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[ "Expecting students to use a code base that is known to be buggy?", "Suppose an instructor is teaching a course on a particular field in computer science. He uses a language that is popular for said field, but itself is not the topic of the course (though its use is still required). The instructor provides a code base he wrote that the students may base their course project upon. However, this code base is very buggy and does not follow many accepted \"best practices\" in the language's usage. You are not technically required to use this code base, but to use anything else is most likely impractical given time constraints. Is it justifiable to expect students to use a buggy code base you prepared, or is it lazy? Or neither?" ]

[ "teaching", "computer-science", "coursework", "course-design" ]

[ "Education gap in Between Graduation and Master degree", "I had completed my graduation in 2013 and after that due to some family problem, I had to go home and help my father with his business. Now I have started preparing for a master degree, but how can I compensate for my two years gap in education?\n graduation completed in june 2013\n\ngap 2.6 years \n\nmaster start january 2016" ]

[ "masters", "education" ]

[ "Should I do a post doc? Good thesis but no papers (yet)", "I am finishing writing my thesis in physics, where I present a new kind of microscope. I think it's a good work but I have no papers out yet, also because of a perfectionist supervisor. I have been told two papers should be ready within a few months, but I don't really believe this and I don't know I will have the energy to work hard for them... I feel a bit worn out, and I know I need a break. \n\nOn the postdoc side, I got a few rejections, submitted a good application for a fellowship and I guess I could do a postdoc with a professor at my department, but I would prefer to move somewhere else. To put things in contest, I'm 30 and European.\n\nWith these premises (good work and no publications, while the other students I know have 3 papers out at least), do you think it would be a good idea to do a postdoc?" ]

[ "phd", "postdocs" ]

[ "Subjects lectured per week", "I am currently lecturing at a private tertiary education college where I am obliged to lecture, on average, 12 distinct subjects per year at both diploma and degree level. I lecture 6 to 8 subjects per week or around 4 or 5 unique subjects per day across all graduate levels (first, second and third year students). Some of these classes are repeated identically up to 7 times each week for 7 different groups of students for around 30 to 35 lecturing hours per week. \n\nI am currently feeling a little overwhelmed by the workload. Is this normal for a private education institution?" ]

[ "teaching", "working-time", "lecturer" ]

[ "Normal career path for lecturer in Computer Science", "I'm 27 and looking for advice on the career path for lecturing in Computer Science. At the moment I have just started a job at a blue chip company in Software Engineering. However my prime goal is to become a lecturer.\n\nMy education background is a little sidewards in terms of fundamental knowledge in Computing (details in algorithms, memory, programming) as I have a BA in Graphic Design and a conversion Masters in Computing (which skimmed the subject). \n\nI would be interested in pursuing a Phd in Computer Science focusing on HCI/ software engineering. However my concern is whether or not I have the confidence in the fundamental knowledge as I only achieved a Pass on my Masters.\n\nSo my question is, would taking a postgraduate diploma in Advance Computer Science benefit before fully undertaking a Phd? \n\nBoth courses would be undertaken part-time whilst working.\n\nAny advice would be greatly appreciated!" ]

[ "phd", "career-path" ]

[ "Can blogging about research results first affect your ability to publish them later?", "There are the obvious worries about getting scooped (discussed here http://www.quora.com/When-is-it-wise-to-blog-or-talk-about-your-academic-research-work-before-you-submit-it-for-publication).\n\nBut I'm wondering if there are more subtle concerns. Could it hurt your chances of publishing in a venue that doesn't allow preprints? Should I cite myself if I copy text?" ]

[ "publications", "publishability", "blog" ]

[ "Should I put details in the scope and limitations if it is already mentioned in the objectives?", "Should I put details in the scope and limitations if it is already mentioned in the objectives?\nFor example, we have already mentioned that we will be analyzing trends in the data. Should we also mention that as the scope of the study?" ]

[ "publications", "writing-style", "introduction" ]

[ "Showing figures from a paper in presentation", "I'm giving a talk summarizing someone else's paper and I'd like to show some figures from their paper during my presentation. It's an informal talk to fellow students and a few professors at my school. Would it okay to just have a PDF of their paper up on the screen showing the figures needed? Should I obtain permission before I do this?" ]

[ "copyright", "presentation", "graphics" ]

[ "duplicate published data figure", "I read two papers just published online (paper no.1 accepted about 1 month before paper no.2) in the same journal by the same authors.\nTwo papers have the same topic, using the same numerical method, same at least one simulation object. I found in paper no.2 some figures that very similar to paper no.1. The example of the figure in these papers shows in the picture below. Fig C is exactly the same in the two journals (just change the view angle a bit) while Fig A, B, C, and D are different. However, there is no statement that the data in Fig C has been published in paper no.1 and no citation. Additionally, there are also some similar figure data in the two papers but just change the axis scale.\nSo can it consider as duplicate data?" ]

[ "publications", "journals", "ethics", "data", "retraction" ]

[ "Which format(s) for citation files should I offer for my references?", "As I want to make my publications easily available for citation, at my website I am offering, together with my references, a citation file. For the moment I am offering a .bib BibTeX file with every citation.\n\nThe question is, if it is recommendable to use further citation formats. I have seen that Google Scholar offers 4 possible formats: BibTeX EndNote RefMan RefWorks. Is it recommendable to offer such a variety or it is enough to use BibTeX?\n\nThanks." ]

[ "citations" ]

[ "How should to-be-published articles be referenced?", "Can I use an unpublished but about to be published soon paper as a reference for a conference paper? \nSuggestions would be appreciated. \nThank you!" ]

[ "publications", "citations" ]

[ "Can I develop software that solves a problem as a Master's thesis?", "I have designed and developed software that solves a problem (In healthcare if it matters) for my master's degree, and I'm having some doubts about whether it could be considered an actual research to write a thesis about or not, especially that I'm going to do PhD afterwards." ]

[ "thesis", "masters", "software", "software-papers" ]

[ "Have there been attempts to get around \"DeWitt clause\"-like license restrictions?", "(This is a complementary question to: Has the DeWitt Clause, which prevents publication of named DBMS benchmarks, ever been successfully defended in court?)\n\nSeveral commercial database vendors include an end-user license agreement provision, known as the DeWitt Clause, that prohibits researchers and scientists from explicitly using the names of their systems in academic papers.\n\nThere are several concievable approaches to circumvent this prohibition, including:\n\n\nIn the US: Ignoring the prohibition and claiming \"fair use\" which supersedes the Copyright, or general un-enforcability like Spitzer did (see the related question) - risking legal action.\nOutside the US: Some states in the world allow download and certain kinds of non-commercial use of copyrighted works without permission from the author / rights holder, in which case the researcher never accepts the restriction in the first place.\nOutside the US: Some states have laws regarding \"standard contracts\", as opposed to contracts specifically worded by two parties negotiating - e.g. the conditions for opening a bank account, your Internet Access Provider's terms of service etc. Such laws declare certain kinds of terms and conditions in such contracts as null and void if they are injurious to the weaker party - the many individuals who must accept the contract. One could publish a benchmark result, claiming s/he wasn't bound by the DeWitt clause.\nLoopholes in the condition itself. For example, Microsoft's SQL server license says:\n\n\n BENCHMARK TESTING. You must obtain Microsoft’s prior written approval to disclose to a third party the results of any benchmark test of the software.\n\n\nWell, you must obtain Microsoft's prior written approval to disclose to a third party the results of any benchmark. But you're not required to go any significant effort to prevent third parties from learning about these results. So, for example, Joe Smith (not you) runs some benchmark and writes down the results in a file. It's not in a public folder, but - you or a friend of yours have access to that folder. You're not bound by the conditions of the license, and can supposedly publish the benchmark result. Joe Smith should also not be liable, since he did not actually disclose the results to anybody, nor did he solicit others to check out his results.\n\n\nI'm not saying I know for a fact these avenues of circumvention are bullet-proof. And I'm not asking whether they are. I just want to know whether there are known cases of people using one of them, or any other course of action, to openly and notoriously circumvent DeWitt clauses (in Software or w.r.t. access to materials of academic interest)." ]

[ "publications", "copyright", "software", "legal-issues" ]

[ "What terms should be better to set when creating a Startup with your PhD supervisor?", "What terms should be better to set when creating a Startup with your PhD supervisor?\nI had the PhD project idea before starting the PhD and working on it for some years. Now my PhD research looks promising for commercial use and I am thinking to create a startup. I recognize the prestige of my PhD supervisor and he is willing to participate in the startup.\nWhich are considered fair terms for both me and the professor for our new startup, based on the fact that i have done all the development (spending countless hours of work the past years) and came up with the project idea, but the professor has the prestigious name to make the startup more credible (and maybe better funded)?\nShare equal equity? Have equity based on hours spent on the startup? Something else?" ]

[ "phd", "advisor", "professors" ]

[ "How can a book's copyright year be in the future?", "I recently noticed that in the book "Investing for Dummies" by Eric Tyson, the copyright is listed for 2021, even if at the time of making this post the year is still 2020. How is this possible? How can a copyright year be in the future?\nCopyright and Publishing information for the book" ]

[ "copyright" ]

[ "My co-supervisor wants authorship in a paper he didn't contribute", "I have two supervisors, in different countries, one in home institute who sent me as an exchange student to the host institute, where I closely worked with another co-supervisor who significantly contributed to my work, taking place of the last author in the conference paper I have submitted (not published). He reviewed my work, my paper and also was a really good advisor. My other supervisor, one from the home country had nothing to do with my project except on record. His domain is completely different from what I have worked on. \n\nNow, in my master's thesis that I presented in the home institute in front of my co-supervisor and other faculty in the institute, I mentioned that I've submitted a paper based on the work I had done. I was questioned about the authorship of this co-supervisor, and was told it is unethical to leave him out of authorship, because by default, the supervisor must get the last authorship. \n\nNow I fear that due to ego issues, they will reduce my grades because I didn't mention this co-supervisor's name in the paper. \n\nHow do you suggest I tackle this situation and am I wrong to leave him out? His only contribution was to provide me recommendation for sending me to the exchange program, and review my final thesis and presentation which I suppose every supervisor must do, whether or not a paper is published. \n\nP.S. In my institute, having a paper published gets us better grades and hence I decided to mention about the submission. But now it looks like everything is going to take a U-turn on me." ]

