It&#x27;s not the medium, but the forum that matters. There&#x27;s a hierarchy to forums such as workshop, conference, journal. Then within each forum there are tiers. For instance SIGIR is better than CIKM for information retrieval. USENIX is better than FAST for file systems.<p>The World<p>Then even within each conference there&#x27;s a tier. Posters are the least, full papers are the most.<p>At each tier, submissions are competitive. This is where the peer review takes place.&quot;, and mostly it comes down to reading how the experiments were done and of the conclusions made sense given the experimental setup, and how well the paper is written.