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This tag is for questions requesting advice (e.g. on a suitable publishing venue, presentation strategy, career move, ethical dilemma). It should be used in conjunction with a more specific tag, such as [journals], [teaching], [career], or [ethics].

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Note rejected from arXiv: what to do next?

Q1: The arXiv moderation procedure is described here; as you can read, "unrefereeable content" is a placeholder for a paper "in need of significant review and revision". Unlike refereeing, which has a …
61 votes

Research-only permanent positions worldwide

In the US, you could try to follow in the footsteps of Gödel and land a job at the Institute for Advanced Study. But do keep in mind what Richard Feynman thought about such research positions without …
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How can I seek help in preparing a very long research article for publication?

First of all, I would consider it against the ethics of scientific publishing to accept an offer as a co-author when you were not involved in the research. So I don't think that is viable route. What …
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Why doesn't mathematics collapse even though humans quite often make mistakes in their proofs?

This is a broad question, but you may find it helpful to read The Existential Risk of Math Errors. It suggests a certain robustness of the mathematical edifice, which I actually think extends to the n …
28 votes

How to pass on research posthumously

You could use a research notes repository such as Figshare or Zenodo. There is the option to make the contents private, but I would just make them publicly visible right away, so that the whole issue …
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Need advice or assistance for son who is in prison. His interest is scattering theory

In a follow up to my previous question my son has asked me to send him this, S. V. Petras, On the Continuous Dependence of the Poles of the Scattering Matrix on the Coefficients of an Elliptic Operat …
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How to get a research paper published after the author has died?

The OP asks for a specific "step by step process to get a paper published by a deceased person who wrote the paper alone". A statement on this was made a few years ago by COPE (Committee on Publicatio …
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Etiquette of publishing folklore results

You ask for the "etiquette", which may differ from field to field. For the research community in computer science, the fate of one particular folk theorem has been documented in loving detail by David …
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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 …