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For questions about publishing computational research (e.g. best practices for presenting figures/data/code, finding venues for certain types of research)

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How to link code to publications

Scholarly papers in scientific computing (and many other fields, nowadays) typically involve some amount of code or even whole software packages that were written specifically for that paper or were used to obtain results in the paper. What is the…
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Alternatives to Journal of Computational Physics

The Journal of Computational Physics has been an important outlet for computational science in the past, and I have published there before. For the benefit of those (like me) who have signed the Elsevier boycott, what non-Elsevier journals would be…
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Is there a standard rating system for scientific journal publications?

I have heard that some journals are rated more highly than others. Is this true? And if so, what are the criteria for judging the value of one peer reviewed journal over another? How do I find out its rating? Will my publication be of less…
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Publishing a software package along with a paper: licensing

I want to publish the software package I've written for my graduate work along with a paper describing the package. So far I've been considering liberal licenses such as BSD. However, I am now aware that publishing your code may involve an agreement…
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Open-access journals in Computational Science

In light of the recent petition to boycott Elsevier, I was wondering what options we have in Computational Science for Journals which are completely open-access, Journals which allow/support open-access articles. I am aware that there are quite a…
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reverse-lookup Digital Object Identifier given table of citations?

I asked this question on stackoverflow a few weeks ago, but have not gotten a useable answer, even after a colleague added a 150pt bounty. Is it possible to query the doi for each record in a table of citations? I have a table (csv version) that…
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What is currently the "top" research in computational science?

I debated between asking this question here and in the Academia stack exchange, but decided Computational Science was the most capable of answering the question. I'm a new graduate student (~1 semester now) and would really like to make a push to be…
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How many lines of code one needs to write to be able to write a paper?

This question interests me for a while. At one extreme, I found papers, and some thesis that were outcome of change of a single parameter in a CFD code, like in the case of "Atmospheric boundary layer" turbulence model, that was produced by a single…
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Are there techniques for interpreting practical viability of some method?

Are there techniques for interpreting practical viability of some method? That is, if one comes across some mentioned technique, then is there some way to gauge, how much prevalence it has for practical usage? Some theories may stay at a theoretical…
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