Panel Discussion on Publications

This is holds background information about the panel discussion on publications to be held at Eurocrypt 2024. We include some references of pages that may be relevant.

Abstract

Our community is facing several evolutions that are challenging our publication system. The size of the community (and the number of submissions) is growing; the global landscape of scientific publishing is changing; many funding agencies are demanding open access; environmental concerns are affecting the participation to conferences…

Some changes have already been made to our publication system over the last ten years: FSE and CHES have moved to journal publications with (non-necessarily mandatory) presentation at the conference; the new “IACR Communications in Cryptology” journal has recently been launched; the RWC symposium without proceedings has been initiated.

But we need a higher-level discussion to agree on the publication system we want as a scientific community, taking into account the respective interests of authors, reviewers and readers.

The panel discussion will be centered around the following (broad) topics:

References

Academic studies of peer review