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I think academics might only consider their work published once it is accepted by a conference or journal. If it's a preprint, it is not published yet, hence i
by flor1s 10y ago
I think academics might only consider their work published once it is accepted by a conference or journal.
If it's a preprint, it is not published yet, hence it has no publication date. Even if you submit a paper today, it might not be published in this year. Some journal papers take years to revise. Some people might get early versions of their conference paper rejected. For every paper I have send to a conference, the conference itself added the conference information (including year and conference dates) to the paper.
- eternalban 10y agoYou have a point but publication date, specially in this fast moving field, is a low grade data point. As another commenter wrote in this thread, we're reduced to deducing date range by looking at referenced prior work. I for one am grateful to Cornell for making ArXiv happen. They stamp the date on the preprint and their url enodes the general date [/<yy><mm>.<sernum>] as well: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.06020.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.06020.pdf