Timeline for How should I publish my "story"? i.e. strategies and advice on chopping up a thesis [closed]
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| Oct 22, 2013 at 10:34 | history | protected | François G. Dorais | ||
| Dec 6, 2010 at 5:18 | vote | accept | partition_of_unity | ||
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| Dec 5, 2010 at 1:33 | answer | added | Tom LaGatta | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 4, 2010 at 11:47 | comment | added | Colin Reid | If people are 'inspired' by your work to the point of proving new results based on it, that's generally a good thing for you. Hopefully they will acknowledge you in their paper, but more important is that you gain a potential ally and collaborator. This is especially true if it's someone influential who's using your ideas. If you're thinking of this from a career point-of-view, your research connections are extremely important both for getting jobs and for staying 'in the loop' research-wise. | |
| Dec 4, 2010 at 9:40 | comment | added | Kevin Buzzard | My advice is: stop posting here and start going to journal websites and reading instructions on how to submit, and then submit. There are no right or wrong answers, there are no right or wrong methods. Just get the stuff published, especially if you want to stay in mathematics. | |
| Dec 4, 2010 at 9:02 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | Ask your thesis advisor for advice. | |
| Dec 4, 2010 at 4:54 | comment | added | partition_of_unity | Thank you all for your comments, I really appreciate it. Does someone maybe have answers for the "main questions" in grey? :) | |
| Dec 4, 2010 at 4:35 | comment | added | JBL | "Does releasing it to arXiv make it harder to publish? will people reference my arXiv article?" No and possibly. | |
| Dec 4, 2010 at 4:27 | history | edited | partition_of_unity | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Refined question.
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| Dec 4, 2010 at 3:47 | comment | added | partition_of_unity | Thanks Ben, it's just a matter of timing: I plan to release/publish it all in about a month or two. Just trying to clean it all up and submit it as a thesis first. Does releasing it to arXiv make it harder to publish? will people reference my arXiv article? | |
| Dec 4, 2010 at 3:43 | comment | added | Ben Webster♦ | Yes, submit things to the arXiv. If the "shallow" version is fully baked, put it somewhere public where people can see it, and make some comments on what you plan to do in the future. If other people build on it, that's great, but then they have to acknowledge it, and will have something to acknowledge. Feeling like you need to hide your work from people who might be interested in it is nuts, and definitely not the road to career advancement. | |
| Dec 4, 2010 at 3:34 | comment | added | partition_of_unity | That's why I use "inspire", I'm not saying they copied. Sometimes though a few insights, discussion of an example, and pointed questions can lead people to do an related independent work, especially specialists in the area who have a lot more technical ability. They instantly see how it relates to their work and jump on it. We are not all as "unique" as we think :) Just sometimes only a few steps ahead or lucky to have found a nice example. I think very highly of these people and hope to maybe work with them in the future. Should I really drop examples? (advice appreciated). | |
| Dec 4, 2010 at 3:17 | comment | added | fedja | "but every time I mention my work to someone it seems like I "inspire" them and shortly after they produce a paper with their co-authors on a similar or more abstract result. Very frustrating!" Dale, sorry to say it, but this phrase raises a few red flags in my mind. I've heard this "they are stealing my ideas" story several times before and every time the people who were telling it hardly had any ideas worth stealing. Since those papers have already been "produced", you won't lose anything by mentioning them explicitly. I'd really like to see what you are talking about. | |
| Dec 4, 2010 at 2:56 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by partition_of_unity | ||
| Dec 4, 2010 at 2:42 | answer | added | Thierry Zell | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 4, 2010 at 2:33 | history | edited | partition_of_unity | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Fixed english.
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| Dec 4, 2010 at 2:24 | history | asked | partition_of_unity | CC BY-SA 2.5 |