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2012/07/17 | 1,350 | 5,718 | <issue_start>username_0: Once you have a faculty job, how do you ask for a raise (beyond a yearly university-wide cost of living increase)? Is there any way to negotiate, short of soliciting outside offers? What should someone do if they are not willing to uproot their lives and move to a different city?<issue_comment>... |
2012/07/17 | 2,778 | 12,072 | <issue_start>username_0: I've heard of people transferring between graduate schools because of their advisor moving to another school and taking their students with them.
Do students ever transfer for other reasons? If a student isn't happy at the school they choose, could transferring be an option? Presumably they w... |
2012/07/18 | 767 | 2,892 | <issue_start>username_0: We've already discussed about [which bibliometric indeces are diffused the most](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/42/what-are-the-common-productivity-measures-of-a-scientist-like-h-index), and how they work.
We all know that, along the most common [**h-index**](http://en.wikipedia.... |
2012/07/19 | 827 | 3,488 | <issue_start>username_0: Journals such as [AMTD](http://www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net) and [ACPD](http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net) contain an open discussion where anybody can comment on papers under review. The peer-reviewers are still anonymous, but other people commenting are not. If I'm reading a paper and... |
2012/07/19 | 1,290 | 4,806 | <issue_start>username_0: I was contacted by the Acquisition editor of Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP) to publish my bachelor's thesis as a printed book. Is LAP any good? I have no idea about it; I have just heard that it's a freelance publishing house.<issue_comment>username_1: No.
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Publishing a thesis this way h... |
2012/07/20 | 1,851 | 7,893 | <issue_start>username_0: [The UK recently decided](http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/15/free-access-british-scientific-research) that from 2014, all research papers supported by public funds must be published in open-access journals.
For instance, the Research Councils UK announced [a new policy stating that](... |
2012/07/20 | 890 | 3,318 | <issue_start>username_0: My goal is to produce a graph showing the linkages (and lack there of) between several fields that share a common subproblem by showing who cites whom. There are many databases that show citations between papers: [ISI Web of Knowledge](http://apps.webofknowledge.com/), [Microsoft Academic Resea... |
2012/07/20 | 1,120 | 4,567 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just started my PhD and although I love research and everything that accompanies it but I am put off by Academia a bit and would prefer an Industry job at the end of my PhD.
What can I do differently during my PhD years with this ambition in mind?
I have read "[PhD Grind](http://pgbov... |
2012/07/20 | 641 | 2,727 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it legal (for a faculty member) to publicly reveal a student's performance in PhD comprehensive exams? In the US, isn't this in violation of [FERPA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Educational_Rights_and_Privacy_Act), the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974?<issue_comment>u... |
2012/07/21 | 4,706 | 18,588 | <issue_start>username_0: What's the difference between an associate professor and an assistant professor?
What can one of them do that the other can't? and which is a higher level? can any of them supervise a PhD student?<issue_comment>username_1: In a typical university in the **United States**:
An assistant profess... |
2012/07/21 | 1,656 | 7,234 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working with a group in China, and we were discussing the following question, which I would like to ask here too:
>
> **Question**: Is it better to write a paper in Chinese, then translate it into English, than to write it in English to begin with?
>
>
>
Of course, this question is no... |
2012/07/21 | 1,182 | 4,918 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there any proven methods for keeping a computer science lab notebook? What sort of stuff goes into a CS lab notebook, and what notation is used? Are there any reliable [ELN methods](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_lab_notebook), preferably integrating with Git?
I want to keep a lab... |
2012/07/22 | 1,165 | 4,843 | <issue_start>username_0: What do you do if after 6 years of being an assistant professor, you come up for, and are denied tenure?
How hard is it to get a job in industry, when you are middle aged and have no relevant work experience? How hard is it to get another job in academia? Who wants to hire someone who was den... |
2012/07/23 | 565 | 2,181 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been told to set up software to organize a workshop. Is there (preferably an open source) conference solution that allows for:
* Abstract Submission
* Event Planning
* Arbitrary user data-fields
Apparently managing "dietary requirements" is a really big deal for the organizers.<issue_com... |
2012/07/23 | 1,483 | 5,725 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a nightmare adviser, who is also the head of the Department. The problems are:
1. he has too many students,
2. never reads my chapters,
3. he is trying his best to sabotage TA or RA opportunities that are my only source of funding,
4. he discourages me from attending conferences, and
5.... |
2012/07/23 | 875 | 3,664 | <issue_start>username_0: When a committee is evaluating applicants for a permanent academic position (such as a Lecturer or Assistant Prof. position), do they select the best candidate in the absolute, or do they relativize with the corresponding experience?
