The wrong venue kills a good paper. I have watched it happen: polite reviews, then nothing. No citations, no arguments over coffee, and fit beats prestige every time.
- Pull two years of proceedings; if your reference list keeps pointing at one venue, that is your venue - Check the right tier system: CORE A* to C in CS, Scimago quartiles elsewhere; know your field's currency - Plan backwards from the deadline: a month for writing, a buffer for rebuttals, a week you will lose to formatting - A venue whose deadline lands two weeks after your experiments wrap is not your venue - Compare flagships plus strong second-tier options; the right pick depends on subfield, timeline, and career stage
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