Selection of literature for a research is a critical step in a research process. Selecting, reading, analyzing, and using a weak literature results in poor research. It often misleads the researcher and results in waste of time and effort. Below are few guidelines for selection of appropriate and authentic research material:
- Books: Books are one of the most reliable literature that we can use. However, how much book can be relied depends on the author and book reputation. Scientific books can also be judged by their citation count, i.e., how many times the content from this book has been cited by other research publications.
- Journals: After book journals are another reliable source for literature. However, not every journal is reliable. Reliability of the journals can be identifying through their impact factor. Journal impact factor is calculated on yearly basis. It identifies the average number of times articles published in a journal in two earlier year period has been cited in the following year. Higher impact factor means a better reputation for a journal. Another factor that can help in assessing the reliability of the content is the author H-index. H-index gives an estimate of importance of scientist contributions. Higher H-index is better. Furthermore, for each article, citation count of an individual journal article is also an indicator of acceptance and reliability of that article. Higher citation count mean higher acceptance of an article by the scientific community. Only peer-reviewed journal has worth.
- Conferences: After books and journals, conference papers could be the most reliable resource for literature, however, it is also a risky one. Quality of journal is identified through its reputation over the past few years. A good conference will always focus on precise scientific domain. It will not be a multi-disciplinary topics conference. The peer-review process and the acceptance rate of the conference is also an indicator of its reliability. All good conferences at-least have three reviews for each article and the acceptance rate is approximately around 15%. For each article, H-index and citation count should be used as a measure of reliability as discussed above. Only the full-papers should be considered with high reliability. Short-papers and visionary papers could be referred, but researchers should bear in mind that all these papers have research ideas or a research-in-progress. Normally good conference full-papers have the length of 12 pages in double column format.
- Workshops: Workshop papers are normally the research contributions that are in their early stages. Workshop articles can be judged for their reliability using the workshop reputation, H-index of the author, and the citation count. However, researcher should be careful while referring the workshop papers and should be able to understand the state of the research presented in the paper. Workshop papers normally have the length of 6 pages in two-column formats.
- Other resources (Technical reports/White papers/Web pages): Use at your own risk.
Below are few suggestions related to journals and conferences:
For data management and data mining:
For data management and data mining:
Journals:
- VLDB Journal
- Data & Knowledge Engineering
- Acta Informatica
Conferences:
- Very Large DataBases (VLDB)
- ACM's Special Interest Group on Management Of Data (SIGMOD)
- The Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS),
- Extending Database Technology (EDBT)
- International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
- International Conference on Data Theory (ICDT)
- Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
- International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
- SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM)
- Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (PKDD)
- Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA)
- Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS)
- Database Systems for Business, Technology, and Web (BTW)
- British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD)
- International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems (DB&IS)
- International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS)
- International Conference on. COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CoopIS)
For software engineering:
Journals:
- Automated Software Engineering
- Science of Computer Programming
- The Computer Journal
- Journal of Systems and Software
- IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
- The Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
Conferences:
- International Conference on Software Engineering, Generative Programming and Component Engineering
- International Conference on Software Reuse
- Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering
- International Conference on Program Comprehension
- Software Product Line Conference
- International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
- (Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity) SPLASH
- International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
- International Conference on Software Maintenance
- Automated Software Engineering
- Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
- Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
- Aspect-Oriented Software Development
- European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
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