Re: Publication of scientific research

On 27-Apr-13, at 12:52 PM, Daniel Schwabe wrote:
>> I just spent an hour this week removing "last-accessed: 01-01-2012"  
>> data from my reference list, so I could get inside a page limit.  
>> Why? The data is (slightly) valuable, so why remove it? Page limit  
>> is a tree-ware hangover. I blame the conference organisers.
>
> Surprisingly, this is actually not true. In a couple of conferences  
> where I was the PC Chair (including ISWC), I suggested precisely  
> this, and the OVERWHELMING reaction was that people preferred page  
> limits (and not too big either). The rationale was that it would  
> then become "unfair" because some people would submit shorter papers  
> than others, and possibly be at a disadvantage. It would eventually  
> lead to a "race" with people submitting longer and longer papers, in  
> the hopes of maximizing their chances of acceptance, and put an  
> impossible burden on reviewers.
> Perhaps this may make sense for journal publications, but it's not  
> such an obvious conclusion as it may look at first sight.

"This paper isn't [maximum page limit] and therefore can't be good  
work or an important problem."

-rhw

Received on Saturday, 27 April 2013 19:26:59 UTC