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On the process of submitting a paper for review or publication by a conference or journal. Typical questions with this tag relate to selection of preferred or conflicted reviewers, timeline of the submission process, and typesetting or compilation by the publisher.

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I am submitting a manuscript to PNAS and they want to know if the work is in arxiv or a preprint server (a definite yes or no). A few months ago, we had posted a much older version of the manuscript ...
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A paper was just accepted by a journal of the American Physical Society (Physical Review Letters, if that matters). However, I noticed an additional reference that is better cited. Can I ask to add it ...
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I wrote a paper proposing a new pseudorandom number generator design. The paper was accepted to a conference, but the acceptance was later withdrawn because I don’t have a supervisor or academic co-...
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What should one do when a senior researcher who leads a collaborative project makes unreasonable demands about how the work should be presented in the resulting paper? I am a postdoctoral researcher ...
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I have a long paper and a short paper that I plan to submit together to Physical Review D/Physical Review Letters (PRD/PRL) as a joint submission. The short paper is basically a 4-page summary of the ~...
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If I present my results on YouTube before I write a paper, does this cause any problems for publishing them in a journal later? I guess this would be similar to giving a talk or writing a preprint, ...
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Timeline of Journal (of Taylor & Francis) Submission Status: 25 September 2025: With Journal Administrator 17 October 2025: With Editor 27 October 2025: Decision Pending (It is the current status) ...
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First of all, I want to stress that even though I am not affiliated to any university, I already published two times in Classical and Quantum Gravity. I changed for now my topic of interest, and ...
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In theoretical research, it sometimes happens that one can establish an upper bound on the computational complexity of a problem (for example, showing that it can be solved in exponential time), but ...
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I submitted a paper to a journal with a double blind review process. This journal allows you to see how many review invitations have been sent, how many invitations have been accepted, and how many ...
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For context, I am from the humanities. Last year, I had my paper published and then noticed that a few months later the journal added random references to my paper. When I contacted the editor they ...
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I submitted a paper to a leading journal in a field (JSL) several years ago. The paper is still pending under review. Last week, I received an invitation to publish a short version of the paper by a ...
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I have a paper that will soon be accepted by a journal of the American Physical Society (Physical Review Letters, if that matters). For some reason, I would like its published year to be the next year,...
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I'm trying to understand the responsibilities of the editor (for a peer reviewed journal) in handling the referee reports. Is the editor expected to perform any kind of quality assurance role in ...
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A paper I submitted to a journal with a double-blind review process came back due to the presence of identifying information in the manuscript. I removed the credit author statement, re-submitted the ...
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In short, is there strict rule, consensus which date is relevant in determining who deserves the credit for a discovery, submitted date in preprint online site(ex. arXiv) or in journal, publish date ...
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I received major revisions on a manuscript submitted to a highly competitive and leading journal in my field. This was a year ago, and I was initially given four months for the revisions, but I had to ...
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I submitted one of my articles to a journal (mathematical) around February. And yesterday I asked them, since it's been over six months, if they could provide any update on the review process. And ...
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I am one of 4 coauthors ABCD C submitted on system on 14th August with D as corresponding author and me as second following my request to be second due to contribution. ABC agreed I had also let D ...
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While conducting a peer review for a certain scientific journal, I came to the conclusion that some of the auxiliary/ancillary results, unrelated to the main paper scope and buried in an Appendix, are ...
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I am submitting a paper to a conference, and as it is an anonymous submission, I have done the following: Anonymized the author list below the title and temporarily removed the acknowledgments ...
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My academic advisor mentioned that if an author has multiple articles rejected by the same publisher, such as Springer, Wiley or Elsevier, they might be informally “blacklisted” or even banned from ...
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Has anyone here had experience publishing an article with Common Ground Research Networks? Are they considered reputable or legitimate in academic circles?
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I happened to submit a paper for publication on September 18, 2021, to a Springer Nature journal. After almost four years, on July 4, 2025, I received a response. I do understand that the journal has ...
