Scientometrics
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Volume 90: Issue 2
Relationship between high-quality journals and conferences in computer vision
Authors:
Michael Eckmann Skidmore College, 815 N. Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA

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Anderson Rocha University of Campinas, Av. Albert Einstein, 1251 Campinas, SP, Brazil rocha@ic.unicamp.brwainer@ic.unicamp.br

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Jacques Wainer University of Campinas, Av. Albert Einstein, 1251 Campinas, SP, Brazil rocha@ic.unicamp.brwainer@ic.unicamp.br

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Pages:
617–630
Online Publication Date:
08 Oct 2011
Publication Date:
01 Feb 2012
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0527-2
Keywords:
Computer science; Computer vision; Publishing; Journal papers; Conference proceedings; Author survey; Bibliometrics
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Abstract

In computer science, as opposed to many other disciplines, papers published in conference and workshop proceedings count as formal publications when evaluating the scholarship of an academic. We consider the relationship between high quality journals and conferences in the computer vision (CV) subfield of computer science. We determined that 30% of papers in the top-3 CV journals base their work on top-3 conference papers by the same authors (which we call priors (See “Methods” section for the definition of a prior)). Journal papers with priors are significantly more cited than journal papers without priors. Also the priors themselves are cited more than other papers from the conferences. For a period of 3–5 years after the journal paper publication, the priors receive more citations than the follow-up journal paper. After that period, the journal paper starts receiving most of the citations. Furthermore, we found that having the prior conference paper did not make it any easier (faster) to publish in a journal. We also surveyed journal authors and based on their answers and the priors analysis, we discovered that authors seem to be divided into different groups depending on their preferred method of publication.

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0138-9130
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1588-2861

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Scientometrics
Language English
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Foundation		 1978
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Founder Akadémiai Kiadó
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