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2012/10/08 | 1,471 | 6,194 | <issue_start>username_0: I am teaching an elective course in which students' grades are determined on the basis of a final project. Due to unforeseen circumstances, this year I had to grant a one-week blanket exception to all of the students. However, several students asked for, and received, an additional extension be... |
2012/10/10 | 344 | 1,454 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reviewing a publication, in which the authors give the URL of an online tool (data analysis and sharing) they have developed. This URL has apparently not yet been publicized, as searching for it in Google didn't bring any result. Because of that, I'm worried that the paper's authors may id... |
2012/10/10 | 743 | 3,116 | <issue_start>username_0: Ghostwriting is when an author writes a work and attributes it to someone else.
Isn't this *reverse-plagiarism* (someone taking credit for someone else's work, but *with permission*)? I'm not sure it happens in academia a lot, but I've seen instances where a professor "ghostwrites" course note... |
2012/10/11 | 480 | 2,103 | <issue_start>username_0: While searching through various journals with my library's on-line journal search tools, I have occasionally found short articles which are simply comments on other published papers. These short articles might have various kinds of comments, but generally describe why the first paper's research... |
2012/10/12 | 701 | 2,869 | <issue_start>username_0: What are the responsibilities of a conference's *program chair* versus its *general chair*? Computer science conferences like [STOC](http://theory.stanford.edu/stoc2013/) and [FOCS](http://theory.stanford.edu/~tim/focs12/) list separate program and general chairs.
A guess would be that the pro... |
2012/10/12 | 806 | 3,586 | <issue_start>username_0: In computer science, when we write an academic paper, we often have to include comparative results that our method has some kind of quantitative advantage against some other state of the art results.
While it is sometimes easy to reproduce a cited paper's results (e.g., classification of small... |
2012/10/12 | 985 | 4,009 | <issue_start>username_0: While combing through English journal articles and semi-scientific articles, I noticed how problematic it is that in some cases those papers use a romanized, Latin script display of originally Non-Latin script words and expressions. The issue: In my case (Korean), there were [several revisions ... |
2012/10/12 | 992 | 3,790 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes when I am writing a review blog post (or an answer on SE), it is convenient to include a figure from the original paper. Some journals (say [PNAS](https://cogsci.meta.stackexchange.com/q/385/29)) have [policies](http://www.pnas.org/site/misc/rightperm.shtml) that explicitly allow non-... |
2012/10/12 | 1,373 | 5,181 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a master thesis of about 80-100 pages and want to know a good way of structuring my document either using only chapters or chapters and "parts". f first wanted to post this question to the [TeX Stack Exchange](http://tex.stackexchange.com) but realized that it was too philosophical... |
2012/10/12 | 1,041 | 4,514 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm planing to setup a personal academic website. From visiting other researchers websites I have a rough idea of the things I want to put on it:
```
- Research interests
- List of articles & conference contributions
- CV
- Links to affiliated institutions
- Contact information
```
Would... |
2012/10/12 | 827 | 3,724 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that some journals allow public archiving of publications (making them available for download) on a researcher's personal website. Some of these journals (at least in my field), however, constrict this right by saying that it is only allowed to public archive after one year following pub... |
2012/10/13 | 938 | 3,678 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently developing my dissertation proposal, and am in the process of choosing my committee members. I have heard that one should carefully choose their committee members, since they ultimately judge if and when your PhD work is done. As far as I can tell, a committee member should at lea... |
2012/10/13 | 875 | 3,884 | <issue_start>username_0: One of the challenges of advising students is working with students whose "quality control" expectations do not agree with that of the advisor. When such mismatches occur, how do we encourage them to provide "better" quality work. Note that it's not the number of hours being worked the concern,... |
2012/10/13 | 462 | 1,761 | <issue_start>username_0: I do research in the life and medical sciences. If I want to publish in one of the major journals (Cell, Nature \*, etc.), would I have to confine a title to something short and snappy, or can I be more verbose so that my title conveys better the output of the research?