Consider for instance two applicants, one who just graduate... |
2012/07/23 | 1,609 | 6,568 | <issue_start>username_0: Question : Should my advisor know if I am auditing unrelated courses?
Motivation : I am a PhD student in Computer Science and at times, I wish to audit courses which are not at all related to my thesis or research.
For instance:
* For Fun : Italian Food and Art
* For probable post-PhD jobs (... |
2012/07/23 | 1,889 | 7,959 | <issue_start>username_0: How much of a disadvantage are you if you are not a US citizen, but want to enter American academia? It seems Americans have lots of advantages starting early, including NSF graduate fellowships, continuing with more access to DARPA money, US-citizen specific awards like PECASE, etc.<issue_comm... |
2012/07/23 | 786 | 3,187 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a rewrite of a question that was perhaps-naively posed. I rephrase...
What file formats are ok/good/ideal/common/long-term-viable/archivable/useful for research papers?
And, also, there's the history-question:
What is the story of viable file-formats in the last 20+ years?<issue_comm... |
2012/07/24 | 829 | 3,421 | <issue_start>username_0: Being a professor at the top university in your field must be a very different experience from being a professor at a top 20 university, which must be a very different experience from working at a top 100, 500, etc. university.
But how do these jobs differ? What are the qualitative difference... |
2012/07/24 | 449 | 2,000 | <issue_start>username_0: Google Scholar is making it very easy to track (their measure of) citation counts, h-index, etc. for individual researchers. Is this changing how academics are evaluated? Do tenure committees now bring up google scholar profiles, or do they continue to prefer other sources for citation data? Is... |
2012/07/24 | 590 | 2,668 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I want to get letter of recommendation for a PhD program. Could this letter be from someone not from my institution? Could is be from someone I have collaborated with online? Or generally do schools want recommendations from professors from a student's home institution?<issue_comment>us... |
2012/07/24 | 349 | 1,282 | <issue_start>username_0: We're thinking of starting a journal for undergraduate research. I'm vaguely aware that some electronic journals have a 'print on demand' capability, so that someone who wants a printed bound copy can get one. Can anyone point me to a journal that does this?<issue_comment>username_1: It hasn't ... |
2012/07/24 | 1,105 | 3,901 | <issue_start>username_0: Romantic relationships between faculty members and students are often depicted in movies or books, and the student falling in love with his/her professor seems to be a bit of a cliché. But how common are such relationships in practice?<issue_comment>username_1: I've found a rather old survey (1... |
2012/07/25 | 1,397 | 6,037 | <issue_start>username_0: The quality of articles in Wikipedia has grown tremendously in the last few years. A "good article" requires a big list of necessities, including coherence, readability, comprehensiveness and credible references. As such contributing technical articles requires academic merit, good explaining s... |
2012/07/26 | 3,043 | 12,679 | <issue_start>username_0: Many times I've attended and will attend international conferences presenting a poster in my life.
I used to think that this poster works have been considered less important than scientific papers or oral communications, but important anyway for scientific divulgation.
So, when presenting a po... |
2012/07/26 | 1,033 | 4,579 | <issue_start>username_0: For a long time I thought that when I start my PhD, my field of research is fixed for the rest of my academic career. However, I've encountered multiple people who have a PhD in space science or particle physics, and have later moved to atmospheric science or remote sensing — one of them even a... |
2012/07/26 | 1,103 | 4,527 | <issue_start>username_0: When two people in a couple are both in science, but specialised in different fields, how can they both find relevant positions but still be geographically reasonably proximate?
