[Air-L] Publication quality

Murray Turoff wrote:

We have too many publishers who are pushing almost a vanity press

So true. How many conferences are thinly disguised tourism? (I admit to having gone to some myself :-). There might be some relief through inter-operable means of tracking article downloads and citations, which could inform the academic promotion process. For example ACM, Google Scholar, and Berkeley Electronic Press track article downloads and citations, see: http://cis471.blogspot.com/2009/01/rating-and-reputation-in-scholarly.html This sort of data could become input to ones scholarly "reputation." Larry