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Use of an appendix in a long paper

This is tricky, because it strikes at the tension between pressures from the publication system to keep papers short vs our collective desire to have a peer-reviewed literature with no gaps. Let's ...
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Is it appropriate to add a dedication to a paper?

In math, dedications are rare but not unheard of. They are most common in birthday conference proceedings, or special issues devoted to summarizing a person's life work. For example, consider the ...
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What would you do if you improve your own result that is submitted but not published?

This kind of situation is actually pretty normal in math research. The answer basically hinges on the meaning of "dramatically." If it was only a minor improvement, then the normal thing to ...
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Math journals publishing in Spanish

I took a look at the Chilean journal ranking and pulled out those that seem to publish in Spanish. Boletim da Sociedade Paranaense de Matemática: https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/BSocParanMat ...
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Publication Of 50 pages

This question was asked a long time ago, and never got an answer, but did receive some useful comments. The short answer is there are hundreds of journals that would publish such a paper. In some ...
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What are journal rankings that employers look at?

Unfortunately, this practice spreads. Especially in the universities outside of USA. The databases most commonly used are ISI (Inst. of Sci. Information) Journal Citation reports and Scopus. Both of ...
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What are journal rankings that employers look at?

Let me answer from the perspective of a liberal arts college that emphasizes both teaching and research. I'm going to tell you how I've seen research assessed. I don't claim that this is a good way to ...
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What are journal rankings that employers look at?

Many universities have adopted the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which forbids considering journal rankings as a proxy for research quality. What matters is the merit of an ...
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How would you cite a result that it is not quite correct, but whose proof contains some useful ideas

This question was asked a long time ago, but never received an answer. I largely agree with Deane Yang's comment, but wish to expand on it, for the sake of future visitors to MO. First, several other ...
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Use of singular pronoun "I" in the acknowledgements

This question was asked some time ago, but never received an answer. It has several highly upvoted comments, but there is also disagreement in the comments. I think the question is reasonable, given ...

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