{"id":112,"date":"2004-07-19T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-19T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/?p=112"},"modified":"2004-07-19T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-19T08:40:00","slug":"journals-conferences-and-preprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/journals-conferences-and-preprints\/","title":{"rendered":"Journals, conferences and preprints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"My Computational Complexity Web Log: Why are CS Conferences so Important?\" href=\"http:\/\/fortnow.com\/lance\/complog\/2004\/07\/why-are-cs-conferences-so-important.html\">Lance Fortnow<\/a> has an interesting post on why conferences and conference proceedings are so much more important in CS than in older fields like physics.<\/p>\n<p>Lance&#8217;s post started me thinking about a topic I wonder about from time to time: the role preprints play in science.  At the moment, the main role journals seem to play in physics is resume-building: for grants, hiring and promotion it&#8217;s important to get into the so-called &#8220;best&#8221; journals, like Science, Nature, and Physical Review Letters.  Peer review is often mentioned as another function of journals, but there are other ways that can be accomplished (see, e.g. Daniel Gottesman&#8217;s sadly defunct <a href=\"http:\/\/quantum-computing.lanl.gov\/qcreviews\/\">preprint review site<\/a>.)  Resume building does not seem to me to be a sufficient justification for the incredible amount of money spent on journals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Fortnow has an interesting post on why conferences and conference proceedings are so much more important in CS than in older fields like physics. Lance&#8217;s post started me thinking about a topic I wonder about from time to time: the role preprints play in science. At the moment, the main role journals seem to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/journals-conferences-and-preprints\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Journals, conferences and preprints<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}