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[ "What to do if a university is pushing for a response before making a formal offer for a tenure-track position?", "I have interviewed for a tenure-track position. I got a call (followed by an email) saying that they would like to offer me this position and I am their top candidate.\n\nThis being said, in the negotiations that followed for a few days after, the department showed no desire in increasing the salary or startup package (which are already pretty low compared to other institutions). This is even after I told them that I have two other offers pending.\n\nI have not seen the formal letter yet, and they are pushing me for a response only a few days after they offered the position on the phone.\n\nI feel like they are low-balling me and being very aggressive. What actions should I take?\n\nBTW, I asked for an extension and they gave me less than a week." ]

[ "job-search", "salary", "negotiation" ]

[ "Legal or duplicate to publish results in both dissertation and journal", "Suppose one has published his results in a journal, then uses them in his dissertation, is it legal or duplicate?\n\nConversely, if one tend to publish some important results in his dissertation to a journal, is it legal or duplicate? \n\nI know to publish same results in two journals is duplicate, but what about it between dissertation and a journal?" ]

[ "publications", "journals", "ethics" ]

[ "When shall one write a mathematical expression as a separate line in a paper/Ph.D. thesis?", "When do we write a mathematical expression on a separate line, and when do we write it inline with the text?\n\nI believe that the answer is the same for researching papers and Ph.D. theses, or maybe even textbooks; but please correct me if I am wrong.\n\nHere I am referring to a paper/thesis on mathematics. When one writes a mathematical paper, sometimes one writes a mathematical expression in a separate line such as in the following example:\n\n\n We know that the identity\n a2+b2=c2\n holds true if ....\n\n\nWhile sometimes one writes the mathematical expression inline with the text, such as in the following example:\n\n\n Let f:X->Y be a one-to-one map, ...\n\n\nMy impression is the longer the expression is, the more likely it is written in a separate line. But is there any (possibly unwritten) rule for it?" ]

[ "publications", "thesis", "mathematics", "writing-style", "formatting" ]

[ "Appendix in research paper?", "Should I include an appendix before or after the reference for my course physics project?\nThanks." ]

[ "publications", "citations" ]

[ "Researchers had a paper retracted due to plagiarism and no one at their university is aware of it", "A year ago a professor at my department and her grad student had plagiarized a journal paper and published it. The paper was retracted, and the journal published a clear notice that it was due to serious fraud, as several paragraphs and the results were stolen (verbatim) from a previously published paper.\n\nHowever, it seems that I am still the only one at my department who knows about this misconduct, probably because people do not follow that journal.\n\nThe retracted paper is still listed in the publications of both researchers in the university database and in their CVs, and what is most appalling, the grad student looks like he will get his PhD degree in a few months, based on the work of someone else. In short, it looks like no one will have any consequences, and moreover that they ignore the retraction.\n\nAs an academic I find it as a duty to expose this case, but I don’t know how to proceed, and if it's worth pursuing this. The thing is that I am not in a developed country in which universities have a firm attitude about plagiarism, and also people here at universities are politically connected and protect each other.\n\nIf notified, the head of the department (and anyone else high in the organization) probably wouldn’t like to mess with it in order to avoid conflicts and degrading the image of the institution, and since I am low in the hierarchy I cannot do much myself, and moreover I am risking my own career. But this is not something that can be swept under the carpet...\n\nWhat should I do?\n\n\n\nUpdate\n\nThank you for the response, I did not expect this question to be so popular. While I was thinking what to do, the grad student suddenly quit. The professor did not know about the plagiarism and did not try to cover up the retraction. I don't know the details because there are only rumors, but I suspect the student was forced to quit after the professor (and co-author) became aware of this.\n\nI am surprised with the positive outcome. I would like to underline vsz's comment: \"Many people in the West underestimate how much corruption there can be at universities in less developed countries.\"\nSuch turn of events is not typical for my country, so questions like mine should not be surprising..." ]

[ "plagiarism", "research-misconduct", "retraction", "whistleblowing" ]

[ "Conducting independent research while in a university", "This could possibly be very specific to each university, but I was wondering if there is a rule prohibiting researchers who are working within a university from conducting independent research — perhaps external funding." ]

[ "university" ]

[ "How can I cite research material from meetings or presentations?", "I am writing a post-doc research paper. I want to cite research material from this meeting presentation: https://www.sitcancer.org/HigherLogic/System/DownloadDocumentFile.ashx?DocumentFileKey=0d2d7f53-3673-7aaf-3a80-518e0990e918&forceDialog=1 \n\nThis meeting presentation is from the \"SITC 2015 Workshop on New Perspectives for Target Antigens in the Changing Cancer Immunotherapy Landscape.\" Link here: https://www.sitcancer.org/communities/community-home/librarydocuments/viewdocument?DocumentKey=c4c7b592-7aae-4793-bf5a-1d136e87af3d \n\nHow should I cite material from these meetings/presentations?" ]

[ "publications", "research-process" ]

[ "How often do techniques/methods that are considered old or obsolete become relevant again?", "In many, if not most, disciplines methods age, get old and eventually become more or less obsolete, in the sense that some other method perhaps using a different technology becomes common-practice for a particular type of experimentation. One such example could be Edman sequencing, which used to be the method for sequencing peptides, but is pretty much outdated nowadays, not because it does not work, but because it's costly in time and labor.\n\nIn my experience, these old/obsolete techniques are taught both at Masters and PhD level, primarily to give a deep understanding of the field, albeit being more theory than practice. Are there any other benefits in learning/studying older methods, rather than only studying the state-of-the-art?\n\nI was wondering how often, if at all, such old methodologies come back (perhaps following a breakthrough in overcoming some original limitation) and regain popularity. Are there known examples? \n\nAs a follow-up; is such change in methodologies a phenomenon observed in experimental research, or are there equivalent scenarios in theoretical research as well?" ]

[ "research-process", "methodology" ]

[ "Add unpublished but widely cited paper to CV?", "I wrote an expository term paper in graduate school and posted it on my website, never trying to get it into a journal. Google Scholar says it now has 19 citations from various countries (\"widely\" is of course relative; what I mean is that this is more citations than my other publications have).\n\nSince the article apparently resonated with an audience, should it now appear on my CV? If so, should I describe it with the name of the professor or course for which I wrote it, or just a title with no venue?" ]

[ "publications", "cv" ]

[ "Can corresponding authors include their personal website to be contacted?", "I wonder if corresponding authors in peer-reviewed publications can include their personal websites to be contacted besides their address, telephone and email.\n\nIn the case that the corresponding author is between two jobs, she/he can still be contacted in case her/his previous email account is deleted once her/his previous job has come to and end." ]

[ "publications", "website", "correspondence" ]

[ "Dividing paper after Reject & Resubmit decision", "In a recent manuscript, we used a first principles calculation A and used it to explain experimental results B. A and B are based on existing methods, the novelty primarily lies in combining them and going from theory to real world application.\n\nThe reviewer gave several comments (fair & helpful), one of them being to divide the work into A and B. The decision was Reject & Resubmit. We (the authors) are divided on:\n\n\nSubmitting A as a letter (short communication) and B as a full paper to the same journal, together, explaining the changes to the editor and attaching response to reviewer.\nSubmitting A as a letter to a new journal and B as a full paper to the original journal, giving response to reviewer only to the original journal.\nSubmitting an edited but undivided paper to a lower impact journal.\n\n\nWhich of these is the optimal option?\n\n*Additional information:\n\nThe original journal has perhaps 10% acceptance ratio, the lower impact journal closer to 40% (anecdotal numbers only).\n\nBesides the division, reviewer comments are significant and there is some chance that we may not be able to satisfy all the suggestions.\n\nIn this field, A and B are generally treated as separate domains, though this is changing now.*\n\nEDIT: Clarification about letter and full paper:\nFor the journals in question, a full paper reports new, original results, typically without stringent page limits (but conventionally 5000-8000 words). A letter on the other hand reports brief results of immediate interest. These often describe a breakthrough that may not be fully developed, but which opens up avenues for further work. These letters are strictly limited to 2000 words and have a cap on figures etc (typically 3 max.)." ]

[ "publications", "editors", "rejection", "paper-submission" ]

[ "MA thesis without a research question", "I am currently trying to defend my second MA degree. I got my first one from the university of Warsaw (Poland), where I graduated summa cum laude, so I always thought, I had some idea of how to write a thesis. At this new university however (it's in Kazakhstan, but it follows a curriculum that's leaning towards that of what's considered to be a typical US university), I've been told that my thesis is no good, as it's in the wrong format, has not research question and is generally bad.\nNow, I'm aware that this thesis is certainly not a masterpiece, it was written during a lockdown when I had little access to literature, so the literature review part of the thesis is merely 20 pages long.\nHowever the most confusing part for me was that of this "research question" matter. I've been told that there isn't one, to which I replied "that's because I didn't ask any question".\nMy thesis is describing the lack of certain aspects of ESL education in Kazakhstan, including a survey in which teachers and students were asked whether those missing aspects should be included in the curriculum or whether they find them irrelevant.\nI've written my first thesis in the exact same way, and I was told it was fine.\nMy question is, is there any way that I can get this though a defense without completely rewriting it?" ]

[ "research-process", "thesis", "defense" ]

[ "Is it a good idea to link your LinkedIn profile in the CV section of your dissertation?", "I've passed the disputation and am now preparing the document for the printing press and final submission. We're required to have a CV in the back matter of the dissertation, and I was wondering if it is a good idea to link to my LinkedIn profile in addition (perhaps with a QR code) because it'll be far more up to date than the CV in my dissertation.\n\nDo you think this is a good idea? Are there any things I should consider when doing this?" ]

[ "career-path", "cv", "thesis" ]

