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Evaluating the Quality of Research Papers

Evaluating the Quality of Research Papers. Rui Zhang http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~rui The University of Melbourne. Key Factors of Good Research Papers. What are the key features of a quality research paper Impact / Importance / Significance Novelty Technical depth Good presentation

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Evaluating the Quality of Research Papers

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  1. Evaluating the Quality of Research Papers Rui Zhang http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~rui The University of Melbourne

  2. Key Factors of Good Research Papers • What are the key features of a quality research paper • Impact / Importance / Significance • Novelty • Technical depth • Good presentation • Paper review forms

  3. Rough Indicators of Venue Quality • Conference Rankings • NUS ranking • CORE conference ranking • citeseerx ranking • … • Journal Rankings • NUS ranking • CORE journal ranking • … • However, rankings are just rough estimates, not quality guarantee • Story about google’s pagerank paper. • What about acceptance rate? • Several good sources • DBLP, citeseer, google scholar, microsoft academic search…

  4. How to Review Research Papers • Look at key factors • Learn to be a fair reviewer: • Be tough (critical) • Also be nice • Be specific and constructive in your comments • Be responsible • Be honest • Guidelines for specific venues

  5. Structure of Research Papers in this Area • Abstract • Introduction • Preliminary • Roadmap for paper • Related Work • Proposed framework/algorithm/model… • Experiments • Conclusion

  6. Examples of Paper Reviews and Revisions • Conference papers • Keep improving your work based on reviewers’ comments • Recycling bad papers is discouraged! • Journal papers • Address comments to your best efforts politely • Try a different journal

  7. Assignments • Data structure proposal • see website for details • Presentation of Reviewed Papers • see website for details

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