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Thanks, got it - so it's the equivalent of signing to a major label instead of releasing your album on Bandcamp. However, and I may be very naive and idealisti

Thanks, got it - so it's the equivalent of signing to a major label instead of releasing your album on Bandcamp. However, and I may be very naive and idealistic here, shouldn't academics be able to rate and value a paper purely on quality rather than the medium it was published in?

barkbro 11y ago
Imagine yourself as an employer who has to go through a large amount of applications. You can either read all their publications (if you even understand them) and try to get some idea of their academic performance, or just trust that the more prestigious journals require the publications to be of importance and quality.
studentrob 11y ago
> shouldn't academics be able to rate and value a paper purely on quality rather than the medium it was published in? Yes. I'm not familiar with all the ins and outs of the current publishing system. But it seems there is room for a more modern publishing agency that can take the best of the old publishing model and combine it with digital age thinking.
bcook 11y ago
Do academics have time to read every paper?
- chris_wot 11y ago
  More to the point: do they all understand each other's area of specialty?
jonathankoren 11y ago
It's not the medium, but the forum that matters. There's a hierarchy to forums such as workshop, conference, journal. Then within each forum there are tiers. For instance SIGIR is better than CIKM for information retrieval. USENIX is better than FAST for file systems. The World Then even within each conference there's a tier. Posters are the least, full papers are the most. At each tier, submissions are competitive. This is where the peer review takes place.", and mostly it comes down to reading how the experiments were done and of the conclusions made sense given the experimental setup, and how well the paper is written.
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barkbro 11y ago

Imagine yourself as an employer who has to go through a large amount of applications. You can either read all their publications (if you even understand them) and try to get some idea of their academic performance, or just trust that the more prestigious journals require the publications to be of importance and quality.

studentrob 11y ago

> shouldn't academics be able to rate and value a paper purely on quality rather than the medium it was published in? Yes. I'm not familiar with all the ins and outs of the current publishing system. But it seems there is room for a more modern publishing agency that can take the best of the old publishing model and combine it with digital age thinking.

bcook 11y ago

Do academics have time to read every paper?

chris_wot 11y ago
More to the point: do they all understand each other's area of specialty?

jonathankoren 11y ago

It's not the medium, but the forum that matters. There's a hierarchy to forums such as workshop, conference, journal. Then within each forum there are tiers. For instance SIGIR is better than CIKM for information retrieval. USENIX is better than FAST for file systems. The World Then even within each conference there's a tier. Posters are the least, full papers are the most. At each tier, submissions are competitive. This is where the peer review takes place.", and mostly it comes down to reading how the experiments were done and of the conclusions made sense given the experimental setup, and how well the paper is written.

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