Conferences vs. Journals: Throwing the baby out with the bath water?
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Criticism of the conference model should be put in context. Evidence suggests that the essential features of this model have emerged as responses to challenges posed by current trends of scientific research and the impact of the new techno-economic paradigm: the age of Information and Communication Technology [8]. The economic, social and technical impact of this revolution on the whole scientific research cycle is beginning to be assessed [5, 10]. At the center of it is our discipline, computing science (CS), that in this process is reflecting on its identity and relationship with other disciplines [4, 11]. This context seems indispensable when discussing today’s problems of scientific evaluation, in particular the Conference vs. Journal (CvJ) debate. This debate, also, would benefit from systematic historical and sociological studies of these practices. This ground would help to ponder the criticism of the conference model by showing that a great percentage of the problems like the rapid increase in the number of submissions, skimpy and slow reviews, declining paper quality, pressures from academia and publishers, are affecting the whole system, be it conference or journal [7, 12]. In this article we briefly develop these arguments.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1503.01960 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015