[ "Is it a bad idea to submit a paper merely to elicit reviewers' comments?", "Some days ago I was talking with a friend of mine, who is currently a post-doc at the illustrious Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) working on humanoid robotics.\n\nHe was quite disgruntled because he recently spent a lot of time testing his latest discoveries and writing a scientific paper to submit to an important artificial intelligence conference, but on the day of the deadline, his supervisor asked him not to submit the paper. Indeed, his supervisor felt the experiments were not good enough, or the results were not excellent.\n\nAnyway, he did not want him to submit the paper, and so he did not do it.\n\nWe discussed about it and we both stated that, even if the paper and the discoveries were not excellent, they should have sent the paper anyway. The eventual rejection maybe would have come later, by the reviewers, together with the important review notes.\nThis way, they would have probably got a paper rejection, but they would have been able to treasure the reviewers' review notes.\nInstead, with his supervisor initial rejection, they won't get anything except their opinions.\n\nSo we thought that his supervisor had a bad idea.\n\nMy question is: why did his supervisor suggest him not to submit the paper? Why did he not think about the possibility of getting at least the reviewers' comments?\n\nIs a paper rejection so grave a fact?\nIs it so dishonorable to get a paper rejection?" ]

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

[ "Do german professors like to be called \"Herr X\"?", "I am a German student at a German university. I and everyone I know usually addresses my professors with \"Herr Lastname\" or \"Frau Lastname\". Sometimes I wonder whether they would prefer if I addressed them as \"Professor Lastname\".\n\nOn the one hand it sounds way too formal, especially after I heard them addressing each other using their first name only. On the other hand I sometimes feel like I am not showing them enough respect. I would like to hear some personal opinions of actual professors teaching in Germany:\n\n\nWould you prefer being called \"Professor LASTNAME\"? Please differentiate between normal and written conversation." ]

[ "etiquette", "professors", "germany" ]

[ "How to revoke my old paper from a fake journal (waset.org)?", "It was like more than 6 years ago, I was an undergrad senior in a south asian university, we did not have much internet connectivity back then. \n\nI wanted to publish something on a journal/conference to get a feedback on my undergrad thesis (I was curious to know about the quality of my work) and submitted a paper to one of the journals listed on that notorious waset.org.\n\nI was young and novice, above all, I had no idea that people could do such a scam with intellectual issues like \"research papers\", anyway. \n\nbut the thing is that when I search my name on a web search engine (google, duck-duck-go etc.), that biggest mistake of my life still comes up on the first page, I am now near the end of my PhD and looking for an academic/research job. So, I wanted to communicate with them so that I can request them to revoke my paper.\n\nHowever, their site does not provide any specific contact address/person to whom I can discuss with. \n\nI have no wish to resubmit that to any other place, after 7 years now I can understand that my undergrad thesis work was too \"trivial\" to be \"published\". \n\nIs there anyone who is in the similar situation? and is there any way to retract the paper from waset.org ?\n\nany pointer will be greatly appreciated. \n\nApology: I am feeling very uneasy to share the link of my paper, but their website is provided." ]

[ "journals", "disreputable-publishers", "withdraw" ]

[ "Is it possible to become a researcher in Artificial intelligence through a statistics phd?", "Or is a computer science phd required? Is having a statistics phd a disadvantage for AI research positions or does the research you publish and work on during the phd matter more? \n\nAlthough artificial intelligence research is interdisciplinary (math+cs+stats+logic, etc), I see mainly computer scientists working as AI researchers in industry at places like Google Brain, Open AI, DeepMid which makes sense since AI is an area in CS. Is it more because statistics phds aren't interested in working in AI or are these positions are mainly for computer scientists?\n\nI am deciding whether to accept a statistics phd from a top school where a lot of good AI research is happening and the CS and stats departments are traditionally close. I believe I could work with an advisor who is in both departments or have one advisor in the stats department and the other in the CS. \n\nThanks!" ]

[ "research-process", "graduate-school", "computer-science", "statistics", "artificial-intelligence" ]

[ "Averaging exam scores with very different means/distributions", "I'm teaching a course that has two exams which together form a large part of the students' grades.\n\nOn the first exam, the mean score was very high (~90%) with the majority of students scoring over 80%.\n\nOn the second exam, the mean score was much lower (~70%), with many students scoring below 50%. The distribution was also much \"flatter\". (This is not too surprising, since the second exam covered more material and more difficult material.) \n\nOn both exams, there were some students who scored ~100%. There were even some students (that I feel should be rewarded) who scored much better on the harder second exam than on the first easier exam.\n\nWhen computing final grades, is it fair to simply average (with equal weight) the scores on these two exams?\n\nOther possible options, none of which feel completely satisfactory to me:\n\n\nScale the second exam up in some way so that it has a higher average, then combine the scores. This seems unsatisfactory to me, since it will actually hurt students (relative to their classmates) who did better on the second exam than the first.\nWeight each students' higher exam score more heavily. This seems problematic for the same reason as before.\nSimply weight more heavily the more difficult second exam. This is nice in that it helps students who did well on a more difficult exam and rewards improvement over time. But is it fair to do without telling the students in advance?\n\n\nWhat do you usually do in these situations? Am I overthinking it?" ]

[ "exams", "grading" ]

[ "How much contribution justifies being a co-author of paper", "I am part of a Computer Graphics lab where I got to help a small team already working on a paper, by assimilating/cleaning up some data sets which they required. I was also part of some discussions and shared my views whenever possible trying to help them in analysis phase. I have hardly any other contribution other wise.\n\nGoing forward, I am now being offered to be one of the co-authors of the paper. I kind of feel that I haven't really done enough and its almost reaching it's ending stage anyways, so not much chance in future as well. \n\nOther team members are making a point that it won't be just on their part if this work takes up my time even when I don't get to be an author. I am in kind of a moral dilemma as I don't feel my contribution is enough.\n\nQ1. Is just helping out a good enough reason to be a co-author ? \n\nQ2. How do I justify to myself if I have really contributed enough ? Or should I let the team decide if my work is sufficient ?\n\nQ3. In general, are their any tangible points/guideline I can verify my contribution with ?" ]

[ "publications", "computer-science", "authorship" ]

[ "How to take advantage of scientific international association membership for career?", "In the last decades, many international scientific associations have been created. Organizations such as AAAS, IEEE, ACM, involve thousands of scientists and professors that have similar scientific backgrounds and objectives.\n\nHowever, besides technical and resource taks (such as providing documentation, articles, books, and organizing conferences) their aim is to push scientists closer, and let them connect with each other and network.\n\nConcerning this last point, I've always wondered: yes, but how? \n\nI'm member of several scientific societies, and I think I should take more advantage of my membership to connect with other scientists.\nBut, anyway, except for conferences where we meet in person, how could I use my membership to get more connections?\n\nHow would you do?\nWhat's your experience?\nAre you member of some scientific associations? How do you take advantage of your membership in professional connections?\n\nMany thanks!" ]

[ "networking" ]

[ "How to address a professor in an office setting", "I will be working at a private company as an engineer (but in a heavily research oriented team), and I just learned the contact information of my manager. I will be sending an email to introduce myself, but I am not sure how to address him.\n\nJust by searching his name online, I learnt that he works as a professor at a university (but is on a leave of absence, at least his page says so) but his current title in the company is engineer. So, in this case, should I address him as \"Professor surname\" or \"Dr _surname\" in the email or just by his first name (which is the preffered way at this company)?" ]

[ "etiquette", "titles" ]

[ "Explaining change in PhD project", "I was enrolled in a PhD program within an experimental topic (experimental physics), but 6 months in the project I had a talk with my supervisor: I was not satisfied with the lack of theoretical work (at my interview we had decided that there should/would be some).\n\nA few meetings followed, where we concluded that it would not be realistic to do any major theoretical work at all. Together with my supervisor we decided that it was best for me to stop my PhD-program and he encouraged me to enroll for a new one in theoretical physics, such that I didn't waste 3 years of my life doing something I would regret. He wrote a recommendation letter for me and I got accepted into a theoretical program. \n\nHere is my problem: I now have to write a short statement now on why I have discontinued my former topic and started a new one. However, I am worried that it might sound as if I stopped due to conflicts/disagreements with my supervisor, which was not the case at all. Quite the contrary, he was very helpful through the whole process.\n\nCan it be interpreted as such if I write something along the lines of \"former project could not accomodate my theoretical ambitions\"? How should I tackle this?" ]

[ "phd", "graduate-school", "advisor" ]

[ "How to write about the history of a new line of research in a grant application?", "I'm a Ph.D. student and my advisor has asked me to write a few paragraphs about the history and the existing literature of a relatively new line of research (the first paper on this topic was published in 2014 and there are only 3-4 major papers on this topic) to be included in a grant application. Since this is my first encounter with grant writing, I would appreciate any help with what to include in these paragraphs given that there are only a few major papers on this topic. \n\nThanks a lot in advance!" ]

[ "funding", "writing" ]

[ "Source code plagiarism detection tool that checks against online content", "I asked this question on Stackoverflow and was directed to ask it here. The question is:\n\nI wanted to ask about plagiarism detection tools for source code written in C++. When I searched Google the ones I found compare between documents that you already have. What I'm looking for is a tool that compares against content on the internet (i.e Github)." ]

[ "plagiarism", "tools", "code" ]

[ "Does presenting results in conference and publishing in unreviewed proceedings prevent better publications?", "Recently I have been attending a couple of conferences/workshops, presenting my latest results in oral and poster sessions. I really enjoyed doing that and the following live discussions. \n\nHowever the proceedings of these conferences are not reviewed and for many people they do not count as \"real\" publications. I wouldn't like to stop going to conferences, discussing with people and collecting the visibility that arises from this, but on the other hand I also wouldn't like to waste my precious results in publications that are not seen as serious enough.\n\nWhat is the best practice in this case?\n\nI spoke with people saying that they do not even bother about writing workshop proceedings, but I don't feel quite comfortable with this approach.\n\nMy field is accelerator physics, especially machine design and beam dynamics simulations." ]

[ "publications", "conference", "workshop" ]