For example, is this so... |
2012/10/14 | 2,069 | 9,009 | <issue_start>username_0: As an academic researcher in a theoretical field at a public institution, I am sensitive to the social value of my work (my own contribution to society). I do some teaching, whose contribution to society is easy to identify, but not much. Try to increase that aspect of my job, I have listed som... |
2012/10/14 | 990 | 4,450 | <issue_start>username_0: How wise is it to collaborate with another professor while working as a staff under one professor? Is there a ethical conflict in doing so even if the other professor is from a slightly different area?
Also, how should one develop his/her own expertise while working as a postdoc under one pro... |
2012/10/14 | 1,443 | 5,950 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student in mathematics, and I recently got the question why there isn't a press release to the general public whenever we publish a paper (to advertise mathematics and increase interest).
Now, every paper is a bit extreme, but forced me to ask several questions:
**Would arxiv ... |
2012/10/14 | 1,208 | 4,760 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student in Sweden, and will present my PhD thesis next semester, and have several articles accepted/published.
However, when I applied (and got admitted) I had only studied at the university for three years, and only written a bachelors thesis. Me being admitted was sort of an ... |
2012/10/15 | 793 | 3,506 | <issue_start>username_0: You've been hard at work for lets say a year on your masters research and you then discover that someone else has been doing the same research as you have. (Let’s assume it’s a coincidence that the same research is done). What do you do in that case? Should you hurry and and get to the “winning... |
2012/10/15 | 1,434 | 6,345 | <issue_start>username_0: A dilemma that is confronting right now is knowledge versus research. I am a second year physics undergrad, with a strong interest in mathematical physics, QFT, and an even more strong interest in pure mathematics. Right now, I am not sure what to pursue, hence ideally I would like to try out a... |
2012/10/15 | 786 | 3,420 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a paper where I have a number of sentences across a few paragraphs, all from the same source. How should I use inline citations in this situation? Should I put them after each listed fact in the sentence at the end of each paragraph, or at the end of all of the paragraphs? The parag... |
2012/10/16 | 927 | 3,958 | <issue_start>username_0: In some areas, like Computer Science, peer reviewed conference are as important as Journal Papers.
Unlike most Journals, Conferences have hard deadlines to submit the papers as well as page limits.
So I have a few questions:
* How early should I start writing a paper for a conference?
* Is i... |
2012/10/16 | 415 | 1,682 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently conducting researches that are almost mainly theoretical (I am a TCS researcher gone rogue = I also work on applying theory stuff to real life problems). In the future I plan to conduct several large experimental studies involving technical experiments AND human validation of the... |
2012/10/16 | 439 | 1,813 | <issue_start>username_0: A senior researcher, with whom I worked a few years ago, is writing a book chapter. He contacted me to ask what was the latest work of our group on the topic of his chapter. I gave him a few links to recent articles and the preprint of an article soon to be published. He followed up by asking i... |
2012/10/16 | 1,041 | 4,497 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing a proposal for my research topic and I want to copy figures from published articles into my proposal document. To put it in perspective, almost all the copied figures are to go in the *“Literature review”* section of the document.
Is it necessary to send an email to eac... |
2012/10/17 | 1,242 | 4,868 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently discover the existence of unique digital identifier for researchers (such as the one proposed by [ORCID](http://about.orcid.org/) or [ResearcherID](http://www.researcherid.com/Home.action)).
I never really heard about it, maybe because it is not common in my field (biological scien... |
2012/10/17 | 1,378 | 5,647 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying to a graduate program, and one of the application's requirements is to select at least one advisor, along with a reason for the selection. Specifically, this is the requirement:
>
> In order to match you with a faculty adviser, tell us which faculty member's work most closely ali... |
2012/10/17 | 2,635 | 11,319 | <issue_start>username_0: When I went to college, an old-schooled teacher of mine insisted that, because I was interested in chemistry, I needed to work on my German as it was the *lingua franca* of that trade. It turns out, there is absolutely no need to speak German anymore to be a successful researcher in chemistry.
... |
2012/10/17 | 610 | 2,504 | <issue_start>username_0: In an academic paper, we sometimes have a "Results and Discussion" section.
It is not uncommon to add the explanation and discussion of the results together with the results section.
