EXCS publications policy

Modern research performance assessment practices, holding spreadsheets dearer than expert opinion, have led to an enormous publication pressure on researchers and called into existence a whole industry of nonserious publishing. Sadly, it is not at all uncommon that the funders cannot tell the difference between true and fake. This situation has caused much damage by disadvantaging serious researchers, harming the credibility of everybody and hampering actual scientific progress.

The EXCS management committee has decided to follow these principles:

1. EXCS strives firstly for quality, then for quantity of publications.
2. Publication and citation indices are often not the best measure of quality. We should proceed from what is highly reputed in our international research communities.
3. EXCS MC encourages publication in top journals and conference proceedings in our field, in particular in those of Elsevier, Springer, ACM, IEEE, at other professional society venues, community-supported venues (including electronic and open-access publications), irrespective of their indexing status.
4. EXCS MC strongly discourages publication with publishers and conference organizers of dubious reputation (in the so-called "fake" or "spam" journals and conferences), irrespective of their indexing status.
5. EXCS funds shall under no circumstances be used for paying for participation in questionable conferences and publishing at questionable venues.

For closer information on some burning issues in scientific publishing, in particular, in computer science, see this page.