[ "publications", "paper-submission", "authorship" ]

[ "What is the benefit of writing lecture notes for an introductory course vs using a textbook?", "Background: I am a junior university staff member, and I will teach an introductory course in linear algebra for the first time in a few months.\n\nI see that many teachers devote time to writing lecture notes. To me, this looks odd. Whatever I can write will not be half as good as a well-written textbook. so my first choice would be looking for a good book, recommend it to the students, and stick with it as much as possible for my lectures. \"Everyone writes their own notes\" looks like a model in which there is a lot of needless duplication of work.\n\nWhy do people write detailed lecture notes for basic courses? What is the advantage with respect to following closely a textbook?\n\nAre the two approaches really alternative, or am I misunderstanding the role of lecture notes? Should I do both?" ]

[ "teaching", "books", "lecture-notes" ]

[ "I got accepted to PhD program, but I am not sure with whom I want to work. Is it bad to change advisors?", "I got accepted to a top PhD program. I did not expect this to happen, but I am quite happy about this. A certain professor A voted for me (e.g I was accepted to a program because he liked me during the interview and voted for me). He expects me to work with him when I arrive. But, I am not sure if I want to work with him. I know nothing about the area he works in and most of his students did not join academia after graduation (which is bad for me). I would like trying to work with professor B, but I am not sure if this will work out either. Professor B might not want to work with me, or I might fail in his lab (the work that professor B does is harder and expectations are higher). So I afraid that if I try working with professor B - how will I explain this to professor A? What if I will not succeed with professor B, then most probably I cannot expect to work with professor A again, since nobody wants to feel like a back-up option. \n\nHow does it usually work for students in PhD? Can students easily try working with different professors and then choose the one they like? Is switching advisors/ coming back to them easy? Or most often students stick to the professor who accepted them?\n\nCountry: US, field: CS" ]

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

[ "Can I slightly change the title of my conference presentation?", "I'm going to a conference in December and I will have a 20 minute talk there. Originally, a colleague of mine was supposed to go, but personal circumstances resulted in my taking part instead. My colleague and I cover the same area, so this is not the problem. But since my colleague handed in the title of the talk we have reevaluated our use of field-specific key words. Therefore, I think the title as it stands is a little misleading. Is it common practice to adapt conference presentation titles? I found one topic covering a similar matter, but it hasn't got much attention." ]

[ "conference", "presentation" ]

[ "Non-salary fellowships and US income taxes", "In general, are fellowships which are granted to individual researchers, but do not constitute salary and are not held in a personal bank account, considered taxable for US passport holders? \n\nFor example, if a US national has a postdoctoral contract which gives them an income, and they are awarded with a supplementary fellowship for travel and research expenses, does the researcher need to declare only their salary when they file income taxes, or do they need to declare salary + the fellowship? \n\nI understand that fellowships can now be considered taxable under some conditions:\n\n\n Taxable \n \n You must include in gross income:\n \n Amounts used for incidental expenses, such as room and board, travel,\n and optional equipment. Amounts received as payments for teaching,\n research, or other services required as a condition for receiving the\n scholarship or fellowship grant. However, you don't need to include in\n gross income any amounts you receive for services that are required by\n the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program or the Armed\n Forces Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance\n Program.\n\n\nHowever, it is not clear how it would apply in this case.\n\nI'm also confused as to the specific circumstances of a US national who is working outside of the US in this situation (postdoc salary and fellowship are both of non-American origin). I know that they must file their taxes in any case, but that their tax payment is usually 0 due to the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. If this researcher's salary is ~$50k/yr and the fellowship is ~$50k/yr, this puts the researcher near the exclusion limit if the fellowship is also taxable.\n\nIt would seem that if the fellowship is awarded to somebody for purposes other than obtaining a degree, the fellowship is indeed taxable. However this seems like a very undue burden for a researcher, where getting fellowships and grant funding is considered vital for their success. Am I missing something?" ]

[ "funding", "postdocs" ]

[ "Can I use my maiden name professionally if it isn't my legal name anymore?", "My bachelors lists my maiden name. I took a 4 year break - during which I got married and took my husband's last name - and will soon be starting my masters and eventually PhD in a STEM field. I would like to use my maiden name on my degrees and professionally.\nI have not published and am not yet established in my field. My married name is extremely ordinary in the US and shared with a well known celebrity. My maiden name is very unique. It may seem arbitrary, but when I do eventually publish and become established in the field, I would like to do so with distinction. I'd like to use my maiden name consistently throughout my professional life, not just in publications but on resumes, staff, in person, etc.\nIs this legally possible since I didn't retain my maiden name at all? Hyphenating would be way too long and sound weird. I like my middle name, but I would consider adding my maiden name as a second middle name if that is my only option.\nThoughts? Comments?" ]

[ "united-states", "personal-name" ]

[ "Almost all of the Postdoctoral positions requires to attach publications while contacting. Can a manuscript under review be sent to address this?", "I have submitted my PhD thesis and am searching for postdoc positions. However, every position has something on the lines of \"Postdoctoral applicants should also attach your most important publications.\" I had published a work from my PhD two years back, while one is under review at the moment. The one under review being the accurate representative of the novelty of work done in my PhD.\n\nMy question is: Can I send the manuscript under review as an example of my work? Is there an accepted/legal way of doing it, like sending the submitted copy generated by the journal?" ]

[ "phd", "application", "postdocs" ]

[ "First-year PhD giving a talk among well-established researchers in the field", "I am currently a first-year Ph.D. student, before that (as I have posted about before) I was forced to leave my Ph.D. program after one year because of a bullying supervisor. Previously, I made a good relationship with other researchers in my field and other scientific volunteering activities. \n\nNow, there is a workshop at a highly ranked conference, and I asked about the possibility of sending a paper for the workshop. They don't solicit papers, however, I have a good relationship with the professor who is the main organizer of the workshop, and they voluntarily asked me to be a speaker in the workshop for 30 minutes. \n\nThe other speakers are the most well-established researchers in my field, I felt excited but afraid in the same time. I don't have yet any publications concerning the current research. I don't know if I should apologize, maybe the professor does not know that I have been kicked out from the earlier program. I don't know what I should do, all the speakers are the elite and I think I am not deserving to be among them as I don't have the same experience.\n\nShould I try or would this be counterproductive to my future career?\n\nEDIT 1\n\nThanks for answers encouraging me to try, while there are pragmatic answers that I don't have to waste the audience time, honestly, I have self low esteem since all peers have papers published in top journals and conferences, I don't know why the organizers listed me as a speaker, I am not doing great as other students or there is no indication in the right moment that I am doing fantastic research." ]

[ "phd", "ethics", "conference", "early-career", "workshop" ]

[ "Is it illegal to cite books that were illegally downloaded or accessed from a library?", "How illegal is it to cite books that were illegally downloaded?\n\nIf they aren't available in the university library, if you can't really afford the books (maybe you will make one reference in one article and the book costs $250+), if there isn't anything else you can use (published articles, reports, etc)... it's one more citation for the author. So in fact you might be helping the authors academic career (here I am considering only academic authors). \n\nI do try my best to find other articles that I might be able to use in my work, but sometimes there is nothing else written, or not enough time to do the extra search.\n\nWhat do you do?\n\nps1: I do buy books that are important to my research.\n\nps2: I do download books that can be important to my research." ]

[ "research-process", "citations", "books" ]

[ "Complaining about an ISI journal's unreasonable behavior", "I submitted one of my paper to an ISI journal in September 2011. While I was waiting for it, I inquired about its status (I needed the paper to complete my PhD), and the journal wrote back saying that my paper was under review and the referee was not answering. I was thus waiting.\n\nBut after more than two years (about 26 months), the journal sent me this:\n\n\n By a QUICK view on your paper, it is not interested for our journal and so we reject your paper\n\n\nI think they could have answered earlier. Unfortunately, now my work is still not published and some authors published my results in another journal. So, I want to complain to the journal, and possibly get them eliminated from Thomson's lists. How can I achieve this?" ]

[ "publications", "journals", "editors" ]

[ "Can I be work on several project as a post-doc?", "I'm applying to a post-doc, with a specific project. I'm wondering how much freedom can I get as a post-doc.\n\nI'm currently supervising a master student and I'm planning to supervise more during the post-doc. I'm also still collaborating with my PhD advisors and would like to do some extra analysis, on the side.\n\nHaving said that, I was wondering how much freedom do I get as a post-doc? I obviously need to work for the project I'm hired but I'm hoping to get some time to pursue other research interests and writing papers.\n\nWould this be acceptable as a post-doc? Can I work on more than one project at a time?" ]

[ "publications", "postdocs", "supervision" ]

[ "Is teaching a graduate course with 30 students an unreasonable expectation for a PhD student with a TA contract?", "I am a PhD student in a social science field, and am on a teaching assistantship. My contract stipulates that TAs are to work no more than an average of 15 hours per week. \n\nFor my particular department, the past protocol was that 10 hours were devoted to teaching duties (class time, office hours, prepping, and grading), while the remaining five hours are devoted to research with an assigned faculty member. Overall, I do not think that is unreasonable. \n\nHowever, that setup was determined when the PhD students mostly taught undergraduate courses. I have been assigned a graduate course, and have been told to expect an enrollment of \"at least 30 students.\"\n\nI have never taught before, at any level. I am also still taking a full-time course load of my own. \n\nDoes this seem like an unreasonably high expectation from the Dean and program director? Or am I just being a wimp?\n\nI definitely want to teach, and I want to make sure that my students receive the best quality education from me that I can provide. And I would like to do this without sacrificing my own academic progress, nor what is remaining of my sanity.\n\nJust curious to know what other people's experiences in this area have been." ]

[ "phd", "research-process", "teaching", "teaching-assistant", "working-time" ]

[ "API Usage Example Citation Necessity", "Many APIs come with code examples on how to use them.\nIs it necessary to add attribution if one adapts these examples or copies them.\nDoes using lines of code examples for api usage require attribution from a license (e.g. BSD) standpoint and/or from a plagiarism standpoint." ]

