HI Elisabeth
Just some quick thoughts, including pragmatics of publishing. There are several things at play here. One is geographic-culture. So in any particular country - say Australia - there is a body evaluating research who give different values and status to a conf paper in relation to book, book chpater etc. and therefore the answer somewhat depends on where you are speaking from. Practically, of course, a refereed conference paper (as opposed to just a paper with no reviewing), generally has a very fast turnaround and higher status here in AUS for reporting processes, especially if the conference is INTL. The second ting is that the value of a conference paper also depends on the filed or discipline. So, for example, in computer science or CSCW or other fields the value of the conf paper TO THE FIELD is not the same a in other disciplines. Similar to you, I tend to USE a conference as a dry run for a journal paper, if possible, if (as in AUS) I can also get some 'points' for doing so I will - so last year for example I did 4 peer-reviewed conf papers and 4 journal articles (of different status) I got points for all. In some cases, I will intentionally publish into a good regional journal (Australasian - Pacific) because of who I want to talk to and sometimes I will because I can't currently get into the better journal - e.g. British Journal of Sociology. These are the pragmatics of the game we all know about (interestingly I will give a keynote in Switzerland which has no value in the current Australian research evaluation exercise so how logical is this). So again, we will then need to ask questions about the status of journals in relation to this. as we all know there are enough so-called journals out there to satisfy anybody's desire to publish anything - and this is something we should deal with if possible individually and collectively in the field. Anyway, I hoep some f these musings address what u want to know.
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