Compromise and [change fields](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2632/how-unusual-is-changing-fields)? Wo... |
2012/07/26 | 1,150 | 4,940 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a year away from getting my undergrad degree in (computer) engineering, with a minor in Japanese. I never had the opportunity to do a study abroad due to the rigors of the major. As some probably know, the JET program is a program by which selected individuals move to Japan to teach English... |
2012/07/27 | 2,553 | 10,879 | <issue_start>username_0: We have had quite a few discussions on how to gauge the quality of research papers and academic journals. The consensus is that it is tough to identify a single metric which could reveal this quality factor.
I had an idea in this context. In the past newspapers used to have a single "Letters t... |
2012/07/27 | 1,052 | 4,369 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the best strategy to determine common knowledge in an unfamiliar field? I have provided an example below, but I am not looking for an answer specific to that example.
We have [an answered question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2192/on-citing-common-knowledge-statements)... |
2012/07/28 | 1,308 | 5,539 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a Bachelor's in Computer Engg from India but the education system here is pathetic and I have no idea about research.
I'm about to join an Ivy league university in the US for the Master's program and I'd like to experience research now that I'll have the perfect opportunity to, but I'm n... |
2012/07/29 | 236 | 974 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to find journals response times? A google search does not give any good results. May be I am using wrong key words.
I am open to find particular subset of journal response times too. Any pointers about this is welcome. [this answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/904/333) g... |
2012/07/30 | 889 | 3,905 | <issue_start>username_0: As a graduate student I will mentor some undergrad students so that they can help me with my work and get some useful experience working in a lab.
From my past experience, I realized that they lack knowledge. So I do not want to them work on data analysis at least for a semester (unless they s... |
2012/07/30 | 643 | 2,892 | <issue_start>username_0: For conferences that "peer review" and "publish" full papers, when, if ever, can you resubmit essentially unchanged versions for publication in a peer reviewed journal?
In my field, when conference papers appear as book chapters, people often "republish" them as journal articles.
I have just ... |
2012/07/30 | 607 | 2,550 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently decided to no longer publish, or at least publish less, with a well respected journal in my field. How do I let the journal know in a meaningful way that the submission process is very painful?
The required Microsoft Word and LaTeX templates are extremely dated and do not match... |
2012/07/30 | 302 | 1,272 | <issue_start>username_0: I often read in research articles acknowledgments such as
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> The first author is (partially) supported by a grant of the National Science Foundation of Sikinia no. 1234567890.
>
>
>
What are the guidelines for acknowledging funding agencies? Should I mention, for instance, grants that co... |
2012/07/30 | 1,243 | 5,111 | <issue_start>username_0: I hope this is the appropriate stacksite to ask this question.
I have a BSc in Computer Software Development and would very much like to study another year for an MSc in Computer Science. I had the choice of an MEng but decided to take the separate MSc.
I've heard mixed opinions on the subjec... |
2012/07/30 | 867 | 3,543 | <issue_start>username_0: I am originally from India, currently a PhD student in Mathematics in the US. As such I don't have very many ties to the US and I was wondering whether it is common for PhDs from the US to get academic positions in Australia and New Zealand. I have seen some jobs postings on <http://www.mathjob... |
2012/07/31 | 812 | 3,720 | <issue_start>username_0: IEEE asks journal authors to submit the names of their (non-)preferred reviewers. Given it may not be appropriate to list an acquaintance as a reviewer, how does one judge if an anonymous person will be a good reviewer or not?
Is giving "non-preferred" reviewers akin to the author confiding ab... |
2012/07/31 | 484 | 2,196 | <issue_start>username_0: Some US universities offer a master's program that lasts for just a year. At times the cost of such programs are higher than the regular 2-year MS programs.
When should students opt for a one-year master's? What are the merits involved in such an option? The demerits seem to be many: lack of ... |
2012/07/31 | 695 | 2,692 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently in my university research group (scientific fields: computer science and bioinformatics) we had some open positions for PhD students and PostDoc.
For the hiring phase, we decided to insert some announcements on many free websites.
We avoided pay websites, such as IEEE Job Site or other... |
2012/07/31 | 1,155 | 4,831 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student at a top-ten university in the UK. I'm just starting the second year of my social science doctorate. I'm way 'ahead' of where I should be at the moment in terms of words written, research done etc, so I've got some time to build my CV and that kind of thing. In the past few mo... |
2012/07/31 | 738 | 3,099 | <issue_start>username_0: Can international PhD students go do internships during summer in industries?