[ "Is one or two years' postdoc experience helpful for a (nonacademic) research career?", "I just graduated with a Ph.D. in Asia. And I'm considering to look for a postdoc position in US in the field of computer science (to be specific, machine learning and computer vision). But I don't want to go for a faculty position (at least I don't want to at this moment) in the future. I'd prefer to find some research position in industry or some research institute in US. My question is that do you think one or two years' postdoc experience really helpful for a research career, considering it may not be that easy for an oversea student to directly get a research position in industry or research institutes?\n\nSome of the advantages I can think of are:\n\n\nPostdoc's supervisor's networking with other people in industry or researh institutes\nMore publications before job hunting\nGet to know more people in my area\n\n\nHope to hear some advice from you. Thank you very much." ]

[ "publications", "job", "postdocs" ]

[ "Can I ask reviewers (via the editor) whether they lost track halfway through the paper?", "I submitted a paper to a journal in linguistics. It was accepted pending some minor revisions w.r.t. typesetting and a few sentences that had to be reformulated. The reviewers gave eight comments on the introductory section, comprising roughly 1/3 of the paper, and only one on the rest. On the one hand, this may be expected, because I am less proficient with the broader context of the introduction and had most difficulties writing that section. On the other hand, I'm slightly worried that the reviewers lost track of the train of thought halfway through the paper.\n\nI would like to know if the reviewers got lost in the paper, and what I might do to improve it if necessary. However, I have not found a good way to ask the editor. I don't want to suggest that the paper should not be published or that the reviewers may have been lazy or stupid. How can I ask for more feedback? Or should I just assume that no comments means well written?\n\nI do not know how many people reviewed the paper; the editor aggregated the comments before sending them to me." ]

[ "peer-review" ]

[ "Resigning from tenure-track position after sabbatical for industry -- how little research can I do before I leave?", "I'm on tenure-track and going to go on sabbatical in the fall for one semester. When I return from my sabbatical, I plan on giving a year's notice and switching to teaching part-time while I take over family business. Research is not for me, but I like and respect my colleagues and I want to do \"right by them.\" My question is, how little research-related work can I do during my sabbatical and in the following year without jeopardizing my prospects for being hired as an adjunct afterwards and my relations with the department in general. I should mention that I am much liked as a teacher and coordinate a huge part of the undergraduate curriculum, so I trust that the department will want me to stick around..." ]

[ "tenure-track", "quitting", "sabbatical" ]

[ "How to cold email multiple faculty members to propose a collaboration?", "I am currently looking at an advertised postdoctoral fellowship (in the US if that matters), where it is stated that the topic of the research proposal should be discussed with faculty members before submission. My proposal is interdisciplinary and would ideally be a collaboration between multiple faculty members, which is one of the reasons why I chose the institution in question.\nSince I don't know any of the faculty members at this institution personally, I will have to cold email them in one form or another. I would know what to write if I wanted to only work with one of them. How do I approach multiple of them to propose such a collaboration?\nI see three options:\n\n"All in one": Email them all at the same time in one email. I feel this could be the most efficient option. However, I am concerned that this might seem overly forward since then they might have to coordinate a response among themselves.\n"Separate": Email them all at the same time, but in separate emails with a note that I emailed the other people as well. This would be less forward, but also less efficient. In addition, it could lead to awkward situations if only a subset of them respond or are interested. On the other hand, it may also increase the chance of actually getting a response.\n"Separate and sequential": Email them one at a time and wait for a response before emailing the next one. This option seems hugely inefficient, but may be the most polite.\n\nIs there any accepted etiquette for such emails?" ]

[ "application", "etiquette", "email" ]

[ "How to work with an advisor that changes their mind regarding project scope?", "I've been working with an advisor that has changed her mind regarding project scope for the past two projects I've been working with her. (So far I've only started two projects with her)\n\nFor the first project, we were thinking of building a system with two components, A and B. I worked weekdays and weekends on the project for one month, but she decided to drop component A and only keep component B. She mentioned that she would like some collaborators to join the project, and they would only be interested in component B. I was disappointed, but yielded when the advisor insisted.\n\nThe second project started six months after the first project started (the first project is still ongoing). For the second project, we decided we wanted to test the effectiveness of a certain class of interventions (call this class C). Bearing in mind that my advisor might change their mind, I worked less quickly on this project, avoiding overtime as much as possible so as to be flexible to a possible change of mind. (My advisor did say that I was working too slowly, but those were minor complaints) I roughly spent one day a week on the project for two months. At the two month mark, she said she wanted to study a much broader class of interventions (call this class D), which meant that most of the previous work was wasted as class C was only a small subset of class D (maybe only 10% of the size). She didn't give any reason initially, but when pressed, she mentioned that it would be good to combine this project with an upcoming project which touched on class D.\n\nHow can I deal with an advisor that changes their mind regarding project scope? On the one hand, I can't work too quickly as I will be too emotionally frustrated if things change. On the other hand, if I work too slowly, she may not be happy, and I may not have enough publications." ]

[ "advisor" ]

[ "How GRE score affect your acceptance rate", "Suppose you are very bad at undergraduate but did well on your GRE test. How would that affect you application?" ]

[ "graduate-admissions" ]

[ "can one write a research paper which is based on his previous paper", "I presented a paper in one of the IEEE conferences last month. The paper is still not available in IEEE Xplore. The paper addresses the problem of detection and recovery of X in images. However, the recovery of X needs to be improved both computationally and quality-wise. Currently, I have figured out three different ways of improving the recovery of X. Each of these three recovery methods is better than the one presented in first paper. \n\nIs it OK to write three papers demonstrating results with each of the new recovery results, given that the detection part will mostly be the same. Am I doing some sort of self-plagiarism here? Please help me understand this.\n\nFurther, if I am borrowing detection method from my previous paper, is it required to explain it in detail again or I can just write about it briefly and put a reference?" ]

[ "publications", "self-plagiarism" ]

[ "How to emphasize special issue publications in a CV?", "Recently I have had a paper accepted by peer review (4 reviewers!) and received an invitation to have it included as part of a 'special issue' (which, of course, I accepted).\n\nThe question is: how to emphasize in a CV that the paper is published in a special issue (without being too pretentious about it)?\n\nRelated question: is it even worthwhile to emphasize this?\n\nThis is related to the question: How best to present publications in different areas on a CV?, would it be best placed in its own section or emphasized as part of the normal bibliographic record." ]

[ "publications", "cv", "special-issue" ]

[ "Prospective supervisor wants me to do irrelevant videos as a condition for supervision. Can I say yes when I mean no?", "This question is the reverse of Dealing with a PhD student reneging on an agreement to appear in social media, in which the student had agreed during interviewing to participate in social media outreach but refused to do so when hired. The top answers in the linked question sided with the student. \n\nSuppose I'm a prospective PhD student looking for potential supervisors. I'm attracted to one professor in particular for both academic (e.g. matching research interests) and non-academic reasons (e.g. solves my two-body problem). The only problem is, he wants me to make social media videos to boost the profile of his research group. I think this is unreasonable, since doing this isn't part of the requirements for a PhD. I know I'm unlikely to enjoy doing these things as well, and would rather concentrate on my PhD.\n\nThe professor wants me to confirm both verbally and in writing that I'm willing to make these promotional videos. It's likely that if I say no, he will decline to supervise me. Is it OK to say yes, and then try to get out of making the videos?" ]

[ "phd", "advisor", "supervision", "interpersonal-issues", "social-media" ]

[ "How important is the orthographic/typographic rigor?", "Science and Orthographic/Typographical Errors\n\n\n\nSome people appreciate the attention to have their orthographic/typographical errors corrected/pointed out.\n\nOthers find it uncool to just point formal errors, finding it ideal to jointly comment on the content.\n\nGiven that, in terms of scientific rigor, how important is the orthographic/typographic rigor? And how does that vary?\n\nAs a side note, on a personal level, I find that reading a scientific text with orthographic/typographical errors is quite a turn off." ]

[ "peer-review", "formatting", "science" ]

[ "Why and how do professors go for sabbatical?", "I read several questions about sabbatical leaves in this website. When checking a faculty list, it is common that some are on sabbatical leave and some are visiting professors. When emailing professors, it is not strange to receive a reply that he or she is on sabbatical leave.\n\nHowever, the general picture of sabbatical visits is unclear to me. It is interesting to experience a new academic environment in a different country; but how do people handle it?\n\n\nCost of Living/Moving: When someone goes to another country, there are lots of unexpected expenses. High rent for a furnished house (for a year). They still have expenses in their home country (like mortgage). They will receive half of their salary from home the university and zero from the host university (not considering exceptions where getting paid for occasional tasks).\nResearch Output: The professor cannot plan for a long-term research. Probably co-supervise some graduate students.\nPosition: It is not clear to me what the place of a visiting professor is. In a research group, he is not a postdoc to follow the PI plans to get hand in experimental works, and he is not the boss to plan and conduct others. In a department, the head cannot force him to teach a course (it is not his duty), and the department has not offered him an official position, space and service for doing nothing. The vague point for me is that there is no official contract to define each party responsibility (as the host university is not paying).\n\n\nHow can one handle the expenses? And what is the professional motivation to do a temporary job (beside the fun part of going somewhere)?\n\nSorry for a series of questions, I could not separate them." ]

[ "funding", "professors", "visiting", "sabbatical" ]

[ "Positive review from an additional (third) reviewer (endorsing the 2nd reviewer) against a negative review from the 1st reviewer", "I submitted a manuscript to a well-known journal (in education) and got two discrepant review results from two reviewers: one very positive (minor revision) and one negative review result (suggesting the editor to reject my submission). In spite of this, the editor gave me a major revision decision. I revised the manuscript; but the reviewer that gave me a negative review was still not happy after reading my first round of revision.\n\nAfter seeing this, the editor thus invited a third (additional) reviewer to re-review the paper (during the second round of review). The third reviewer gave a very positive review endorsing the positive review from the second reviewer, and noted that \"the submission is very insightful\". The second reviewer did not gave further comments (hinting that s/he is probably happy with my revision). In this case, what do I expect next? I believe that I will never able to convince the first reviewer, although I did manage to revise the manuscript in full compliance with his suggestion. I believe that my second major revision will still sent back to all the three reviewers. If the first reviewer is still not happy, will the editor adopts the views from the 2nd and the additional reviewer? I personally feel that it would be unfair if the additional reviewer's view is not considered. By the way, I found that the third reviewer's comments are generally easy to tackle with (most of the comments are only asking for clarification).\n\nPlease advise based on your prior experience. Thanks very much." ]

