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Conferences and journals are a filter. If your paper can't pass a few rounds of anonymized review (for a conference) then it probably isn't worth the readers ti
by zerohp 10y ago
Conferences and journals are a filter. If your paper can't pass a few rounds of anonymized review (for a conference) then it probably isn't worth the readers time.
As an example, arXiv is has a lot of great papers but it also has a lot of bad ones. I'm unlikely to go there to find a paper unless someone referred me to a specific one.
- apathy 10y agoI've never had a paper rejected from a conference, and I've seen some pretty shitty ones at conferences. I think this statement is pretty field-specific. That said, in the CS and EE fields at least, the use of 10-12 referees for a short, dense conference paper is a really good idea. It would appear that this works primarily because of... drum roll ...the social norms and incentives in place within these specific fields.