Proceedings:
Conference papers are submissions for an academic conference , that is, papers published at domestic or international academic conferences.
If the paper is decided to be accepted by the conference committee of the academic conference, the paper will be published in the "Proceedings" of the conference. You will also be required to participate in high-end academic peer exchange meetings to introduce your research findings to the academic community. Of course, contributors are free to choose whether to participate in the conference and will not affect the publication and retrieval of the paper.
Papers:
A journal article is a submission to an academic journal , that is, a paper published in an academic journal. There are academic and non-academic ones. Journal articles will mainly be published in monthly/quarterly/annual/irregular issues. After a journal article is accepted, the contributor only needs to wait for publication.
Next, we can learn more about their differences from the following points: paper content, review cycle, and recognition.
1. Differences in paper content
Conference paper : usually introduces the preliminary findings of the research work or the innovative ideas that emerged during the research process. It is an unfinished version and does not have as many pages as a journal paper;
Journal paper : What is sent out is the work you have completed at this stage. It is not just a presentation and discussion of an idea. It requires more comprehensive and in-depth research than a conference paper.
At the same time, conference papers focus on communication and generally do not go through the peer review process; journal papers will go through peer review . In this part, your paper is likely to be rejected, and the average acceptance rate by the journal is 40%-60%. .
2. Differences in review cycles
Compared with journal papers, the feedback efficiency of conference papers is much higher.
Conference papers: The review period is relatively short, usually about 2 weeks, and the fastest can only take 1 week. For some conferences with a slightly higher content, it can even be accepted in a few days.
Journal articles: The review cycle is relatively long. The fastest it takes is 1-2 months for domestic core Chinese journals, and about 1-3 weeks for general journals. Of course, some "water journals" can also be accepted in a few days or even in one day.
3. Differences in recognition
Everyone must be very familiar with journal papers. Journal papers are published to a much wider audience than conference papers, and they are also the most widely used papers at present. Domestic graduates, graduate students, and promotions all have high recognition of journal articles.
Since conference papers are articles presented at academic conferences, the recognition of conference papers is naturally positively related to the authority of the academic conference.
For example, some academic conferences are relatively high-quality and of low value, and the papers they publish will naturally have limited recognition. However, if they are high-quality and authoritative conferences, their conference papers will also be highly recognized.
In addition, compared with journal papers published in a certain issue of a journal, conference papers may not be published, and some articles are only read out at conferences. Generally speaking, the publication of a paper is conducive to the retrieval and inclusion of the paper. If it is not published, the article will not be retrieval and inclusion, and its recognition will naturally not be high.
Since the recognition of conference papers is closely related to the authority of academic conferences, this requires us to choose academic conferences carefully. But nowadays there are not many academic conferences, and the quality is also uneven. How should we judge the gold content of academic conferences?
4, Post small tips
One look at the organizers. Usually, meetings initiated and held by first-level units are relatively safe and can be retrieved.
For example, foreign IEEE, IFAC, domestic Computer Society of China, China Automation Society, etc. Those supported by first-level societies are also relatively safe, such as IEEE CS, etc.; in addition, international conferences held by well-known universities and research institutions are also guaranteed.
Second, look at cooperative publishing houses. If you cooperate with the above-mentioned internationally renowned publishing houses, they are basically included in EI source journals and are worth investing in.
In addition, details such as session, conference chairman, and conference website are also yardsticks. If a conference doesn’t even have a formal website and invites submissions directly via email, it must be unreliable.
Papers published at high-level academic conferences are comparable to core journal papers. The key to publishing conference papers lies in the choice of conference. As long as the right conference is chosen, the paper will definitely be helpful to the author.
Publishing conference papers can not only add points to your academic resume, but also draw research opinions from all parties for your paper. If you want to become a good researcher, you must not ignore the importance of conference papers. You can start with conference papers to improve your paper writing skills.