[ "publications" ]

[ "Why should a publication present results in a way that significantly differs from the discovery of said results?", "In the various projects I've worked on, professors have insisted that a writeup for a journal submission should state and prove only the final results (rather than describe the process of arriving at those results). I see how this makes things concise, but it seems to obscure the process of discovery.\n\nHere's an example of this situation from a mathematics paper I've worked on.\n\nWhat I did:\n\n\nI have a direct proof for \"X\".\nAfter looking at my direct proof for \"X\", I see that I could generalize \"X\" if I prove \"Y\" (it was not immediately clear that proving \"Y\" was useful for proving \"X\").\nI prove \"Y\", then prove \"Generalized X\" (duplicating some work from the proof of \"X\").\n\n\nWhat the paper does:\n\n\nProve \"Y\".\nUse \"Y\" to prove \"Generalized X\".\nRefine the proof of \"Generalized X\" ever so slightly to get \"X\".\n\n\nMy frustration:\n\nI feel like the paper is good reference material, but it's not educational. I think a reader would stand to benefit much more from a direct proof of \"X\", since it shows why I would try to show \"Y\" in the first place." ]

[ "journals", "mathematics", "conference", "computer-science" ]

[ "Chair and one of directors insisted that my project is theirs... what should I do?", "This is my first semester as an assistant professor. I developed a project (with three publishable sub-topics) and got the IRB (Institutional Review Board) approval. I prepared a proposal to attend a conference, and submitted it to get my Departmental approval. \n\nThen suddenly my Department Chair and a director \"insist\" that the project is from their idea; so I should stop working on the project and then give it to them. Even my chair sends me a formal email including staff members - I developed their idea and so it is unethical.... \n\nI decided to leave this school from this ridiculous situation. However, I am still unsure how to handle this situation. I really do not care whatever they do. I just do not want that they use all of my instruments such as surveys for their study. However, I really do not know what to do. Would you help?" ]

[ "research-process", "ethics" ]

[ "What affiliation do I choose if my scientific work is unrelated to my job?", "I left academia, but occasionally I am coauthor of a paper. These papers are in the area of research I did at university, but now I am working in a different industry. \n\nAsked for affiliation, I am not sure whether I should state my company's name (although the company does not take part in the research and it is not done during work time) or if I should say \"affiliation: none\", which also seems strange. \n\nMy company has no policy (at least: as far as I know) that forbids to mention its name, nevertheless working there is not related to my research." ]

[ "publications", "independent-researcher", "affiliation" ]

[ "Graduate Certificates or Additional Masters as addons for Terminal Degree?", "My Background\n\nCurrently I have an MFA in Interactive Design and Game Development. I work as a software engineer (in higher ed) and teach adjunctly. In the next 10 years or so I see myself moving more into teaching. \n\nMy Question \n\nDo Graduate Certificates hold the same value in conjunction with a terminal degree as masters degrees? Which is the preferred for additional degrees show casing abilities in other areas? With the end goal of either doing research for a university or working towards becoming a professor? \n\nI've tried finding an answer to this on google, but really haven't come up with anything relevant. I've also checked out the Ph.D vs Masters Discussions on here. Any information and help would be appreciated. \n\nUpdate \n\nI would like to teach at a research university or technical university. My main area of emphasis has been where computer science and programming meet design. Specifically in the web, multi-media, and game development." ]

[ "masters", "career-path", "cv", "early-career", "certification" ]

[ "I wrote the whole paper, but did only a very small part of the research. PhD student wants to be first author, but didn't write. Is this okay?", "I'm an undergraduate who recently was involved in writing a paper where I did most, if not all, of the work writing the manuscript. The PhD student basically \"dumped\" his project into my lap after a year of sitting on the results, and asked me to write it. I wasn't really involved in the project, except for a few small things in the beginning.\n\nI'm currently listed as third author on the paper; the second author is completely out of the picture, and has not contributed at all to the paper (the PhD student has at least provided some edits). Should I argue that because I wrote the paper, despite not doing all of the research that the second author did, that I should be listed as second author? \n\nAs the deadline grew nearer, I found myself picking up more and more of the responsibility of the paper. I was initially happy to be third author, but when I found myself writing the entire paper, I think that my contributions are a lot greater than I had initially anticipated.\n\nHowever, I've never been involved in writing a paper before, so I don't know what the etiquette is for these types of scenarios. Should the second author be listed on the paper at all, or should we swap places in authorship? I don't think that the second author will even read the paper before it's published anyways. Should I talk to the PhD student that I think I should get more recognition for the work I've done on this paper, because I feel like I honestly should be first author considering that if I didn't write this paper, it never would have been written, or should I just be happy where I am?\n\nI'm not really sure what to do! Any advice would be immensely helpful." ]

[ "authorship" ]

[ "PhD by published work", "I have developed a logic and consistent body of research of 8 papers about a research topic. I've heard I can do a PhD by published work. It is just compiling the papers and writing the scope and importance of the papers in 5000-10000 words, then the viva.\n\nI know universities in the UK where I can do this, but they charge like 5000 GBP for the submission. \n\nDo you know other universities in other countries that charge less? I am thinking of norway, finland, germany, as they seem to have low tuition fees. However, I am willing to consider any country in Europe.\nI am living in Portugal, so I would need to submit my thesis online, and travel to the university for the viva\n\nAny help appreciated,\nThanks," ]

[ "publications", "phd" ]

[ "Career effect of embargo on doctoral dissertation", "I have a question about how my dissertation embargo period would affect my future work, so please help and share your ideas. I will appreciate any thoughts here. \n\nMy PhD degree is material science. I finished my PhD degree oral defense last week, and I am about to submit my final dissertation to the university. As for the dissertation embargo period, my university offers 3 options: (1) release immediately; (2) hold 2 or 5 yrs; (3) indefinite hold.\n\nI personally want to embargo my dissertation for 5 years for publication reasons, but my PhD advisor recommended me for choosing indefinite hold first. He said because we are trying to apply for a patent which may take a really long time, and he also mentioned that some chapters are cooperated with industry partners and they don't want them to be released. \n\nMost of my chapters have been published in peer-reviewed journals, which means even if my dissertation is under embargo, people can still know what my Ph.D. research is about. \n\nBut I still have a question: If I choose to embargo my dissertation indefinitely, will this affect my future career in a bad way?" ]

[ "graduate-school" ]

[ "How do I find a research assistant positions (life science) in USA if you're an international student and outside of USA now? Is unpaid job possible?", "I have a Master’s degree, and want to apply for PhD. I want to find a position during the gap year. It is also possible to do 2 years. But I am not in USA. So, How do I find a research assistant positions? Is unpaid job possible to get visa?" ]

[ "research-process", "research-undergraduate", "job" ]

[ "Why is there a 14-year difference between the submission date of this arXiv paper and the date in the paper text?", "I am so confused. This paper is listed as having been submitted in 1999, but the date below the author's names inside the PDF is 2013. \n\nWhat is the meaning of each date?" ]

[ "publications", "arxiv" ]

[ "Publication fee for reply to comment?", "I have recently published an article in a \"renowned\" open access journal which cost us 2000 USD. I say 'renowned' - not to brag, but to highlight that the journal is not the kind of new age OA journal from which I would expect questionable practices. \n\nAnother group of researchers now started the process of submitting a comment to our article, to which we crafted a reply. After review, the journal now wants to charge them, as well as us another 2000 USD each for the publication of the comment/reply pair. This comes as an absolute surprise to me.\n\nIn my opinion, this practice is actively discouraging scientific exchange, and it seems simply excessive to ask for another 4000 USD. Furthermore, should the reply not be considered part of the comment, therefore, if anyone, the commenter should pay for the publication cost?\n\nI am wondering if anyone has heard of something like this or has experience with publishing comments/replies in Open Access journals?" ]

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

[ "PhD Spring Admission", "Is there any university in the US offers PhD admission for the Spring? I'm trying to apply for the Cell and Molecular Biology at any university in the US" ]

[ "phd", "graduate-admissions" ]

[ "I shouldn't have got a PhD. I am not suitable for research in my field. How should I proceed?", "I shouldn't have got my PhD. I have published 5 papers in Q1 journals. But that has been possible because the topic is hot right now and much rigor is not required for publishing.\nI can use an open source or commercial software without knowing how it works in detail and churn out papers. I am just pushing some buttons in a black box and getting results.\nI can't teach the numerical method behind the software or the mathematics involved because I never understood it. Other students who work on this field take courses and have thorough understanding of the subject. They go on to teach the subject. While I am poor in mathematics, I am just dumb and lazy to self study it, solve examples.\nI am publishing papers now at a decent rate, but I am lacking depth. I am not suitable for my field of research. I don't know if I can do anything about it now.\nI recently got a PhD and searching for postdoc positions. I just don't fit anywhere. Everyone wants someone who is expert in the theory or have strong mathematics background. I have neither.\nI shouldn't have got my PhD. I think, my advisor, committee and university just wanted to get rid of me." ]

[ "postdocs", "emotional-responses" ]

