yes but you should add some more results with more details and without any plagiarism

Yes. It s often time consuming and frustrating experience to submit for publication in a traditional print/online journal. Nevertheless, one very good reason is to have the journal citation counts and the journal impact factor information. I believe that the tenure and promotion committee notice the difference in evaluating your scholarly achievements in a peer reviewed publication.

In my opinion the answer is no because can be considered a duplicate publication

The submission policy for previously published conference papers should be stated clearly on the journal web page as author instructions. Generally, it is required that your manuscript is improved based on the feedback of the conference review process and on the discussion at the conference, a (computer science) rule of thumb is that at least 30% of the material should be new and the exposition improved. In most fields conference papers are views as preliminary results open for discussion and journal articles as finished research results, so you shouldn't face a problem there.

As an example policy, you can read the policy of the Transactions on Networking:

http://www.ton.seas.upenn.edu/submissions.html

under "Guidelines for Prior or Concurrent Submissions."

According to my knowledge it is possible. But you should at least change the topic not to be identical. Besides, as other friends have implicated you should be aware of the policies of the journal you are aiming for paper submission.

It's dependent to the journals, but most of them will accept it. It is better to change the topic.

Dear Dr.Gajanan

Thanks a lot for sharing this question.From my perspective, I think that the same research paper can be published in both proceedings and scientific journals, taking into account that the paper published in journal should be an extension of the research presented at the Conference based on the observations and comments from experts who attend your presentation and gave a useful feedback to improve/enhance the proposed methodology. These suggestions can be used in a journal paper to give better results. In this case, you will add a positive value to your upcoming work instead of repeating the same exact work.

Regards,

Saeed

According to my last studies, surely you can. When you present an article in a conference, it shows the audiences that your work is not finished, but you want to encourage them to follow your study until publishing. Also they help you to improve your methodology. It gives you a chance to publish it in a better journal!

But if you publish an article in a journal, you should not present it in a conference, because the audiences know about whole of your study!

yes: in fact some journals add the same in the published paper: And it should be the abstract published in a conference proceedings

To my understanding the papers presented in a conference in an abstract form can be published as a full paper in journals. In addition, the papers usually presented in a conference will be half way and the discussion in the conference will help to complete the research. But the journal article is a solid one and cannot be incomplete one

Conference proceedings are normally published as abstracts and not full article. So there remains no ethical problem in publishing a full paper to a journal

I think yes, provided there should be considerable change in rewriting the paper and changed topic.

In Case only your abstract is published in a journal as a conference proceeding, then you have no problem in publishing the full paper in another journal. But if your full paper has appeared in a Journal, it becomes unethical to publish the paper again in another journal

Policies might differ somewhat between fields. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) policy "does not prevent journals from considering a paper that has been presented at a scientific meeting but was not published in full, or that is being considered for publication in a proceedings or similar format." - http://www.icmje.org/publishing_4overlap.html

However, for conference papers (not just abstracts) that are long and/or indexed in respected databases (e.g. the proceedings of MICCAI and IPMI are unusual among conferences in my field in that their papers are indexed in PubMed) subsequent journal submissions are expected to (a) cite the conference paper and (b) explain clearly how they extend it. See e.g. the section "Submitting a published conference paper" here - http://www.ieee-tmi.org/Author-PrepareManuscript.html

Take my case i have now got a paper accepted for posture presentation in an international conference and that the abstracts will be published in an open access and PUBMED indexed journal.

My next aim will be to write a full paper on the topic and get it published as another paper

Respected All,

I would like to thank Prof. Dr.Gajanan for asking this question. Many prof. on RG network gives very informative answer of their point of view. I need to know the following question regarding conference. (Since there are many many professor on this forum)

For selecting a conference what point we should keep it on our mind ?

Which conference will give more benefits for the author ?

Some conference are ISI/Scopus indexed. In some conference papers are published in renown international journal (Elseviour/springer/ science direct) with volume and issue number.

Do you know some of such conference, if so please share the information.

Thank you in advance for sharing your opinion.

Yes

though i guess usually the work would be substantially expanded between the conference and the final paper.

Generally the scope for acceptance in a conference and journal are different. The general practice is to present the preliminary results in a conference. Since it is presented in front of knowledgeable crowd who are familiar with the subject get some inputs about your study, discussion and conclusion. Based on those comments rectify any mistakes identified, expand the scope and submit it for a journal. This is acceptable. Once published in a journal it should not be published in a conference. Also republishing in a journal exactly the same version as in the conference is also not ethical.

