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Reviewing Scientific Papers

Conference	A gathering of scientists for the purpose of presenting their own work to each other.
Workshop	Conferences often have workshops on selected topics. These draw crowds from 8-40 people, depending on the size of the conference. Typically papers submitted to workshops are published in the conference proceedings.
Conference Proceedings	A publication of all the work presented at the conference, in the form of scientific papers.
Journal	A professional outlet/publication for scientific work.
Technical report	Anything can be published a technical report. Tech reports published by university departments are typically not peer-reviewed.
Measuring scientific prestige	Scientists compete. They compete for prestige, as measured by: 1. Number of publications. 2. Number of publications they are listed as first author on. 3. Number of publications per year. 4. Number of quotations by others to their work. 5. Quality of publications that papers get published in.
Prestige of Publication outlets	From low to high: * Tech report * Workshop paper * Conference paper * Book authored * Journal paper