Michael Patriksson

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Why do some scientific journal editors, following acceptance, ask authors to please add more papers from that very journal to the reference list?

I have a recent observation from a scientific journal, in which the editor asks the authors to try to add more papers from the journal in question into the reference list, before the paper goes to...

07 July 2018 3,760 55 View

How do you decide where to submit your latest manuscript?

When deciding on where to send your new manuscript, what are the criteria involved? How do you weigh these criteria against each other? Is fast publication more important than to go for the more...

10 October 2016 2,887 18 View

Do you agree that scientific articles these days often have much more shallow literature reviews than they used to have?

I am a researcher in ernest since 1988, a reviewer for scientific journals and conference proceedings volumes since 1989, a published author since 1992, an author of scientific books since 1994,...

01 January 2016 362 18 View

How do we solve the problem with the unethical selection of authors of a paper?

I have read repeatedly - and lately more frequently - about two related serious ethical problems in publishing: that on a published paper (a) some REAL authors have been removed from the list of...

07 July 2015 6,434 23 View

Are we all honest and objective as authors?

Read the text that you reach through this link: http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2015/jun/05/my-professor-demand-to-be-listed-author-on-research-paper?CMP=share_btn_fb It is...

06 June 2015 6,898 4 View

Can you share your worst examples of predatory journals, and their doings?

Science publishing is very lucrative. These days, many of us are also faced with the necessity to publish in open-access journals, and have to seek special grants in order to be able to pay...

02 February 2015 8,604 1 View

The book "The Traffic Assignment Problem" is very soon available!?

The book is very soon available in facsimile form at Dover Publications. Here is a link to Dover's bookshop: http://store.doverpublications.com/0486787907.html And here to...

12 December 2014 3,413 2 View

What's happening with the criticism of those huge and powerful money-making publishing houses?

At least if you are a mathematician, you ought to remember the storm a few years back - with a fair share of the world's most famous mathematicians' petition against Elsevier's ridiculous price...

11 November 2014 7,941 0 View

"The purpose of our research is insight, not numbers" - but does anyone care anymore?

Famously in 1962 the mathematician Richard Hamming stated that 'The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers'. A similar statement, with "computing" replaced by "mathematical programming", was...

09 September 2014 3,592 5 View

Is there a good general principle for the ordering of authors of a paper?

More and more frequently I discuss the issue of the ordering of authors with my co-authors. It would be interesting to hear how the reasoning goes among the population at RG, so please share your...

06 June 2014 1,636 4 View

Why the haste to publish?

I see every now and then members of RG asking whether it is possible to quickly publish a paper in the subject X in journal Y. My questions then are: 1. Why the haste? You should know that it...

01 January 1970 523 18 View

Why the phrase "the model and its algorithm", when referring to an optimization problem?

I saw this phrase a lot many years ago, and now at RG I witness again the phrase "the model and its algorithm". It always refers to the notion that for every model there is a unique methodology to...

01 January 1970 6,667 1 View