“ Send your best to your journal ”

Where to send your paper ?

The publication culture in computer science favors publishing in conference proceedings or even the arXiv over publishing in journals. To bring more balance, computer science needs more high-quality journals with a short submission-to-publication time, monthly or even bi-weekly issues, and open-access. Scattered initiatives are beginning to change the scene. The 1995 guideline of Patterson et a...

Reviewer's recommendations predict impact: why you have to send us your very best work.

Six months ago we acknowledged the help of many least to be more reluctant to do so in the future [8]. thousands of our reviewers who helped us with the Obviously, editors cannot afford such a loss of expert editorial decision process over the last 5 years [1]. The aim knowledge, if they aim at peer review of the large majority of editors is two-fold: they wish to make fair decisions, but of th...

Where to Send Your Paper? 1 a Culture

The publication culture in computer science favors publishing in conference proceedings or even in the arXiv over publishing in journals. To restore balance and regain a leading role in the dynamics of the field, the journal tradition in computer science must scale up to the needs of our times. In particular, computer science needs more high-quality journals with a short submission-to-publicati...

Put Your Best

Bring your best to the table.

Sometime in the past you were likely taught about the importance of “bringing your best to the table”—in other words contributing your best ideas and results. Indeed, it is an important key to success. But what ideas and results you bring to the table may not be enough. Sometimes it is how you present your ideas and results that distinguishes you and determines your success. This consideration ...