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This document provides advice on developing an effective publication strategy. It discusses identifying appropriate publication venues based on their reputation and scope, and using an incremental strategy to publish work first in workshops and conferences before submitting to top journals. It recommends targeting well-established venues and aiming high while getting there via stepwise publications. It also emphasizes the importance of adhering strictly to ethical guidelines around issues like double submissions, giving proper credit, and engaging with peer review.

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Pubstrat 2

This document provides advice on developing an effective publication strategy. It discusses identifying appropriate publication venues based on their reputation and scope, and using an incremental strategy to publish work first in workshops and conferences before submitting to top journals. It recommends targeting well-established venues and aiming high while getting there via stepwise publications. It also emphasizes the importance of adhering strictly to ethical guidelines around issues like double submissions, giving proper credit, and engaging with peer review.

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Publication strategies

Carlo Ghezzi
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
[email protected]

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Outline: why not follow SE
best practices?
„ Goals and stakeholders
– Who set the goals?
– What are the goals to achieve?
„ Requirements
– Operationalization of goals in a desirable
process
„ Implementation
– Your job
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Stakeholders and goals
Advance
„ The global Compete within
science
university
scientific and with peers
community
Buildthe
„ Your
Promote
community
best people
department
Establish Be promoted
„ You your reputation
Evaluate you
in the community
for promotion
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How to evaluate people
based on publications?
„ (Of course, publications are not the only
criterion to be considered)
„ Quality vs. quantity metrics
– Easier to evaluate quantity than quality!
– But quantity is self-referential, it does not lead to
the ultimate goals
– Quality evaluated by
„ In-depth scrutiny Publication strategy
– Reviewers, interested peers is important here
„ Assigning a default quality weight based on the
publication venue
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The role of publication
venues
„ Your work must be good
„ … but it gets the attention it deserves
if the publication venue has a good
reputation

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Domain knowledge (1)

„ Each area has its top archival journals and


other less prestigious , perhaps more
specific, journals and magazines
„ Each area has its top conferences and more
focused symposia/workshops
„ Conferences, symposia, workshops are
venues where you can meet your peers and
where you become part of the community

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Domain knowledge (2)

„ Conferences/symposia/workshops
require shorter papers than
conferences
„ They accept "less complete", "less
mature" results
„ They have shorter (and predictable)
turnaround time

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Requirements for a
strategy
„ Clearly understand scopes of different publication
venues
„ Aim at covering both journals and
conferences/symposia/workshops
„ Follow an incremental publication strategy for your
work
– early notification of your work
– early feedback
„ start with workshop papers, as a way for you enter the field
„ significant intermediate results appear in the major
conferences of the field
„ complete research, from conception to evaluation, appears in
journal papers
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Constraints

„ Never republish the same material


– Make sure that each time you have a
significant amount of material to add
„ typically
a journal requires 20-30% new
material that wasn't in the originating
conference paper(s)
– later comments on "ethical issues"

„ Avoid the LP U ("least publishable


unit") syndrome
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Implementation
Build your publication portfolio

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My suggested (selected)
targets
„ ACM/IEEE top TOSEM JACM
journals TSE TOPLAS
„ Other SE journals IEE Proc.
TCSw.
…
JSS, ASE, SP&E
„ Top flagship ICSETCS, SCP,
OOPSLA,
SPIP,
conferences ESEC/FSE POPL
JSM, REJ, ESE…
„ Specialized ISSTA
IEEE Sw
symposia REIEEE Computer
„ Workshops Often
SM attached
to
… conferences
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Personal
recommendations (1)
„ Find your way through the publication
jungle
„ Favor established venues with high
reputation and strong records over
"easier" targets
„ Aim at top journals but get there in a
stepwise manner via conferences

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Personal
recommendations (2)
„ Don't be frustrated by rejections
– good ideas and good work are a necessary but
not sufficient precondition for an acceptable
paper
„ Don't be obsessioned by publication
– be confident in what you are doing
– the purpose of publication IS NOT species
selection
„ Strictly adhere to the ethical code
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Ethical code (1)

„ The ends don't justify the means


– NO double submissions
„ Corollary
– Do not submit to a journal until the conference paper
that subsumes the journal paper is presented
„ Ask for permission if you wish to submit prior to
presentation
– NEVER report data/facts that are
unsubstantiated
– NEVER report as yours work done by others

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Ethical code (2)

„ You do not live in isolation


– There is no justification for ignoring
previous work and history of the field
– Give proper credits to previous and
contextual work
„ butthen when you are a referee, don't reject
a paper simply because it did not refer to one
of your minor papers…

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Ethical code (3)

„ Take reviews seriously


– Peer reviews are fundamental to improve
scientific work
„ Help the community as a reviewer
– You may say no, but more often you
should say yes

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