No, it is not the number or pages. A proceeding paper must accomplish short--time requirements. Normally the process between the fabrication of experiment or debating the theory takes a lot of time. So, proceeding papers provide only a short discover or result achieved from the whole experiment. It lets time to the author to write a two-month description about this discover. We consider that these two months are the regular time between the initial call--for--papers advice and the abstract/document initial paper submision deadline. Thus, author should have the time between the review process and final version submision to adjust, correct and write the finished work about the part of the experiment.
Therefore, since a journal paper demands the description of the whole experiment, time is not important here. But hurry, our life in this world is sometimes shorter. Recently, some editorials provide a comfortable time of 60 days for the reviewing process, and another 60 days to provide corrections. Different from the Accept/Reject decision for a proceeding paper since time restrictions, the journal process gives the following evaluations: Accept/Accept with changes/Revise/Reject. So, writting process for a journal article can be stated in different revision stages, improving quality process.
An interesting special case occurs, when an evaluation of many methods (more than 3, usually) appears for a revision in a conference proceeding. In this case, a high percentage of paper length is devoted to explain the considered methods, either in Background, Methods or Experimental Setup section. There are two possible solutions: one, each method should be explained in a separated document; second, translate this lot of information into a Journal paper proposal. The suggestion for these solutions is making the number one first, and once these short documents are published, then you have enough reviewed information to do the second one. This prevents your work to be rejected due to the high amount of information in just 4-6 pages required for a conference publication.
An interesting relationship is found on music producing. For instance, proceeding paper is like a song, where involved authors create a short piece of work. Besides, the journal paper is the song album, where the whole work concept is described and carefully organized. Normally, producers publish just a song from the album, namely a Single. It tests the work made by musician and provide the impact that the related album can achieve. Likewise, the publication of a proceeding paper gives the reviewing and impact that journal article can provide. For both cases (music and scientific writting) the editorial impact factor is very important for the life of the idea, concept and development that authors want to exhibit.
Depending on the successful achieved on the proceeding publication process, the journal writting process continues. Most conferences promotes their best proceeding papers to a Journal publication, after corrections and further peer review is made. In this case, we recommend to construct the journal paper with different other proceeding publications, instead to extend a sole proceeding publication. This process is quite different form adding songs in the album: adding procedding papers into the journal one implies adding theory, experiments, results and discussion of the proceeding papers into each respective section of journal paper.
The same methodology occurs for talking about your work. The sufficiency on the scope or topic depends of the deep that author knows. It is just a fact of training. A mechanic or soccer player can achieve many words properly, while those words are kept in training: experience helps to achieve the desired knowledge level. However, one the proper words and definitions are properly handled, it is when the trained person must follow the speaking process. It is can related with the work of the journalist.
- A break-news reporter is able to present a short notice. Likewise, a last-year undergraduate student announces your short idea like a technical report or a short communication.
- A daily-news reporter presents a summary of diverse events. It is related to the master student that has the ablity of present varios experiments and methods, all related for solving an specific problem. It is ideal for oral and poster presentations, as journalist presents the events in a news segment.
- An opinion-talk journalist has the capability of presenting a deeply analyzed idea, based in the analyzed history report and very reviewed list of events. Making an analogy, a doctor student or professor presents in a Journal an analyzed arrangement of facts and a very reviewed list of experimental results.
Moreover, one can find that the difference between an oral and a poster presentation is nothing more than the audience level. A oral presentation is given for a broaden public than for a poster. So, a poster is focused for a specific topic and a more specialized public. Hence, the relevance of both kinds of presentation remains equal.
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