[ "citations", "code" ]

[ "Can we write a case study by referring our previous work instead of re-writing?", "I have been writing some papers for a while in computer science. Now when I look at my case study, I found it too long to be as a section in a paper. Instead, i want to write a separate paper for the case study.\nI don't want to re-phrase the introduction, related work, the algorithms and our proposed methods etc.\nWill it be OR is it permissible to write a pure case study only and referring my previous papers for the details. Of course, i will add some introduction to just let the user know what is going on in this paper and if the reader is interested can refer to other papers. what I have in mind is the flow of paper be like\n\nAbstract\n\nIntroduction\n\nCase study parameters\n\nCase study Setup\n\nCase Study working\n\nCase Study Result\n\nConclusion\n\nalso if a reliable source is provided will be much appreciated" ]

[ "publications", "writing", "extended-paper" ]

[ "How to provide in-text citation for Appendix", "My master's dissertation has been sent back to me for copy edits before publication. One of the comments from the editors is \"please provide in-text citation for Appendix\". Now, I haven't actually referenced the appendix anywhere in the paper, it's more just extra information that relates to the topic and some of my interviewees who provided field data. How shall I go about doing this?" ]

[ "thesis", "masters", "cross-referencing" ]

[ "Can I use images from my published papers in my thesis without copyright infringment?", "I have to fill in copyright form for my PHD thesis submission.\nI have used some of the images already published in my IEEE/IET journal and conference papers.\nI signed copyright forms during the publication process of those papers.\n\nDo these figures fall under the copyright act?\n\nCan I confidently say that \n\n\n My thesis does not contain ANY material of which Copyright belongs to third parties." ]

[ "publications", "thesis", "copyright" ]

[ "Is being an event planner also part of being an academician? How do you cope?", "My question is, is being event planners every semester (unrelated to deep research) considered part of being an academician? And how do you navigate or balance all of your tasks (including organizing events, teaching preparation, revamping teaching strategies, supervision, research and also family life)?\nContext (you don't need to read if you don't want to):\nFrom my observation, the culture of my university (a teaching university in South-East Asia country) and faculty is to engage in community services and organizing lots of events unrelated to deep research. Not much effort is made to make deep research, if any, it would only be grants with direction to commercialization and business.\nMost of these tasks of organizing events are pushed to the assistant professors, aside from administrative academicians, especially the new staffs. If the events involve organizing conference, the research involved is usually superficial and they are just for gathering participants. The tasks are usually low-level tasks including menial clerk tasks, logistic management, financial management, and other tasks included when organizing events, not only chairing sessions. (Chairing sessions looks wonderful in comparison). They are not that difficult but they are a lot and taking too much time, months or even a year, and not contributing much to our performance index.\nThese new assistant professors don't have enough time to prepare for teaching (9 to 12 teaching hours) and redesigning teaching strategies, let alone doing deep and meaningful research. I've tried googling about academic workload, but they are mostly about teaching and research, which from my perspective, is quite wonderful, compared to be spammed by menial tasks of becoming event planners every year.\nI've tried voicing out this opinion to my faculty members and administrative academicians, but I get the feeling that they do not agree with it. Since we don't have many staffs, they need every help they could muster, and maybe organizing events comes naturally to them. The advantage is we might get jobs as 'experienced' event planners if we would like to opt out of academia :)\nWould love to hear any insight to fix my way of thinking on how to cope. Thank you." ]

[ "academic-life", "productivity", "work-life-balance" ]

[ "From whom do I get references when my original advisor leaves academia?", "This is similar to a previously asked question, but deals specifically with addressing the problem on the CV. My adviser had a bit of a personal meltdown and left the department while I was finishing analysis of field data/writing up. His students were assigned the following year to a non-tenured professor. This new professor was of little help to me my last year of writing up, sat on my dissertation with no comments for over 6 months and only produced comments after I went to the departmental chair. He did not think much of the type work I was doing and went so far as to say so during my defense. I will add here that I have a number of publications (>5) including single authored ones-which for my field is significant- as well as an excellent track record of funding and in presenting my research. I have a strong CV but have had no success thus far in securing a job. I once saw one of the letters he had written for me (it needed to be included in a single PDF so he had to send it to me) and it was terrible. It talked mostly about him and how he really did not know me well and with a few generic sounding \"he will no doubt exceed\" sentences that just sounded fake. Months later a colleague suggested that I find a different reference than my adviser (but was not clear as to why). \n\nSo, my question is this: since committees will no doubt look at my list of referees and wonder at my lack of an adviser-I have taken to including a short \"note\" in the \"reference contact information\" section explaining that 1) my original adviser left academia at the end of my time as a student and 2) that my new adviser was up for tenure the year I defended and very busy and was in a different field than mine, so instead \"below are three people who are in a better position to judge me on my research, teaching, writing skills\".\n\nIs this providing too much information or is this instead ensuring that rather than questioning and then rejecting my application the committees will stop and think \"oh okay, I can see why the applicant did not include their adviser\"?" ]

[ "phd", "job", "advisor", "cv", "recommendation-letter" ]

[ "High Latency Communication with Potential Thesis Supervisor", "I'm currently pursuing my Masters in Switzerland and got in touch with a Professor at a major UK university a month ago via E-Mail for a potential thesis project. I immediately got a positive reply mentioning my interesting background and the good fit with his current research.\n\nTwo weeks ago we talked on the phone for a little more than an hour. It was almost exclusively him explaining three research projects that would fit my background and interest. It all sounded very positive and ended with his request for me to think it over and tell him as soon as possible if I was interested in any of the projects, as he was \"super busy\".\n\nI decided on one of the projects that I really liked and wrote a nice E-Mail the same day.\n\nI have not heard back from my potential supervisor yet (2 weeks in now). I wrote a brief follow-up E-Mail one week ago, asking if he knew whether he wanted to go ahead with our collaboration. This week he will be attending a conference abroad (according to search results on Google), so surely he is very busy.\n\nWhile I have had Professors not reply to E-Mails about thesis opportunities in the past, I am confused both because of the good conversation we had on the phone and what we had agreed on in that conversation. \nAfter all, if he really has lost interest in a collaboration, he could easily drop me a line via E-Mail.\n\nRight now I think another E-Mail by the end of the week would be the only option - reaching out by phone is difficult, because he seems to rarely be in his office. How do I come across without making the impression of being pushy or annoying?" ]

[ "advisor", "etiquette", "application", "united-kingdom" ]

[ "Is there such a thing as a permanent academic assistantship position?", "It's common for graduate students and postdocs to fulfill various \"assistant\" positions in academia. They may grade papers or conduct research under the direct supervision of a faculty member who is ultimately responsible for the work product. These are functions that require real academic skills, but not up to the level expected of a faculty member. The important thing about these positions is that they are intended to be temporary, a type of brief apprenticeship training on the road to professorship rather than an actual stable career that one could stay in for a few decades.\n\nIs there such a thing in academia as a permanent, full-time assistantship, one not temporary or tied to student status? That is, is it reasonably possible for someone to do this as a career? Obviously, this sort of thing probably wouldn't pay as much as a full-time, regular faculty appointment, but that is neither here nor there for this question.\n\nI'm not thinking about Adjunct Professors. Adjuncts are usually temporary, part-time employees that actually hold faculty-level responsibility. I'm talking about a situation where a person might hold a full-time, indefinite appointment grading student papers, finding citations, or checking petri dishes for bacterial growth under the supervision of faculty, but wouldn't do (and isn't in training to do) their own research or teach unsupervised.\n\nI also recognize that academic departments often have general office positions such as secretaries, human resources professionals, IT help desk technicians, etc., but these sort of roles do not typically involve the use of advanced academic skills.\n\nThere are various reasons a person could want to do this. They might want to work in academia but lack the talent to do truly original research, or they might actually have it but realize part-way through their PhD that they hate doing original research but truly enjoy grading papers or holding tutoring sessions. They might like going out into the field and applying best practices in digging up soil samples but enjoy the fact that their career is not in jeopardy if the research hits a dead-end (rather, the faculty that decided to dig there faces the setback).\n\nAs an example, someone might say, \"Ok, I'm wrapping up my MS in Chemistry and I don't want to go for a PhD, my thesis was hard enough! I'd really like to spend the next ten years grading freshman homework, TA'ing the Organic Chemistry I lab, and designing data-gathering protocols for others' research projects. Those were the parts of the past two years that I truly enjoyed.\"" ]

[ "career-path", "teaching-assistant", "research-assistantship" ]

[ "How do you choose a textbook for a new class", "I am teaching a new class next term and I need to choose a text book (or create a reading list) for it. The class is a hands on introduction to programming with MATLAB. A quick search of my library's catalogue returns nearly 300 titles, 100 of which are on-line books. When you are creating a new class from scratch how do you go about choose the text book?" ]

[ "books", "teaching" ]

[ "Colleague indirectly accusing me of plagiarism? Help?", "I recently got my PhD degree.\n\n2 years of my PhD were done under supervision of X under their department. The rest was done under supervision of Y in another department. When we separated and I moved to Y, there was an agreement about which artefacts I was allowed to keep to continue my studies *.\n\nSome time ago my boss sent me an email telling me one X's employees has made allegations I have plagiarized their work. There was an email stating 5 separate \"cases\" where they believed I had done this. The majority included re-creating a figure representing an experimental set-up, and using software developed by X's department, and usage of artefacts I was previously allowed to use (see * above) which I had cited.\n\nI have prepared a response document addressing every point and elaborating how I have not plagiarised any work, nor have taken credit for the work of others (the exception to this MAY be the figure I mentioned earlier, but this was unintentional and I have already contacted the publisher with the intention to amend the acknowledgment section of the paper, if possible). I have developed my own software and have derived my own results.\n\nHowever, these false accusations were delivered to third parties first. I learned of this case from my boss. Why did X not speak to ME or Y (coauthor)? How do I protect myself in a case where third parties are being told I have plagiarised material when this is not the case?" ]

[ "plagiarism", "harassment" ]