[ "How to motivate people to participate in a survey, can I include a call for participation in a paper?", "I am designing a system which is based on text sentences of a specific domain, so that no corpus exists. In order to evaluate, which types of phrases occur, and how often, and to not be biased by my own input, I need theses sentences from other people. Thus, I created a Google forms survey.\n\nDespite posting on relevant mailing lists, offering a significant shopping voucher for a random participant and having my twitter call re-tweeted hundreds of times, I only received about 50 sentences, mostly from my colleagues. While this allows the development to go ahead, I fear that it doesn't give me a picture as accurate I would like of the typical input, especially the rarely used phrases. Also I expect it to negatively impact the credibility of my paper.\n\nMy questions:\n\n\nHow can I motivate more people to take part in the survey?\nIs it OK to put the URL of the survey in the first paper and hope that this attracts more participants for an improved version later on or is that seen as unwanted advertisement?" ]

[ "publications", "survey-research" ]

[ "Can I add a poster session to my CV if I wasn't there but had my name on it?", "I worked on research that was presented as a poster session at a conference. However, I was not the first author and didn't attend the conference, but my name was on the poster. Is it still okay to list the session on my CV?\n\n(I'm aware that poster sessions are not a big deal, but I'm very early in my research career, and I did real work on this project, so I'd like to be able to take some credit for collaborating as long as it's ethical to do so.)\n\nUpdate: Since the field seems to be an important factor, this would be in linguistics." ]

[ "cv", "authorship", "poster" ]

[ "How many credit hours of mathematics does an average successful student take before applying to graduate school?", "I'm a senior in mathematics at the University of Illinois (Urbana). I will be graduating sometimes in 2017, and I would like to go to grad school straight after graduation. \n\nHow many credit hours of mathematics does an average successful student take before applying to graduate school?" ]

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

[ "Approaching Professors for Technical Consulting/Endorsement", "I work for a technology company and our company is interested in inviting some professors to review some of our recent technological innovation. It'd be more like writing an endorsement, or a preface for a book (and of course the professor needs to be comfortable with our work), so we can promote our products to the clients. \n\nWe don't have strong academia connections, so we might have to write some unsolicited emails to approach professors. Are there some tips regarding this kind of emails? I understand professors receive thousands of emails every day, so I want to make sure our email doesn't get buried. \n\nAlso, should we bring up compensation numbers in the first email, or this should be left for future discussion?" ]

[ "professors", "industry", "consulting" ]

[ "Are replies from editors automatically generated?", "I never reply to editor's and conference organizers' mails, since I somehow always thought that they are automatically generated and replying just to thank would be considered as spamming, since they probably write to hundreds of people. \n\nBut is this really true? Do editors prefer not to get trivial replies to their email? Are their emails really automatically generated, or just some parts of them?" ]

[ "conference", "peer-review", "etiquette", "editors" ]

[ "Why do publishers still print a 'Half title' page?", "Isn't a Half Title redundant, when the Title page already states the full half Title? See Wikipedia:\n\n\n \n\n\nI know why books must have blank pages, but why not leave this page blank? \n\nI instance The Happy lawyer. The front cover contains the full title The Happy Lawyer: Making a Good Life in the Law. Then the first Half title page states only 'The Happy Lawyer'. Just after p. xiii (The Foreword), but before p. 1, is another Half title pages that states only 'The Happy Lawyer'.\n\nAnother instance is Better Never to Have Been. The front cover contains the full title 'Better Never to Have Been: The Harm Of Coming Into Existence'. Then the Half title page states only 'BETTER NEVER TO HAVE BEEN'." ]

[ "publishers" ]

[ "Professor asked to write part of reference letter due to time constraints", "I am applying to graduate programs and one of my research professors will write me a recommendation letter, but wants me to write a rough outline of the letter. He will add his own content and edit all my work, but wants me to highlight things he might not know.\n\nI am not sure how to write this outline, advice from people who have written graduate recommendations on what to put in one?" ]

[ "graduate-admissions", "graduate-school", "recommendation-letter" ]

[ "To what extent should I follow \"style rules\" in academic writing?", "Some journals request that authors follow a specific style manual (e.g., APA or Chicago manuals of style). \n\nOne style rule is to avoid starting a sentence with an abbreviation (with some exceptions).\n\nHowever, I found it unnecessary to spell out abbreviations like ANOVA (analysis of variance) or FMM (finite mixture models) every time I start sentences with them.\n\nShould I strictly follow such rules in academic writing?\n\nEdit: My field is biohealth sciences." ]

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

[ "Why are cumulative tests typically weighted so high (U.S.)?", "Is there an academic justification behind most U.S. classes weighting exams at very high percentages of the overall grade in a course? So if a student does exceedingly well throughout the course in all projects, but bombs both tests, their grade is drastically skewed towards the exams rather than the coursework leading up to the exams.\n\nFull disclosure, this happened to me this semester. I have a 97.75% on our projects throughout the course (4 major projects, each taking ~20 hours to complete). However, I admittedly bombed the final and did fairly poorly on the midterm (37% and 70%, respectively). Projects in our course are weighted 60%, but the remaining 40% is entirely midterm/final. My final grade for the class is hovering around 80% before the curve.\n\nI want to understand the mindset behind these weights though, and where the idea of heavy cumulative exam weights came from? In other words, if I've demonstrated the understanding of the material to almost perfect standards, but I failed to represent that on a test, how does that translate to me being given a grade that doesn't really represent a strong understanding in the subject?" ]

[ "coursework", "exams", "grades" ]

[ "How do you interpret the feedbacks of my boss", "I have a PhD in biological sciences but working (for two years by now) as a data analyst (I can say something like a bioinformatician) in a university analysing cancer omics\n\nMy boss says that I am an excellent bioinformatician but I must learn how to structure my data when presenting or even before any analysis\n\nHe says I would not get any credit unless I learn this\n\nEvery morning we have online lab meeting, when seeing my colleagues presentation I feel too bad about myself\n\nI see how they are deep and accurate in their statement\n\nBut me only see frigid feedbacks, even PhD students in our lab don't take me serious never ask me to help them in their data\n\nI feel too isolated.. I am getting to the end of my career but everyday I feel the current position would be my last job opportunity in my life\n\nHow would you approach such an annoying situation in your academic life?\n\nThank you for any word" ]

[ "postdocs", "career-path", "early-career", "feedback" ]

[ "Spending time on problem solving", "As a freshman student going into a Community College pursuing Engineering, I deal with a lot of STEM-based subjects such as Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Statics, and etc. Currently my problem is that I still haven't found an effective studying strategy and I'm currently struggling with practicing problem solving. Since there are around a 100 questions in each textbook, I find it to be very tempting to try them all which as a result leaves me with no time to study other subjects or spend time with other things. What's the best strategy to counter this problem?" ]

[ "students", "international-students", "independent-study" ]

[ "Do scientists generally use their name in their discoveries themselves or does someone else do them the honors?", "For example, was the term Newtonian physics coined by Newton himself or by someone else? What about Hamiltonian or Langrangian physics?" ]

[ "science" ]

[ "Suggesting research topic of personal interest to my PI", "I am currently performing some purely data driven research as part of my chemistry undergraduate research course. Through this work, I have developed a keen interest in what I’m doing.\nSeveral papers that are similar to the work I’m doing have mentioned the current lack in certain aspects within this research area. This really got me thinking about how that drawback can be addressed. This would however involve a lot of research and literature search for data mining. I really think that this would be a very interesting topic to pursue further. However, given how my research course is laid out, I should only focus on my current goals.\nRegardless, I really want to propose my ideas to my PI and get them interested in this. Due to COVID, our interactions are very limited and only once a week over zoom. Therefore, I don’t feel like I have built enough rapport with them to suggest this. Additionally, given that I’m still an undergraduate, I’m not sure how seriously they would take my suggestion either.\nShould I just go for it? Is there a manner in which I should approach topic? I would appreciate any suggestions.\nThanks!" ]

[ "research-undergraduate", "research-proposal" ]

[ "What date goes on your hardbound PhD thesis?", "I submitted my thesis in 2013 but passed my viva (the oral defense/examination) in 2014. Should the date (month+year) which I put in, on and around my thesis be,\n\n\nWhen I submitted my soft-bound copy to the examiners.\nWhen I passed my viva (the oral defense/examination).\nWhen I submitted my hard-bound copy to the university.\n\n\nA fourth option is,\n\n\nIt depends on your university.\n\n\n(Note that I am at a British Uni, so I presume that this is governed by something the British Library said...but what they said, I cannot find...)\n\nThis seems to be ridiculously hard to search for, but I apologise if it has been asked before." ]

[ "phd", "thesis", "united-kingdom" ]

[ "I like my supervisor but not how he does things; What do I do?", "I've already got a little experience doing self-led research but not in doing setup for the domain in which I work. I really enjoy talking with my supervisor about actual research topics, but I don't enjoy the workflow he suggests.\n\nFor example, there is a particular software development toolkit I've been told† to use, but it's constructed in such an unorthodox way as to be unusable outside of a certain development environment in a very specific way (in Eclipse IDE) and isn't compatible with development conventions which are nearly ten years old (Maven). I only found this out when it was too late and have had to jury-rig everything as I go, and now, due to having thrown together a bunch of weird stuff together without testing it properly (having been given the green light by my supervisor, respecting his decision that it would work fine), I've spent six months collecting data which is messed up to the point of being unusable. My supervisor was also surprised, admitting that he didn't expect any sort of problem like that (which is why he recommended throwing the said things together).\n\nI like and respect my supervisor but can't help but feel the whole project has gone sour thanks to \"just doing it the simple way\" which has turned out to be unbelievably complicated and now it's very likely I spent all that effort for nothing. What can I do when I respect my supervisor's research advice but don't like doing things the way he does? — What kind of \"workflow\" can I form where I take his research advice but still do things \"my\" way... or at least to know what implementation advice I should take with a grain of salt? Obviously it works well for him, so I feel even more disillusioned that I'm the one with all these problems. I feel that just saying \"no, your software doesn't work\" would not be constructive, because it does seem to work... for him.\n\n\n\n† Being more sure of the nature of the working relationships at the department, I now feel that I could have politely declined at the time without offending said person as long as I was confident and produced results." ]

