[SystemSafety] Safety-Critical Systems eJournal

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

On 2022-02-02 11:37 , Derek M Jones wrote:
>  The email thread passes through your assertion regarding
> "... the most highly regarded journals in software engineering..."
> I wanted to back up my assertion that this is an appeal to
> authority with some evidence.
Got you.

Let me again contradict your suggestion that this is an appeal to authority. The reputation of 
journals in computer science is manifestly a matter of consensus amongst those who publish in them, 
review for them, and read them. As shown through the years by the waxing and waning of such reputations.

It is rather like restaurants. There is no "authority" determining which restaurants are "best" and 
which are second best. There are just lots of people going out to eat who determine individually 
what they want to eat, how they want to eat, and why they go there. And who talk amongst themselves. 
The prestige of a restaurant follows a consensus that that is a good place to go have dinner (if 
it's dinner you want).

But, like restaurants, maybe you have to experience it personally to understand how it is.

PBL

Prof. i.R. Dr. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bielefeld, Germany
Tel+msg +49 (0)521 880 7319  www.rvs-bi.de




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