[ "If I accept an offer of admission to MSc in UK, can I later decline to accept another offer?", "I have applied for a MSc in a UK university for the academic year 2017/18. I was offered an unconditional offer and I have to make a decision on it within 4 weeks and now two weeks have passed. But as I have not yet heard from other universities, I would like to take more time before accepting the offer. When I requested for more time to consider my decision the university informed me that it is better to accept the offer as I can always decline it. \n\nBut I would like to know whether there are any rules which state like I have an obligation to study at the university if I have accepted a place because if I get a place at another university which I am interested in, then I may drop this offer. Would the process allow me to decline the offer after accepting it, should I need to, and accept the offer at some other university? \n\nI am not a student from UK, so if anyone can provide me guidance on this it would be helpful." ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "masters", "united-kingdom" ]

[ "Is there something like Qnotero for Mendeley?", "I've been using Zotero for bibliography, citation and reference management for a long time. Particularly, I came to love Qnotero, which is a stand-alone application, providing a handy way of accessing PDFs from the Zotero library even when Zotero isn't running: One just presses a customizable hotkey, a popup appears on the desktop, where you enter a search term (e.g., title or author of a paper), hit enter, and the PDF opens. However, I recently discovered Mendeley, and it's really appealing to me. Still, I'm missing the Qnotero functionality. Is there something similar to Qnotero available for Mendeley?" ]

[ "software", "reference-managers" ]

[ "Is an acknowledgement worth putting in a CV?", "Of course, the bread-and-butter of an academic CV are degrees and publications, and citation index is a primary means of judging the value of said publications, but it's also common for academics to give out acknowledgements to people who contributed to a paper, but not in a way deserving of a citation or authorship.\n\nIs a history of being thanked in acknowledgements worth putting on one's CV or otherwise touting in the context of academic faculty appointments?\n\nI can come up with arguments both ways. On the one hand, an acknowledgement without a citation or authorship implies that one's contribution was non-academic in nature or, if academic, was too minor to merit being cited or granted author status, but on the other hand, an acknowledgement could be seen as demonstrating so-called \"soft skills\". For example, one might claim,\n\n\n My biochemistry citation index speaks for itself, but also see that Dr. Jones acknowledged me for \"faithful emotional support while [he] was undergoing cancer treatment while also teaching a heavy load\", and Dr. Smith acknowledged me for \"standing firm in support of the department's goals and [her] projects in particular as major funding cuts rocked through the university in 2018 and 2019\". I have thus demonstrated excellent hard academic skills as well as organizational and interpersonal soft skills, and that is why I am the best candidate for department chair!" ]

[ "cv", "faculty-application", "acknowledgement", "social-skills" ]

[ "How will the success of my previous projects affect future funding?", "I have two funded projects. One works great but the other is terrible (probably wrong postdocs and PhD students). When I send future proposals, my history is evaluated against the overall research output, right? There is no factor indicating one of my projects has failed, right?\n\nI have two options:\n\n\nLet the weak project fail and focus on the successful one to improve my overall research output. Then, I have a strong record of publications for the future proposals.\nUse some funds from my successful project in the problematic one (e.g., hiring more people) to save it at the cost of sacrificing the successful one.\n\n\nBy the way, I am an assistant professor of chemistry (close to promotion) and the projects have been funded by European schemes, if it matters." ]

[ "funding", "europe" ]

[ "Can a company use a method published in an academic paper to make money?", "Academics do not usually apply for patents for the methods published in academic conferences/journals. Can a company use the ideas/code/results in these publications in a product they make money from? How binding the university or journal licensing is? And is the situation different for the publications that are open-access (eg eLife) vs paid-access (eg Nature)?" ]

[ "publications", "patents" ]

[ "Do I have an obligation to pay publication fee to predatory journal?", "Accidentally submitted to predatory journal (very naive and stupid first time researcher here) accepted with no evidence of peer review. Could not pay submission fee so they reduced cost substantially so I submitted an updated manuscript. Then realised it was predatory and they also have already uploaded my article online! Have not paid fee and confronted journal on predatory status. Can I get away with not paying the fee? No copyright transfer signed." ]

[ "publications", "online-publication", "disreputable-publishers" ]

[ "Should I list a sub-par paper on my CV?", "I am an undergraduate who will be applying to graduate school in the fall.\n\nIn my academic career, I have published 1 paper in a not so well known journal (International Journal of Applied Pattern Recognition) and I believe the paper is sub-par, especially compared to the rest of my CV. Should I still list it in my CV when I apply for graduate school? \n\nI am worried that the paper might stick out like a sore thumb in an otherwise adequate list of experience and accolades. But on the other hand, since I do not have any other papers, this might be an additional evidence of research experience, especially since I published it at the beginning of my sophomore year (I doubt the admissions committee will look too deeply at the dates and come to that conclusion though..)." ]

[ "cv" ]

[ "Asking for recommendation letters for math PhD applications", "Fall 2018 application cycle has started and I have a couple of (hopefully not too specific) questions regarding recommendation letters. I am applying for a PhD position in pure mathematics in the USA, with lots of top schools included.\n\n(1) Does the status of the letter writer matter greatly to admission committees? For example, I have done research with a full professor, an assistant professor and a lecturer in my department. The latter two got their PhDs in 2011. If the three of them write me a letter, does that automatically put me at a disadvantage because two of them are not full professors or one of them is a lecturer? I have heard that, in principle, letters from people that are known in their field are looked upon more favorably by committees, particularly because they might be familiar with the letter-writer and can 'read between the lines' and get more information out of the letter.\n\n(2) Should I bother asking for a letter from professors that only know me through classes? I have a potential fourth person in mind for a letter - he is a professor I took two classes with and did well in both. In my understanding, \"so-and-so was a good student in my X and Y class\" will probably impress no-one, even if it comes from an established professor. All programs require 3 recommendation letters, so would you think it is worth the effort to have an extra letter if it comes from such a professor?\n\nThanks in advance for any responses." ]

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

[ "Is it possible to receive federal Pell Grant payments retroactively for prior unclaimed semesters?", "I recently became aware that I'm eligible to receive federal Pell Grant aid for my education expenses. I was unaware of my eligibility in the past. While reading some Pell Grant information, I came across this excerpt concerning retroactive payments:\n\n\n The school can pay a student retroactively for any completed\n payment periods within the award year if the student was eligible for\n payment in those periods. Thus, if the school receives a valid output\n document for the student while he or she is enrolled as an eligible\n student in the summer term, but the student was also enrolled and\n eligible for payment in the previous fall term, that student must be paid retroactively for the fall term.\n\n\nLink to the source pdf file: https://ifap.ed.gov/sfahandbooks/attachments/0304Vol3Ch4.pdf\n\nI don't fully understand its meaning. Can anyone clarify whether I might be able to claim the previous Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 Pell Grant funding retroactively, or perhaps back even further? (I could provide appropriate documentation to show eligibility for those periods)" ]

[ "funding", "education" ]

[ "How to compensate for previous low grades when applying to PhDs in the UK?", "I want to know how to compensate a low overall grade for past education for a Ph.D. application in computer science in the UK ?\nThanks" ]

[ "phd", "graduate-admissions", "united-kingdom", "gpa" ]

[ "How should I respond to a reviewer comment that I didn't make changes when I did?", "I received an email from the editor, including a quote from the reviewer saying \"I regret to inform you that the authors failed to address the points I raised in my previous review of this manuscript, in this case, any further comments on this manuscript is pointless.\"\n\nI sent them an email to ask about the point that we failed to address because I made the changes in the manuscript that the reviewer ask for it. The reviewer said that the authors failed to update the reference list. I add 3 more references to support the old one because he said in his review paper that if the authors don't want to omit old references at least can use them together with more recent ones.\n\nThis is the reviewer's comments on my original manuscript: \n\n\n The references list needs to be updated. There are old references (1980s – 1990s) that can be replaced with more recent ones. Please see below a number of suggested recent papers that can replace old references. If the authors are not willing to omit old references at least can use them together with more recent ones.\n\n\nAnd this is his comment after I updated my manuscript:\n\n\n Unfortunately, the authors failed to update the reference list, and failed to respond to these comments. There are no changes on the manuscript. Authors should address any comments given by reviewers, in a point-to-point response; even if they do not want to consider the comments or suggestions from reviewers they must address their reasons for not considering these comments and suggestions. Given that there are no changes on the manuscript, and there is no point-to-point response from the authors, this review is pointless. Thank you for given me the opportunity to review this manuscript, I leave the final decision to you, since there is no response from the authors.\n\n\nPlease advise me if there is anything that I should be doing? The other reviewer recommended that my manuscript be accepted \"as is.\"" ]

[ "publications", "peer-review" ]

[ "US Graduate School without subject GRE", "So here is the situation:\n\nI am a Math student in a very well ranked French university, and I am going to finish my degree (i.e. 2-year MSc, after a 3-year BSc) in August. Therefore, it is time to think of the future: graduate school. In particular, I have been thinking to apply in the US, where many very good groups in the field I'm interested in are located. I have the highest possible GPA, followed advanced courses, research and teaching experience, potentially very good recommendation letters from well-know professors, received awards, and I'll be writing my MSc thesis at a well-known university on the East Coast.\n\nHowever, I haven't been able to register for the GRE subject test soon enough due to personal reasons, and when I look at the US math graduate school, they almost all require the GRE subject test. Most of them even say that the applications without the GRE and Subject GRE will not even be reviewed, or will be very disadvantaged. The next session is in April, and the results must be submitted in December.\n\nWhat is the reality of the graduation admissions system in the US? Should I try to apply anyway without the GRE Subject (i.e. are applications without GRE automatically rejected)? Should I wait one year to apply, until I can pass the GRE?" ]

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

[ "How widespread is the practice of delegating LoR writing to the applicant?", "At least two questions (1, 2) on this site indicate that in more than a few isolated cases at least, letters of recommendation are in fact written by the applicant and only signed off (or perhaps rephrased somewhat) by the recommender, who would actually be responsible for writing the letter.\n\nIs there any evidence about the prevalence of this practice that goes beyond anecdotes? I realize that cross-country (cultural) difference may play a role." ]

[ "ethics", "recommendation-letter" ]