What are the pros and cons of both practices from an academic point of view? How do I weigh them for each pape... |
2012/10/17 | 1,278 | 5,621 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a follow-up question to [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1788/are-faculty-salaries-negotiable) of mine, where I wanted to know if academic salaries can be negotiated.
How does an academic negotiate a pay package that has been offered? What special points in ... |
2012/08/22 | 2,139 | 8,603 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing research in computer Science as a PhD student. I have some research ideas and for months I've been continuously thinking about them, developing them and make them more specific. I mean, these ideas continually change until one day they are finalized. Over time they are more specific ... |
2012/10/18 | 975 | 3,884 | <issue_start>username_0: I'll be doing an Internship in USA the following week, in UCLA.
I'm studying in Japan, where you should bring some kind of gift to your host professor, if nothing, for his/her kindness for accepting you as a PhD/visitor/etc.
I've seen this practice along Asian Universities (Japan, China, Sin... |
2012/10/18 | 927 | 4,054 | <issue_start>username_0: Here at my university, we have 12-13 week-long summer break for the students excluding summer-school. It is almost as long as a semester. I guess this is roughly the case for other institutions. In fact I often observe that some grad students use this break to work in another research group usu... |
2012/10/18 | 1,392 | 6,119 | <issue_start>username_0: Among the presentations in a major conference, I attended one where the author cited a paper (of theirs) under review in another major conference. Not only cited it, but showed some of its results.
I have the impression that it should not be possible, since there's the potential risk of influe... |
2012/10/19 | 856 | 3,485 | <issue_start>username_0: When we write a research paper, most of the times we need to describe in the introduction what is the merit of the present work (unless is a survey of sorts).
Many professors, tell me that is enough to write it within the sentences with some context. And is the way I see it in most papers.
Ot... |
2012/10/19 | 2,095 | 7,784 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing a paper, for which my **title** and **core problem** is spelled differently in American and British English.
I don't worry about my professor preferring one way of writing over the other, as I'm **not** residing in an English-speaking country, but:
After all, my paper ... |
2012/10/19 | 1,255 | 5,308 | <issue_start>username_0: I will try to make this as less subjective:
Till what point do you continue doing exercises at end of the chapter to learn something:
I do it in Grad school and that's where I really learn. Do professors/post docs learning about new fields do it too?<issue_comment>username_1: Exercises fall at ... |
2012/10/19 | 1,073 | 4,739 | <issue_start>username_0: When you introduce yourself to an international audience and come from an non-US system, there always is an awkward moment of translating your job title into a form recognizable by the people you introduce yourself to. Here are the options I see:
* using the title in your native language: comp... |
2012/10/19 | 1,271 | 5,397 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in a computational research lab as a graduate research assistant. We're all funded under various grants to do research in our field and we are also working on a thesis, which may or may not be directly related to the funding source (it is if we are lucky!)
Our lab is also licensing the ... |
2012/10/20 | 1,267 | 3,946 | <issue_start>username_0: Someone told me that in APA style you treat parenthetical versus non-parenthetical in-text references separately when applying et al.
For example, let's say you're citing Smith, Jones, and Roberts (2012).
You would write
>
> Smith, Jones, and Roberts (2012) write that bla bla bla bla.
>... |
2012/10/20 | 991 | 4,177 | <issue_start>username_0: It sometimes arise that I need to use, for an article, a book chapter or any other written work, figures that I have already published (not figures published by others). These are usually schematic figures explaining what a chemical or physical system look like, how an algorithm works, etc. Thu... |
2012/10/20 | 3,131 | 13,057 | <issue_start>username_0: As we may ask and answer various questions on online forums or stack exchange regarding teaching, research, publishing etc; it may reveal our lack of knowledge on any basic topic. This might hurt us in the future as an already established academician. So, should we participate in those online f... |
2012/10/22 | 851 | 3,437 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that I am doing a literature review on a topic, and I read paper A, which makes an interesting claim and references paper B as its source. Naturally, as paper B is then the primary source, I will look up B and possibly cite it in my own paper if it seems relevant. And suppose that it tu... |
2012/10/22 | 1,719 | 6,574 | <issue_start>username_0: Academics need various forms of their CV, depending on what purpose it's being used for. In my case, here are reasons I've had to re-format or have a different version of my CV:
* promotion and tenure,
* research proposals (each grant program requires a different format),
* program accreditati... |
2012/10/22 | 990 | 4,112 | <issue_start>username_0: Personally, I never feel done with projects, as there are always a few open projects, in which I'm involved in. (And typically 1-2 which "I should have finished year ago or so".)