[ "phd", "research-process", "supervision", "methodology" ]

[ "One line thank-you emails to lecturers/professors - yes or no?", "I have always wanted to know the answer to this question (sorry if it's silly):\n\nIf a professor or lecturer answers a question or gives advice when replying to an email I sent them, in general, do they prefer if I send them a one-line email saying 'thank you!' or no email at all? If I send a one-line email I'm worried I'm just clogging their inbox, but if I don't send any email at all, I'm worried I'll seem cold/selfish.\n\nThanks in advance!" ]

[ "etiquette", "professors", "email", "lecturer" ]

[ "When someone cites one of your papers, is it a good idea to send an email to the authors to show appreciation?", "For an early career researcher in physics or science in general, is it a good idea to send a \"thank you\" email to other authors who cited one of the researcher's papers? Will this be perceived in a positive way and even start a possible collaboration, or it will be cheesy?\n\nNotice that in physics, where people post online versions of papers before publications (on the arXiv), it is very common (sometimes annoying) to receive or send letter to request citations to your own paper when one finds a similar/related but yet unpublished work. \n\nThis question obviously applies only to early career researchers who receive few citations per week." ]

[ "citations", "arxiv", "physics", "early-career", "online-publication" ]

[ "Is it possible to get a PhD Degree in from USA or Europe after doing Masters from India", "I am a Chemical Engineering Masters student from India and I wish to pursue a PhD degree from some reputed US or European Universities. \n\nI have heard from my seniors and from internet searches that generally good universities do not admit students who directly apply for a PhD after a Masters degree from India and expect them to take a Masters degree from their university before going for PhD. \n\nIt maybe that such instances would have occurred for some particular cases and cannot be generalized, but as I said that it is just what I have heard over from people and I wonder if it is true. \n\nI have been searching all over the internet regarding this but quite a few websites exist where this question has been answered convincingly. So I thought to post it here in stack exchange so that I can get some better answers. Any help would be appreciated." ]

[ "phd", "engineering", "india" ]

[ "How important is having research experience in the same department you are applying for?", "I have a B.S. in math from the United States and am returning to school in the US for a second B.S. in microbiology because: 1) I have no research experience; 2) I have no excellent LORs as a result of 1; 3) I can finish this degree in 3 semesters.\n\nOne would expect me to do research in microbiology / bioinformatics during this degree. However, I want to do graduate studies in statistics.\n\nIs it frowned upon to go to the statistics department for research? On the other hand, would LORs from microbiology / bioinformatics have significant weight to statistics programs? When?\n\nI'm asking because I need to be a student for legality purposes otherwise I would have to be paid, and I doubt that I would find a paid position. Microbiology is the fastest and cheapest way for me to get research experience." ]

[ "research-undergraduate", "statistics", "biology" ]

[ "Job application: What are \"scientific highlights\"?", "A job opening for a tenure track position specifies that the application must include \"scientific highlights\".\n\nNow I am puzzled by this. I've applied before for tenure-track positions, and I've never heard of such a thing.\nI don't get the difference with other more standard ingredients of an application, such as research statement, list of publications, cv, cover letter; this is even more puzzling because these latter standard ingredients are also specifically required in this job advert. \n\nAny clue?" ]

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

[ "Can the editor of a book add citations of individual chapters to his own citation count?", "Supposed someone is the editor of a book, in which individual chapters of the book are contributed by different authors. Other researchers cite individual chapters of the book.\n\nCan the editor of the book add these citations (for the individual chapters) to his own citation count?" ]

[ "citations", "editors", "books" ]

[ "Grading by assigning points to exercises", "For grading exams, I usually assign points to the exercises in such a way they sum to 100, and then I correct the exams by giving partial points based on such assignment.\n\nLately, I feel this is a poor choice: students which obviously don't get the topic sometimes get acceptable grades (because they sum some points for every exercise), while some students who understand the topic get bad grades (because they didn't do all the exercises, but some exercises they completed very well). Is there any resource (i.e. book or article) discussing this methodology of grading? What are the alternatives?\n\nI think I'd like a grading methodology that analyses the whole of the exam not as the sum of the parts, but first I'd like to read about pros and cons." ]

[ "reference-request", "grading" ]

[ "What to do if a colleague plans to submit the paper you worked on together without your name on it?", "I have been working with another postdoc on a paper, here is what happened: I presented a work of mine before it was published (but it is in my thesis and on arxiv) and he decided he will use the same exact model with a slight change. I have talked it out with him and finally with my lab adviser as he was not collaborating, and we decided to send the paper as coauthors after our adviser mediated the issue (though it was bumpy), even sorted out whose name goes first etc. \n\nThe methodology belongs to me and the application area is the same (topic), although he has written all the code practically (he said he wanted to learn and build a more modular code etc) I did contribute by writing small scripts but he ended up not using them. \n\nMy advisor has asked their collaborating institute whether I could join (the irony that my methodology is stolen but I need a pass to join the project) and they did approve it (I have all exchanges and emails). I spent countless hours discussing and working on the project with him, as he is working on another project I have little clue about the execution but he had to travel often and he made a presentation to the partner institute. I also suspect that my adviser got the patent of the code on his name as I have noticed he took my name out of contacts on github recently. I had not asked to be in the copyrights of his code but he has told me that I was going to be there relating the model. My adviser only wants to please the partner institution I am afraid. I was away for a week and before that my colleague and I saw each other very briefly and all sounded to be on track. He has run over time for the completion of the project so he is not working here anymore technically. Today I get no reply from him on multiple attempts and I learnt that he has removed his computer's hard drive and my adviser is off for vacation for an unknown time. \n\nI suspect that my colleague will try to send off the paper we were supposed to write together without my name on it, I have email exchanges as proof but most relied on my adviser, whom I don't know if I should trust after the copyright issue. What do I do if he sends the paper without my name? Do I write to the editors? His partner institution? Is there a board for this?" ]

[ "authorship", "copyright" ]

[ "Is it OK for the supervisor to expect half of grant money which student got through his help?", "My supervisor has told all his PhD students (more than 20) that from now on if a student gets grant then half of it must be given to group so that it could be used for the expenses for other students like conference travel. I have not applied for any grant and at the moment I am not planning to. I just want to know if this is ethical?\n\nWhat I feel is that supervisors are there to supervise and it is their job. They are paid for it. If they want money, apply for grant by themselves, why expect money from a poor student? \n\nPlease not that the grant which the student gets is specifically for students. And supposed to be applied only by students themselves." ]

[ "conference", "funding", "travel" ]

[ "How important is the write-up of a PhD thesis for an academic career?", "How important is your written PhD thesis for an academic job search, assuming the results are already written in papers? Do search committees ever read your thesis in addition to your papers? My PhD advisor said that the written thesis is not important and I can write whatever I want as long as it's not about Star Wars." ]

[ "thesis" ]

[ "How to deal with a professor that continuously dismisses student questions?", "I'm taking a distributed systems course at a well known university in the U.S.\n\nI've noticed my professor has three primary forms of responding to student questions during his lecture:\n\n\nImmediately answers with, just a minute, we're going to cover that\nImmediately answers with, that's what we just covered\nSpends a couple sentences briefly explaining why the student's question doesn't apply / doesn't work\n\n\nAlmost no dialog is ever spent on further explanation, but rather on disproving. So, instead of recognizing student questions as a lack of understanding, it seems to come off as defending what he already covered and moving on.\n\nAs a student in this course, how best do I approach this?\nI fear this may be just a personality trait / teaching style that he's acquired, and I wouldn't want to offend him with \"Your responses to questions are unhelpful.\" — But maybe this is the best option?" ]

[ "teaching", "professors", "answering-questions" ]

[ "To what extent do the religious beliefs of an author affect a paper's chance of being accepted?", "Implicit gender bias is present in academia (at least in the sciences). I've heard that some journals hardly accept any manuscripts written by Muslims. To what extent do the religious beliefs of an author affect their paper's chance of being accepted? Have there been any studies that look at implicit religious biases?" ]

[ "publications", "ethics", "reference-request", "religious-issues" ]

[ "I suspect an author of a paper I'm reading was listed improperly - what to do?", "I was reading a paper. And the list of authors looks suspicious. Three of the authors are at some random place I haven't heard of and the fourth author is a well-known professor at a top university. The paper itself is not very good.\n\nI suspect the well-known author may have been listed to improve the paper's chances of acceptance. (Most reviews in my field are only single blind.)\nOf course, it is possible that nothing is wrong - I can't be sure.\n\nIs there anything I can or should do?" ]

[ "authorship" ]

[ "I am planning to apply to Masters/PhD program in economics but my grades in first and second year are terrible?", "I am planning to apply to some North American Masters and PhD econ programs this upcoming fall. While I meet all the minimum requirements to be eligible for admission into all the programs, I am pretty nervous about my first and second-year grades: they are horrific. Now, I know that a lot of people say that freshman performance doesn't really count, but my situation is a bit different from the rest. \n\nWhen I was first enrolled in an undergraduate program at the university, I studied business. Like many other freshmen out of high school, I didn't care about grades. All I wanted to do was pass my courses and get the degree. In my first year, I did pass all my courses, but my average was below the honors program requirement and the academic office issued me a probation warning. Probation warning caused me to panic a little bit, but it still was not enough to make me a better student. In my second year, I failed a couple of core business courses and I was put on probation as a result. Over the course of two years, I did not meet the class average in any of my classes. The University allowed me to come back into the program after I would have taken the year off, but I decided to withdraw from the institution and reapply into a different program at another university.\n\nFortunately, I was offered admission into one of the English programs at the university in the town where my parents reside. Since I earned some credits from the previous institution, I was registered as a second-year student. This time I performed much better. My average improved drastically, it increased from mid/high 50% to 79%. I scored above class average in every single course with the exception of one. This was also the year, I was taking a calculus course which pushed me to switch from Honors English program to Double Major in Economics and English after an excellent performance. In the previous academic year (2017-2018), I obtained an 87% average (for that year alone) in English and Economics courses. Right now, I am taking math courses in the summer and some advanced ones in the upcoming graduate year. \n\nBased on my recent performance at my current undergraduate university, I think I have decent chances to be accepted into at least one of the graduate problems. But as I mentioned earlier, my performance at my first university is terrible. How much of a problem do you think my two years in business would cause me if at all? \n\nThanks" ]

