When to refer to a paper as "seminal" - Academia Stack Exchange
2016年5月4日 · Thirdly, because it may piss off other people that don't find the paper seminal. There are better ways of recognising the paper's "seminality", e.g. publishing in the field and giving the due credit to the paper. In any case, the only occasion I would write "seminal" is if I am pretty sure the work is seminal, which does not seem the case here.
How to build a list of seminal papers in a field?
2017年4月13日 · Most Downloads/Read: This might not lead you to seminal works, per se, but seminal works will tend to be more read, and this provides another way of categorizing and prioritizing your review the literature. For example, if one paper has been downloaded at a rate 1000 times higher than another on the same topic, you might choose to examine the ...
Citing old or new papers of same work? - Academia Stack Exchange
2016年3月29日 · More specifically, citing the seminal paper makes you discoverable to people looking for papers that cite it, which is a distinct advantage to you. In general, though, you cite the older work when you want to give proper credit to the people responsible for the idea. –
publications - About putting affiliation on a paper or not
2020年9月4日 · In that paper there are two authors, one of them is a full-time staff while the other one seems to be a part-time staff at that time (and that part-time staff works full-time right now at the same college), The two authors wrote down the same college for affiliation.
Best way to highlight the main result in a mathematical paper
2023年3月13日 · "The Lasser Theorem, proved in the seminal paper [1] and stated as Theorem 1.1 below, is known to have many significant applications in this field. Many of its corollaries are stated below, including the important Corollary 1.8 about the non-semisimple Noetherian case.
My paper was too revolutionary - Academia Stack Exchange
The paper was committed to the biggest and most popular journal for my field, and I waited for a reply. And the reply was saddening, my paper was mysteriously rejected. As I contacted the reviewer, I was told that he and others "rejected it by simply reading the title".
Choosing the title of a paper: are provocative titles better?
In fact, I know of ony one example: Volker Strassen's seminal paper "Gaussian elimination is not optimal", which was published centuries after Gauss was safely dead. Provocative/evocative titles are fine. Challenging conventional wisdom is great. Insulting your colleagues, not so much.
Where should I put the "Definition of concepts" section in a …
2015年7月8日 · Definitions of key concepts are important to the understanding of your paper. Hence, it is preferable to have them as a separate section under the title "Definition of terms." This section should be be placed towards the beginning of …
publications - Someone cited my paper in an irrelevant manner ...
2019年3月1日 · You might say my citation totally missed the specific impact of your work. If I wanted a reference to flowers, I should be citing an authoritative field guide. My paper was on a special class of attractor networks, which have been around for decades. The author should have cited a seminal paper in the field instead of mine.
How often do people find mistakes in papers and not tell anyone?
2016年6月10日 · Let me point out here that "can a paper be trusted" and "all of the calculations in the paper are exactly correct" are not necessarily related. This is something that people get wrong about research, and in particular single papers, all the time. Academic papers are useful dialogue. They are not necessarily 100% accurate or unimpeachable.