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Author‐based analysis of conference versus journal publication in computer science

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Jinseok KimAuthors Info & Claims

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 70, Issue 1

Pages 71 - 82

https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24079

Published: 12 December 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Conference publications in computer science (CS) have attracted scholarly attention due to their unique status as a main research outlet, unlike other science fields where journals are dominantly used for communicating research findings. One frequent research question has been how different conference and journal publications are, considering an article as a unit of analysis. This study takes an author‐based approach to analyze the publishing patterns of 517,763 scholars who have ever published both in CS conferences and journals for the last 57 years, as recorded in DBLP. The analysis shows that the majority of CS scholars tend to make their scholarly debut, publish more articles, and collaborate with more coauthors in conferences than in journals. Importantly, conference articles seem to serve as a distinct channel of scholarly communication, not a mere preceding step to journal publications: coauthors and title words of authors across conferences and journals tend not to overlap much. This study corroborates findings of previous studies on this topic from a distinctive perspective and suggests that conference authorship in CS calls for more special attention from scholars and administrators outside CS who have focused on journal publications to mine authorship data and evaluate scholarly performance.

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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Volume 70, Issue 1

January 2019

97 pages

ISSN:2330-1635

EISSN:2330-1643

DOI:10.1002/asi.2019.70.issue-1

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