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Posted by laurentien on March 18, 2008, 7:21 am
> > >kartounwrote:
> > >> Is anyone familiar with a journal that accepts very short papers (such
> > >> as 2-3 pages IEEE double column style)? My topics are virtual reality
> > >> and robotics and I intend to write a paper that describes a very
> > >> useful tool I designed (no experiments at this stage).
> > > Take a look at the IEEE conferences; they tend to be less stringent
> > > than journals.
> > Well, no, actually. IEEE conferences have roughly a 30% acceptance
> > rate; many journals will take a lot more submissions than that.
> > But why on earth are you asking about something so short, and in a
> > specific format?
> It depends on what IEEE conference. ICRA for example (http://
> icra2008.usc.edu/) is considered to be the most prestigious robotics
> conference with a very low acceptance rate. SMC (http://www.smc2008.org/ ) is
also a very good conference and a paper I
> submitted there in 2006 won a prize
(see,http://www.compactech.com/kartoun/articles/html/Kartoun_SMC_2006_Marc ...).
> However, I'm looking for such a short submission because I'm
> describing a utility and I'm not describing any experiments, so a long
> paper is not necessary for that. Even though, it's still worth
> publication. I just mentioned the format to demonstrate what is the
> approximate length of a short paper.
> Thanks!
You can then write a technical brief.
Many jounrnals accept them if they pass the submission level.
LHR
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> as 2-3 pages IEEE double column style)? My topics are virtual reality
> and robotics and I intend to write a paper that describes a very
> useful tool I designed (no experiments at this stage).