Having read dozens of papers from Elsevier journals from my sub-field of computer science, I can honestly say that your judgement of Procedia applies to their Journals as well. Apart from Ad Hoc Networks it seems to be the rule that an Elsevier article is poor quality. Of course there are exceptions, but they are rare. As for the Procedia titles; I’m wondering, is there a proper TPC and such for the conference, or is it organized from the Elsevier side? My understanding of the way conference proceedings work is that apart from a “publish/not publish” decision, the publishers don’t really have direct influence on the work. They’re not part of TPC meetings, so it might not be entirely Elsevier’s fault in this case.
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