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Scientists’ (sad) behaviour as seen by Team Geek book

by jordicabot | Sep 5, 2014 | doing research, publishing, Research Rants

I’m really enjoying the book Team Geek: A Software Developer’s Guide to Working Well with Others and I strongly recommend it to any software developer out there but that’s not why I’m mentioning it here. I’m doing it because it includes a...

What stats would you like to know for every conference?

by jordicabot | Aug 4, 2014 | organization, publishing, Research Rants

In the opening session of any conference, the PC Chairs give a brief presentation of the conference. This typically includes informing about the number of abstracts and full papers submitted, the number of papers accepted, the corresponding acceptance rate and some...

Should you submit to your own workshop? My pragmatic response

by jordicabot | Jun 13, 2014 | publishing, Research Rants

A typical question in every workshop I co-organize is whether we (the organizers) are allowed to submit papers to the workshop. I almost never do it but I have no problem with other co-organizers doing it (I’m assuming we are talking about real workshops, not...

Cut the reviewing period for your conference – 80% of the reviews uploaded the last week

by jordicabot | Mar 5, 2014 | evaluating research, publishing, Research Rants

I took the time to count how many new reviews for the ECMFA’14 conference were uploaded each day to the easychair account for the conference. The results, displayed below, are exactly what I was expecting (it’s also my own behaviour 🙂 ). Even if the...

Too much validation will kill you

by jordicabot | Dec 5, 2013 | evaluating research, publishing, Research Rants

Empirical validation is becoming a MUST if you want a publish a research paper on software engineering topics. In principle, this is a good thing, right? I mean, for sure, in a field like ours validating the usefulness/applicability/.. of our new...

Put some Slideshare in your (research) life

by jordicabot | Aug 14, 2013 | doing research, presenting, publishing, Research Rants

As a researcher you want to reach as many people as possible. For sure, open access would help by making sure everybody that wants to read of your papers can, but before anybody tries to read one of your papers s/he has to find it first. This is not a problem for your...
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