This year CEUR-WS.org publisher has changed the requirements to the authors of the papers to be submitted for the conference. As required by CEUR-WS.org, at least one author of the submission must have at least 5 papers listed in DBLP (https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#FAQ-DBLPFOOTPRINT). To check the number of your papers in DBLP, please, go to DBLP site: https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pid/77/11070.html.
If I 'd like to participate in CEUR-WS.org conference then I need to include in my author list another person that has 5 papers listed in DBLP but not made nothing for preparing the conference paper? I think that such requirements is the base of the corruption in the science world. Is it normal?
I think that in more case new author can give a better results as a person that have more than 5 papers in DBLP. This approach of CEUR-WS.org blocks the development of emerging and disruptive science areas.
Please note that CEUR-WS.org is not a publisher and not an organizer of conferences (see their instructions: "In CEUR-WS.org, you as proceedings editor are also the publisher."). It is just a platform for open-access workshop proceedings.
Concerning the DBLP bibliography rule, the complete text reads: "CEUR-WS supports the publication of computer-science workshops (and conferences). We sometimes receive submissions that apears to have only marginal relations to computer science. To check the relevance to computer science, we may request editors to provide us with data on how many publications authors and PC members have in the DBLP bibliography. Typically, we demand that each paper has at least one author with at least 5 papers listed in DBLP." Therefore, this rule is to check the relevance to computer science in a simple way. Please note also that they "may request". Exceptions may be possible, I think - these should be discussed with the proceedings editor(s).
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Thanks Wolfgang for your clarifications! I am the founder of CEUR-WS and indeed the DBLP footprint which we sometimes demand has the purpose to check the connection of the proceedings to computer science.
I also like to emphasize that the CEUR-WS service is run by computer scientists who volunteers to facilitate open-access publication of workshop proceedings. It is completely in our competency to decide whether or not we accept a submission! There are plenty of other publishers to choose from. Many of them have quite stricter rules for acceptance.
So, if a workshop organizer is not agreeing with the CEUR-WS policy, then he or she has choices. In particular, they can start their own open-access publication service!
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