Initial data suggest a drop in published proceedings amid shift to virtual events
Questions are being raised about whether the pandemic will lead to a move away from the use of conference proceedings as a major channel for publishing research in some disciplines.
This interesting Times Higher Education piece poses the interesting question of whether the COVID-19 pandemic will see the end of published conference proceedings.
The latest statistics on the Dimensions database of indexed research, from Digital Science, suggest an overall drop of 90,000 in proceedings published in 2020 to about 375,000.
Could pandemic put paid to conference publishing?
Initial data suggest a drop in published proceedings amid shift to virtual events
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