An apples-to-apples comparison of two database journals

Abstract

This paper defines a collection of metrics on manuscript reviewing and presents historical data for ACM Transactions on Database Systems and The VLDB Journal.

References

1. Philip A. Bernstein, David DeWitt, Andreas Heuer, Zachary Ives, Christian S. Jensen, Holger Meyer, M. Tamer Özsu, Richard T. Snodgrass, Kyu-Young Whang, and Jennifer Widom, Database Publication Practices---Panel. VLDB 2005:1241--245. http://www.vldb2005.org/program/manuscript/web/p1241-bernstein.pdf
2. Richard T. Snodgrass, Journal Relevance, SIGMOD Record 31(3):11--15, September, 2003.

Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Document management and text processing

    • Document preparation

• Information systems

  • Information retrieval

    • Evaluation of retrieval results

      • Relevance assessment

    • Retrieval tasks and goals

      • Document filtering

      • Information extraction