[ "What if I got an idea that has been recently published, should I invest time considering it?", "I got an idea for my master's work but when I did some research it turned out that someone published it in 2016. Should I stick to my idea as maybe I can do some improvements or at least I can give other interpretations or raise some questions or should I leave it behind. Can you propose me some solutions? \n\nThank you!" ]

[ "publications", "research-process", "masters" ]

[ "Will focusing on statistics experience be beneficial for math job applications?", "I've had a PhD in pure mathematics for the last 5 years, and have found several good positions, including a tenure track position I amicably left for personal reasons.\nHowever, the job market is getting pretty tight in mathematics for tenure track positions.\nI just recently have one year of statistics teaching experience (the most recent year). While interviewing for my current (temporary) position at a small liberal arts college, some of the interviewers were highly interested in my statistics experience, and I was told that statistics experience was essentially a requirement for the position.\n\nI'll have taught for a second year, when I apply in the fall.\nIs this a valuable experience that I should emphasize in my resume\n(compared to my several years of calculus/algebra/linear algebra\nteaching)? If so, how can I effectively highlight it?\n\nI can't tell if it was just a fluke (like the occasional combined math/comp sci positions), or a general rule that those with statistics expertise are preferable at liberal arts colleges." ]

[ "mathematics", "cv", "statistics" ]

[ "Are there any studies on the effectiveness of Qualifying examinations in Graduate Schools", "Is any of you aware of studies that show how a Qualifying examination affects things like success in an Academic career, publications, etc. \n\nAs many of you know, there are many countries that do not have Qualifying examinations in Graduate school. I just would like to know if there is solid research on this topic." ]

[ "reference-request", "qualifying-exam" ]

[ "What can be done to possibly avoid corrupt practices in the blind peer review process?", "During my short career as a researcher I observed a few seemingly unethical behaviors by Editors and Associate Editors:\n\n\nbeing asked to include a particular new author in order to be accepted\nbeing asked to cite articles with no apparent link with my article\nbeing told by the conference TCP (one of the top conference) to reject all the articles I review\nIn one unique case, I reviewed an article and recommended strong rejection, it was subsequently accepted without revision. Reviewing the authors profile and handling editor, I found one of the author is an Associate Editor for another journal. It appears that both help each to publish articles in their journals.\n\n\nAll the above experiences were observed in well-reputed journals and conferences. Given all this, how what can I do to \"clean this mess\" in academic the journal/conference review process?" ]

[ "publications", "citations", "journals", "ethics", "conference" ]

[ "Chances of getting in at a world top 50 graduate school for Economics with a C+ in Calculus II?", "My GPA (Economics) at the moment is 3.7 but I have a terrible grade on Calculus II (C+)- the reason being that Calculus II clashed with another mandatory course of mine, and I couldn't attend most of the Calculus II lectures (furthermore, the Calc II Professor refused to accept my homework since I wasn't attending all the lectures, and all the grade weight fell on my final exam- most people who attended the lectures got super nice grades; also, the homework problems for that course were easy). On the other hand, I have perfect scores on all of my other Math and Statistics courses that did not have clashes. Furthermore, I will probably have my name on 4 papers by the time I graduate next year (please note that I have made significant contributions to the paper, and it's not just \"some helping out on the research and my Profs. are too kind\" thing). Apologies for the lengthy question." ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "grades", "economics" ]

[ "Reality check on advice for statement of purpose", "I'm about to write a statement of purpose for graduate admission and my advisor passed along to me the following pieces of advice to keep in mind while writing (based on his style and experience in admission commitees). \n\nI completely agree with every point he has made. However, I'd like to have further insight and suggestions and yet another reality check on the soundness of these pieces of advice. \n\n\n Advice from my advisor:\n \n \n Don't try to sell me my own research area by explaining to me how fascinating it is. Do show your interest by showcasing your previous\n experience working on (or studying) related topics (not necessarily\n very closely related).\n Don't tell me how amazing, prestigious, perfect my institution or research group is. I know more than you do about that. Also, chances\n are that you are applying to a lot of schools and don't have\n inflexible interests yet, which is fine. Just tell me that you may be\n willing to work with a certain research group that seems more or less\n in line with your previous experience or future directions.\n Don't tell me a cute story about how you fell in love with my field when you were a kid (or high school senior or college freshmen). I\n just don't care. I want to hire a soon-to-be professional to join my\n research group, not a little boy with a cute story. I only need to\n know factual information that show your commitment to the field (for\n example, courses/conferences attended, projects undertaken).\n Ban ill-crafted, pseudo-literary, flowery, cheesy narrations. Just write facts. Straightforwardly. Succintly. Accurately. I'll draw conclusions for myself.\n Ban any buzzwords, meaningless adjectives and adverbs. If they don't add concrete information, but are there just an ill-advised attempt\n to impress, cut them!" ]

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

[ "Why is it so hard to convince professors to write recommendation letters for me?", "I am trying to shift graduate schools to change subjects and over the last year I have been studying the new subject in my current graduate school. I have good grades and in collaboration with a few professors and over the last year, I have been working on an insanely hard research question in this new field. The progress is invariably slow. \n\nBut I am unable to convince any prof to write recommendation letters for me to do this shift! I don't understanding this. (Does it not count that I started a new subject directly at the grad level and could get good grades and start attacking one of the hardest questions in that field?) \n\n\n\n\nOne prof says that if another professor at a different place wants to work with me as their grad student then that prof can contact this prof here to talk about me. Should I take this option in lieu of not getting recommendation letters? \nOfficially some profs say that they are not comfortable writing letters for someone who doesn't come with the usual background of having done an undergrad in this new subject. (somehow this gap is not offset by me having done some of thee advanced grad courses in this new subject)" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "advisor", "career-path", "recommendation-letter" ]

[ "Asking for a letter medical school letter of recommendation from a class you failed, retook, and got an A in?", "I failed one of my classes (E and M) and during the subsequent retake got an A. I was considering asking the professor for a letter of recommendation because I think the episode shows my willingness and ability to bounce back. Also, I asked him for help a bunch outside of class, so he got to see me putting in effort. \n\nI'm of two minds:\n\nOn the positive side, this letter would address the F on my transcript in the best possible light.\n\nOn the negative side, I'm worried medical schools won't understand the effort that goes into something like E and M, and write this off as a fluff letter. Or that they will assume that getting an F in the first place (without a serious excuse) means I lack the academic prowess for medical school. \n\nMy specific question is, has anyone actually done this for medical school admissions and did it come up in an interview?" ]

[ "recommendation-letter", "grades", "medicine" ]

[ "How can a working professional getting into a new field", "I have EE major and CS minor in my bachelor degree (overseas, GPA ~3.7) and a CS master degree (US, rank about 30 in CS, GPA ~3.5). I've worked in tech industry for 9 years as a technical staff, but I don't have any publication or patten. I got a green card and have sufficient saving.\nI'm thinking about getting into pure math. Although in my undergraduate years, I learned calculus, linear algebra, some engineering math, complex analysis, but the strengths are not comparable.\nI see little chance of getting into a good math Phd program due to my thin and outdated profile. Redoing the whole bachelor degree seems impossible in terms of time and finance. Is there a way to strengthen my profile? Is there an "intermediate" program to learn just the mathematical knowledge and bridge me? I see some "Post-Baccalaureate Program" but they're not for mathematics. I'm willing to go abroad if the school is good and I'm accepted." ]

[ "graduate-school", "mathematics", "application", "undergraduate" ]

[ "What to do if a co-author is delaying announcement of results?", "I am finishing writing a joint paper with a collaborator and we are both extremely excited about the results. However, we cannot agree on when to announce the results. \n\nIn my opinion the paper is essentially ready and we should announce the results very soon. The field in which we are working in is booming right now, there are several brilliant, quick people we are competing with. We have a breakthrough result and in my field it is not unusual to see people arrive at the same results simultaneously and independently. Seeing a lot of activity and knowing more or less what people are working on I feel that we need to secure priority essentially immediately. This would mean e.g. circulating the current version of the preprint among colleagues or, ideally, posting it on a preprint server.\n\nMy co-author on the other hand would like to explore other potential applications of our results. The main result of the paper is complete, and the only question is how many applications we can have. We currently have 5 very nice applications but my co-author would like to look for more. If they are found they would be certainly good, but at this point it is more of a fishing expedition. However, because of this my co-author demands that we announce our results three months from now and is insisting on a gag order until then. (In our field it is not uncommon to lose results to dishonest researchers who learn about your result early and can try to publish/attach their name to it before you).\n\nBasically, I feel like we are sitting at a roulette table with a million dollars but instead of cashing in we are waiting to see if we can win another 100k.\nI would really appreciate some advice on how to reasonably resolve this situation." ]

[ "collaboration", "preprint", "interpersonal-issues" ]

[ "Is there a better measure of undergraduate academic performance than GPA?", "An answer to a recent question about the importance of looking at a student's whole transcript got me thinking. Is there some other way of summing up a student's academic performance, other than the GPA? Something that would distinguish among the three types of 3.5 students described in Jake's answer:\n\n\n \n This student is pretty steady, but not great, and tends to get an even mix of As and Bs across all of their classes, obtaining a 3.5 GPA.\n This student always takes the class with the easiest grading policy whenever they can, and tends to get mostly As in the \"easy\" classes. When they cannot evade a \"hard\" class, they get mostly Cs, resulting in a 3.5 GPA.\n This student is very strong and gets mostly As, but there was one semester when family problems disrupted their life, and missed assignments caused them to get Bs and two Fs, also ending up with a 3.5 GPA.\n \n\n\nIn other words, is there a way of summarizing a student's transcript, that doesn't ignore so many important details?\n\nI suspect that incorporating just class rank doesn't help much (an anecdotal, subjective contribution): my high school allowed one to choose to take classes with credit/no credit (C/NC). I chose to be graded with letter grades for a handful of classes, and received A's in all of those. I suspect this may have been why I graduated with a laughably high class rank." ]

[ "undergraduate", "reference-request", "grades", "gpa", "transcript-of-records" ]