Does their F1 visa status allow this?
From how I see it, this is neither an OPT or a CPT.
I asked my International Office and they said I could spend a term at another university because then I'm still enrolled F... |
2012/08/01 | 2,161 | 8,747 | <issue_start>username_0: I've seen similar questions here, and I wish there was a narrower tag than the broad soft-question and career-development.
I am currently a freshman/sophomore-to-be at a top ten math program in US. My major GPA is around 3.5-3.6, and so is my overall GPA. Due to fast progress in my courses (sk... |
2012/08/01 | 1,134 | 4,790 | <issue_start>username_0: Is one incentive their ability to communicate their perceptiveness to people in their general community?
Are there other incentives?<issue_comment>username_1: The principal reason for writing any letter of recommendation is to benefit the person for whom you are writing it. If a student is tal... |
2012/08/02 | 1,002 | 4,345 | <issue_start>username_0: Say I am post-doc in the USA, and my PI (principal investigator) just published a review **I wrote**, with pictures **I took of my experiments** without putting my name as the author. What tools do I have at my disposal to get what is rightfully mine?<issue_comment>username_1: The Committee on ... |
2012/08/02 | 1,084 | 4,586 | <issue_start>username_0: <NAME> offers a [discount to his seminars](http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses) for "full-time teaching faculty" (as well as full-time students).
Does "full-time teaching" exclude full-time faculty who spend part time doing research? Does advising count as teaching?
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**Update**
I co... |
2012/08/04 | 1,508 | 6,369 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm thinking of posting slides from some of my technical presentations online. One option I've used in the past is just posting the PDFs. But I've seen some sites that offer nice interfaces for others to view and share your slides without downloading them, such as
* [SpeakerDeck](https://speak... |
2012/08/04 | 387 | 1,358 | <issue_start>username_0: To keep it short I already have a BS and MS in a physical science from decent schools. I want to apply next year for a MS or PhD in ECE and thought I should get some formal programming on my transcript first. I have only one intro class on there now.
I'm not having much luck finding any online... |
2012/08/04 | 854 | 3,585 | <issue_start>username_0: Some people, when asking a question at the end of a seminar, make comments on the talk first along the lines of "great talk," "really enjoyed this talk," or similar phrases. Is this a desirable thing to do? I've noticed that most people don't do this, but some of my favorite scientists do.<issu... |
2012/08/04 | 2,642 | 11,486 | <issue_start>username_0: In general, building on unpublished work of another author, which he may have told you in confidence, or you may encountered as a reviewer or by word of mouth or other informal means, is not an acceptable practice. Does the same apply if the author has uploaded his work on arXiv?
Here's a spec... |
2012/08/06 | 839 | 3,303 | <issue_start>username_0: I often find academics with tenured bracketed beside their position. What is meant by a tenured position? Is this different from a permanent teaching position?<issue_comment>username_1: In short, tenure means that you cannot be fired (you have a very permanent position). For more details, look ... |
2012/08/07 | 1,665 | 6,728 | <issue_start>username_0: In this day and age, with more and more people going the self-publishing route, I'd be interested in experiences from/opinions about how to go about having your self-published book properly peer-reviewed.<issue_comment>username_1: In mathematics, traditionally, and I think currently, very few b... |
2012/08/07 | 607 | 2,500 | <issue_start>username_0: It was discussed in prospect of PhD research proposal [previously](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/117/675), but this question is for all ages of researchers.
