Review & Publications: Let discover the other side of the deadline. [ March 2011 – extract from local wiki ]


Abstract
I will reveal just for you all the dark but crucial secrets about the publication process, beside the scientific content: how publication committees work, how you are reviewed (and thus how not to write), how to do a review (and the ethic of it), where to submit, the ethic of publication, etc.

1 Motivations

2 Le processus de review

3 Comment se font les reviews / Comment faire une review ?

  1. Help the committee to judge -> engage yourself clearly: is good or bad ?

  2. Help future readers and community to be able to use / get the maximum of the paper

  3. Help authors to improve the present or next version

4 Sachant cela, comment écrire un papier qui passe ?

4.1 wrong options:

-> teaser + video help understanding your purpose, target results, criterions. You don't want to let the reviewer do a bad guess.
-> no clear purpose, no clear success criterion
-> tell in the wright order: what and why, what existing is not ok, your principles, then derivations, results, properties and validations. Don't confuse your implementation and your model.
-> reader must have all details and data to reproduce. plus compare to relevant approaches.
-> motivations, image validation (through Ockham criteria), benches are compulsory
-> Your responsability to make your paper straightly understandable (and not missundertood) by a busy reviewer /reader.

5 Où publier

6 Ethique de la publication

7 Risques sur l'équité entre thésards (mesure des contribs, pour candidatures)