Thank you, very useful discussion!

Very useful indeed.. Thanks.. =)

Very well you can publish a conference paper in full lenght in any journal

In Case only your abstract is published in a journal as a conference proceeding, then you have no problem in publishing the full paper in same or another journal.

A conference paper can be published in any journal in full length.

So,to clarify, if I present my paper at conference, I can expand more fully on my research and submit to a journal. Am I correct?

In conference - we present and in journal we publish - mainly

I agree with Raffaele Pezzilli, Dr Devay J. Pandya and Ramana k v: publishing the same paper twice is unacceptable. However, if the conference proceedings only contain the abstract, material and methods to be followed, or part of the results, then the final version could be published separately.

In general, I agree with the opinion that you can publish a work presented in a conference afterwards in a journal. But there may be some difficulties if the proceedings of the conference are peer-reviewed and the published work is "similar" to the one you submit for publication in your selected journal. The editor of the journal can consider, if the similarity is too high, that your work is no longer original and it could be rejected.

Yes, you can. It is because conferences are meant to present work under progress. They are usually held by the networks working on some broader projects involving more than one institutions, and thereby, providing opportunities to their researchers to present their work to the co-researchers and get feedback. Therefore, the purpose of the conference is to refine one's research, with the ultimate goal of getting published in journals. 

Yes, it is possible to publish in journals. Usually the proceedings includes the abstract or report on unfinished work. So publishing the final outcome in peer reviewed journals is acceptable. 

According to maximum reputed journal, if your manuscript includes more than 30% new information then conference paper, you can submit your manuscript to as Journal Paper. But, if your conference paper is already published as a Journal paper by the conference authority, you have no option to publish it anymore.

I think, you are clear enough about my statement. 

Many have said that conference submissions are typically works in progress, however in some fields such as computer science, this is not the case: conference papers are considered "terminal" publications, and occasionally such conference papers are expanded into journal papers, but the latter is optional and not typically viewed as an important step.

I would be curious to know if anyone has experience submitting a moderately expanded conference paper, in which the entire paper (perhaps sans appendix) was published in the conference proceedings, to a journal.

I also seek clarification on Rafael's point. Further, I also wish to know if there is any problem if I use the same data-set that I used for the conference proceeding.

In some countries this effort will be identified as "Auto Plagiarism" though self written. 

Auto-plagiarism means copy pasted one's own work. Re-written and revised with change in words and results is not auto-plagiarism

 There is no such word auto-plagiarism.But palagiarism exist and what it means everybody know. Yes, conference paper may be published in any journal if the data and methodology are same but the interpretation is different. If conference paper is published in conference proceedings as a full paper then you can not publish the that paper as copy paste style.

As long as you modify it, yes you can. Some journals accept 30% modification while others ask for about 60% updated one. Good luck 

Yes, but not always.

I agree with Razier S. yes one can publish his work in any journal after conclusion of the actual work. Conference may mean setting up a research with objective, methodology and expected result and you want audience to understand, make suggestion and comments on what you are doing.  

Razieh; you comment "But if you publish an article in a journal, you should not present it in a conference, because the audiences know about whole of your study!" was interesting in that it assumed that the paper was published in the journal at the time of the conference. but lets suppose that it was simultaneous and that the week before you presented  your paper it appeared in the journal and was read.  this is in fact the best of all worlds for then you might get some very useful feedback from the audience at  your talk since they now understand what you are doing and can intelligently comment. 

which gets to the point that I feel there is a distinct difference between a conference and a journal article.  the journal article's primary purpose is to make your work known to the world, while the conference is one of immediate interaction of your ideas and methods with those of others.  the   conference proceedings being published is incidental to this primary objective.

Well off course you can publish  with the declaration  to the Editor that the abstract had been presented in a conference.

Yes you can, you can also put this information in the letter to the editor and also as a footnote in the paper.

I found a good Wikipedia article that provides a summary of policies on "preprint" posting for many peer-reviewed publishers and individual journals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_journals_by_preprint_policy

Seems like a very useful source, with quotes from publishers' web sites.  For the most part, preprints, including abstracts and proceedings papers, are allowed. 

