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We are Under Attack

We are Under Attack

We are Under Attack By the Least Publishable Unit

We are Under Attack By the Least Publishable Unit

Evidence • Zillions of mediocre papers — On increasingly narrow topics — Of interest

Evidence • Zillions of mediocre papers — On increasingly narrow topics — Of interest to almost nobody — With high serial overlap • Number of submissions to conferences (including this one) is out of hand — Requiring a PC of multitudes — Generating pretty random reviewing — With a goal of rejecting a paper if it is the least bit controversial 3

Evidence • General wisdom Until acceptance { float a bad paper to a conference;

Evidence • General wisdom Until acceptance { float a bad paper to a conference; improve it based on reviews; } • Leading to yet more submissions 4

Further Evidence • I got hired at Berkeley in 1971 — With 0 publications

Further Evidence • I got hired at Berkeley in 1971 — With 0 publications • I got tenure at Berkeley in 1976 — With 7 publications • You can’t get an asst professor job unless you have at least this • Tenure cases typically have 4 X this number • Asst. professors are neither 4 X smarter nor work 4 X harder 35 years later 5

Two Modest Proposal • Increase demand • Decrease supply 6

Two Modest Proposal • Increase demand • Decrease supply 6

Increase Supply • Co-opt a few more conferences • Anything with the words “big

Increase Supply • Co-opt a few more conferences • Anything with the words “big data” in the title is a candidate, e. g. — ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing — New IEEE Conference on Big Data • Move major conferences to a poster format — At least for thenarrowly focused papers — So the 3 people who are interested can yack with the author 7

Decrease Supply • Create a “Standing Committee” of “gray beards” — Say 20 people

Decrease Supply • Create a “Standing Committee” of “gray beards” — Say 20 people — Organized by subareas • Which would review up to 2 extended abstracts per year — say 6 pages — from legitimate researchers (who would have to be screened) — I. e. take your best pair of shots per year • Basically a universal program committee 8

Decrease Supply • Every paper would get a score — Say an integer between

Decrease Supply • Every paper would get a score — Say an integer between 0 and 20 • Any conference (PODS, CIDR, SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE) could then pick the top ranked and previously unpublished abstracts (presumably with a sub-area bias) — Which could then be expanded into a full paper • Has the nice feature that rejected papers automatically roll over to the next available conference — Could augment this with a mentoring system… 9

Over Time • Gray beard average score (GBAS) would be the significant metric in

Over Time • Gray beard average score (GBAS) would be the significant metric in tenure decisions…. — Importance not volume! 10

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