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We are Drowning in a Sea of Least Publishable Units (LPUs)

Summary: Panel-style critique of publication inflation in data management venues; argues LPUs erode quality and threaten field integrity. Proposes culture change and governance strategies to curb submissions and raise rigor, affecting committees and hiring. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4813
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2013
Pagerank
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Overall Rank
13,632 | 6.48%
DOI
10.1145/2463676.2465345

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@inproceedings{dewitt_sigmod13,
        title = {{We are Drowning in a Sea of Least Publishable Units (LPUs)}},
        author = {DeWitt, David J. and Ilyas, Ihab F. and Naughton, Jeffrey and Stonebraker, Michael},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '13},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2463676.2465345},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2463676.2465345},
        year = {2013}
}

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