* What factors should one take into consideration before selecting a research field?<issue_comment>username_1: Some points for ST... |
2012/08/08 | 958 | 4,298 | <issue_start>username_0: Does it usually happen even if all of the adviser's students have very different research interests?<issue_comment>username_1: These meetings can serve a variety of purposes, but many of them fall into the broad category of **keeping the adviser and all the group members updated on what everyon... |
2012/08/08 | 474 | 2,122 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the appropriate limits when criticizing the previously published work of others that you're citing in a paper? Are there limits with respect to maintaining decorum and decency?<issue_comment>username_1: Generally speaking, any critiques should be brief and directed (i.e., "the cited wo... |
2012/08/08 | 503 | 2,198 | <issue_start>username_0: Places like the old Bell Labs and Genentech gRED have an environment where the scientists publish quite a lot. Suppose I wanted to build my research R&D departments to have strong academic ties. What would I need to have in place to keep in touch with academia?<issue_comment>username_1: General... |
2012/08/09 | 743 | 2,958 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any tiers or levels for conferences? and if yes on which basis people and authors can decide that a particular conference is of Tier 1 and another one is Tier 2 ?<issue_comment>username_1: The Australian Research Council (ARC) publishes a comprehensive ranking of journals which classif... |
2012/08/09 | 792 | 3,226 | <issue_start>username_0: In some countries like Australia, Singapore etc, A candidate may be enrolled into Masters leading to PhD program on condition that he/she will pass the candidature test after the 1st year and are subsequently given PhD in the final/fourth year (subject to successful completion), which results i... |
2012/08/10 | 782 | 3,334 | <issue_start>username_0: I attended a doctoral program and was completing it in 3 to 4 years. I got a life-threatening sickness that set me back several years. When nearing my dissertation I was dismissed. I was told that I was let go because I had cancer. I never wanted to return to that school again, but not having c... |
2012/08/10 | 912 | 3,972 | <issue_start>username_0: I have to request a faculty member outside of my department to be on my thesis committee and I was wondering how I should go about doing this. To be frank, I don't really see why someone would be willing to be on the thesis committee for someone outside their department and even field - apart f... |
2012/08/10 | 509 | 1,696 | <issue_start>username_0: About to do this PhD thesis here - but am not really satisfied with my layout. Could somebody point me to some interesting layouts, templates or whatever?<issue_comment>username_1: Look at these options, I personally prefer the third option as Latex is always the best.
1. <http://www2.imm.dtu.... |
2012/08/11 | 696 | 2,671 | <issue_start>username_0: What if one pursues a PhD from a university campus which is not the main campus, rather in a different city hundred miles away. The certificate is given by the main campus authority. Is there any discrimination towards the graduates?
As an example, say the campus is [ADFA](http://www.unsw.adfa... |
2012/08/12 | 1,009 | 4,422 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a economics major undergraduate student who will apply for grad schools in the coming semester. I think I have quite a strong research experience in mathematical statistics (asymptotic statistics to be specific), but, unfortunately, not much in economics itself. So I am curious if economic... |
2012/08/12 | 775 | 3,134 | <issue_start>username_0: In the field of numerical modeling, Researchers often times find conference papers or journal articles which cites an internal report as the core of the paper. The main authors may have access to the internal report but what about the others? How does one cite an internal report in doing furthe... |
2012/08/12 | 2,145 | 9,149 | <issue_start>username_0: I am new to my field (cell biology / immunology) and I would like to ask about the best practice to annotate or summarize research articles and reviews for long-term retrieval. When I start reading into a new topic, I end up highlighting almost each paragraph of the paper/review. This doesn't m... |
2012/08/13 | 800 | 2,960 | <issue_start>username_0: Oftentimes, researchers talk about a paper that's been published "in Nature" (typically to establish its notoriety). However, I would like to clarify exactly what this means.
Along with *Nature*, the Nature Publishing Group publishes a wide range of journals, including journals with the word "... |
2012/08/15 | 1,145 | 4,505 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to start recording mathematics lectures for students to watch on their own time.
I need to find a device that allows me to write out the lecture with a stylus and import it to a computer.
I suppose I could buy an iPad or something close to it. But, that would be a bit of mone... |
2012/08/15 | 1,184 | 4,864 | <issue_start>username_0: A non-academic group to which I belong holds military history conferences a few times a year. We've discussed seeking presentations from graduate students, but we're unsure of the process. So, I have a few questions that might be answerable here.