[ "graduate-admissions" ]

[ "Changing PhD Programs? What to put in my application? (UK-based)", "Background: \nI started my PhD a few months ago. I haven't actually been trained to do anything because they say they don't have the time for it. I've been understanding but I'm becoming very frustrated. In addition, it looks like my project might not work out at all and some other P.I. advised my supervisor to change the direction of my PhD completely. I've come up with a few ideas I could do in the meanwhile but most of them have been rejected. I feel helpless. I have voiced my concerns to my supervisor but nothing has changed. \n\nI am considering re-applying to other programs so I have other options if this situation remains the same. Ideally, I would like to submit my applications without my supervisor knowing. Is it possible, and more importantly is it a good idea? Furthermore, I know I have to disclose that I am currently doing a PhD but how much will this hurt my chances at applying to other places and how do I go about it? Do I just mention it in my CV or should I attach a letter explaining my situation, will anyone even read that? Do I still have a chance to get into another fully funded program? \n\nSorry for the million questions. I would really appreciate if someone who's been or knows anyone in this situation could help me out. Thank you!" ]

[ "phd", "graduate-admissions", "united-kingdom", "transfer-student" ]

[ "Is it possible to get PhD in Statistics for an actuary?", "The question is pretty straightforward.\n\nI'm an actuary with a bachelor and a master degree in actuarial science. I have already worked in the insurance industry, I have programming experience and some data science/machine learning background thanks to Kaggle, MOOCs and similar stuff.\n\nAs an actuary, I have had a lot of stats classes but I'm not sure if what I have studied is enough for a PhD in Statistics or if I lack a lot of things (i.e. I have never studied measure theory). What do you think about it? Is it possible to enter in a good statistics program in Europe?\n\nMy research would be in ML and similar things applied to actuarial. I also want to enter in a good university because I want to become a professor." ]

[ "career-path", "early-career" ]

[ "Revising thesis into a publication : Can I use the same language or must I paraphrase?", "I'm in the process of revising my MA thesis for a publication. I am not clear whether I can just copy and paste information from my thesis and do minimal revisions, or I should paraphrase my thesis to a large extent so as to avoid self-plagiarism.\n\nAny feedback would be appreciated!" ]

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

[ "Where to apply for MSc depending on GPA?", "I am an engineering undergrad in my third year. The question that I am asking might sound like a duplicate but I seek some rough statistics. What classification might be roughly correct for institutions offering MSc degree for their average acceptation GPAs?\n\nTo visualize, I do not expect a 2.8/4 average student to be accepted to MIT except extreme cases. Would it be \"roughly\" correct to make a tabulation as follows:\n\ntop-20: 3.7/4\n\ntop-50: 3.5/4\n\ntop-100: 3.3/4\n\ntop-200: 3.0/4\n\nI am aware of that it lacks real statistical information and there are many external factors shaping this kind of generalization, however, it would be helpful for making \"realistic\" degree applications. Any improvement would be appreciated." ]

[ "application", "gpa" ]

[ "How to cope with gap after PhD?", "I submitted my PhD recently and am waiting for the oral examination. Though I have started looking for postdoc positions, the possibility of being without a job, even if for a small period after the viva, is quite frightening. How can I cope with it?" ]

[ "phd", "thesis", "postdocs" ]

[ "Deceased author and conflict of interest statement", "I am submitting an article with heavy heart. The main author of article passed away just a week ago. This work was suppose to be submitted by him. Now this responsibility came to me.\n\nI am not sure how I can sign the conflict of interest statement on the behalf of deceased author?" ]

[ "publications", "authorship", "conflict-of-interest", "death" ]

[ "Contacting promotor and assistant/supervisor in regards to master's thesis after weeks of radio silence", "I am a master student and currently finishing my master's thesis.\nEver since the beginning of COVID I have been experiencing depression and anxiety. This resulted in not being able to work as hard as needed on my thesis and led to a few delays of intermediary (but not compulsary) deadlines during this year. At the beginning of summer, my promotor, assistant and me made a raw time schedule to make sure I would be able to finish and hand in my thesis before the deadline.\nAbout three weeks ago, I was supposed to send them a mail with my progress but due to the lack thereof and a multitude of anxiety attacks, I convinced myself it would be better to wait to send an email until I have something to show for. This anxiety related situation dragged out and now, with two weeks to go until the final deadline, I have most of my thesis written, except for the discussion of some results of my experiments (which I partly still have to create), and which is the most important chapter of my thesis.\nMy intent is to send an email on Monday, but I have no idea on how to address the situation. In my mind, they, my promotor and assistant, probably think I have given up on making the deadline of my thesis. I basically went radio silent for a couple of weeks and the guilt is eating me up. In addition, I don't even know if it is still possible to do the amount of work that is still needed to complete my experiments as I have not started my last one yet.\nCould anyone give me some insight on how to handle my situation? Thank you." ]

[ "thesis", "masters", "computer-science" ]

[ "Author Ambiguity in PubMed Search", "Given a (rather large) list of authors, what is the best way to find the number of publications by each author? The big problem here is author ambiguity (which John Smith, etc.) - the author list we have doesn't even include middle initials! What we do have is the full name of a FDA Committee on which they have sat, which has some useful key terms (e.g., arthritis).\n\nIdeally, some sort of API/automated search could be used given the large number of authors! I've heard about some databases (eRA Commons, for example) but these don't seem to have a visible search page. \n\nWhat is the best way to figure out publication number given these constraints?" ]

[ "publications", "authorship", "data", "pubmed" ]

[ "Can I re-apply for a Ph.D. to the institute I previously rejected?", "Situation: \nI had a firm interest in field A and applied to relevant schools.\nI was admitted to Univ. X and Y's program starting from this fall semester.\nX is more renowned program than Y in my department. There was a professor (potential advisor) in X whose research works and style closely aligned with my own interests. \n\nI enrolled X but rejected soon because I heard some bad instances from some people who worked with the potential advisor which were so critical that some students left his lab. After the rejection, I got another email explaining how those complaints can be misleading and some good sides of the potential advisor. I asked X to withdraw my rejection but soon canceled that query because I was scared of losing both schools when they find that I was doing this. But regretted so much that I asked X for reconsidering my admission again. Finally, professors in X officially declined my query, stating they would welcome my re-application in the next year.\n\nI tried to settle down in Y. However, I couldn't find my interest in the works of the potential advisor in Y. I wanted a balance between quantitative and qualitative works, however, his works seemed to be inclined to the latter. In the field similar to A in Y, professors were either not taking students or out of the US for several years. I could barely find interest in research works done by other fields in Y. Because I want to do what I can passionately do, I decided to re-apply to X. \n\nQuestions:\n\n\nWill my application to X be disadvantageous?\nShould I write the reason I rejected and why I want to make a shift in my SOP? \nIf I participate in a project in Y, should I tell the advisor in Y about my decision? Should I have a reference from him?\n\n\nThank you for reading this long explanation." ]

[ "phd", "application", "cv" ]

[ "What does it mean when a paper gets rejected stating \"poor typesetting\" as one of the reasons?", "What does it mean when a paper gets rejected stating \"poor typesetting\" as one of the reasons?\n\nI downloaded a latex template of a journal and used it to write the paper.\nWhen I submitted the paper to some another journal they cited as \"poor typesetting\" as a reason for rejection of my paper and said the writing needs improvement.\n\nWhat does \"poor typesetting mean\"?Please help." ]

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

[ "How do I tell a professor who tells me he'll send in a recommendation but doesn't that I don't need his letter anymore?", "My professor agreed to give me a LOR. However, despite many reminders, he has yet to send it in. I called him up a week before the deadline and he was annoyed at this. I then considered asking someone else but he emailed me asking me for supplementary documents. Again there has been radio silence from his side after that. Now, the deadline has passed. I think professors can still send in LORs and I’ve asked another professor to write a LOR for me after explaining my situation. My question is do I email my earlier reference to tell him I don't need his LOR anymore? How do I word this email? Should I show my indignation at being taken for a ride?" ]

[ "graduate-admissions" ]

[ "Poster: Block spills over column: Should I write \"continued\"?", "I am making a scientific poster. A block spills from the left column to the right column. So I divided it into two blocks, one with a heading in the left column at the bottom and one without heading in the right column at the top. The design of those blocks looks, as if a regular block was cut in half and placed where described. However, a colleague did not get that at once and wondered why the right upper block had not headline. Should I put a \"continued\" or \"cont.\" or \"cont'd\" at the bottom/top of the two blocks, or trust my readers to get that?\n\nEDIT: My blocks are:\n1. Introduction\n2. Discussion the challenge / issue\n3. (the one split) about given a general solution framework\n4. Given an example implementation.\n5. Contact Information and Acknowledgments\n\nI don't see how I could rearrange the blocks.\n\nAlso:\n\n\nThe conference gave specifications that it has to be portrait.\nMy (large) boxes don't allow row based.\n\n\nNote: I am using tikzposter for my poster (in case someone cares)." ]

[ "poster" ]

[ "Pass/Fail decisions on 1st year PhD report", "At my university in the UK, candidates doing a full time PhD (3 years) have to submit a 1st year report which includes literature review, the "gaps" that will be tackled by the doctoral work, expected outcomes, research methodology, Gantt diagram of the future work, the completed training plan, and some preliminary experiments (if any).\nThe supervisor makes a report about the performance of the candidate (training, attendance to meetings, etc.).\nA committee of faculty members (excluding the supervisor) reads the candidate report and the supervisor report, and examines the student on the content of the report and challenges the topic, etc. It's like a mini-viva. The committee is called to make a decision if the candidate is able to complete the PhD in the next 2 years or not. If the answer is not, then the candidate gets another chance in 2 months and if they fail again, need to leave the program.\nMy question: How can one make a decision about the ability of a candidate to complete a PhD from their performance in the first year? I have seen people struggle in the first year and then do amazing work and vice-versa. Questions like "the ability of the candidate to perform novel work" cannot be answered after the first year.\nI am early-career faculty." ]

