Many of our procedures are focused more on those active and established in the evaluation process. I believe we can do better by aiming to serve the entire community, which will profit all of us.
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Suggestions for better Research Assessment: San Francisco Declaration
An substantial number of institutions and individuals have signed to support the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which is…
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Journal rankings have negative impact
Björn Brembs, Katherine Button, and Marcus Munafò argue and provide facts in their paper “Deep Impact: Unintended consequences of journal…
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Resist Schoolyard Peer Pressure
Only because other conferences are doing it, you don’t have to – the benefit to your conference and its community…
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Paper length
I believe paper length restrictions are a historic artefact, needed to keep printing and shipping of proceedings low. It can…
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Best paper – Outstanding papers, Award Visibility
Highlighting achievements is a good thing. The conference can signal which papers it considers very good, and authors can take…
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Community friendly timing
Conference timing can have impact on time with families, quality of life, etc. At ECRTS, Sophie Quinton brought in changes…
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Edward Lee – “The Toxic Culture of Rejection in Computer Science”
Edward Lee posted on the Sigbed Blog “The Toxic Culture of Rejection in Computer Science” on negativity in CS conference…
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Open Access
A goal of research is to ultimately to benefit society with research results available to the public. The conference work…