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Q: Finding a career as a researcher without any PhD, work experience, and/or relevant academic degree

Mohammad JavanshiryI call myself an "independent researcher", however, I have no relevant academic degree in the field in which I do research (physics, especially relativity, and electromagnetism). I just have some articles published in peer-reviewed journals and some self-published scholarly books. Is it possible...

Do you realize that you would be competing with people with PhD's, with relevant work experience, with letters of recommendation from established academic physicists? (Your peer-reviewed papers would be good, but self-published books do nothing to enhance one's status...)
Are your papers well-received in your community? Do you interact with other resarchers?
@paulgarrett I just do not know how to understand an established academic physicist has written a letter of recommendation. This may be followed by the feedback that I receive as to my articles and I have to wait. Don't I? Indeed, I try to republish some parts of the books in mainstream journals. I hope this may improve the validity of the books as I cite them in the articles.
I looked at your Google Scholar page, and seems like you had no collaborators so far? All your publications seem to be single author. Getting a good collaborator to write a paper together will also improve your academic standings.
"I hope this may improve the validity of the books as I cite them in the articles." Self-citations will not help improve the validity of your books in the eyes of careful academics, and it might even give them a worse impression of your books if they find that you're the only one citing them.
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Is there any specific reason you do not wish to pursue a "relevant academic degree"?
@FerventHippo Yes, there are. I have philosophical problems with academic procedures. For further explanation, please see footnote 13 on page xviii of my book. You can read it using the "Look inside" option on its Amazon page: amazon.com/…
@MohammadJavanshiry That footnote appears to express a fair dose of contempt for effectively all modern scientific research and researchers. If that is an accurate statement of your views, setting aside if it's possible, who would you actually want to work for as a researcher? Academia seems right out, for example.
@MohammadJavanshiry sorry to be blunt but that footnote makes you come across as just another crackpot.
@StephenMcMahon Yes, you are right. My ideas are slightly dissenting. Maybe I can work as a dissident researcher!
@ZeroTheHero Do you mean a crackpot who published some parts of his dissenting views in mainstream journals?! It seems that you, too, accuse academics (journal's peers) of not being able to recognize crackpots. The difference is that you tend to question the academics' qualifications implicitly, and I tend to do it explicitly!
@FerventHippo I also refer you to page xii of another book of mine: amazon.com/Theory-Density-Alternative-Relativity-Mass-Charge‌​/dp/…
At a minimum you should aim to get a first class B.Sc. in Physics. You probably have the ability if you want to use it and that would at least open some doors into possibly teaching and further study. Regardless of what people say about what you describe as the "slightly dissenting" nature of your existing work it does demonstrate some ability beyond average (IMO).
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For anyone looking for the footnote that was mentioned by OP in one of the comments, it took me a while to find it so I've provided the first part of it here and the second and final part of it here for easier access. Mohammad Javanshiry, if you would like me to remove this comment I can delete it!
@ZeroTheHero name-calling is forbidden on Stack Exchange, even if it's more veiled by saying something like "it makes you come across as an idiot" rather than explicitly saying "you're an idiot". I would recommend that you rephrase your last comment, especially if you want it to be more helpful to the OP. Perhaps you can tell him what part of his footnote is working against his reputation, without any name-calling. I am guessing that your comment was meant to be helpful to the OP.
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@user1271772 Do not remove your provided links, please. They would be helpful. Thanks.
@MohammadJavanshiry okay, I only mentioned that I can delete them at your request, in case there was some copyright issue.
@user1271772 - to answer your question, I kept those two comments un-moved because they seem like relevant context that answerers might benefit from knowing. Really the right thing to do would be to edit that information into the post itself, but I didn't want to "force" that. That said: you should still be able to delete your comment from the main post if you want to.
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@cag51 it seems that you have already deleted my comment. The comment to which I was referring in my question, was the one by Toivo here:
29 mins ago, by Toivo Säwén
Is there any specific reason you do not wish to pursue a "relevant academic degree"?
Since you deleted my the question that you just answered, in case other users are confused about the context: I had asked cag51 why Toivo's question was not deleted when this conversation was moved to chat, but other follow-up/clarification questions in the comment were.
@cag51 I thought that other questions like the following one were also relevant in a similar way, so I was mainly asking how the line was drawn to decide which comments are kept and which ones are not:
31 mins ago, by user111388
Are your papers well-received in your community? Do you interact with other resarchers?
Also for future readers, the time stamps on the above chat messages only reflect the time at which the comments were transferred to chat, not the time at which the comments were originally written!
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That question seemed useful, but I didn't see a useful answer. In any case, if I missed anything important, you're welcome to edit it into the main post.
Thanks for the clarification. I was about to step away from the computer, but maybe later I can clarify the post (if OP is okay with it).

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