by jordicabot | Jan 30, 2023 | doing research, publishing, Research Rants
Research is a collaborative effort. This is clear. But I confess I have a soft spot for single-author papers. When I was growing up (as a researcher) I admired the leader of my group for consistently publishing papers on his own in the top conferences in our area...
by jordicabot | Dec 28, 2022 | evaluating research, Research Rants, Uncategorized
More and more, all evaluation agencies and the research community as a whole is evolving to reward quality over quantity. All recent research assessment manifests (e.g DORA) clearly push for a qualitative evaluation where plain numbers (total amount of publications,...
by jordicabot | Nov 9, 2022 | organization, Research Rants, team
Not just yourself and your specific line of work. You are there representing the whole team. This means that your job is to be on the lookout for interesting works and connections for any of your teammates. Yes, you are there to publicize your latest paper (this is...
by jordicabot | Aug 7, 2022 | industry relations, Research Rants
We often hear that researchers are disconnected from reality. That what we do has little practical application. We all universally agree on the benefits of industry-research collaboration, even more on the software field. But my feeling is that the burden of starting...
by jordicabot | Jul 4, 2022 | organizing, Research Rants
There are endless discussions about the future of research conferences, especially around whether they should be back to how they were in pre-covid times or whether they should evolve to an hybrid format or remain fully virtual. There are many pros and cons for each...
by jordicabot | Jun 13, 2022 | philosophy, publishing, Research Rants
More and more papers are published every year. Just look at the graphic above (and DBLP already does a good job in filtering out most predatory journals!). It’s probably true that we publish more high-quality research than ever. But it’s also true that we...
