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Former academic mathematician here. The American Mathematical Society has made periodic statements (2004: http://www.ams.org/profession/leaders/culture/Culture
by madcaptenor 9y ago
Former academic mathematician here.
The American Mathematical Society has made periodic statements (2004: http://www.ams.org/profession/leaders/culture/CultureStatement04.pdf http://www.ams.org/profession/leaders/culture/CultureStateme... . 2009: https://www.ams.org/profession/leaders/culture/CultureStatement09.pdf https://www.ams.org/profession/leaders/culture/CultureStatem...) basically saying that in math, author order is generally alphabetical, as opposed to the lab sciences where lots of information is encoded in the order of the authors. (I'm not sure how author order works in CS.) I believe the purpose of this statement is to submit it with cases for hiring, promotion, tenure, etc. where non-mathematicians will be evaluating mathematicians.
I wonder if some professional society has made an equivalent "conferences count like journals in CS" statement.
- madcaptenor 9y agoMaybe see for example https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/advice/conferences-vs-journals.html https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/advice/conferences-v... and the links therein.
- Al-Khwarizmi 9y agoI have searched for this in the past and I haven't seen any official professional statement, which by the way, is a pity. I have seen people submit personal letters from prestigious professors stating it instead. In my view, the CS community is somewhat US-centric in this respect... it's not a huge problem for US professors (many of them publish exclusively or almost exclusively in conferences and they seem to be fine) so not much is done, unfortunately.