[ "How am I supposed to go to conferences with a reimbursement system as a poor TA?", "I don't get paid much as a TA. I wanted to go to conferences but all of them operate on a reimbursement system. Between flights, shuttles, hotels, etc. it can be up to like $1000 not including food. They offer funding but with reimbursement. I don't have $1000 in my bank account to pay with in the first place. Most other TAs I know are in a similar position.\n\nWhy do programs use a reimbursement system? I went to one conference where they reimbursed the flight and paid for the hotel. That was a month ago and I think my reimbursement check is still a ways away. Why does it take so long? Why not just buy me a ticket? How am I supposed to go to conferences?" ]

[ "conference", "funding" ]

[ "Advisor going over and unhelpfully modifying my presentation structure and slides", "At our institute, PhD students carry out presentations on the advance of their projects once a year. The presentations are \"internal\" in the sense that only undergrads, PhD students and professors of our institute may attend.\n\nI am about to carry out my second such presentation corresponding to my second year progress. For my first presentation (one year ago), my advisor asked for my presentation and called me into his office one day before the presentation and went over it, changing it in a non-trivial way, i.e. deleting slides, changing titles, content, etc. I found most corrections counterproductive or superficial at best. In the end I did not include all corrections, just enough to keep him/her happy. \nI was quite frustrated and stressed since the overall tone was \"this is terrible\", \"we are way behind in our project\", \"this is bad\". After the presentation I got very good feedback from professors and colleagues (my advisor is not a professor). Once he saw the feedback, he changed his mind from \"this is bad\" to \"good work, good presentation\". \n\nThis has also happened a couple of times with other internal presentations at our institute. I am pretty sure this will happen again in the next days.\n\nMy questions are:\n\n\nIs it common for advisors to carry out extensive and minute corrections on the presentation structure and slides of its PhD students?\nWhat is the best way to communicate that I will not follow corrections with which I do not agree?\nOr, are PhD students obligated to follow the commands of the advisor?" ]

[ "phd", "advisor", "presentation" ]

[ "A famous scholar sent me an unpublished draft of hers. Then she died. I think her work should be published. What should I do?", "A famous scholar sent me an unpublished draft of hers. It was to convince me that a certain philosophical position is wrong (the paper debunks that position). Then she died. I think her work should be published.\n\nWhat should I do? Who should I contact?" ]

[ "publications", "philosophy", "death" ]

[ "Asking same professor for rec letters for 2 different grad programs?", "I'm an undergrad applying for graduate programs next year. Is it a bad idea to ask the same professor to do two different letters for two different programs (Philosophy programs, and Law school)? My gut says no, since this would require the professor to kind of \"lie\" to each grad program about how dedicated I am to each. However, I do know this professor very well as I did research for him and the programs are somewhat related. Thanks!" ]

[ "graduate-admissions" ]

[ "PhD sanity check on project description and advisor", "I'm an industrial PhD student (Europe) and recently I'm finding myself reflecting over some events.\n\nAs industrial student I'm working for a Company. It is important to note that the Company (superiors/supervisors) have decided what subject (and its scope) I'll be working on. Basically, it was their idea for a new product. \n\nIt is worth noting that my boss is also my main supervisor (she is doing 20% at university and 80% at the Company). \n\nHaving this in mind, I'm finding some things odd:\n\n\nI had to write PhD project description (milestones, etc. ) on my own.\nA year after PhD commenced, my supervisor commented that \"she still does not have vision about the project\".\n\n\nI just want to make sanity check and establish how often this happens and is it normal thing or not." ]

[ "phd" ]

[ "Should I remind potential mentors to look at my graduate application?", "An instruction email from one of the graduate schools I applied states the following:\n\n\"for the potential mentors you list on the application, after the January deadline passes, it’s a good idea to email them directly with a nudge to look at your application\"\n\nIs this necessary and is this a common practice?" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "etiquette", "united-states" ]

[ "Do admissions care how close a TOEFL score is to the minimum?", "I work with some students who will attend graduate school in the US. The schools they are applying for list minimum required TOEFL scores. Some have just reached the minimum scores required for admission to their schools of choice. Do admissions departments ever care about how close this number is to the minimum? In other words, will the students be at any greater advantage if they retake the test and get a higher score, or is the \"score level met\" simply a \"met\" or \"not met\" variable that goes into deciding whether or not the students are accepted?" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "language-exams", "toefl" ]

[ "Someone cited citations I used without citing my work and effort in finding the references", "Recently I came across a conference paper that tried to solve the same problem I solved couple of years ago and published a workshop publication about, but using a different algorithm. In their introduction they mention and cite 6 applications that can benefit from the solution to this specific problem. Out of the 6 examples 4 are exactly the same in my publication word for word with 3 of them using the same exact citations I used. Which made me believe with zero doubt that the one of the conference paper authors read my workshop paper and found those applications and citations useful and decided to reuse them in their publication without giving my work proper citation for finding those references.\n\nI have read through academia stack previous questions and all questions I found were researchers trying to figure out if citing the source without citing the middle resource was okay:\n\n\nAttributing Second-order Citations\nI have found theses on a similar subject to my own, and want to use\ntheir references with my own text and a similar flow. Is this\nplagiarism?\nCiting a citation from a paper?\nIs it okay to incorporate a block of citations from a review paper\ninto my own paper?\nIs there a problem with citing the original source instead of the\nsource where the information was first found?\nIf I use most of the references from a thesis but not the exact\nsame sentences, is it plagiarism?\n\n\nThe consensus form the answers of these questions is that the middle resource should be also cited. \n\nSince in my case my work was not cited at all, I contacted the conference committee chair about this issue and showed that the citations I have used have been reused in the paper that was accept in his conference without citing my work. His response was \"this related work discussion does not amount to plagiarism.\" and continued to say that if I am not satisfied with his conclusion that I can contact the journal and ask them for a full investigation of this issue.\n\nSo currently I am a little bit conflicted, is this a case of plagiarism? If so how can I proof that it is a clear case plagiarism to avoid a similar response from the journal editors." ]

[ "publications", "citations", "ethics", "united-states", "plagiarism" ]

[ "Where to find documents/information about research group policies", "Due to different problems I have had in my research group (I am the PI) and in order to solve them I have decided to write down in a public document, what is our research group policy.\n\nI considered did useless before since I considered it to contain laws that are straightforward in most of the cases, but now I realize about its importance, with the hope that previous problematic situations will not happen again.\n\nThe document will contain directives about who and how will lead research projects, what can be expected from the PI and the members, authorship and participation in papers and patents, who can add new members, how will be new collaborations established, etc.\n\nTherefore I wonder if you know or can point where such documents from another groups can be found, I would like to read as many as possible in before I create ours." ]

[ "policy", "group-dynamics", "research-group" ]

[ "Is there such thing as too many references for one paper?", "I'm currently reviewing a paper that has an uncommonly large number of references compared to the average number for that particular venue (more than 60 versus around 30). This is a regular paper, not a survey one, and although there does not seem to be wrong references, it feels like some are not really necessary, and the fact that one particular author is cited more than 15 times makes me worry that this paper is used to inflate the number of citations of that author (the submission is anonymous). \n\nShould I mention this in my review, and try to examine which submissions are \"abusive\", or just let it go?" ]

[ "citations", "paper-submission" ]

[ "I'm afraid of chemicals. How do I handle my required uni biology class?", "I have a freshman requirement as a science student for at least 3 core science classes, and I picked physics as often as I could. However, I must choose either chem or bio as my third. I chose bio.\n\nThe thing is, I'm deathly afraid of chemicals. I don't know when it started, but I can hardly touch household cleaning products without obsessively washing my hands afterward. I broke down crying a few times in high school bio, to my embarrassment. Oh yeah, and I'm also pretty much a hypochondriac. It's not something I can control.\n\nI'm afraid that my grades will be hurt because of my phobia. There are several hands-on labs in the course, though I am not sure if we are working with very hazardous chemicals. The exact course name is cell and molecular biology. How should I approach the course, and does anyone have any advice for avoiding chemicals in the lab? I wish I could opt out of a class due to fear, but alas.\n\nWhat should I do? Thanks in advance." ]

[ "coursework", "health", "international-students", "biology", "canada" ]

[ "Should I consider my conference paper as published, if fee is paid but I didn't attend the conference?", "I submitted a conference paper some time ago to a trusted highly ranked conference. Strangely enough there's almost no communication from their part, no replies most of the time to my inquiries.\n\nThe paper got peer-reviewed and accepted, I paid the fee (around 500usd), I asked just a week before the conference if it's necessary to attend it because it was difficult to book a ticket given that I had only one month left in my old passport and I didn't have the new one, I provided a proof of that (scan of my old passport), but I got no reply and considered this as \"ok\" since this is what I wanted.\n\nNow I am running out of time to graduate my PhD and I need to know whether it's considered published or I can submit it somewhere else. Should I bring something stronger in my email to catch their attention like \"legal fight, submit somewhere else,etc\" or just wait longer (presentation was exactly 10 days ago)?\nwhat I am missing in all of this?\n\nconference link if that helps" ]

[ "publications", "conference", "legal-issues" ]

[ "Is there an academic\\ethical reason for omitting place names in environmental science papers?", "I hope this is the right SE site for this question. To be clear, I am not asking anything about the contents of the paper, but on the practice of omitting certain information that I thought should be included for completeness and clarity.\n\nI have been reading a paper titled: \"Spatial and temporal occurrence of pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs in the aqueous environment and during wastewater treatment: New developments\", which deals with measurements of drugs' concentrations in river water in the UK.\n\nI was surprised to see no mention of the name of the river anywhere in the paper or the supplementary material. This seems on purpose, since the authors describe the river's properties that are relevant for the study, but neglect to mention which river was it.\n\nCould it be related to some academic practice I am not aware of, or perhaps is it a safety measure to prevent mass panic among the residents of the area?" ]

[ "publications", "writing" ]

