Re: [Tccc] Different community, similar problems? (Henning Schulzrinne)

I concur that conferences are the primary venue for publication in my case
and for most colleagues I know.

But there are shortcomings of conference-oriented publication practise.
First, conference deadlines impose an artificial
temporal constraint on the way we do research. Some can argue that you
first
do research, and then think about a publication venue. But what if you just
missed the deadline by a week or two for the best venue for your work?
Do you wait a year? Or look for other venues? Have you ever sent your paper
to
several conferences until it is finally accepted? Of course the paper could
have
improved greatly. But enough to justify the delay in publication?

Both conferences and journals in our field have a relatively long
turn-around time
compared to other fields, e.g. physics. For conferences, we synchronize
reviews
and camera-ready preparation and they add delay.

Conference or journal, if we could make sure that reviews are done well,
why should it matter?

-Sue

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