Timeline for Is it appropriate to add a dedication to a paper?
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| Mar 25 at 15:55 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | If you find it meaningful, just go ahead and do it, with sincerity. Best case, (as I expect), is that the journal simply publishes it. Worst case is that they ask you to remove it. No big deal. | |
| Mar 25 at 15:38 | history | edited | LSpice | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Typo in title, and deleted thanks, while this is on the front page
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| Mar 25 at 15:00 | comment | added | Pietro Majer | What is wrong, say, with "I am deeply indebited to prof. X, that I never met, but whose work influenced me a lot. I'd like to dedicate this paper to his memory" | |
| Mar 25 at 14:10 | history | edited | David White | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Tried to clarify the title, and added tags
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| Mar 25 at 12:37 | answer | added | David White | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 9, 2018 at 23:37 | comment | added | user132227 | Thank you everyone. Indeed, my intention was this to be a pure declaration of admiration. More so as this paper will appear in a top journal (I was a bit disingenuous describing it as "good"), and I felt it was an appropriate venue in this regard as well, to pay my respects to an exceptional mathematician that was influential for my work as well. However, the possibility that this could imply a professional connection, and viewed as such by some, is a very serious concern. | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 21:45 | comment | added | Lubin | Instead of a formal Dedication, how about some words towards the end of the introduction expressing indebtedness to the late mathematician, perhaps for the stimulation of their work, or some such. | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 15:09 | comment | added | fedja | @DavidG.Stork "because it implies some sort of professional connection between the author and the scholar that (especially here) does not exist." That's an interesting point of view. I wonder how widespread it is. It has never occurred to me that dedications could be considered as declarations of professional connections. I rather viewed them as pure declarations of admiration (and you do not need to be professionally connected to someone to admire them or their work). | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 6:32 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | I am not so sure that the journal would not object. The American Physical Society explicitly forbids dedications as stated: Acknowledgments to individuals should be a simple statement of thanks for help received and not a dedication or a memorial. | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 4:38 | comment | added | Theo Johnson-Freyd | My inclination seems to align with others': such a dedication is most appropriate only if you have a personal connection to the person. For instance, it would be very appropriate if the person was a mentor of yours (even if there was no "official" relationship). To your stated question: I would be very surprised if you received any pushback at all from the journal or editor (who would probably assume, as I would, that you had worked with said mathematician). | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 4:35 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 8, 2018 at 3:39 | comment | added | David G. Stork | I personally don't like such dedications (unless the article is for a special issue or Festschrift dedicated to the scholar) because it implies some sort of professional connection between the author and the scholar that (especially here) does not exist. It isn't exactly fraud, but it is certainly misleading. I have never done this in my 200+ publications. | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 3:01 | history | edited | Andrés E. Caicedo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
edited title
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| Dec 8, 2018 at 1:54 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | Of course you can add. And nobody will object. I do not understand the remark of Gerhard Passman at all. | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 1:05 | comment | added | Brendan McKay | The wording matters. Don't write "in memory of" for someone you never met. Something like "dedicated to.." is acceptable, but not common these days. Consider whether you will feel just as happy about it when you review your paper 10 years from now. | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 0:27 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | However, there are others who might object. It is best to contact the department or family and ask for permission. This is the sort of thing where asking for forgiveness is the worse alternative. Gerhard "And Is Hard To Undo" Paseman, 2018.12.07. | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 23:56 | comment | added | Lucia | The journal is unlikely to object to your dedication. | |
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| Dec 7, 2018 at 23:51 | history | asked | user132227 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |