On Apr 26, 2007, at 1:08 AM, Amy S. Bruckman wrote:
3. This, btw, is my big beef at AoIR conferences -- not enough refereeing. It's not nice to waste people's time with poorly researched and poorly written papers.
I'm so glad you said this Barry--I agree. It would be easy to fix: we just need to require full papers rather than abstracts, and actually have folks review them.
I've proposed this a few times, I think it could help resolve some of the issues. However, it will create at least one more problem in terms of academic labor.
Of course we still have issues to resolve based on the fact that people come from different home disciplines and have different expectations of what a conference paper is and what it counts for. (Does it 'count' for tenure?
Perhaps, but it is not a Computer Science conference, so most likely not. Granted, I don't think some of the conference spam type of conferences with full proceedings should count for tenure either. To the extend that going to a conferences and presenting a paper counts toward tenure in your field, then I'd suggest that it would.
Can you expand it into a journal article, or does it count as already published?)
nope, AoIR does not currently publish, archiving papers is opt-in and not publishing. Will it publish? I hope it will someday. If it were full paper-peer review then i suspect the proceedings could be published without much issue.
Those are important to address. But eventually we will become people's home discipline, and I'd rather see the bar set higher for what a conference paper is supposed to be.
I'd just like to see conference papers with multidisciplinary peer review. We would need many more reviewers though, which would be an issue.
YMMV,
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