Yuka Kato

This paper reports the result of questionnaire surveys on the value of research papers in the field of IPSJ Special Interest Group on Distributed Processing Systems (SIG-DPS). Here, we attempt to identify the factors that lead researchers to consider research papers as "good." The subjects of the surveys are experienced researchers. First, for the primary survey, we extract the value of research papers not considered in the general peer review criteria such as novelty and usefulness, as well as the factors that researchers consider essential and important for writing papers. These papers include both their own papers and those of others. Next, we present the analysis results at a workshop of the research community and have a discussion among the participants with the aim of using the result of the survey. After that, we conduct another questionnaire survey as the secondary survey on the role of the research community in producing "good" papers. From the overall results, we show that these surveys make it possible to share values of "good" papers among the researchers in the field and, as a result, to utilize to produce "good" papers. We also show that it is important to conduct such surveys constantly.