**Where would one publish** a "call for papers"... |
2012/08/16 | 1,304 | 5,001 | <issue_start>username_0: When creating online learning materials, I like the idea of sharing slideshows with audio commentary for each slide. I know it is possible to do this with PowerPoint (e.g., see this [MS Office tutorial](http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/add-sound-and-video-to-a-powerpoint-presen... |
2012/08/16 | 627 | 2,443 | <issue_start>username_0: This follows on from a recent question about [embedding audio in PDF slides](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2862/how-to-create-pdf-of-slides-with-audio). I don't like the thought of users needing to use a particular PDF viewer in order to hear the audio and I don't like the though... |
2012/08/16 | 406 | 1,849 | <issue_start>username_0: How successful would someone be who completed his PhD in something such as computational biology or neuroscience but wanted to pursue post-doctoral training and beyond in computer science?
I say computer science because, presumably, dissertation work in computational X involves programming an... |
2012/08/17 | 3,627 | 15,207 | <issue_start>username_0: It is customary to use one's academic e-mail address as contact address in publications; I have seen once or twice an `@gmail.com` address being used instead, but it simply looked unprofessional.
However, I already experienced personally twice that system administrators love to deactivate e-ma... |
2012/08/17 | 398 | 1,771 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it safe to post my CV online (with my physical address included)? Should I be worried about identity theft in doing so?<issue_comment>username_1: Considering that public telephone directories with names, addresses, and phone numbers have been around for decades, I don't think there's a signi... |
2012/08/19 | 3,322 | 13,653 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to write several papers exploring various aspects of the same scientific question. Each of these papers must have an introduction which motivates it and explains the relationship between the problem and what others have studied in the past.
It would be fantastic if I could simply... |
2012/08/19 | 1,148 | 4,787 | <issue_start>username_0: Disclaimer: The GRE Program [discontinued the Computer Science Test](https://www.ets.org/gre/subject/faq)
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I'm from an unknown school in Georgia. I want to apply for grad school in U.S, but... |
2012/08/19 | 1,059 | 4,634 | <issue_start>username_0: The impression I get in my field of research (theoretical chemistry) is that candidates for postdoc and more permanent research positions are judged partly upon their publication record. I suspect this is true of other fields, particularly the sciences.
I suffer from a long term chronic illnes... |
2012/08/20 | 526 | 2,401 | <issue_start>username_0: Why can't I have a single ScholarOne login for every journal I submit or review for? Is there some way to copy over the address, keywords & password for all my accounts so I don't have to waste time making the same stuff up every time I get involved with another journal?<issue_comment>username_... |
2012/08/20 | 467 | 2,018 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a little bit different from the case of reusing boilerplate text.
Say one has done a series of experiments (either real or "virtual") to produce a set of results. Because the results are inconclusive as to the cause of certain effects, an additional, much larger set of experiments were... |
2012/08/21 | 1,114 | 4,624 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in the process of applying for various scholarships to fund my PhD.
Many scholarships mention explicitly the approximate amount per year of the scholarship. This is usually the amount *excluding* tuitions, so the amount mentioned is intended to be a stipend to cover living expen... |
2012/08/21 | 425 | 1,748 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm just about to go into my final year of my computing degree, and I want to continue to a PhD after completion. What preparations do I need to do prior to applying for grants/scholarships/funding?<issue_comment>username_1: Every school has its own requirements: typically, letters of recommend... |
2012/08/21 | 618 | 2,436 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I've been receiving an increasing number of invitations to submit papers to several new Open-Access journals published by [Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP)](http://www.scirp.org/).
Has anybody here had any direct interactions with any of their journals? If so, what is your opini... |
2012/08/21 | 1,231 | 4,958 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes I receive some emails to attend scientific conferences organized in beautiful tourist places.
For example, recently I got a message for a conference in the wonderful [Italian Cinque Terre](http://www.cinqueterre.it/info.php), that was promoting both the conference scientific relevan... |
2012/08/21 | 468 | 1,998 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in the process of applying for various scholarships to fund my PhD.
Since I'm writing to many different organizations/institutions/etc., I started wondering whether these different funding schemes can be combined. I found it hard to find any reliable information on this matter, ... |
2012/08/21 | 335 | 1,425 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the benefits of getting a PhD in statistics over a MS in statistics (other than being a professor)? Do people with PhDs in statistics earn significantly more than people with MS degrees in statistics?
