My Research Diary

I found out that publishing a paper in a journal or in a conference is rather easy for those who have good contacts. I agree, it is not completely true as research community strives to get real results, but some of the papers we come across are of so inferior quality or they lack so much that it is waste of space in the journal publication.
If you know someone and he/she is sent your paper for peer review, it is very likely to get accepted. Also not all the reviewers take out time from their busy schedule to verify authenticity of these results. Prestigious journals and conferences seem to be spending lot of efforts to ensure only quality papers get in.
3-4 universities come together and set up international conference collaborating with other nation's universities. I am surprised at how much funding is provided by government organizations to promote research but the quality has to be maintained. One hope expressed is that once the conference or journal readers base is established, they will start accepting more challenging papers with true quality metric. New journals and conferences are good for "half-baked" ideas and it should remain that way.