 To clarify, normally abstract are published in book of abstract while research paper are published in proceedings.  It is important to note that book of abstract is different from proceedings. All the answers above are very informative. If full research are published in proceedings, the exact same research  might not be considered for publication in journal. You need to be more careful at this point.

Conference proceeding where extended abstract of a particular work is published can be put in a journal by expanding the detailed research in journal article form. But if the full paper is presented in a conference proceeding the same should not be copied as an article in a journal. However modification and further extension of work presented in conference can be published in a journal by quoting the conference paper as reference.

Yes, but you have to disclose that it is an extended paper.

Yes, but when presenting a research result in a conference, you expect contributions from the audience and that would enrich the content of your work which can then be published inclusive of the gathered information during presentation.

Yes, I agree with Dr. Moses. The conference paper should not be copied line by line in journal paper. Even with a little addition to the contents it can be sent to the journal. So that the readers can get a full idea about your work.

to anietie:  I have never found any response to a presentation at a conference to be in any way useful.  it may be just me(lol)

to sahoo:  a journal paper will get in my experience a much better refereeing than the conference paper.  you are lucky to get any referee other than the conference secretary!

kind regards to all

david

conference organizers should take up the conference papers for publications otherwise waste of money. If it is technically sound after peer reviewed.

Conference papers are in most cases a summary of your work. The journal article is a full version of your work. I think one can send the full version of the work to a journal after conference presentations. I haven't seen any journal insisting that a paper presented in a conference should not be submitted for its publication in the journal.

No, conference paper may be in summary of work or extended abstract form or it may be a full paper form. If the same one is sent to journal it needs some change. even slight change in conference paper can be sent to a journal. Finally the editor of that journal has to decide. In noway one should send same coference paper to a journal without making any change.

Isn't there a case for simply being wilful here. We know there's often a need for the relatively quick fix of a conference, but, also for the more considered, longer lead-in journal article. Yes, additional material/ideas/approaches may come along, from whatever source, but surely you hold material back from the conference presentation. My recent research has been mixed-method. The qualitative side got barely a mention at conference or in conference paper. That was entirely considered on my part.

A conference article and a full length technical article can not be compared to each other with the same weightage. Conference articles usually present small amount of information or an elementary level research.

Some journals publish exclusively conference articles. For example; Journals published by Transtech and Procedia series journals in Elsevier. Some journals publish conference articles as a special issue. In the latter case, authors are instructed to upload their conference articles directly into journal management system. The article goes for peer review similar to a regular article. In this case, the conference organizers may not release a conference proceedings.    

Many conference organizers presently tie up with publishers to publish conference articles. Almost all papers presented in conferences held in CHINA are published in some journals. This trend has intruded into conferences held in INDIA.   

Generally, the peer review process for conference articles is not rigorous to that of technical articles in journals. Many conference organizers may bypass ethics to raise funds via registration fees.  

In my view, one should publish more technical articles compared to conference articles in his/her career. A journal article will fetch more citations than a conference article. Some leading journals ask the author to refrain citing conference articles.   

Yes I agree we can publish in journal a conference paper but the paper shall not released as conference proceedings with isbn number or issn number

Thank you all your comments on this and it will be helpful to many colleagues who are not having clear idea about the conference paper and the full research paper in a journal. I expect this valuable discussion continues with others views as well

I would say 'no' but then again it may depend on the field as mentioned in previous comments.  I feel that you can publish in proceedings AND then later if the publication has expanded substantially due to extended research,  it may be submitted to a journal for review. My field is language teaching and education technology, this is the general understanding for these topics. Also certain journals have differing guidelines so it best to always check beforehand. 

Well said Harry Carley. I do accept others view too in understanding of the information appear as abstracts/extended abstracts/paper in proceedings which are differing from a full paper in a peer reviewed journal. In Sri Lankan system of evaluation - criteria used to promote a person to Associate Professor/Professor - the scheme express the score like this

For an abstract published in a conference - 0.75 points/abstract

If the article is presented in a conference - 0.5 points/paper (additional)

An article (seems to be a full paper) appear in a Proceedings - 1.5 points

A full paper published in a journal - 3 points/article - here the journal should have more than 2 volumes

A full paper published in a peer reviewed journal - additional 2 points/article 

Here there are lots of ambiguity in claiming the points. Many people publish their articles in online -journals (predatory journal) and claim it simply as full paper published - 4th category - to claim 3 points. Now the University Grants Commission in Sri Lanka is taking initiative to streamline the predatory journals but in native language - its very difficult to check even plagiarism. 

