Timeline for How to get a research paper published after the author has died?
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| Jul 4, 2022 at 4:16 | comment | added | David White | I just learned of another example, of a mathematician killed during WW2, whose work was actually finished by someone else: mathoverflow.net/a/36114/11540 | |
| Jun 27, 2022 at 11:38 | vote | accept | David White | ||
| Jun 24, 2022 at 0:46 | comment | added | Brendan McKay | In a case I was involved in, an author died just before the journal received the referees' reports. Since the reports were very positive and only requested minor changes, we asked one of the referees to make the changes and then published it with a footnote explaining the circumstances. I think we discussed it with colleagues of the deceased author first, but it was a long time ago and I don't recall the details. The journal leaves copyright with authors, so we didn't require a copyright transfer from a legal heir (though a lawyer could doubtless argue about our legal requirements). | |
| Jun 23, 2022 at 13:06 | answer | added | Neil Strickland | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jun 23, 2022 at 1:07 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | "Long term, I'd love to see a journal designed to publish papers of mathematicians who died before they could see their last works through the publication process." Mathematica Mortuorum. | |
| Jun 23, 2022 at 0:47 | comment | added | Dan Ramras | There are a number of publications posthumously coauthored by Mark Mahowald (the most recent one published in 2020). I don't know anything about how they were handled. | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 21:46 | answer | added | Kostya_I | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 15:27 | answer | added | mlk | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 9:11 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 22, 2022 at 8:46 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 7:44 | history | edited | David White | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Editing the title to try to forestall "drift" in the form of posts that don't answer the question I am actually asking.
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| Jun 22, 2022 at 7:21 | answer | added | Yuval Peres | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jun 21, 2022 at 17:24 | comment | added | Benjamin Steinberg | I once finished a paper for a friend and colleague, but in this case he knew he was dying and so he sent me what he had and a sketch of where he wanted to go with it and I mostly did some minor editing. | |
| Jun 21, 2022 at 16:54 | history | edited | David White | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 21, 2022 at 16:52 | comment | added | YCor | Eric van Douwen died in 1987. He has about 40 papers on his sole name published in the period 1989-1993 (for the one I knew, "The automorphism group of 𝒫(ω)/fin need not be simple", there is explicit mention that this paper circulated years before his death, and that the process of finishing the paper and publishing it was done posthumously) — these papers are mostly short. | |
| Jun 21, 2022 at 16:41 | history | asked | David White | CC BY-SA 4.0 |