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How "submitted", "to appear", "accepted" papers are evaluated in a CV?
Assume a search committee is reading my CV and in the publication section they notice some of my papers are only submitted or claimed to appear in a journal (or accepted for publication in a journal). Sometimes the journal which has accepted the…
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Review your own paper in Mathematics
I sent a paper to a good journal with other coauthors. Some days ago, one of my coauthors was sent an invitation to review this paper. Is this logical? I mean, has anybody of you ever received an invitation to review your own paper?
Some months ago,…
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I got the following comment from a reputed math journal. What does it mean?
I got this comment after more than 75 days of submission:
The considered problem in this manuscript is a practice in high mathematics and can not be a paper for publication in high-level journals.
What does it mean?
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Is it good to have slides that may be skipped during a presentation?
I am preparing a seminar talk. Currently the presentation contains some theorems and some proofs. Probably, I will not have time to explain all the proofs - I will have to skip some of them. My question is, which of the two options is better:
Keep…
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What can a publisher offer to its best reviewers?
As a publisher, every now and then I saw reviews which are so good, I thought I should thank the reviewer with something more than "thanks". What can a publisher offer that will actually be useful?
Ideas:
Cash. This is probably not happening. Cash…
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Is a request to publish an article in Research Features a scam?
I regularly receive emails from Open Access predatory journals or conferences asking me to publish an article or attend some kind of conference somewhere. Usually, those emails are easy to identify.
Recently, I received an email from a Journal…
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Should a graduating doctoral student "care" about his or her advisor's tenure considerations?
I am a doctoral student in a large state university in the eastern US. I'm in my final year of work and will likely defend my dissertation shortly. I already have a job in "industry" (i.e. non-academia) lined up.
My advisor would prefer that I stay…
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How to suggest reviewers for a journal?
I recently tried submitting a paper to a journal. It was mandatory to suggest three reviewers. Is this a norm in journal submissions? If yes, how should one choose reviewers if I do not personally know any experts in the field? I have been…
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A colleague's CV is taking credit for service that I did, and now we're both on the shortlist for a job. Is there anything that I can do?
A few years ago I undertook the position of co-editor as a journal and organized a redesign of the entire journal: new layout, new cover, new typesetting, new printers, everything. I'm very proud of all of this work, and I make sure to bring it up…
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Professor is upset about student comments about her lectures. What should I do?
One of my former supervisors is upset about student feedback for her lectures. There are two problems:
If she provides complete slides with information, students complain that she reads from the slides.
If she doesn't provide complete slides with…
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How to proceed when graduate advisor treats me terribly, possibly because of age?
I am an older graduate student who went back to school after getting laid off.
Going back to school wasn't easy and I had to take some classes to prepare myself for graduate work.
I had one professor who later became my graduate advisor and…
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If I rederived a result (oblivious that it already existed), should I cite the original paper?
I derived a minor result on my own, as part of a paper that I'm working on. I recently discovered that this result already exists in the literature.
If I cite the original work it will seem like I simply took it from there, but if I don't it might…
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Can I successfully adapt to an advisor who will not push me to work?
I am currently a first-year graduate student, now in the process of figuring out who I'd like to have as my thesis advisor. Of course, compatibility of research interests is quite important, but personality and work style are too.
The issue I'm…
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Should one avoid using the phrase "note that" in math writings?
I always thought that the phrase "note that" in a mathematical writing is simply something you say to express that what comes after "note that" is a fact. Due to its neutrality and versatility, I use it a lot, without even thinking the possible…
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What is the point of a cover letter in journal submission?
Many journals do specify that cover letters are optional. From my experience, most people write cover letters in journal submission, but I am also aware that articles can also be published without the cover letter. Therein arises the question: why…
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