First, **what are good strategies of balancing between finishing past project and working on current ones?**
On th... |
2012/10/22 | 442 | 1,913 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my proposal and I am borrowing heavily from one of my publications. The published paper has a `Nomenclature` section at the very beginning (just after the abstract).
What is the appropriate place for a nomenclature in a proposal/thesis? Or is it more advisable to explain the term... |
2012/10/23 | 564 | 2,329 | <issue_start>username_0: I have brought some trouble onto myself I know, but what can be done by someone in my situation.
I applied and got accepted for a PhD program in Computer Science. I automatically assumed that I wanted to continue the work I did on my Master's thesis and I identified a professor who would be wi... |
2012/10/23 | 298 | 1,293 | <issue_start>username_0: In many journals of my field, upon acceptance of a manuscript for publication with minor revisions, the editor sets a deadline (4 weeks, in many journals) for submission for the revised manuscript.
While I usually resubmit these papers as fast as possible, I don't see the benefit *for the edit... |
2012/10/23 | 1,025 | 4,377 | <issue_start>username_0: I've spoken with many friends, and they all agree that response letters to reviewers should be written in the most kind, cordial and humble possible way.
Even if the reviewers are in an error, one should make no major strides to show it to them.
I wonder, How do you write your response letter... |
2012/10/23 | 696 | 2,798 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a staff researcher at a public research university in the US. While a tenure-track position may be in my future, I would like some of the opportunities and responsibilities now. In particular, I want to be able to write grants as a PI and advise students and postdocs. I believe t... |
2012/10/24 | 1,018 | 3,813 | <issue_start>username_0: I am curious to know whether PhD is the highest degree one can earn? Is there any other degree beyond that, if so what is it and what are the universities offering the same?<issue_comment>username_1: The degree you're looking for (at least in the sciences) is called "Doctor of Science" and you ... |
2012/10/24 | 776 | 3,413 | <issue_start>username_0: It seems funding for a PhD (at least in the UK) is a lot easier to get for a PhD in statistics rather then maths. Provided one can find a supervisor who has the background and research interestes that would allow one to keep extending ones pure mathematical toolbox are there any major risks in ... |
2012/10/24 | 729 | 3,399 | <issue_start>username_0: The consensus on academic jobs seems to be that we are [sending far too many students to graduate school to train for jobs that will not be there when they graduate.](http://chronicle.com/article/Todays-Faculty-Stressed-and/135276/) Despite this, most of my undergraduate students have aspiratio... |
2012/10/24 | 565 | 2,434 | <issue_start>username_0: I must make a difficult decision, so am having to turn to the wider community to gain some perspective.
My situation is the following: I am currently outside USA and am trying to enter academia here. I have been invited as a visiting lecturer at a top US university. However, I am worried that... |
2012/10/24 | 598 | 2,603 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently writing my diploma thesis (old equivalent of master in Germany) in mathematics. It's about a fairly new combinatorical optimization problem which has military applications. In fact, the problem originates from that, even though in the formulation I'm studying it is a bit more theo... |
2012/10/25 | 537 | 2,200 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a grad student in Psychology. I have heard that many professors like to see a list of 'Professional Affiliations' on a potential employee's CV, because it is an easy way to see whether the two people have common interests.
My question is, are there any guidelines for what I can ... |
2012/10/25 | 2,798 | 11,028 | <issue_start>username_0: Academic indicators (h-index, impact factor, modified h-indexes, etc) have a long string of criticism by academics and not (see [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish_or_perish#Disadvantages), [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor#Criticisms) or [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/w... |
2012/10/25 | 839 | 3,250 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd like to know your opinion on citations in abstracts.
At my university, there is no rule on that matter so it's basically a
question of preference.
