Hi, I need some advise about how to publish

[ernestuz]

Hi, my professional career brought me far from this field, but there has always been some amber left. I have written a small paper on it, it sets a way of avoiding finetuning. I need some sort of pre-reviewer, somebody in academia that can set my feet on the ground. The paper is quite heavy in Differential Geometry/GR, but it's classical otherwise.

 

[Choppy]

Normally that's a supervisor's job.
If you've been out of the field for a while and don't have an academic network, start by contacting your old supervisor and working group. If the work isn't specifically in their field, they might have connections to help you.
And if you've never been to graduate school, usually that's the place to start, or even returning to undergrad to brush up on senior core classes if you've been gone for a very long time. It's extremely rare that someone who hasn't been to grad school produces a novel and significant paper without input from those in the field.

 

[ernestuz]

First, thanks for answering, I have been out of the field since 1999, unfortunately my thesis supervisor passed away like 20 years ago. Otherwise, I wouldn't be asking in this forum. Perhaps this is not the place to ask this sort of questions?

 

[QuarkyMeson]

Otherwise, I wouldn't be asking in this forum. Perhaps this is not the place to ask this sort of questions?

That's not what the forum is for.

 

[MidgetDwarf]

First, thanks for answering, I have been out of the field since 1999, unfortunately my thesis supervisor passed away like 20 years ago. Otherwise, I wouldn't be asking in this forum. Perhaps this is not the place to ask this sort of questions?

I would maybe reach out to one of the faculty whose area is what you wrote the paper in, and explain your circumstance concisely. Ie., supervisor died, do not have a publishing record.

Maybe they would be nice enough to go over it. Just be aware they may tell you to f off. Dont take it personal. They are busy people.

And being out since 1999 is an issue. Whats to say what have done is hasnt been tried already?

 

[ernestuz]

That's not what the forum is for.

Well, in that case, I was misled by the title of the forum, sorry, this subforum includes career advice.

 

[renormalize]

Well, in that case, I was misled by the title of the forum, sorry, this subforum includes career advice.

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[ernestuz]

I would maybe reach out to one of the faculty whose area is what you wrote the paper in, and explain your circumstance concisely. Ie., supervisor died, do not have a publishing record.

Maybe they would be nice enough to go over it. Just be aware they may tell you to f off. Dont take it personal. They are busy people.

And being out since 1999 is an issue. Whats to say what have done is hasnt been tried already?

This is comment is really useful.

Yes, all those years in the middle make things difficult contacting back, BUT having a life dedicated to Telecomms, doesn't reduce my ability to read, I think I am very well up to date, do you suggest that to provide something new you have to be in academia?

This little work selects and explore a configuration that results in a stable vacuum and provide a proper gravitational tensor, General Relativity, as is, is unable to localize gravitational energy, necessitating the use of non-covariant pseudotensors.

Basically I start factorizing the action, deduce somewhat more general field equations (Calculus of Variations/Palatini Identity), on which I apply some stability criteria (the work by Kasner helped there a lot), then I do some perturbation analysis to show that this vacuum doesn't decay... etc.

 

[ernestuz]

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I am not striking the right chord. I don't want to discus any theory, I am looking for information about how to have this thing peer reviewed.

I am in the wrong place, I agree.

 

[renormalize]

I am looking for information about how to have this thing peer reviewed.

Have you considered simply trying to "run it up the flagpole"? In other words: write a clear paper, send it to the appropriate journal and then wait for their response. I was successful doing this a few years ago, when I submitted a brief comment, related to general relativity, to a respected, refereed physics journal. I listed no institutional affiliation, just my home address and personal email. After a round of back-and-forth with the referees, my article was accepted and published.
Give it a try!

 

[mad mathematician]

You can also publish your work in researchgate, or in your own blog.
The only reason to get publish in peer reviewed journals is perhaps to get a "decent" work in academia.

When you understand that most papers in the arxiv or in journals aren't being read, you less give an acclaim for this process called "publish or perish".

 

[QuarkyMeson]

You can also publish your work in researchgate, or in your own blog.
The only reason to get publish in peer reviewed journals is perhaps to get a "decent" work in academia.

When you understand that most papers in the arxiv or in journals aren't being read, you less give an acclaim for this process called "publish or perish".

Huh, this is just untrue. Works are published and peer reviewed to add to the body of human knowledge. Also, arxiv is a repository, not a publication.

 

[mad mathematician]

Huh, this is just untrue. Works are published and peer reviewed to add to the body of human knowledge. Also, arxiv is a repository, not a publication.

Ah, you are either naive or just playing along the "academic game" as one poster once said in BSM.

***I still don't get who was the originator of SUSY... for string theory there's a consensus (sort of).

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[martinbn]

Published in a peer reviewed journal adds credibility. It means it has been checked, no flaws were found and it is worth pubishing.

 

[ernestuz]

Hi, my main interest is having it peer reviewed.

I managed to have three people having a look at it, Finally.

2 of them are related to academia, a physicist working on solid state physics, a mathematician, working in stuff I can hardly comprehend, and a physicist doing consultancy.

Unfortunately, their knowledge related to this field is kind of tangential, their opinion is that the maths are strong, but they are not sure of the physics.

I assumed that to have it peer reviewed, I needed to try to publish, at least it was like such back then, you had colleagues commenting on your work, but peer reviewing was for publication, also back then, you used to publish much less, reserved for more impactful results.

I didn't want to ask for more favours to them, given that this is not their field, but I have uploaded the manuscript to Zenodo, so the solid state physicist can show it to colleagues in her department.

I will try to update this from time to time, so it may help other people in the same situation. If it passes the filters, I will publish the link, otherwise I will explain where it failed. If that is not allowed, this forum looks very moderated, say so.

Thanks, your discussion adds clarity about what is the relative position of the different actors.

 

[berkeman]

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[QuarkyMeson]

I didn't want to ask for more favours to them, given that this is not their field, but I have uploaded the manuscript to Zenodo, so the solid state physicist can show it to colleagues in her department.

I will try to update this from time to time, so it may help other people in the same situation. If it passes the filters, I will publish the link, otherwise I will explain where it failed. If that is not allowed, this forum looks very moderated, say so.

Don't post any Zenodo links. If you get it published you can post and discuss.

 

[ernestuz]

Don't post any Zenodo links. If you get it published you can post and discuss.

Yes, that is what I meant when I said "passing the filter", not clear enough, though. I wasn't sure if authors were allowed to self reference their own published work in the forum.