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The conference reviewing crisis and a proposed solution

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ACM SIGMOD Record, Volume 37, Issue 3

Pages 40 - 45

https://doi.org/10.1145/1462571.1462582

Published: 30 September 2008 Publication History

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In Computer Science, we have developed a vibrant conference culture, which has served us well thus far. However, with the growth of our field, the number of submissions to many conferences has sky-rocketed, leading to a downward spiral in reviewing quality and author satisfaction. This article proposes to break this downward spiral for the database community through JDMR, a journal for short "conference style" papers with rapid turn-around. An initial step toward this vision has been taken by VLDB.

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ACM SIGMOD Record Volume 37, Issue 3

September 2008

44 pages

ISSN:0163-5808

DOI:10.1145/1462571

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