2023 Volume 22 Issue 1 Pages 49-67
This study evaluates the relationship between academic conference presentations and academic journal papers on Japanese literary studies and Japanese linguistics. First, we found a publication rate (the percentage of conference presentations published as papers) of 41.5% among 685 relevant papers presented at the conferences of six major academic societies in 2010–2014. Next, we found a conference rate (the percentage of academic journal papers presented at academic conferences) of 58.5% among 571 relevant papers published in journals by the same six societies in 2010–2019. Integration and analysis of both datasets revealed sets of societies and journals with high publication and conference rates. The correlation coefficient between the two rates also confirmed a strong association. Consequently, it is important to distinguish between the “return type” (i.e., the conference organizer and journal editor are the same) and the “non- return type,” (i.e., there is no direct relationship between the conference and journal).
