Journal get more citation compare with conference. Aim of the Conference is that you going to be discuss your problem openly and will get a query and responses from the expert and audience in the conference.
Surely, journals publications are more valuable than Conferences that's why majority of researchers depend on articles that already have been published in Journals for citing.
Journal. Usually the quality of research papers published in peer reviewed journals is better. And they also take more efforts in marketing their publications and thus have a better reach. The quality is of research papers is good because they time in reviewing the research papers. Conference has a time limit for registration and in the process the focus on quality decreases. Only in some cases the conferences maintain exceptionally good standards in the review process.
i think taht it is important to rely both on journals and conferences.... Yet, citations based on journals are more reliable, credible and relevant then those from conferences. The following article is discussing some ways to boost a research paper's citations.
The two are important in academics. However, citation in Journal is more academic in nature and has more value in terms of rating in academics. It also get wider coverage than conference paper.
The impact of your work depends to some extent on the culture of your research field. For instance, in mathematics, journal publications traditionally have more value, which is not the case fro computer science or mathematics education where some conferences have large impact.
In general, publishing with a reputable journal is a good idea. You then try to promote your research through seminar/conference presentations, professional societies and networks (like RG or LinkedIn), your personal web page. Making your quality research visible, you actually do not need to care any longer about the source for dissemination!
IMHO, well written important topics will receive more citations regardless of their location of publishing. In other situations, joint research groups may extensively cite their publications internally. If the selection between a conference and a journal is required with more citations is the scope, then journal publications are more likely to be cited.
To all those who keep saying that journals receive more citations than conference papers, I repeat once again: it's all field related. Those interested may check the top cited papers in computer science to discover that quite a few are conference papers or even internal reports:
Citations are earned based on how good a paper is in the field and its relatedness to a phenomenon a researcher is writing about and not necessarily because it is a journal or conference paper.
Granted, journals with high impacts are usually closer and easier to find in terms of search results in the field of research online (Wider visibility and international readership) than conference papers.
If you seek higher citations, please consider to write a state of art review in your field of research and publish in top journals or journals which specifically meant for review articles.
I agree, to get higher citations, write a review in your area, which well thought and analyzed new research perspectives. And publish in high impact and relevant journals. It will be highly cited by most authors writing in that field, most especially new researchers in the field.
In this case as Professor Dinaharan sir said try to write a review article to get more citations or try to explore a research content that is in critical significant to the society or research community which will enhance your citations rapidly.
If you publish any case study or review papers you may get more citations. If you want to present papers in conference means choose only IEEE or Springer or some reputed conferences.
In our country Journals (especially in WOS) are the most important. Unfortunately, International conferences did not account in scientific and professorship promotion. So the answer is Journals
conference paper usually abstract with short methods and discussion, so it is sometime difficult to fellow the same, while papers are of more derails so easy you can referred to.
Journal that is open access and high quality published in ISI, SCOPUS, SCI etc will get more citations than conference. Besides most conferences have limited number of pages that always deprived author from comprehensively explain the contents but this is not so pronounced in journals.
Citation is not a matter of quality (Some times). They are most commonly recived by avaliability. The best way to increase is to put your articles (no matter Journal or conference) in several repositories.
I think it is the journal publication which usually get more citations. But, Its better to put the article in both the repositories to get more citations. Citations not only depend on the quality of your article but depend on the people also who will rather cite you. So, it is tough to say.