The phrase "accepted a paper" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in academic contexts to indicate that a research paper or article has been approved for publication or presentation.
Example: "The conference committee has officially accepted a paper on climate change for the upcoming symposium."
Alternatives: "approved a paper" or "endorsed a paper".
Last week, some parts of the internet were full of tittering after an open access journal accepted a paper that had been generated randomly and was full of jibberish.
One of the nonprotesters who accepted a paper was Veronica Cook, 19, from Groton, Conn., who was visiting New York with her husband, Steven Cook, who is in the Navy.
In recent years, some have mocked studies showing correlations between activity on brain images and personality measures as "voodoo" science, and a controversy over statistics erupted in January after The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology accepted a paper purporting to show evidence of extrasensory perception.
The reviewers had two major concerns that need to be addressed before the manuscript can be accepted: A) Whether the paper is of sufficient biological interest to merit publication in eLife.
At the other emotional extreme, there was touching performance by Alexandra Ansanelli as a doll who accepts a paper heart from a toy soldier, strongly characterized by Tom Gold in Balanchine's miniature Bizet ballet, "The Steadfast Tin Soldier".
As an editor, you have a major responsibility to make sure you are not trying to stir up controversy by accepting a paper which then causes all sort of problems.
When JoVE accepts a paper, they can send a crew to the laboratory to film the procedure; the company has relationships with videographers in many of the most scientifically important cities, and the network is growing, they say.
On Capitol Hill, a report accompanying the Labor/Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) appropriations bill recommends that when a journal accepts a paper generated with NIH support, a copy be sent to PubMed Central, the NIH National Library of Medicine's (NLM's) archive of full-text articles.
While journals may not accept a paper lacking adequate citations, when it comes to research proposals for admission purposes, difficulties in accessing the latest research literature are generally "sympathetically understood" (Allison 2002, 223), but the applicant is still needed to demonstrate a "reasonably good" knowledge of the research field.
The auditor general told reporters he was most concerned by how blatant he found the agency's weak spots, such as accepting a paper form for a flight taking off in another province in two hours. .
After washing her hands (in a possible stroke of irony), supervisor Vivian Mitchell (Dunst) accepts a paper towel from Dorothy, whom she has consistently undermined along with other "colored computers"—in their efforts to move up in the agency.
