Re: [Tccc] Improving submissions and all that...

I'm curious how many industry research folks are on this list and
whether their interests are (or should be) included in the discussion.

Pumping out 97 papers in one year ... and if none of it reaches (or will
reach) society in a meaningful way is the classic example of why papers
and citations are not generally held in the highest regard (in industry
at least).

Number of papers and number of citations are nice, but there should be
an equally weighted measure of meaningful transition to something
useful, at some point, with the tax payers' money. Something like an
industry citation of an academic paper counts for 10 university
citations... i.e. the idea has been found to actually be of value and so
weighted more.

Steve

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Hi, all,

Victor Walrand wrote:
> Take a look at the publication record of Prof. H. Vincent Poor's from

> Princeton for the last 2-3 years in DBLP.
>
> 2009 --> 56 papers
> 2008 --> 97 papers (!!!)
> 2007 --> 72 papers
>
> Is it really possible to author (or co-author) so many papers in a
> year?!?

I took a quick look. There are many papers with otherwise disjoint
author lists, and he appears to frequently be the last author. I'm not
sure how to interpret these results either, though.

> So are people just using his Princeton credentials to get papers
> accepted?

This presumes that his credentials are a contributing factor in
publication. Many of his co-authors are also from Princeton, however.

> Isn't it the responsibility of a co-author to at least be responsible
> for some of the content in a paper?

The IEEE doesn't have such a requirement, except vaguely in its Code of
Ethics. However, it's useful to note that all authors of a paper share
equally in all responsibilities of following republication rules and
anti-plagiarism.

Joe

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