How NOT to get your paper published at the Computers and Graphics Journal. Top 10 mistakes you must do to help Editors and Reviewers Reject your paper. Also, some career advice for Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Researchers. Contains advice to students and researchers on traps and pitfalls to avoid.
21. NO MOTIVATION
Present your results Out of the Blue Sky
Provide No Hints To
Origin of your ideas
Direction
Relevance
Practical Application
Why you are submitting
22. NO BACKGROUND
Remove
Acknowledgements / References
Or, IF You Must
“Submitted”
“In Preparation”
“Private Communication”
“Well known” results published in Aramaic
24. NO RESULTS
If you provide no results it will be impossible to
duplicate your work
Thus your assertions cannot be disproved
25. Ignore the state of the art
Do not compare your work to others’
Who cares if Obscurovich et al [uncit] did the
same 2 years ago ?
Saves a LOT of work (NOT!)
26. Unsubstantiated Conclusions
Do not overreach
Do your data support your claims ?
Can you really claim your approach is
free of limitations or shortcomings ?
35. Small Details Are Important!
Spent 9 ½ weeks optimizing two lines of code?
The world needs to know about it!
Who cares about big ideas?
Real Authors ™ “If it was difficult to write…”
36. Why describe your work ?
Hamilton’s quaternions are only 170 years old
Nobody knows about them, right ?
Dedicate at least two pages to explain in
detail
journal papers are the stuff of textbooks, right ?
42. Resubmit AS IS
Do NOT make any changes to the
rejected version
Unlikely that the Associate Editor or
Reviewers will be the same…
If they were, they would be PO’D
50. Who needs a contribution?
Make sure you write a boring paper
Do not bother to identify novelty
YAP (Yet Another Paper on…)
Do something similar to “X”
51. Suggestions (new problems!)
255th paper on Hidden Line Removal
2D Boolean polygon intersection
-1 equality test / point
Optimize ‘60s Bresenham’s DDA algorithm
-1 integer product
Quaternion-Free 3D Arbitrary Rotation
52. The Ten Commandments
10 Do Not read instructions
9 Do Not Proofread
8 Give no Motivation
7 Provide no Results
6 Ignore the Readers
5 Dwell on Unnecessary Details
4 Obfuscate Writing
3 Resubmit As Is
2 Plagiarize
1 Provide no Contribution
53. How to write a better paper
Begin with the end in mind
Write the paper before carrying out the
research
Write desired research outcomes before
carrying out the experiments / coding
Focus early on the contribution
54. Useful Pointers
How to have your abstract rejected by van Leunen & Lipton
web.nchu.edu.tw/~jlwu/articles/AbstractReject.pdf
How to Get Your SIGGRAPH Paper Rejected by Jim Kajiya
www.siggraph.org/sites/default/files/kajiya.pdf
How to Write a Paper by Aaron Hertzman
www.dgp.toronto.edu/~hertzman/advice/writing-technical-papers.pdf
How to Run a Paper Mill by John Woodwark
Notes de l'éditeur
AS SCIENTISTS, Our major contribution is to communicate
ideas, not enough to create them
Many papers rejected for bad writing
We Reject A LOT of Papers
It is NOT superficial for a journal to reject a paper based on writing alone
Present your results in a vacuum. Strip your ideas of any hint they might offer as to their origin, direction, or relevance. Say nothing about practical applications unless you are submitting to a theory conference, in which case you should be sure to call them ``pragmatics.''
Even the novice will know enough to leave off all acknowledgements and references. But the master will go further. He will give the appearance of citation without any substance. He will enclose a reference 1ist on which every item is submitted, in preparation, or a private communication. He will call obscure results by pet names he has invented himself. And he will describe as ``well known'' results published only in Old Serbian - preferably false ones.
Quote from Real Programmers
Write a 30 page paper about some minor additions to Bresenham´s algorithm (say you can do the same thing using two less integer additions per pixel)
Need a previous work section?
Just copy it from somebody else’s paper!
After all, since these people are the
specialists in the field, they’re unlikely to
read or review your paper
Or will they?
Write a 30 page paper about some minor additions to Bresenham´s algorithm (say you can do the same thing using two less integer additions per pixel)
Homework - 2
Longer Homework:
Read
this excellent 100
page book!
How to Run a Paper Mill
John Woodwark
http://www.johnwoodwark.com/inge/docs/
Pmill.pdf