Dear @Mahmood A. Al-shareeda

Abstracts published in Conference Proceedings are counted perhaps nowhere for career advancement. Invited full length papers published in the Conf. Proc. are counted, but their weight is lower. There are professional societies, which hold Conf. and publish selected invited papers in the "Special" Issue of their official journals. Such papers fetch exactly same credit as those appearing in regular issues of the same journals.

Thanks!

The question you asked caught my attention because I recognized it as a problem of many academic communities in evaluating the academic competencies of their members. Finally, the issue does not have an academic character but a principled-administrative character with a significant principled-political orientation of policy makers in the scientific and research work of each individual academic community. It is not uncommon for policy makers in scientific work and higher education not to be able to recognize what a scientific contribution is in one of the specific scientific disciplines. This is, in my deep conviction, the most common reason why the administration imposes a quantitative evaluation of efficiency in scientific work.

Dear Mahmood,

As you already mentioned, this depends on the institution to consider conference publishing either high-credit contributions or not high-credit contributions. Nevertheless, many things also depend on the conference itself. If it is a well-respected and well-recognized conference, your published papers might gain additional respect.

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Ibrahim

It's best to not reveal your data at conferences imo, because it can be stolen before formal publication

Yes. But articles in conference proceedings is not given the same weightage to that of a journal article. Because, only a portion of the work is published in conference proceedings which are not rigorously peer reviewed. Conducting a conference has become a profitable business in the present era. There are journals which are dedicated to publish conference proceedings. However, the peer review lies under the responsibility of the institution or the convener who conducts the conference. Mere payment of registration fee guarantees a publication in such journals. I do not think any conference has rejected 60-80% of articles in comparison to reputed journals.

Dear Daniel Romano

Thank you for your precision comment.

Best regards,

Mahmood

Dear Isaac Dinaharan Andrew Paul McKenzie Pegman Ibrahim Niftiyev

Thank you for your precision comment.

Best regards,

Mahmood

Some journals have low level standard of accepting research papers than conference and they still have higher value when it comes for promotion. This issue needs to be considered by institutions. Thanks for arising such question.

Dear Mohammed Hadwan

Thank you for your precision comment.

Best regards,

Mahmood

Yes it will be considered. Some universities consider only two papers published in conference proceedings. Its th4 advisable to publish more of your results in Journals, and few in conference proceedings.

Dear @Mahmood A. Al-shareeda

Abstracts published in Conference Proceedings are counted perhaps nowhere for career advancement. Invited full length papers published in the Conf. Proc. are counted, but their weight is lower. There are professional societies, which hold Conf. and publish selected invited papers in the "Special" Issue of their official journals. Such papers fetch exactly same credit as those appearing in regular issues of the same journals.

Thanks!

Agree with Arbind K. Choudhary

Yes, but it will be counted as one paper. It is upto you to mention it as conference paper or journal paper in you CV, whichever you think is good for you.

Dear Nafees Mohammad Ravindra R Navthar Arbind K. Choudhary Isa Baba Koki

Thank you for your precision comment.

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Mahmood

Will the publishing of conference papers be counted? Yes, but not as research papers and review papers in journals, especially good quality international scientific ones. @Arbind K. Choudhary made a good point.

Dear Aristidis Matsoukis

Thank you for your precision comment.

Best regards,

Mahmood

Highly appreciated Arbind K. Choudhary

Dear Mahmood A. Al-shareeda if only the Abstract is published in the conference proceedings, it counts nothing. However, as mentioned by Arbind K. Choudhary sometimes the conference organizers make arrangements that a Special Issue in a peer-reviewed journal which contains the major results of the conference. In that case the paper is counted as a regular research article.

Mahmood A. Al-shareeda

Dear Researcher,

Publishing of conference papers are counted for a promotion in India. However, I also agree with respected seniors like Arbind K. Choudhary and Frank T. Edelmann . Abstracts published do not count for promotions. During recruitment sometimes they are given importance in India, but that also very rarely.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Anamitra.

In some fields such as computer science, they have big value.

Dear Anamitra Roy

Highly appreciated

Dear Omkar S. Kushwaha

Thank you for your precision comment.

Most researchers publish their research articles in the “conference” section because it’s a faster way of making results available. But in many places, papers published as “conference proceedings” are not considered during promotion. Nevertheless at few places it is counted as “publications” but with less credits.

Mahmood A. Al-shareeda in any case you should try to publish your conference article in a regular, peer-reviewed journal to make it count.

Dear Faraed Salman

I agree with your comment.

Best regards,

Mahmood

Dear Frank T. Edelmann

Highly appreciated

Yes it'll be counted if Conference proceedings published in research journal.

Dear Akash Gupta

Highly appreciated

Dear Mahmood A. Al-shareeda in my personal list of publications I listed only papers published in international, peer-reviewed journals. Conference papers are not listed or counted.

Dear, Mahmood,

Yes, the publishing of conference papers was be counted, but of course not as research papers.

conference paper is important in Turkey.

However, dear Frank T. Edelmann, I think that even one's conference papers (if applicable) should be part of their list of publications. Why? Simply because they do exist.

Dear Aristidis Matsoukis yes, every researcher should decide for himself / herself which papers are listed on the list of publications. It's perfectly OK to list conference papers as long as they are not just Abstracts.

Yes, dear Frank T. Edelmann. I've got your point. In addition, the link below contains several comments relevant to the current discussion.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Should_the_conference_abstracts_published_on_indexed_journals_be_taken_into_account_as_a_publication

Dear

Aristidis Matsoukis

Serdar Kalemci

Yehya A. Salih

Omar H. Abdalla

Highly appreciated. Thanks on your point.

Yes...

There is separate marking systems in different universities ..u r right in most of the universities half Mark's are given to conference papers

Dear Mahmood A. Al-shareeda I think the most important point is whether the publication is just the conference Abstract or a regular peer-reviewed paper resulting from a conference lecture. I think it is generally accepted that Abstracts do not count as regular publications. By the way, I just discovered that there is an older RG thread on virtually the same question "Should conference papers be counted as publication?" with 272 answers until now.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Should_conference_papers_be_counted_as_publication

Please also see this useful link entitled "Are Conference Publications as Valuable as Journal Publications?":

https://www.enago.com/academy/are-conference-publications-as-valuable-as-journal-publications/

If conference paper published in the journal, it will be counted.