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Questions about mathematical publishing, including specific journals, peer review etc.

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Publishing corollaries of previously published results

In general, the rule is that one may (but not necessarily should) publish everything he/she considers worth attracting people's attention to (under the condition that their attention is not there alre …
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What should one do before submitting a paper?

First of all, proofread it several times. Remember that every minor mistake that will take you five minutes to correct may perplex the reader for several hours, so aim at minimizing the community time …
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When to publish minor results?

I'm in somewhat similar position too. My attitude is that most time people know why they are asking for some particular result so it is their headache to convert it into "public good" and to "spread t …
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submit the second part of a paper

I usually do not split in such cases, but if you do, I guess the same journal is a better choice, especially if you think of the poor people who will have to look up and reference your paper in the fu …
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A question about rejected journal submissions, similar results, and discrepancies between th...

The closest situation I saw was when a graduate student $X$ of a colleague $Y$ of mine started to work on some problem, solved it, but was very slow with writing the solution down. During that long an …
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How to resolve a disagreement about a mathematical proof?

There are three separate issues here. 1) How to clarify whether the proof is correct? You should start with making a serious good will effort to understand what is written (which amounts to redoing a …
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Appendices to papers authored by others

I surmise that the speed of communication now exceed the speed of publication (or even the speed of the typesetting/proofreading cycle). So, you prove something, send the rough draft to people who, in …
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A series of articles should be published all in the same journal, or in different journals?

If you just submit different parts of the series to different journals, it is possible that part 3 will appear a year before part 1 or, even worse, that part 3 will be published and part 1 will be rejected …
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Submission of a paper with a serious error to a good journal

1) Has this happened to anyone else? Is this a relatively common occurrence, or am I just sloppy? It is not very common (the usual preventive techniques include showing the draft to a few experts/fri …
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Submitting to arXiv when unaffiliated

It seems to be possible to submit a paper without being its author. If I remember it right, on the second page of the submission form, you have a question "Are you an author of the paper?" and "No" is …
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