Computing and Electrical and Electronic Engineering: Republication of Conference Papers

The republication of conference proceedings as journal articles seems to be particularly prevalent in the areas of Computing and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Our own use of CrossCheck turned up a disproportionate amount of duplication of this type in these particular disciplines; we also noted in our previous survey (see Chap. 2) that the attitudes to this question of authors in this area were markedly different from those in other fields. We therefore felt that it would be useful to carry out a survey of the attitudes of the editors of relevant journals to this issue; we surveyed over 300 journals in the field, and the results were published in an article entitled ‘Republication of conference papers in journals?’, which is reproduced in full (with the publisher’s permission) below [1].