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How many journal articles are not just tweaks on conference papers and the like that are already available on-line? This is a serious question. Back when I wa
by anamax 14y ago
How many journal articles are not just tweaks on conference papers and the like that are already available on-line?
This is a serious question. Back when I was seriously tracking a couple of areas, I didn't care at all about journals because they were about a year behind.
Public access to data, that would be something.
- MikeTaylor 14y agoThis varies a lot between fields. In palaeontology, conference "papers" are only 200-word abstracts with no illustrations or references, and are not considered to be science. So papers are everything. I believe it's less straightforward in maths, for example, where conferences are much more important.
- ethanwhite 14y agoIt is the same in ecology - short abstracts, not considered peer reviewed, never cited.
- anamax 14y agoHow about faculty/department websites? (In my experience, they're even more up to date than conferences.)