The conference reviewing crisis and a proposed solution

In Computer Science, we have developed a vibrant conference culture, which has served us well thus far. However, with the growth of our field, the number of submissions to many conferences has sky-rocketed, leading to a downward spiral in reviewing quality and author satisfaction. This article proposes to break this downward spiral for the database community through JDMR, a journal for short "conference style" papers with rapid turn-around. An initial step toward this vision has been taken by VLDB.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: SIGMOD
• Authors: H. V. Jagadish
• Keywords: Author Satisfaction, Computer Science, Database, Downward Spiral, SIGMOD 2008