Do you think it's okay to have citations in an abstract or do you
personally prefer to have the abstract be a ``stand-alone'' piece of
work?<... |
2012/10/25 | 502 | 2,104 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say that you are going to write a theoretical paper/thesis/book (that is, you're not conducting empirical work). More often than not, I find it troublesome to just start writing right away, especially when I don't know what the results of my investigation is going to be.
What are some go... |
2012/10/25 | 1,173 | 4,840 | <issue_start>username_0: Students diagnosed with dyslexia qualify for accommodations at most universities. As with other special needs students, they're entitled extra time for work, exams, access or licenses to spell checkers, etc.
If these accommodations are in place, and assuming good grammar/spelling is part of t... |
2012/10/26 | 806 | 3,539 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student in various graduate taught programs, but not a research student and I am not receiving any scholarships or grants from my institutions. I have prepared a paper which I wish to publish. The subject is within my field, but far outside of the expertise of any of my instructors, most... |
2012/10/26 | 1,478 | 6,021 | <issue_start>username_0: I checking my google scholar page, when I noticed that one of my papers, of which I am a co-author, had been cited by an unknown academic. I read the article, which was on gene regulatory networks, and my paper is in computational neuroscience. The reference wording doesn't make any sense thoug... |
2012/10/26 | 1,789 | 7,749 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I was researching for a paper, but the results of my research got me reflecting on my habits:
Is is at all appropriate for me to use Google (partly also Google Scholar) for academic research, just because I have good experiences with it in my personal, non-professional environment? I... |
2012/10/26 | 828 | 3,551 | <issue_start>username_0: Some research groups, especially the ones at lower tier schools in the United States, contains an excessive amount of students who have the same nationality as the professor. Some Chinese professors' groups solely consists of Chinese students.
Does this go against diversity, considering the fa... |
2012/10/27 | 576 | 2,359 | <issue_start>username_0: Do people take time out to go home, meet with family etc. during their PhD?
* If yes then for how long and how frequently is it usually?
* How does one deal with this with one's advisor?
* What are the pros and cons?
Given that one basically has just about 2-3 years in practice to do all thei... |
2012/10/27 | 1,447 | 5,997 | <issue_start>username_0: In many of the research groups I’ve worked at or visited, there is a culture that endless hours in the lab equal successful researcher. (I am in a theoretical field, so requirement of long-running experiments are outside of the picture. Let's ignore them in this discussion.) In chemistry, a wid... |
2012/10/27 | 1,222 | 4,613 | <issue_start>username_0: I am subscribed to many interesting blogs. Some of them are related to my research field, while others not. Sometimes I am really impressed that some of the posts are in fact real pieces of scientific work (or sociological work, depending on the field), that although they do not follow strictly... |
2012/10/27 | 1,409 | 6,027 | <issue_start>username_0: The UK PhD programs are based upon just research for three years, whereas in the US there tends to be substantial graduate course work included.
How does this difference affect the quality of the PhD thesis, and the quality of work produced in the long term?<issue_comment>username_1: When som... |
2012/10/27 | 667 | 2,770 | <issue_start>username_0: Proofreading documents for orthography is a pain. I consider that I am decent at writing in my native language (on the grammar and orthography side), but proofreading for typos and whatnots is a time-consuming pain. I’d much prefer to have someone else do it for me, but it's a pain to bother ot... |
2012/10/28 | 674 | 2,681 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm having some trouble figuring out what schools to apply to for a Masters in International Relations. There are a number of lists I've seen but many of the schools are very focused on the practical side for mid-career people. I'm interested in eventually getting a PhD and being an academic. A... |
2012/10/28 | 1,339 | 5,249 | <issue_start>username_0: I travel a lot and I'm interested in getting a psychology degree but after researching online I still haven't been able to find a good university that offers the choice to complete a psych degree by distance education. I'm a Canadian citizen so programs that accept Canadians is vital. With all ... |
2012/10/28 | 1,087 | 4,155 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying to MS / MS-PhD programs in CS this fall.
I don't have a good GPA (2.86 on a scale of 4). I have experience as a research assistant under a professor and also a couple of good projects.
