The Significance of Paper Indexing for Computer Engineering Field and the Importance of Prolific Writing

The Significance of Paper Indexing for Computer Engineering Field and the Importance of Prolific Writing

The accredited junior colleges, universities and graduate schools are being categorized as a higher education system in the Republic of Korea (ROK) as most of other nations do. Likewise, research papers or theses are the ones that summarize one's academic achievements in these institutions, whether he/she is a student or a faculty. While it may be true, there are some serious disputes over the method of assessing such achievements as some problems exist in producing or publishing them. The ROK's Ministry of Education (MOE) under 15th government planned the Brain Korea 21 Project in 1999 to prepare the nation for the 21st century. That is, they wanted to raise some globally talented scientists, engineers or scholars by upgrading the nation's higher education system to meet the global standard, or go above if possible. While doing so, they devised a rather simple method of selecting the eligible schools for their funding. The method was that to count the number of SCI-level theses each school had published and this has become the most important and fastest means for the schools to obtain funds. Nevertheless, the schools later discovered that such a selection standard was quite unfavorable to the Science and Engineering Departments, especially for the Computer Science and Information Engineering fields where the speed of research is essential due to the rapid technological advances and fierce competitions. After accepting numerous and persistent complaints, the MOE decided to complement the problem by acknowledging the research papers published/presented in/at internationally renowned prestigious science journals or conferences as well to speed up the selection process. On top of these, the author proposes the additional use of various indexing forms including the IEEE Xplore Digital Library Indexing, ACM Digital Library Indexing, etc. The prolificacy of science journal papers can be considered as a supportive means of selection criteri