• @[email protected]
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    298 months ago

    That’s a long lasting tradition to use “we” even in solo authored papers. I believe even Newton did this

    • @[email protected]
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      318 months ago

      That’s a long lasting tradition to use “we” even in solo authored papers. We believe even Newton did this

      • @[email protected]
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        218 months ago

        The second referee once told us that our paper should not be published at all.

        Eventually, it made it to the Editor’s choice section of the journal

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          28 months ago

          Did he say YOU shouldn’t publish it or it shouldn’t be published?

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            28 months ago

            I suspect they were a rival of my co-author, that’s why they didn’t want it to be published. Or they didn’t want me to be published in this journal.

            The communication is happening through journal’s editors, so they could not explicitly write that they don’t want ME to be publish papers.

    • @[email protected]
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      18 months ago

      Yup, that was a requirement for most papers at my uni. We also use the plural you to show respect, even when talking to a single person.