Right now I'm working as a developer, so I have around 5 months of experience. I have a GRE s... |
2012/10/29 | 470 | 2,072 | <issue_start>username_0: I receive requests for recommendation many times, but I have received one from a student belonging at a previous affiliation of mine, asking for a favourable letter in view of their achievements.
I am aware of the fact that if I comment on the performance of the student, it could be used again... |
2012/10/29 | 1,269 | 5,643 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I came across a problem, say in graph theory, that I need to solve for my application, or a problem that I just created out of the blue. I find that it is not a standard problem by any means. Also, it may not have many applications. I then solve this problem with some algorithm. The alg... |
2012/10/30 | 827 | 3,597 | <issue_start>username_0: 1. What would you recommend as the best way of approach principal investigators for internship/job positions? I'm undergrad, with a planned graduation this winter and I want to get some experience before grad school.
* Should I try 'cold' messaging? I want to go abroad and I'm not well networ... |
2012/10/31 | 970 | 3,981 | <issue_start>username_0: I keep reading European Conference on Computer Vision, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, and others, and I find so much in common in those papers.
For example, half the papers seem like: X Algorithm combined with Y algorithm tested on Z database and was better than A in this ca... |
2012/10/31 | 1,057 | 4,039 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a somewhat new-ish member of [Kaggle](http://www.kaggle.com/) competitions with 1 submission. Do academics research via Kaggle challenges/competitions? If so are there any prominent names?
If not why? They provide well annotated training data-sets, and typically do not put any publication... |
2012/10/31 | 960 | 3,943 | <issue_start>username_0: I just entered a MS in Computer Science in a mid tier state school. I'm interested in taking things to the next level, but I just turned 30. By the time I do the math and everything, I'll probably be 34 before applying. Is that too old? Does that essentially eliminate me from top programs?<issu... |
2012/11/01 | 1,359 | 5,979 | <issue_start>username_0: I have no choice but to take courses I've already learnt in college.
So is it a good idea to overlearn?
Would overlearning help me to get into graduate school?
There are many ways for me to spend time:
research, gpa, heavy courseload, or **studying stuff beyond my current syllabus**
Accordin... |
2012/11/01 | 540 | 2,191 | <issue_start>username_0: A friend of mine who is from Japan told me that his professor in USA puts the feet up while talking to him. He was saying that he felt very bad with that. Is this acceptable culture in USA academia?<issue_comment>username_1: I've done my PhD in Japan, and have had much contact with professors i... |
2012/11/01 | 261 | 1,143 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it necessary to notify to the graduate school when taking the free online courses?<issue_comment>username_1: As always, it's better to check directly with your advisor, who is in the best situation to answer exactly your question. That being said, as Zenon said, you should be able to do pret... |
2012/11/02 | 562 | 2,281 | <issue_start>username_0: I love travelling and I was thinking of getting my Master’s degree in mathematics abroad (I got my bachelors in the USA). I know that I can get funding if I go to China for my master’s.
Will it be viewed negatively if I try to apply for a PhD in the United States?<issue_comment>username_1: I h... |
2012/11/02 | 1,106 | 4,682 | <issue_start>username_0: There exist review journals that every now and then publish a thematic issue on a given topic. For example, [*Chemical Reviews*](http://pubs.acs.org/page/chreay/thematic-issues/index.html) does so: one thematic issue (see e.g. [this one](http://pubs.acs.org/toc/chreay/110/7)) includes an editor... |
2012/11/02 | 637 | 2,842 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for grad school this year and I am considering sending an email to ask a professor to write me a reference. He had previously agreed to write me a letter because I took one of his advanced courses.
I am not sure if it'd be okay for me to offer to provide a template to him for th... |
2012/11/02 | 584 | 2,585 | <issue_start>username_0: The idea of working toward a PhD came to me very late in my Master's program. As such, my primary professors and adviser didn't necessarily coach me into PhD preparation and may have even seen me as somewhat of a black sheep in the academic community. I don't doubt that they would believe in my... |
2012/11/03 | 1,330 | 5,576 | <issue_start>username_0: Every [now](http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/data-fabrication-fells-muscle-physiology-paper/) and [then](http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/30/us/falsified-data-found-in-gene-studies.html), you hear stories of data being fabricated by a graduate student (or post-doc) who felt the pre... |
2012/11/04 | 2,921 | 11,735 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes I work from home, and for security reasons it is not possible to connect to the campus computers. I use Google Scholar for finding papers and so, but from home, most of the journals can not be accessed.
