Editorial: To Publish or Not to Publish in Proceedings?

Abstract

That is indeed the question that is on my mind when returning from a workshop or a conference. This question is triggered by the fact that more and more conference proceedings appear in regular scientific journals and that lately new research evaluation criteria appear. One of the arguments often used in favor of refereed conference proceedings is that it gives more possibilities for PhD students to become first author on a publication in a refereed journal. This is a false argument and in the long term the tendency of publishing conference proceedings in regular journals will hurt our field.