I rather say no. Personally, I have seen my paper rejected from an impacted journal just because it was published in a conference proceeding. It has bee considered as full data published even my submitted paper contained more data than the conference paper.

I read an article about this topic and it suggested that conference paper can be extended to a journal paper with new title and 30% + new work addition. Top 20% papers of conference papers are also invited to journal for an extension. 

I believe that getting feedback for the study is one of the purposes of the conferences. After correcting the mistakes or editing some points in your research, if there is a need, I do not see any unethical concern to publish it in a journal. Moreover, it would be better if the researcher is planning to conduct similar projects to get better results. It should be noted that replicating the word line by line would not be good, as commenters previously emphasized it.

I Totally agree, Gunay; and, of course,how you describe is exactly how things were. It was understood that good research proceeded as a set of building blocks, reaching toward final conclusions. We would reach provisional conclusions and test those at conference, even to some extent through journal articles, modify our proposition, meaning the process was one whereby our propositions and new propositions were developed and tested precisely through publication and feedback. The next publication would, of course embody a substantial amount of material from the current one, thereby rigorously revealing due scientific process, how, as it were the buildiing got built by mobilising all those building blocks, of course throwing out some we discovered with cracks along the way. We have sacrificed due scientific process to the current obsession with plagiarism, including self-plagiarism.

Dear Dr. Vaishav,

Though it is very old post, I want to add something here. At first, have you published your journal? If so congratulations. If not please share with us the problems you faced that would be lessons for many others. About your questions, journal can be published from your conference findings but the former one should be of depth study and adressing complete scope of your research questions the latter one is merely to inform people what kind of research you are doing. There are few things to be kept in mind while writing journal from proceedings. At first, you can not copy same writing but you have to reframe it, figure should be modified with detail information if any. If you want to use the same information in some place, citation is important. I get an email from one of editors to write journal from my proceedings, it has been suggested 40 percent of your findings can be from proceedings but you have to add 60 percent new findings.

It highly depends on the field. But, this short article provides general practical suggestions for extending a conference paper into a Journal paper:

Article Editorial: How to extend a conference paper to a journal pap...

Dear Dr. Gajanan,

Yes, as a thumb role, a conference can be published in a Journal. But you have to make sure few things before submitting a conference paper to Journal. The important things are a substantial extension of your conference paper, completing the story, raising the paper standards up to the Journal standard and most important avoiding coping and pasting (plagiarism) the whole text, figures, tables as it is when submitting to the Journal.

With regards,

Nizami

In my opinion, when an article is presented at a conference, it is generally not complete since you seek for the feedback from the conference attendees, so you can publish a full length paper later on taking into account their comments.

Very useful discussion!

The discussion goes on pinpoint two areas of focus.

1) If the paper is for discussion and not the final, be presented and the views, suggestions will be incorporated to provide the full meaning of the article, then there is a possibility to publish full article - Yes

2) As we here if the Conference proceedings having almost full paper and published in the proceedings, then if not greater than 30% of the contents are not copied but justification is given , then No.

Yes, it can. Conference papers are a faster way to advertise ones' research. However, a problem with conference papers is that at many places, papers published as conference proceedings are not accepted for promotion, yet in some places where it is accepted for promotion it is given less credit than a article published in a journal.

I guess that it depends on the conference proceeding. There are conferences which are popular for publishing full papers and creating a like-journal-issue proceeding with the most relevant works presented at the conference. At least in Mathematics, most of those papers are considered already-published once they are accepted in the conference proceeding (after a very serious peer-review process). However, there are other conference proceedings with very soft (or not at all) peer-review activity, and authors are typically allowed to publish in peer-reviewed journals the same papers accepted in such proceedings. Also, there are conference proceedings which publish only extended abstracts (usually about 12 pages). Accepted extended abstracts (even after a rigorous peer-review process) can later be published in any other journal as full papers. Sometimes journals will require the author to acknowledge the previous publication of an extended abstract before official publication of the full and completed paper.

Depending on the periodical the article may, yes, be published. However, the correct thing is that the author of the work informs the editor of the journal, at the time of submission, that the work was initially presented at a congress (informing the congress data) and whether or not there were changes in the post-presentation research which is being submitted to the journal. The decision whether or not to publish will be by the publisher.

Thank You all for these useful discussions.