Is it there some way in which Google Scholar or another academic search engine se... |
2012/11/04 | 235 | 949 | <issue_start>username_0: I have 8 years of IT experience in India, I want to do a Master of Science in the US.
Would my already long professional experience hurt my chances to find a job after the MSc? I intend to settle in the US instead of coming back to India.<issue_comment>username_1: I would expect that it almost... |
2012/11/06 | 1,096 | 4,586 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked on an interesting project as a PHD student. It was rejected from a top conference with all but 1 reviewer agreeing that it was an ok paper but not good enough for that conference, because more work was required. The other reviewer said it was in top 15% papers. Do the reviewers mean "t... |
2012/11/06 | 1,416 | 5,681 | <issue_start>username_0: **Condition**
I have been suffering from day time sleepiness (9-10 hrs of sleep and still struggle to stay awake), fatigue, memory loss and lack of concentration. The doctor found that I suffocate in my sleep: I stop breathing several times per hour.
In a few days, I will be undergoing surge... |
2012/11/06 | 783 | 3,220 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently a third year student studying mathematics in Australia, and things have taken a very bad turn in third year. I developed tremors in my writing hand and it meant I wasn't able to use a pen properly and couldn't take good notes during lectures. I was then put on a beta-blocker which... |
2012/11/06 | 1,752 | 7,584 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in the Computing and Mathematics School at my university (UK). This year the School has adopted a fairly aggressive policy regarding student attendance. If a student has a poor – or zero – attendance rate, the student is contacted and a dialogue opened. This has many benefits including i... |
2012/11/06 | 789 | 3,440 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in computer sciences, in applied Machine Learning. I often have to switch applications and I find it cumbersome trying to discern the really good and bad works by doing a large survey.
Whenever you are new in a field, how would you direct your survey to find the people doing seminal work i... |
2012/11/07 | 665 | 2,805 | <issue_start>username_0: Some parts of our research fall out of our expertise. We thought about creating a Kaggle challenge just for this part. But we lack fund resources for the reward, so we could not offer any money. We are thinking now about offering co-authorship in a paper, do you think this would work? Otherwise... |
2012/11/07 | 1,548 | 6,323 | <issue_start>username_0: For the second time recently, someone mentioned to me the Hardy-Littlewood rules for collaboration (and on [that very site](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/5177/who-pays-in-joint-collaborations)). From what [I read about it](https://web.archive.org/web/20120216075947/https://math.u... |
2012/11/08 | 1,556 | 6,942 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked as a contract researcher with a university-affiliated institute. I ended up doing qualitative analysis and extensive writing for an academic paper. My former supervisor has basically edited and published my work under his name. The papers are different but only in the way that an inter... |
2012/11/08 | 942 | 4,149 | <issue_start>username_0: **What happens to manuscripts needing revision while the corresponding author is between academic jobs?**
Not every academic will always find a new position seamlessly after the previous one. For example, PhD students may still have papers *in the pipeline* after finishing their PhD, before fi... |
2012/11/08 | 1,940 | 8,522 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently finishing my PhD thesis and, as a great deal of the job was to create tools and protocoles, I am considering putting the different scripts I wrote on open source directories (such as [SourceForge](http://sourceforge.net) or [GitHub](https://github.com/)).
The advantage I see fo... |
2012/11/08 | 1,152 | 5,104 | <issue_start>username_0: As a graduate student, sometimes I really could use access to journals or databases of tables that for some reason my university doesn't subscribe to. I have friends at other Universities that *do* subscribe to these journals and it would be very helpful to have the data. Is it acceptable to as... |
2012/11/08 | 1,393 | 5,332 | <issue_start>username_0: I am at the cusp of finishing my PhD, and my advisor and I have decided that it is time to publish since there seems to be no hole in the theories that I propose. I have always maintained that I'd like to get a publication in the good letters section such as *Physical Review Letters* and then s... |