to review (in double-blind format); however, for the papers I am assigned, I am able to see who the other reviewers are, and also their reviews on these papers. As a sub-reviewer, my name does not appear on the listed TPC of the conference.\nAmong the papers I am assigned, there is Paper A. I reviewed this paper and I liked it, albeit it had some flaws. After submitting my review, I was able to read the other reviewers' remarks - some were positive, some negative. My (positive) comments allowed the paper to pass the first round of review.\nNow the problem: I received an email from a Researcher X who I did not know, asking a collaboration proposal; the email had Paper A in the attachment. Apparently, Researcher X found it relevant to include a proof that they're working on something to corroborate the collaboration request. I would be very willing to collaborate with X, as I consider their research group to be strong.\nYou can easily understand my awkward situation: what to do?\nThings to take in mind:\n\nMy review has already been submitted and evaluated. Hence, I cannot turn down the review-request.\nI can turn down the collaboration request, but I would lose a significant opportunity for my academic career.\nEven if I warn the TPC of the conference to "retract" my review, I was still able to see the reviews of the other reviewers (as well as their names).\nMoreover, my review has already had an impact on the future of the paper.\nMy name did not appear on the TPC list, meaning that Researcher X acted in good faith." ]

[ "peer-review", "ethics", "collaboration", "anonymity" ]

[ "Can i submit a revised version of a retracted paper to another journal", "One of my paper was retracted die to honest error (statistical error). is it possible to submit the revised version of the paper to another journal for consideration of publication. Thank you" ]

[ "publications", "publishers", "errors-erratum", "retraction" ]

[ "What to do if an advisor does not give enough time of his to you", "I am a student of Pure Mathematics and wanted to work in Linear Algebra,Abstract Algebra etc.. I entered a PhD program in 2015 in a University.\n\nMy adivisor wanted a scholar to work in the field of Graph Theory.\n\nMy advisor works in the field of Cryptography and said previously that though he could not publish anything in Graph Theory but he is very keen to work here.\nHe said that he has connections in this field to whom he can send me if I have doubts in Graph Theory which he can't answer.Also he said he will start reading with me and told me that we two will have a great time.\n\nBelieving him I took up research in Spectral Graph Theory.I read some books in this field and started having doubts.I asked him about that but he simply said that he is too busy to look into my problems because of his conferences and asked me leave them.\n\nAlso he told me that he is developing ties with other advisors in this field but he has not yet succeeded and it will take time.\n\nIn one year,he has not ever sat with me and discussed any problem nor has he advised me which books to read as he says that it is the work of the scholar to find out new problems and decide what to read and what not.He says his guide also treated him the same way.\n\nThough he has 6-8 scholars where some have completed and 2-3 have submitted there PhD and working as part-time lecturers. I am his first scholar in the recent 3-4 years and he assured me all sorts of co-operation if I join him.\nHe told me that he wants to broaden his field of research and that's why he wanted me to work here.\n\nCan I leave him?But if I join somewhere else they will ask me what I was doing in these two years,what should I say them?\n\nWhat should I do?Is this what happens in a PhD?\n\nIsn't there any role of a guide in ones PhD?\n\nPlease help me with some of your advice.Thank you very much" ]

[ "phd", "research-process", "advisor" ]

[ "Six months have passed since paper has been accepted and it was not yet published - has the editor changed his mind?", "About 10 months ago, I submitted one little article to a journal and six months ago I received the acceptance. I uploaded the latex file and since then I didn't hear anything about it being published.\n\nToday it appeared a new issue of the journal so I must wait at least another 3 months.\n\nThis will be my first published article and I started to become a little nervous about it.\n\nCan you tell me if something happened, like editor's changing his mind or delaying because they consider it less valuable than other submissions?\n\nShould I contact my editor about this?" ]

[ "publications" ]

[ "Is it appropriate to ask an author for an English translation of a paper?", "I have found an interesting paper which is very relevant to my research. After reading the abstract in English, I would like to continue to read through the methodology and its discussions. However, only the abstract is available in English, and the content is in another language which I don't know.\n\nI really want to read through the content as some of the figures are very interesting to me. I have tried to translate it using Google Translate, but it is very difficult to understand. \n\nIs it appropriate to send a polite email to the author, asking for a translation of your paper in English? Does the author have the obligation to do so?" ]

[ "publications", "etiquette", "translations" ]