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)
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Authors
- 1. David J. DeWitt (Microsoft)
- 2. Ihab F. Ilyas (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
- 3. Jeffrey Naughton (University of Wisconsin)
- 4. Michael Stonebraker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@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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