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I have written a paper in the field of mathematics that is ready for journal submission. However, since I am currently unaffiliated with any institution, I am unable to submit my preprint to arXiv. I ...
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When preparing a journal article based on research previously submitted as a thesis, a common question arises about the reuse of material. In this case, the thesis has been submitted to a university ...
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I am a mathematician who defended my PhD five years ago. I have around 13 papers, four of which are single-author. Four years ago, I wrote a single-author paper in an area that is not my specialty. I ...
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I submitted a paper to Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) last month and was expecting an AE (Action Editor) to be assigned within a month, since that seems to be the usual timeline according ...
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I'm a recent PhD graduate with a background in psychology and some familiarity with neuroscience. Recently I've stumbled across what I believe might be a major theoretical link between the two fields —...
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In the age of automated submission systems and structured metadata entry, I wonder about the actual value of cover letters when submitting manuscripts to academic journals. Most submission platforms ...
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I was assigned a research point and I worked on my own on a side problem. I shared it with him and he rejected it early on, saying this is outside of scope and he is not interested. I continued on my ...
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Do people actually make sales off their dissertations on ProQuest?
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I have a very specific question about submitting paper to Proc.AMS. I am a PhD student and just about a month ago, I submitted a paper (with co-authors) to Proc.AMS in the Algebra section and it is ...
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I submitted my first paper to a well-known INFORMS journal at the end of January. There is a rough timeline on the journal's submission page that you can use as a guide. Also how many days to expect ...
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Long story short: I run a research nonprofit, and I also do active research in that nonprofit (FYI it's a small nonprofit, so I wear many hats). I am working on a paper based on research that me and ...
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Background of this question is that someone who had submitted a paper to a journal was complaining in social media that after he finally got feedback from the review, people had been added to author ...
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I was originally content with a 25 pages long research paper. When I sent it for review in a journal, the editor-in-chief rejected it and demanded clarification on X and Y and mathematical proofs for ...
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I just submitted a solution to Mathematics Association of America’s Problem of the Month, as featured in their October 2024 Journal. (Problem 12497) I wonder how long it usually takes for me to hear ...
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There is a proof in my manuscript that I have worked out lately, and is complete. I wanted someone who is an expert to check it or give an opinion on it. The field is mathy CS. What is the etiquette ...
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In academia, I’ve encountered differing opinions on publishing articles derived from the same PhD thesis or previously published papers. My specific question is about scenarios where only minor ...
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Sent a paper for review which is already big (35 pages), but thats because it is made to be self-contained as per journal rules. A reviewer is asking to add more details about idea x, but I don't want ...
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I recently came across a provoking and viral LinkedIn post by Dries Faems, a well-known management scholar, who shared his experience of receiving a desk rejection from a top-level management journal. ...
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Yesterday, I received meta-reviews for my research paper submitted to the ARR February 2025 cycle, with the intention to commit it to the ACL 2025 conference. In the email, it was suggested that if I ...
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I was a PhD student at an university when I submitted a research article to a journal. Now I have joined as a guest faculty at a different university and I have received a suggestion from the journal ...
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I am a recent graduate in Computer Science. I applied to several universities but received rejections, which led me to believe that my CV and GPA were not strong enough for acceptance. As a result, I ...
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I wrote an article in mathematics when I was a PhD student. The article is submitted in arxiv. The address was my PhD institutional address. I submitted the article in a journal three months ago when ...
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I'm a junior in college planning to apply to Computer Science PhD Programs next fall. I'm currently working on several projects that will hopefully lead to publications, but I'm not sure if I will be ...
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We submitted a manuscript to a journal, and we received a rejection, even though among the three reviewers, two reviewers' comments were positive. The editor-in-chief encouraged us to revise the ...
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So my collaborator and I have written a paper that we're sure to be mediocre: It takes a well-known machine learning (ML) algorithm, proves its convergence for a large class of kernels, generalizing ...
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In journals that do single-blind review, the referees know the identity of the authors, but do they know each other's identity (at any stage in the review process)? I am specifically interested in ...
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