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How Productivity and Impact Differ Across Computer Science Subareas.

The article discusses publishing practices within subareas of computer science as of August 2013, suggesting that publishing practices in fields such as image processing and software engineering may require different practices and presenting the results of a study concerning subarea productivity. To...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 8; pp. 67 - 74
Main Authors: WAINER, JACQUES, ECKMANN, MICHAEL, GOLDENSTEIN, SIOME, ROCHA, ANDERSON
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Aug2013
Subjects:
Computer science research
Scholarly publishing
Bibliographical citations
Software engineering
Scholarly periodicals
Computer scientists
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses publishing practices within subareas of computer science as of August 2013, suggesting that publishing practices in fields such as image processing and software engineering may require different practices and presenting the results of a study concerning subarea productivity. Topics include the importance of journal publications in subareas such as computer architecture, research evaluation methodologies, paper citation rates, and the number of students managed by computer science researchers in various subareas.