Journals do exist, but tend to be used for big archival papers: you might take 3 or 4 years' of conference papers on a project and wrap them up into a giant 40-page journal article for posterity.
That's the polite interpretation, at least. I'd say the pattern I see more often is that the exact same research gets presented repeatedly at 3 or 4 conferences before getting published as a journal paper. Also, the research was probably done by 1-3 people, but an entire group of 6-10 people will have their names on all the papers...
That's the polite interpretation, at least. I'd say the pattern I see more often is that the exact same research gets presented repeatedly at 3 or 4 conferences before getting published as a journal paper. Also, the research was probably done by 1-3 people, but an entire group of 6-10 people will have their names on all the papers...