More generally, does a PhD in a quantitative field provide a salary advantage over a... |
2012/08/21 | 1,220 | 5,409 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I became aware by own experiences and friend's stories that some international statistical journals (whose names I prefer to omit) are rejecting papers because they do not include a reference of the journal in question. This is, if you do not cite a paper from journal X, then you cann... |
2012/08/22 | 566 | 2,585 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently finished my PhD thesis which will be published as a book soon.
Now I'm wondering if it's possible or allowed to submit parts to a journal?
Normally the process would be the other way round I think: Submitting papers and "gluing" them together for the thesis. I've read the guidelines... |
2012/08/23 | 545 | 2,433 | <issue_start>username_0: If one changes careers/subjects dramatically, would it be necessary in the interest of full disclosure to include irrelevant aspects of the educational background and work-experience etc. ?
For instance if somebody has an undergraduate degree in politics and 2 years of experience in PR but th... |
2012/08/23 | 1,842 | 6,850 | <issue_start>username_0: Which personal pronoun is appropriate in single-author papers - 'I' or 'we'? Could the use of 'I' be considered egotistical? Or will the use of 'we' be considered to be grammatically incorrect?<issue_comment>username_1: Authorial "we" is quite common, even in single author papers (at least in m... |
2012/08/23 | 1,303 | 5,467 | <issue_start>username_0: When you receive a paper proof and review it prior to publication, what exactly should you be looking for?
The things that come to mind are any changes in the annotation of author list and the corresponding author. What else is there?<issue_comment>username_1: This is basically the last chance... |
2012/08/23 | 377 | 1,717 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the key information that should be included in a letter of support on a grant application? What information should I avoid?
I'm a theorist and I am planning to list my expertise and experience in similar problems. But I don't know how to convey that I would actually support the projec... |
2012/08/23 | 830 | 3,558 | <issue_start>username_0: *I mainly refer to applied mathematics when describing my experience*
Often I find that it is easier to grasp a concept from the author's slides than from the description in a paper. When one has to summarize their findings for a talk, they often end up with an exposition that gives a clearer... |
2012/08/24 | 967 | 3,798 | <issue_start>username_0: One book I ordered this semester is a loose leaf book (3-hole punched) that I'm currently keeping in a binder. Problem is, the pages are quite thin, and tear very easily near the hole punches. What can I do to help prevent this?<issue_comment>username_1: In the olden days, you could buy little ... |
2012/08/24 | 1,480 | 6,097 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working in a manufacturing company as a software developer and have just completed my masters in control and automation in 2011 with my bachelors in "Electrical and Electronics". My main reason for doing my first masters is to change to my domain from IT where I was working as a ... |
2012/08/24 | 464 | 1,789 | <issue_start>username_0: Identifying uniquely a researcher as author of a publication is important. There is a commercial effort to create researcher ID for every researcher. It is not likely to succeed if it is not multiple publisher effort. Something like DOI and CrossRef.
Is there truly non-commercial alternative ... |
2012/08/25 | 415 | 1,723 | <issue_start>username_0: For the new faculty orientation, there is a get together where they will ask every new faculty member of all departments to say a few words about him/her self.
What are the best practices regarding that? any advice/examples/templates of how to do that briefly, eloquently and professionally?<is... |
2012/08/26 | 1,836 | 7,743 | <issue_start>username_0: A typical freshman course on calculus has about 100 students every semester. If the course is divided into 4 sections, each has 25 students and a different instructor.
Because the instructors are different, a student's grade may strongly depend on who teaches his section. Lazy students could a... |
2012/08/28 | 614 | 2,510 | <issue_start>username_0: I often come across papers which have a 'Novel' in their titles. In the content the authors go out of their way to explain how their work is the *first to the best of their knowledge* to come up with the results.
Isn't novelty a necessity in research papers? Is a separate emphasis really neede... |
2012/08/28 | 1,849 | 7,957 | <issue_start>username_0: Assume you have already completed your undergrad and have been working for a number of years. Does one need to be part of a university or a learning institution to publish papers?<issue_comment>username_1: Absolutely not. Affiliations do not matter; what matters is the value and the fit of the ... |