1. Publishing Your Research Meredith Ringel Morris

2. Know your numbers! Quantity v. Quality (and Conferences v. Journals) Impact Factor Indices (h-index, etc.)

4. Choose Your Format(s) Traditional, Higher Prestige: – Journal Paper, Conference Article, Book (Chapter) Traditional, Lower Prestige – Poster, Demo, Workshop Paper Nontraditional – blog, Twitter, YouTube

6. Getting Married??? Your legal name and professional name don’t have to be the same!!! Factors to consider : – Consistency – Uniqueness – Spellability

7. If You Do Change Names… Merge your profiles! – Google Scholar allows you to indicate publications that should be part of your profile. – The ACM DL will merge separate author profiles into one if you contact them. Craig Rodkin, Digital Library Production Manager, rodkin@hq.acm.org

8. Hone Your Communication Skills Take a writing class (or two or three…) Take a public speaking class

9. Improving Your Technical Writing Start with an outline – Focus on CONTRIBUTION Revise, Revise, Revise – Start Early!!!!! Enlist Excellent Proofreaders – For clarity & for grammar. Start Early!!!

10. Contribution: Example Text Assessing Web page credibility is an increasingly important literacy as people turn to the Web for information in a variety of critical domains. In this paper, we made several contributions toward the goal of enhancing users’ ability to assess Web page credibility, including (1) creating a publicly available data set of 1,000 Web pages with associated credibility ratings, (2) identifying features not readily available to end-users that relate to credibility, and quantifying the degree to which they do so, (3) designing visualizations to augment Web pages and search results that convey the most promising of these features, (4) evaluating the effectiveness of these visualizations in a laboratory study, and (5) offering design suggestions and future research directions based on these findings. [Schwarz & Morris, CHI 2011]

11. More Ways to Improve Your Writing Read! Review! How is a program committee like the prom?

12. Receiving Reviews Read them! Cool off for a day or two. Re-read them! – Use them to improve your paper (for this venue or a future one) Reviewers don’t know everything, but they know a lot! If more than one reviewer has they same issue, it probably isn’t a fluke. You may get the same reviewer in the future!

13. Questions? merrie@microsoft.com @merrierm

14. Being an ethical author Maria Gini Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Minnesota

15. Topics Ethics in conducting research – Why we should care about ethics Ethics as an author – Who should be a co-author – Responsibilities of co-authors – Plagiarism and self-plagiarism Ethics as a reviewer – Requirements and expectations

16. Ethics in doing research Why? – To protect your reputation. Reputation is easy to ruin and hard to restore. – To protect science. Science is mostly self- regulated. There is significant freedom, but high responsibility and high ethical standards. – Society invests in research, scientists are expected to act in the society interests. Unethical behaviors – Undisclosed conflicts of interest (payments, ownership of stocks, close family members, etc). – Data fabrication, data falsification, data omission. – Publication of non reproducible results.

17. Ethics as an author Co-authorship. Who should be a co-author? Your advisor because – She worked with you? – She is supporting you financially? – She proposed the problem and helped you in solving it? – She taught you how to do research? Who else? A coworker who – Designed an algorithm? – Wrote a program? – Did the analysis? – Did help with writing and editing? – Did all the writing? – Is your friend? – Needs another publication? To avoid contentious issues set the rules of who will be author when you start.

18. Co-authors Order of authors – Alphabetical – Sorted by amount of work – Students first, senior author last Responsibility of co-authors – Check correctness of the work – Ensure there is no plagiarism/self-plagiarism – Have contributed to the work – Be willing and capable to present the work Acknowledgements – Anyone who helped – Reviewers who provided feedback – Sponsors

19. Plagiarism and self-plagiarism Plagiarism is – Using text and ideas from someone else without citing them and without quoting. – Much worse is to use someone else paper and put your name on it! Does it happen? Yes!! Self-plagiarism is – Using text and figures from some of your own papers without citing and quoting. – How much new material has to be added to republish a paper? At least 20-30%, not just some new text but some new ideas and results. Both are VERY serious and can ruin your career. Many professional societies check for plagiarism and self- plagiarism in papers submitted

20. Ethics in reviewing Integrity, objectivity, accountability – Cannot reject a paper because you are writing a paper on the same subject you do not like the author Confidentiality – Single blind, double blind reviews – The material in the paper is not publically available, so you cannot use ideas from it Conflicts of interest with people who – Work in the same place (never) – Was your advisor (never) – Have written papers together (recently) – Have a financial interest – Double blind review makes things harder, but when in doubt check with program chair

21. Materials taken in part from talks by Judy Goldmith (University of Kentucky) and by Toby Walsh (NICTA, University of South Wales) at the IJCAI 2011 doctoral consortium. Watch the videos on different ethical situations at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Office of Research & Economic Development http://research.unl.edu/orr/videos.shtml

22. Questions? gini@cs.umn.edu