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Author-Based Analysis of Conference versus Journal Publication in Computer Science
Conference publications in computer science (CS) have attracted scholarly
attention due to their unique status as a main research outlet unlike other
science fields where journals are dominantly used for communicating research
findings. One frequent research question has been how different conference and
journal publications are, considering a paper as a unit of analysis. This study
takes an author-based approach to analyze publishing patterns of 517,763
scholars who have ever published both in CS conferences and journals for the
last 57 years, as recorded in DBLP. The analysis shows that the majority of CS
scholars tend to make their scholarly debut, publish more papers, and
collaborate with more coauthors in conferences than in journals. Importantly,
conference papers seem to serve as a distinct channel of scholarly
communication, not a mere preceding step to journal publications: coauthors and
title words of authors across conferences and journals tend not to overlap
much. This study corroborates findings of previous studies on this topic from a
distinctive perspective and suggests that conference authorship in CS calls for
more special attention from scholars and administrators outside CS who have
focused on journal publications to mine authorship data and evaluate scholarly
performance