Conferences vs Journals

In his article Dr. Bowyer discusses about one of the issues hugely discussed in CSE field, publications in conferences-vs-journals. As discussed in the article, some mentors want their students to publish their work only on journals; on the other hand, some other mentors want their students to focus only on conferences. According to Dr. Bowyer both are two extreme of awful mentoring advice.

I agree with Dr. Boywer’s advises in general. In my opinion, it will be really helpful for a new student to publishing in a conference. Because, in conference, it is not just a presentation, a new graduate student can get the real time feedback from the audience who are mostly related to that specific research area. Moreover, it also gives a new student to talk with other researchers about their research and the state of the art technology, which definitely helpful for a new researcher in their future project. And, sometimes it also help the community as it is possible to publish some ongoing research results in conferences. However, as before publishing in a journal, the paper need to go through several review processes, most of the time, the paper becomes a well-furnished manuscript at the time of publication.   

In the last section of the article, Dr. Boywer gives advice to the mentors not buy into the “only-conferences-matter, conferences-are-better-than-journals” viewpoint. And, also advises the new mentors to look for the research questions that need to be solved and other researchers will care about. In my opinion, this is a really valuable advice for the new mentors, and also for the graduate students. Cause, at the end of the day, only the quality of the research will matter.