Electronic Conferences - how it works?

[miso156]

Hi, I am trying to find out how to get my research paper on some el. conference to be published. All conferences I found have a registration fees about 1000 Eur. I’d like to ask if it is common or I am just unlucky. This fees are too high according my opinion. If that’s common the research is going to downgrade.
Would I have better luck with publishing to magazine? Or are there a better places for publishing?
Michal

 

[stenzer]

Hi,

as you ask "how it works" I assume you are a (PhD) student. I checked a couple of IEEE conferences which have an early registration fee for students in the range of ~350$ and ~550$. Of course this might depend on your field of expertise. Here, I would say IEEE conferences has rather "good" reputation and you can be sure its not a predatory conference [1].

In general a journal artical has a better reputation than a conference paper. BUT, also there are predatory journals [2], where it easy to get your articles in, even for a low price (Article Processing Charges - APC). One quite popular example is the "Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List" article [3],[4]. A friend of mine did his PhD dealing with UWB, and it seems there conference paper reputations are higher than those of a journal ones, but this is just hearsay.

So what is your field of expertise?
Are you doing a PhD? If so, I usually your colleagues and your supervisor should be able to recommend some conferences/journals.

[1] https://www.ub.tum.de/en/predatory-journals
[2] https://openaccess.univie.ac.at/en/oa-basics/predatory-publishers/
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Journal_of_Advanced_Computer_Technology
[4] https://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf

BR

 

[miso156]

Thx Stenzer, I am not a phd student now. I was a 10y ago for a 2y but I didn’t finish because I had some health trouble. Also I am not an IEEE member.
I am looking for publishing in two areas:
Analog design (about improving op-amps) and Power Electronic (improving magnetic and also design of high speed topology).

Do you know what cost is of IEEE article without Open Access?
Also in Journal of Power Electronic?

It there some magazine that publishes for free?

 

[stenzer]

Hi,

for an IEEE journal articel you do not have to pay for publication, as far as I know. I do not know if they have introduced some model with APC for newer journals.

For IEEE journals you usually have a limited/maximum free-page-number, if you exceed this number you have to pay a fee for the additional pages

BR