Adding to the points of discussion, if the conference paper is published in their proceedings, and I want to get the final work published in another journal, do I need to ask permissions from the conference team before submitting the paper in another journal? Also, do I have to change the name of the paper presented in the conference and the paper to be published in journal? Would this lead to self-plagiarism problem?

Valuable inputs are awaited.

This enritely depends upon the requirements of the Journal. FOr example, Frontiers require 30% of original content.

Yes, after suggestions and corrections have been implemented

Different journals have different rules, so consult the specific journal you want to submit to. Most journals that do consider conference papers follow COPE suggestions and require 40-50% new content overall, written permission from the conference host to publish the paper, and revisions to the work based on the comments/feedback from the conference. They may ask you to expand the literature review as well, as the background review standards for journals are typically higher than for conference papers.

If in doubt, email the journal's editorial office. I have had mostly good experiences doing this with various journals - you'll get a better and faster response if you include all the relevant details and the abstract for the paper in your query.

This depends on each journal's rules and specifications. What One needs is to meet the requirements of one's journal of interest.

yes but you should add some more results with more details and without any plagiarism

I know at one conference I attended the best papers were selected and published in a special edition journal. So I would say yes, but I feel like the journal paper should be more comprehensive than the conference paper.

Also agree with Albert E. Patterson, it depends on the journal. I know that some journals ask if the work has been published elsewhere. If so they may not be interested as they are wanting something original. Even if it is as Hany Kasban has described i.e. more results and detail based.

Agree with Hany Kasban ...

You do not need to ask for permission, but it is important to send this information to the editor of the journal where you will submit the article. You also do not need to change the name of the article, but if the conference gave you new perspectives to improve the work, those improvements will probably influence the article's title, having to be adjusted later. Auto-plastering is considered when the same article is published in more journals, that is, articles submitted to conferences are seen as articles that can be improved and those published in journals are considered as finished articles. If the editor of a journal accepts your article that was published at a conference (considering that the publisher was communicated at the time of submission on publication in the Annals) there will be no auto-plastering issues. Remembering also that each magazine has its norms. It is always good to consult the standards and, if it is the case, contact the editor of the magazine to ask questions.

In my opinion, the results of research can be published in journals after having been published in conference materials if these results have been significantly supplemented in the meantime, if the research is still carried out and the research results are successively enriched and the article text for the scientific journal appropriately redrafted and adapted to editorial requirements of the editorial board of the journal scientific.

yes , but you should extend it and add more results

In my experience, I have already noted a lot of papers that are presented in a conference and after that they have been published identically in a journal, even of notoriety.

Even in my own experience, I have already published a paper in the WCTR 2016, held in Shanghai, China, during 10-15 July 2016, which has been part of both the conference proceedings and the Transport Research Procedia Journal the next year, in June 2017. All was already foreseen by Elsevier.

I hope this help you, dear #Gajanan Vaishnav, though I note your question is dated since 6 years from now, but it may be useful for all other interested persons from now on.

As I said, dear @Feriha Fatima, I did not modify anything in my paper, because it was part of the WCTR 2016 plans, as it has still been and will be at least for the next one, WCTR 2019, to select the best papers and publish them in the journal Transportation Research Procedia. You may find my journal paper at: Article A theoretical framework for conceptualizing seaports as inst...

Also, I noted that so many papers, which are first published in conferences and then in a journal, have little changes from the conference paper version to the journal version paper. These changes are visibly made more to justify the changed title than the results and stats, the latter being absolutely the same in both papers, with a new arrangement of tables they present. You may see this, for instance, within the two attached papers and you may confirm by yourself what I am saying here. In this case I will kindly ask you to confirm by writing your opinion after flipping through both papers.

Sure , it can be done especially if you got some suggestions of improvements during the presentation of your paper in a conference so you can apply them and present a higher quality paper or more extended to be published in a journal.

yes with more results, best,

No if it is published in proceedings book as full paper in the book then we cannot submit it to any journal.

Yes.

Sometimes, you might find some abstracts indexed in a highly reputable journals.

From the AACR website: "After the meeting, abstracts will be published in an online-only supplement to the AACR journal Cancer Research."

https://www.aacr.org/Meetings/Pages/MeetingDetail.aspx?EventItemID=174&DetailItemID=928

you can published it with addition of more data

For sure yes, if only abstract was published in the conference. If you already had a full article in the conference proceedings then its not right to have it in a different journal.