When we consider referencing of academic writings, journal articles and books are widely cited. However, conference proceedings get less attention, yet attending a conference is a costly, time consuming and a rigorous process. However, conferences are much popular in academic circles despite less attention received to conference proceedings and the hardships involved.
Therefore, the positives of attending conferences possibly going beyond publishing articles.
So, what about you? What do you think of the pros and cons of attending conferences and publishing your scientific articles in conference proceedings? Do you see any positives or negatives?
Some pros regarding publishing in conference proceedings are:
- researchers having a faster feedback;
- researchers having an occasion for interactions with international colleagues that working in the same (usually narrow) field.
Conferences are not rigorous. Never present your data at conferences unless it has been published first in a good journal because it will be criticised and stolen. Always copyright your data and protect it from those closest to you, such as supervisors, who are the ones most likely to steal it :)
Some great articles that you should have published in a journal may be published in a conference proceeding and not much recognition will be given.
Thanks for the new ideas emerged so for. Apart from the contributions received below journal articles provide detailed analyses on different perspectives of academic conferences.
1) This article provides a comparative analysis of virtual and face-to-face conferences. http://archive.sciendo.com/JESR/jesr.2019.9.issue-2/jesr-2019-0011/jesr-2019-0011.pdf
2) This article is one of the best kind of analysis on conferences, so just have a look here. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00257/full
3). This is about a conference's impact evaluation, which emphasizes the dearth of such evaluations while it provides perspectives on how to conduct a conference evaluation. https://academic.oup.com/heapol/article/30/5/612/661131
4). This article provides insights on how to maximise the benefits of virtual conferences in COVID 19 era. So, the article describes the "Virtual meetings best practices" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00264-020-04615-9
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