[ "phd", "research-process", "graduate-school" ]

[ "When an academic researcher receives a gift funding from an industry partner, does the academic researcher's university take a cut?", "When an academic researcher receives a gift funding from an industry partner, does the academic researcher's university take a cut, or does the academic researcher receives the entire gift funding? \n\nIf this is university and country dependent, I am mostly interested in the United States, and I'd be interested to have some survey (e.g., x % of universities % take a 20-30% commission, y % of universities % take no commission).\n\n\n\n@Closevoters: according to What is our stance regarding questions asking for survey of institution’s regulations?, the question is on-topic. Closing the question would prevent future readers to add surveys as an answer. For example, someone who work in the industry with many university partners might have a good idea of how often universities take commissions for gift fundings. Buffy's answer shows that one can give a good answer to the question, stating factors that may come into account. \n\nIn response to comments: \n\n\nthe expression \"taking a cut\" is neutral. I'm not trying to imply anything in my question.\nDefinition of gift funding: see https://doresearch.stanford.edu/policies/research-policy-handbook/definitions-and-types-agreements/gift-vs-sponsored-projects-and-distinctions-other-forms-funding#anchor-1102 (mirror) \"A gift, on the other hand, is defined as any item of value given to the University by a donor who expects nothing significant of value in return\". A gift isn't a grant or sponsored research project." ]

[ "funding", "industry", "reference-request", "gifts" ]

[ "What is a fair metric for assessing the citation impact of journals across disciplines?", "To quote Thomsons \"a journal's Impact factor\nis calculated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous two years.\"\n\nI assume that disciplines vary in\n\n\naverage number of citations per paper: Disciplines with fewer citations per paper will appear to have less impact.\ncitation half-life: Longer half-lives means under-estimation of impact relative to journals with shorter half-lives. The Wikipedia article on impact factors summarises a study that found that \"the percentage of total citations occurring in the first two years after publication varies highly among disciplines from 1-3 percent in the mathematical and physical sciences to 5-8 percent in the biological sciences.\" (Nierop, 2009).\n\n\nGoogle Scholar uses the five year h-index. See this listing of top ranked journals with various psychology related keywords in their title. The five year h-index indicates the number of papers with an equivalent number of citations. E.g., a value of 20 indicates that 20 articles published in the last five years have received 20 or more citations.\n\nHowever, while the h-index might reduce the issue of different citation half-lives, it does not resolve it. And it does not address the issue of differential citation patterns across disciplines.\n\nQuestion\n\nWhat index provides both a reliable and unbiased assessment of the citation based impact of a journal when comparisons are being performed across disciplines?\n\nReference\n\n\nErjen van Nierop (2009). \"Why do statistics journals have low impact factors?\". Statistica Neerlandica 63 (1): 52–62. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9574.2008.00408.x." ]

[ "bibliometrics" ]

[ "What are diplomas, postgraduate courses, specialization, training courses?", "I am going to apply for some faculty positions. In the application form they need some information in the category titled: postgraduate courses, specialization and training courses and diploma. I have already attended several summer schools, workshops and also took several online courses (MOOC) as well as knowledge booster courses. Can these events be considered as one of the elements of mentioned category? Need to say, there exists another category for degrees obtained such as Master and Doctoral." ]

[ "cv", "job", "faculty-application" ]

[ "University-wide use of cracked OS and software – how to fix this?", "My university is using cracked OS and software throughout. The school is very huge at 70 hectares and there are buildings everywhere. All of the computers in the computer labs and offices are full of cracked Windows and software¹. In our computer labs, we use a cracked OS and software to program and design circuits. Also, the school is credited as a Center of Development which is a world-wide acknowledgement.\n\nThe cracked software tends to crash and produces a lot of errors leading to lots of data loss. Especially when it crashes without warning, and data sometimes can get corrupted.\n\nMy question is: How did the school get away with this, and is there a way to report this to authorities? I don’t even think my country cares about software pirating anyway (Philippines). Is there a way to report this so that the software in every computer in the university can be replaced and upgraded?\n\n\n\n\n¹ Everytime we turn on the computers, the first message we see is \"Activate Windows Now\", and when we open the programs we use, the first thing you see is the splash screen displaying \"Cracked by PerTician Cracker\"." ]

[ "university", "legal-issues", "software" ]

[ "Masters in US or (Masters + MPhil) in UK", "I am an engineering student studying in India, and I will complete my Bachelor's in Electronics Engineering in June. I am looking forward to pursue a career as a researcher in Machine Learning, Signal Processing and Computer Vision.\n\nWhich is better : \n\n\na 2 year master's degree in the US.\nor a 1 year master's degree + a 1 year MPhil degree in the UK.\n\n\n\n\nWhat I think is the advantage of the UK approach is the following : \n\n\nSince the Master's course in UK is mostly coursework based and I don't have a formal background in computer science, it would be much more efficient if I learn't the relevant concepts first, before starting research.\nAfter the Master's course where I would have completed all the required coursework, I could spend a year in a more research oriented environment (during the MPhil degree).\n\n\nAs a result, I think the UK option is more suitable for me (it would be a more structured approach) as a student having completed his Bachelor's degree in Electronics engineering, and wishing to pursue research in a more computer science oriented field.\n\n\n\nWhat I think is the advantage of the US approach : \n\n\nI plan on pursuing a PhD degree in an institution in the US, because (please correct me if I am wrong) the chances of fully funded PhD's are much higher in the US, than in UK. Thus, it would be easier for me (from the admissions point of view) to study in a Master's and a PhD program, both in the US.\n\n\n\n\nBasically, what I am asking is :\n\n\nWhat are the merits/demerits of both the approachers, from the point of view of : \n\n\nMe as a researcher in the future\nAdmissions to a PhD program" ]

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

[ "What do I do when I can't find the source of this chapter of a book so I can cite it APA style?", "I have found part of a book in .pdf file format and it contains some information I would like to use in my study. I'm trying to cite the book APA style, but I can't find any information on it whatsoever. I've spent ages searching around for any information I could find from within the PDF, but failed as only that specific PDF keeps popping up in the results. I can't make a citation if I don't even know the title of the book or the author. \n\nMy citation currently looks like this, with \"Onbekend\" meaning unknown and \"z.j.\" meaning no year:\n\n\n Onbekend. (z.j.). Onbekend. Opgehaald van\n http://wps.pearsoned.co.uk/wps/media/objects/10977/11240737/Web%20chapters/Chapter%2012_WEB.pdf\n\n\nWhich is unacceptable.\n\nThe part of the book in question is here.\n\nWhat should I do now?" ]

[ "citations", "citation-style" ]

[ "How can I tell if I'm making enough progress when working remotely?", "I am starting a PhD abroad, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic I cannot leave my country at the moment. My advisor has agreed that I can work remotely (starting later is not an option). While we can Skype and most of my work can be done online, I am concerned that having no access to the department, not being able to attend seminars/workshops, and not being able to meet/talk to other students in person will put me at a big disadvantage.\n\nI am keen not to spend these initial few months slacking off and want to catch any problems before it is too late. However, I have always found it difficult to judge my own progress when studying alone, and with a PhD it seems that it will be especially hard as I need to learn a lot of skills in a new area. Also, because my advisor seems like a very 'nice' person who does not demand that his students work very hard, I am concerned that he will not tell me if I am underperforming.\n\nWould it be appropriate to raise this with my advisor, asking him to tell me if I am not doing as well as his students usually do? Or are there any strategies for people working from home to judge if they are doing enough?" ]

[ "phd", "advisor", "social-skills", "covid-19", "remote-work" ]

[ "Adding a short (and interesting) observation to a submitted paper", "About six months ago, I submitted a paper for publication. The paper is somewhat long and technical, and I believe that only a small number of researchers will bother reading it (nevertheless, I do believe that my results are nice). I still haven't heard from the referee, but I tend to believe that the paper will be accepted for publication.\n\nA few days ago, I observed that the main results from my paper provide a completely new proof of an old classical result in my field (actually, they provide a new and significant extension of that old result). The proof of this observation is only one paragraph long.\n\nMy question: How should I publish this new observation?\nI can add it to my old paper and resubmit it, but even if it's not too late to do so, I'm afraid that my result won't get noticed (as the long paper will only attract a small number of specialists). On the other hand, uploading a one page long paper to arxiv might make me look funny, and I don't know if any reasonable journal will consider publishing that ridiculously short note.\n\nRelevant biographical information: I'm currently a postdoc. I want to get a decent TT job, so (sadly) it's kind of important for me to impress people in my field." ]

[ "publications", "mathematics" ]

[ "Booking websites for student consults", "Apologies if this has been asked. I've been searching the website to find a comment on a post I read about online scheduling systems.\n\nI'm looking for a free online system that will enable students to book in consultation times for their research papers with me on pre-set timeslots that I arrange. I have 300 students enrolled so would like to avoid the hassle of emails (if at all possible). \n\nI know that doodle offers something like this, but I don't like the fact that doodle allows everyone to see everyone else's timeslot. I would prefer it to be a more private system for the students.\n\nIn a question/answer post I read, someone had mentioned a few websites but me being the idiot I am didn't write them down and now can't find them throughout this website. \n\nDoes anyone have any good suggestions? I would prefer to avoid the email back and forth while I wait for students to respond as to what time on a particular day suits, so a booking system would be ideal for both me and my teaching assistant." ]

[ "students", "website", "tools", "time-management", "office-hours" ]