Conferences versus journals in computer science

The question of which type of computer science (CS) publication—conference or journal—is likely to result in more citations for a published paper is addressed. A series of data sets are examined and joined in order to analyze the citations of over 195,000 conference papers and 108,000 journal papers...

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Published in:Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 2015-12, Vol.66 (12), p.2674-2684
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