[ "My PI assigned me to a direct supervisor who is academically incompetent. What should I do?", "This is very closely related to this question. However in that question on top of the academic problems there are also major safety issues and the answers correctly focus on that. But this still leaves an interesting question unanswered: What should you do if you perceive your direct supervisor to be academically incompetent?\nSuppose you start in a new lab as a masters or PhD student. The PI is great but very hands off. You are assigned a PhD student or a postdoc for your every day supervision. You get the impression that this person is failing academically. The linked question has a good list of clues. They have no plan for their own research, seem to have trouble understanding the surrounding literature or even the prerequisites, don't come up with new ideas to look into and maybe on top are technically inept and very bad at handling the lab equipment. Essentially you feel like you already are academically ahead of your supervisor and this person doesn't have anything to teach you.\nWhat do you do? And in what time frame, having this impression after two weeks might be different than having it after 6 months but maybe waiting six months before doing anything is too much already." ]

[ "advisor", "supervision" ]

[ "Keeping the same supervisor/thesis topic upon transferring to MSc", "I am currently a second year PhD student going on to a third year. I have made the decision to transfer my candidature to masters instead. I would like to ask the following:\n\nDo people usually switch advisors/thesis topics upon transferring from PhD to masters? As with many stories shared here, I too, am losing interest in my current research area (which is one of the main reasons of me deciding to drop to masters degree).\n\nBut for those who decided to change their advisors/ topics, what are your reasons behind doing so? I am open to learning new areas but the maximum duration of candidature for masters in my university is up to 3 years. So I only have a year left to write my masters thesis. I will have to spend a lot of extra time and effort into reading up on a new area if I do decide to switch.\n\nEven if one decides to continue doing the current topic they are on, how vastly different is the aim of your master thesis as compared to say the initial goal of your PhD research? Most PhD research topics aim to resolve some open research problems. However, when one decides to transfer to master, they may not have the time or resources to give a positive answer to the problem at the end. In such cases, how would one change the approach to writing their thesis?\n\nI am asking this because while I have made some progress on my reading and research with my supervisor, I feel that I will not be able to provide a full positive solution to my current topic at the end of the year. Granted, I could probably press on with my current topic and just write whatever progress I have and call it my masters thesis.\nI would to love to hear your inputs and comments. Thank you!" ]

[ "phd", "thesis", "masters" ]

[ "During recitation sections, should I ask students for help in coming up with the answer?", "Typically when teaching recitation sections (in lower level applied math classes), I bring a problem or two, and ask students to fill in the steps in the solution. Usually 4 or 5 people (out of 10-15) are engaged in this process.\n\nOn the one hand, I think the engaged students benefit from the class discussion, and enjoy it more than listening to a lecture.\n\nOn the other hand, I worry that the students who don't participate in the discussion will find it boring, or get confused (because sometimes the other students suggest wrong approaches, and I humor them a bit before explaining why it's wrong). It also makes the problem-solving process longer than it could be, and in that time I could cover more types of problems or just let students go home early.\n\nWhat do you think is the best practice? (And is it different in regular lectures than in recitation sections?)" ]

[ "teaching" ]

[ "Are references with indication of page number uncommon in computer science?", "I am writing a computer science paper in which I cite several lengthy sources (text books and standard specifications). Whenever I cite such a source, I add the page numbers of the subsection to which I refer, e.g.: \n\n\n Bla bla is considered very important [52, pp. 210-214].\n\n\nOne of the reviewers of the paper remarks the following:\n\n\n Do not use references with indication of page numbers (e.g., [52, pp. 210-214]), this is very uncommon.\n\n\nIs this really true (in computer science)?\n\nAm I wrong to include the page numbers in the reference?\n\nThe reference in question is a 400+ page book that broadly covers a whole subject area and I thought knowing which pages I actually refer to might help the reader. There are several other (and longer) sources, such as technical standards, which I cite in the same fashion." ]

[ "citations", "writing", "computer-science" ]

[ "What are the differences between M.Sc, M.Tech and M.Eng.?", "Based on this other question where the OP asks whether or not a second Masters degree is possible, I realized that I am not sure what the difference is between Master of Science and Master of Technology. \n\nI have graduated from a Swedish university and after 5 years of studies (Bologna process) I got my undergrad (kandidat) and masters (examen) together as it is very common here. I double checked my diploma now and even though I have graduated from the technical faculty and an engineering program, I am given a Master of Science. I believe there is no Master of Technology degree in Sweden, so I am not sure what it means. To make the matters worse, I stumbled upon another similar degree, Master of Engineering.\n\nI would really appreciate some insight into the differences of these degrees, and whether or not they would be considered interchangeable abroad (read: outside Europe)." ]

[ "masters" ]

[ "Where can i study academic english in an English-speaking country?", "I am an electrical engineering PhD student, from an African country and the official language here is French, but since most of journals and revues are in English, I always struggle to write my papers and most of them are reject because of the language. I tried to study English in local schools but the result is not so good.\n\nUntil a friend of mine suggested that i should try to studying English in an English-speaking country (Preferably the US or the UK), because the interaction with people will also count as practice, So i am looking for a school or training which is specialized in teaching PhD student how to write a scientific paper ? Does a such thing exists in the USA/UK, if yes please point me to them." ]

[ "graduate-school", "writing", "writing-style" ]

[ "What to do on immediate rejection from journal citing \"Similarity Score\" that is too high, but specific instances are just boilerplate text?", "I have received an immediate reject notice from the journal ACM CSUR mentioning that my written survey had 13% similar materials with respect to the online available sources. Passing through the instances one by one, it sounds to me that the majority are just the text of the references to the citations, e.g., \"Authors et al. [first_author et al. Year]\", some standard terms such as \"performance\", \"tuning\", and many standard ACM sections such as the ACM Copyright section, etc. \n\nP.S: \n\n1- To be noted that I am aware of plagiarism policy and I strongly support it. However, the fact that we are dealing with a survey journal instead of a regular computer science experimental research paper made me confused on the outcome of the similarity check and the immediate rejection.\n\n2- The application that does this check is called \"iThenticate\".\n\nHad anyone experienced the same issue ? Normally what do we do to proceed in this status? Does ACM have a fixed threshold on this similarity score?" ]

[ "plagiarism", "rejection", "acm" ]

[ "Is it considered okay to ask for the opinions of admission staff or committee after their decision of declination?", "If one applies to a graduate school and gets declined, is it considered okay to ask for the opinions of admission staff or committee, about their thoughts on the person's application package (gpa, experience, personal statement, recommendation letters), for better adjusting his plan of applying to other schools and career?\n\nThanks!" ]

[ "graduate-admissions" ]

[ "How to transition from pure biology PhD to bioinformatics/biostatistics?", "I've been working as a PhD student in biology and currently in my last year. However I realised just a year into my PhD that I hated doing experiments, I really hated it. I think one of the reasons may be that in the beginning, most of my experiments did not work. Also, I couldn't justify spending years of my life working on a tiny protein that no one cared about, all in the name of basic science. I initially wanted to quit but it was a difficult decision because I am an overseas student and may have had to immediately return home if I did.\nDuring this period, I did find that I enjoyed working on statistics and taught myself to code a bit, mostly at night. I'm currently taking online coding courses and I really enjoy using computational methods within my field especially in statistics. My main question is: is it realistic to switch to a career in bioinformatics and statistics, and how can I go about this immediately after my PhD?" ]

[ "phd", "career-path", "changing-fields", "biology", "bioinformatics" ]

[ "Where to buy non-kindle-format (epub,azw) e-books which look like the printed books?", "If I want to buy e-copy of academic books, most of the publishers (Oxford, Cambridge, etc.) direct to amazon store or allow epub version. However, I do not want the e-pub or other formats (e.g. azw) as the ebook in this format does not have the actual pagination and format of the printed copy.\nSo, is there a store or place where I can buy the e-copy of the book (preferably in pdf format) which actually looks like the printed copy (having the actual page numbers and format/style of the printed copy)?\nI am aware that some of the kindle books do come with both "locations" and "actual page numbers" to avoid the above problem. However, this is feature is not available for the majority of the books (as I open the sample version and check). Also, I miss the style/formatting of the printed book." ]

[ "books" ]

[ "How to have several subjects when submitting an article to arXiv?", "I would like to submit an article to arXiv and I have chosen a primary category so that the article is listed in that category. But I also would like to have another category in the list \"subjects\" when the paper appears on arXiv. For example, a paper is published on arXiv with \"Subjects: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP); bla bla bla\". I am wondering how to add \"bla bla bla\". Should it be done while doing cross-list? If so, does the paper also appear in the second category mentioned? I do not wish to have the paper in several categories." ]

[ "paper-submission", "arxiv" ]

[ "Failing to deliver promised research", "Will people look down on me if I say that I plan on doing research that I end up not doing due to various reasons, especially if I'm a PhD student?\n\nI guess it's somewhat expected, and that experienced professors don't always believe that I'll end up doing what I say (because unexpected bugs and events happen all the time). And sometimes you also end up going on detours.\n\nThat, and professors always say that they do things on smaller timeframes than what it really takes them to do.\n\nI guess if I always meet my commitments, then people might believe me more. But on the other hand, it always helps to get more feedback on ambitious projects that I don't necessarily believe that I will finish." ]

[ "research-process" ]

[ "Job Title: Graduate Research Assistant", "I worked on a project as a graduate student in a research group in order to complete the credit points (20 ECTS Germany) required for my Master's degree. I was not employed on a contract i.e. not paid for the work because it was for completing the credit points for my Master's degree. Now I want to include the work as a research experience on my CV (for application to a PhD program) but I am unsure whether I can name the title of the experience as \"Research Assistant\" or not.\n\nI do not know what technical title I should give this job." ]

[ "research-process", "cv", "research-assistantship" ]

[ "Am I likely to be perceived as less successful if I start as an assistant professor at age 40?", "Several professors, including my former advisor and a senior member of my research community, have been encouraging me to apply for a faculty job. I am torn about it mostly because I am 40 years old. Leaving a job in a research lab to start as an assistant professor would in a way seem like a starting all over again. \n\nI believe that my pre-PhD experience leading projects would lessen the learning curve that new tenured track faculty goes through. On the other hand, I am not sure if there would a be a stigma associated with my age. I would have gone for an academic position ten years ago in a heartbeat, for the research, freedom, and teaching. But I had personal reasons for not being able to pursue PhD sooner. \n\nIs it too late to do it now? Would the low academic rank to age ratio make my job harder, leading to possibly being prejudiced that I must not be successful to still be at the lowest branches?\n\nThere are several threads here asking about pursing PhD later in life, but I do not recall any of them addressing starting an academic carrier." ]

