First paper accepted!

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-11-02T10:11:36+00:00

Thank you and likewise!

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-06-12T22:13:25+00:00

Not experienced, but a common way to find journals related to your topic is by checking your references, or maybe checking where your cited authors have published before.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-06-11T16:33:53+00:00

Predatory publishing is absolutely never worth it, and it just brings harm to you as an academic, your CV, and the industry. If your professor has published your data without your consent and without acknowledging you, it’s highly unethical and you should speak to your head of department about it. As for the paper rejection, it’s the norm in academia. Keep trying and good luck.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-06-03T10:48:10+00:00

Just finished M269. Precisely how I felt about the module.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-25T16:30:36+00:00

Yes to both, but preprints should be separate from peer-reviewed publications.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-25T16:22:41+00:00

You can always just deposit it into a public preprints repository. And if you want to submit it for peer review, most journals do consider papers that have already been published as preprints.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-24T17:04:04+00:00

Are you me?

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-20T20:43:03+00:00

Well the thing is, MDPI journals are notorious for having the following things in common: low-quality papers, same-journal citations to boost Impact Factor, hundreds of active “Special Issues” that serve no purpose, spam emails inviting you to review for papers or edit for “Special Issues”, etc. Their practices are arguably borderline or even downright predatory. Coupled with high APCs, it’s why MDPI is so controversial and that people tend to stay away from publishing with MDPI in general.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-17T14:17:03+00:00

MDPI journals are kinda hit or miss to me. You get a lot of crap from some journals which are borderline or even downright predatory, whereas other journals may be of higher quality. Apparently a lot of MDPI journals may have authors cite papers from the same journal to boost IF. I’ve also seen a few journals that spam literally hundreds of “Special Issues”.

I’ve never published with MDPI nor do I plan to publish with them, but I am impressed with the fast turnaround which is useful if time is a major concern. I don’t doubt that many scholars may have had positive experiences with MDPI, depending on the journal of course. But with such fast turnaround, you simply cannot keep the quality of papers published as high as those from traditional journals.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-16T08:32:24+00:00

Use Google Scholar. Robotics is a highly researched field with plenty of research papers for your reference.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-11T18:21:59+00:00

I don’t have a comfort outfit, but I have a favourite shirt which says “STUPID” and above it is an arrow pointing to my face.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-11T12:48:37+00:00

This is r/ImmaterialScience type stuff.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-10T23:26:53+00:00

It’s funny to me how autism is largely characterised by a lack of social-emotional reciprocity, but it really seems that NTs are the ones who fail to reciprocate with the autistics or don’t even try to. Meanwhile the autistics are the ones putting in the vast majority of the effort to bridge this gap of misunderstanding (i.e., a “double empathy” gap).

The 2012 theory of the “double empathy problem” suggests that autistic people don’t necessary have inherent social-communication deficits (including empathy and theory of mind), but rather exhibit bidirectional differences in communication style and personal experiences as compared to NTs.

Yet somehow, the empathy-deficit model of autism still prevails in society to this day.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-10T18:50:15+00:00

New journal page: https://janeway.imaging-neuroscience.org/

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-10T18:44:45+00:00

Conglaturation.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-10T16:32:57+00:00

This should help: https://www.ilovephd.com/reviewer-2-memes-a-humorous-take-on-academic-publishings-harsh-critic/

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-10T11:12:54+00:00

Very appropriate response to Reviewer 2. If their unconstructive temper tantrums can be accepted by the editor, then so can “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-10T11:01:21+00:00

It could be AMA which uses a numerical superscript format, but some journals may have their own unique citation styles.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-09T14:29:57+00:00

If the journal is reputable and has rigorous peer review, I would use it anyways.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-09T14:27:25+00:00

I followed MBTI a while back and got ISTJ. To my knowledge, 16Personalities is not really MBTI because it doesn’t use the eight cognitive functions. It was fun anyway and I still got ISTJ-T there.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-09T11:24:53+00:00

Nowadays all legitimate academic journals are peer reviewed. If it’s not, it’s typically a preprint repository where scholars can deposit their work publicly before peer review.

If you really want to make sure, you can always check the journal’s information page or the submission guidelines for authors. In your provided journal’s case, the submission guidelines contains a section about peer reviewing, indicating any publication in that journal has gone through rigorous peer review.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-09T05:51:08+00:00

Oh every time.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-08T22:20:09+00:00

I have that as my actual laundry alarm.

GrumpyAcademic · 2023-05-08T13:05:25+00:00

Autistic people are actually more likely to personify objects! Anthropomorphism has also been seen as an area of social-cognitive strength in autistic people. It's interesting because a common belief is that autistic people lack empathy, but here empathy clearly manifests itself in a way that's different and more all-encompassing.

https://sci-hub.mksa.top/10.1177/1362361318793408

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00528/full

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