Currently searching for conferences related to workplace training and learning and saw that on some websites they ask potential participants to submit papers to attend. Do people submit these papers to get published at the conferences? Can I attend such conferences just to listen?
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In academia, conference papers are usually a way to get early or unfinished research published. Usually, they are not rigorously peer reviewed like a journal paper, and so, they have questionable value in some fields…though I hear their particularly highly regarded on other fields, like mathematics. The papers are usually much shorter than a journal article, and need to be accompanied by a presentation to get published. In general, if you are willing to pay to attend a conference without a paper or presentation, they will absolutely accept your money to do so.
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