[ "job", "assistant-professor", "age" ]

[ "Where to find details on Bachelor degrees majoring in IT?", "I have been asked to design a major in IT (Information Technology).\nI am not based in US, and I didn't graduate in US. So, I am not familiar with US graduation system. However, I have been asked to use US bachelors as examples.\n\nSo, it would help me to have links to pages where I can see detailed descriptions of the IT majors, such as lists of mandatory courses, and syllabi.\nSo far, I was only able to find general descriptions of the IT majors offered in some US Universities and Colleges.\n\nI am particularly interested in Liberal Arts Colleges." ]

[ "united-states", "bachelor", "major", "liberal-arts-colleges", "information-technology" ]

[ "Supervising a research student with attention problems - what can I do to help the student be more independent?", "When supervising a research student with ADD or a similar problem, I can help the student be more productive by adjusting the way I give instructions:\n\n\nPropose one task at a time: Instead of saying \"Let's do X, Y, and Z\" I will just say \"Let's do X\", schedule a time for follow-up when X is done, and only talk about Y then.\nRepeat \"general\" instructions every time they are relevant: Instead of saying \"When you take notes on a bunch of papers, make sure to cite which paper each idea comes from\" and then expecting the student to do this moving forward, I will give the instruction again each time that the student is reading papers: \"Look through and take notes on these papers. In your notes, make sure to cite which paper each idea comes from...\"\nHave the student repeat back a summary of the instructions, with ALL of the important details, after hearing them.\nReview the student's plans regarding what to work on at what time, together with the student (to help with planning and make sure we are prioritizing important tasks).\n\n\nWith these and similar modifications, a student with attention problems can be about as productive as one without attention problems. (Without these modifications, the student keeps doing the wrong thing, and isn't productive at all.) But that kind of supervision is not really consistent with the goal of having my students become capable of independent research. For example, it's very hard for them to see the \"big picture\", identify next steps on their own, think about where the research is going and what intermediate steps are needed to achieve the end goals...\n\nObviously my primary role is as a research supervisor, not an ADD coach. So I'm not looking for generic ideas for helping an adult with ADD, or for suggestions to pass along to the student - I am looking for ideas specific to my role as a supervisor in an academic research environment. \n\nAs a research supervisor, what - if anything - can I do, to help students with attention problems be both productive AND independent?" ]

[ "supervision", "health", "disability" ]

[ "What software to cite in a manuscript, and how?", "When writing a manuscript for a scientific article, I often wonder what software I should cite or acknowledge, and how.\n\nThe first problem is to make a choice which software to cite. On the one hand, there is no way to cite all software, as this would mean to cite my whole software stack (Linux, GNU tools, emacs, git, ...). On the other hand, not citing any software is not fair, either. Furthermore, some software explicitly asks to be cited, some software doesn't. Also, some software is really crucial to the results, some isn't. Another important aspect is that citing software is not only about giving credit to the authors of the software, but also to give other scientists hints on what software they might want to use. So, the choice which software to cite is a problem.\n\nThe second problem is how to cite the software. Some (scientific) software does provide a classical scientific article that can be cited. However, in this case, no URL to the software is given. Others do not have an associated article. How do I cite these? I have seen people that cite the manual of a software, others just give the URL. What is the way to go?\n\nAnother aspect is where to cite the software. Some software can be cited in the course of the articles text, but when it comes to more fundamental software, other places may be more appropriate.\n\nAre there any good ideas out there on any of these aspects?" ]

[ "citations", "software" ]

[ "Publishing as a IEEE letter vs article", "I am writing a paper and am planning to submit it to one of the IEEE journals. I wrote the full paper and then realized that it is possible that the particular journal requires experimental validation of any modeling results. It doesn't explicitly state this in the website, but this is what it seems like from reading multiple papers.\n\nI also came to know that it's possible to publish the article as a letter. I will have to reformat the paper and cut down the size by 1/3rd. It seems that the rigor of the data required to publish letters is a bit lax compared to full scale articles: Letter vs article, What is the difference between an article, perspective, letter, and review?\n\n\nDo you think the requirements for publication of a letter is more lax compared to a full article?\nIf I were to submit it as a full paper, and it gets rejected because it doesn't have sufficient amount of experimental validation, will I still be able to submit as a letter?" ]

[ "publications", "journals", "data" ]

[ "Are there funding sources for open-access fees for an independent researcher in industry?", "Since I finished graduate school (statistics), I have been pursuing research. This is on my own time, separate from my work in industry, and while my company does not interfere with my work, they give no financial support.\n\nI now want to publish a paper in an open-access journal. (I know to look out for predatory OA journals, and the ones I'm considering definitely are not.) However, the open-access fee comes straight from my pocket and is not a trivial amount of money.\n\nWhat could an independent researcher like me pursue as a funding source to cover the OA fee? \n\nI did find this question, but I am interested in the OA fee in particular, not compensation for the work in general (wonderful as that would be)." ]

[ "publications", "funding", "independent-researcher", "open-access" ]

[ "Should systematic reviews be submitted to journals as original or review articles?", "In the Information for Authors of several (health) related journals, manuscript types may include original research and review articles, among others. \n\nI thought systematic reviews (whether quantitative or qualitative) should be submitted as review submissions, as opposed to, for example, original studies with novel findings based on data collected or analyzed by authors. However, the guides in those journals say a review requires an unstructured abstract, as in narrative reviews.\n\nIn this answer, review articles can be considered original observations. So why do some journals distinguish between review articles and original research? And, under which category should systematic reviews be submitted to these journals?" ]

[ "publications", "journals", "paper-submission", "review-articles" ]

[ "What is the standard way to refer to shared code in conference papers?", "Say I have a github repository with the shared code and data used for that conference paper? What is the standard way to refer to it in the paper itself? \n\n\nWrite something like. The code is available in [5], and then give the linkas a reference?\nGive the link in the paper text itself?\nGive the link as footnotes?\nNot mention the link in the paper itself, but send it separately as part of the submission?" ]

[ "citations", "conference", "code" ]

[ "With which funding agencies can I register as a reviewer?", "I've attended a few workshops on research management and proposal writing, and one thing they've all stressed is the importance of serving as a reviewer for other people's proposals. Just as peer-reviewing publications can help hone your own paper-writing skills, reviewing proposals is said to give you a better insight into the funding process and thereby help you become a better author of grant applications. Of course, reviewing proposals might also be rewarding for a host of other reasons (lending one's expertise to a wider scientific community, gaining and sharing knowledge for its own sake, learning to achieve group consensuses with reviewers of different backgrounds/opinions/motivations, establishing professional contacts with other experts and within funding agencies, making some extra income from reviewers' honoraria, etc.).\n\nWith that in mind, it seems like it would be a good idea to register one's availability with those funding agencies that issue open calls for a standing pool of reviewers (as opposed to those that seek out and select reviewers entirely in camera). I'm interested in learning with which national and international funding agencies I can do this.\n\nThe only one I'm presently aware of, and with which I am already registered, is the European Commission, which has a standing open call for experts to review for Horizon 2020 and many other programs. Is there a good way of finding other such calls (i.e., other than by identifying all funding agencies and individually checking their websites)?" ]

[ "peer-review", "funding", "research-proposal" ]

[ "Is it normal for universities to limit the number of PhD students a professor can supervise?", "It came to my attention that one university limits the number of PhD students each professor can supervise simultaneously. The policy makes a vague reference to "legislative and regulatory requirements".\nIs this an accepted and widespread practice in academia, or is it a weird quirk?" ]

[ "phd", "supervision", "policy" ]

[ "Decision between time or high-rank try", "Suppose you have a well-written paper that, in your supervisor's opinion,deserves a bit more of a Tier 2 journal, but it is difficult to get published in a Tier 1 journal. Would you suggest, in general, trying the higher rank journal first, getting a rejection (likely), but also possible improvements and eventually try a second-tier, or would you aim to the second straightforward to save time?" ]

[ "publications", "paper-submission" ]

[ "What to do when a journal publishes a paper plagiarizing one's work but doesn't care about it?", "Recently I caught a paper which had plagiarized my paper. Several sentences had been copied from my article without citing my article. Some of the copied sentences had been shuffled, so the words were the same but the order of the words had been changed. Some other sentences were exactly copied from my article. Besides, all the copied sentences in the new article appeared in approximately same places to the original sentences used by me in my article. I am not inexperienced in academia and without any severe bias, it was quite obvious that they have picked my sentences. Even the citations at the end of my sentences had been used in the same order in the new article... Moreover, the style of my sentences were unique to my article and not inspired from another article. So it was not possible that those authors were copying from another source other than my paper.\n\nI said all the above points to the editor of the journal. I also highlighted all the copied sentences and put very detailed comments beside each highlighted sentence in the new article and attached the new article and my article to the journal editor so he could see for himself. He didn't respond. So I searched for and found the email addresses of all the editorial members of the journal and emailed them the same letter, frequently. All the emails were correct and running. Only one of the addresses bounced my letter. So I am pretty sure they have received my emails.\n\nHowever they again didn't do anything about it, nor they did respond to me... So I wonder what else can I do? \n\nI intend to report them to as many authorities as possible. I know a couple of them, but don't think they will do much about it. I need to know what can I do about it? What those authorities are legally able to do? And that should I sue them in court or not? The plagiarizing journal is in Turkey (not my country) and I don't know can I sue them in a court of my country? Are there other routes for filing copyright theft complaints?\n\nAny suggestion is appreciated for when the journal tries to hide the plagiarism or doesn't care about it." ]

[ "journals", "plagiarism", "editors" ]

[ "Can acing the upper level course compensate background of no basic course in graduate application", "I am an international master student in Germany who wants to apply graduate schools in US or Canada. I have an unconventional background, I want to study mathematics but I don't have courses of basic analysis and abstract algebra. Due to language problem, I can't take the course in my university. Now if I get good grades in upper lever (graduate) mathematics courses, can it compensate that I don't have basic courses?\nWould it be a big disadvantage in Phd application?" ]

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