I am noticing a trend of conferences accepting works as short papers when they should be rejected due to quality issues. A few years ago, I had an understanding that the term "short" was used for incomplete works or position papers, for instance. In general, this kind of work has few pages (e.g., three or four pages). Nevertheless, some conferences are using the "short" term to classify lower relevant works or works with different issues (language, organization, research methodology, among others), even when the works are complete and have eight or more pages.
I would like to know your opinions regarding this practice. Mine is that the term short should be used just for concise papers regarding page quantity and, consequently, content.
It is understandable that you have concerns about the use of the term "short" to describe lower-relevant or incomplete works. Generally, the term "short" should refer to the length of the paper, rather than the quality or relevance of its content. However, it is ultimately up to each conference or publication to determine their own acceptance criteria and how they use terminology to describe different types of works. If you have concerns about the quality or relevance of works being accepted as short papers, it may be worth contacting the conference or publication's organizers and expressing your concerns. This may prompt them to revisit their acceptance criteria or provide additional guidance for authors submitting papers. The most important factor for any conference or publication is to ensure that they are accepting high-quality and relevant papers that contribute meaningfully to the field. Whether a paper is classified as a short paper or a full-length paper should not detract from its value or importance.
It means that it is a short essay on an important topic, otherwise it will not be published!! Regards.
Dear Prof.,
I Agreed with the description of the term "SHORT" and concern related with this term as Prof. Dalton Cézane Gomes Valadares mentioned. Mr. Ajit is right that short refers to the length of the paper and in my opinion length of paper does not indicate quality. Now, as far as conference papers are concerned, the conference organizers face challenges in attracting good numbers of papers to make the conference successful so for the ease of authors and to persuade them "short papers" are being accepted now a days in conferences. Thus, concept was good but there is a need of more vigilant scanning of paper content to ensure a paper with reasonable and logical content.
There is no short paper at all. Papers are introducing a sufficient description of a scientific findings.
Hello Dr Dalton Cézane Gomes Valadares
I have seen it more in journals. These are labelled as "short communications" or something like that. These usually relate more to the type of paper rather than being a quality issue. They make one key point, or have one key result, rather than having a quality problem.
These are also called "Brief Communications" or something like that.
For example, one journal I frequently read says the limit is 1500 words (as opposed to 3000 for 'regular' articles and the references are 15 maximum rather than 30. They often do not have headings like "Introduction", "Method" "Results", "Discussion", "Conclusion" so it is all one block of text.
Sometimes it can also be used for rapid dissemination of new and original material.
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-nuclear-materials/news/revised-guidelines-for-short-communications
Thank you all for your contributions to this discussion. My real concern is the quality of some "full/regular papers" with writing or methodology problems being published as short. As an example, recently, I saw a paper that was submitted to a conference as regular/full. It received, as evaluations: one "reject", one "weak reject", and one "weak accept". At the end, it was invited as a short paper. And this is not the first time I see this happening.
Maybe we should adopt another term for these situations once, at least for me, the term short does not make sense for these "complete" papers not accepted as "regular".
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