How to Find Good Academic Conferences in Your Niche?

An academic conference is a great place where researchers, scholars and various journals meet together under one roof to share and exchange ideas, present and discuss their researched work. Visiting a good academic conference is always proved to be a gain in knowledge. It is one of the most useful places to gather and explore knowledge that will prove to be helpful for your upcoming academic events. The key target of a good academic conference is to deliver ideas about what’s going on in that particular field. A short note is given in that context to the visitors. But visiting a quality conference is what matters.

Guide for Finding Good Academic Conferences:

There are basically two types of conferences; one sort of conference is held annually organised by the same group but in different places with mere changes in the theme, and the other type is a standalone event. In order to look for them initially, you will be using the same sources of information. But eventually, you will come to know about the annual conference that will be held every year. To stay up to date with the conference of your preference, you must keep a track of the mailing list. You should also make a note about all the organizers. 

Ø  Websites: There are various sites that highlight about conferences; you can sign up to their sites to get notifications or reminders of conferences that will be taking place. They offer signing up process and send you emails of the upcoming conferences and information related to it. Some academic conferences are run by a group of large professional organizers and they have their own official website. Some of them also charge a subscription fee. Once you are subscribed you can easily keep up with all their activities and publications.

There are sites that provide you links about the most popular and important conferences such as; conference alerts.com, researchbib.com. They give all the details of important conferences.

Ø  A Look at the number of people visiting the conference: Any well-known conference attracts a huge number of attendees. But if you know the goals of your visit then you know which conference to visit next. While visiting popular conference may be a great option but never overlook smaller conferences if they serve your purpose. Interacting with few good people is a lot more beneficial than creating a network with thousands of visitors.

Ø  Verification from third-party: Choosing to attend conferences based on various website alerts and inbox messages is one way. But listening to an independent view is also important because it gives you no biased results. So before planning for the attendance do a quick review of the list of important academic conferences of the year by various independent third parties.

Ø  Talking with conference organizers: This may sound different to you but you can always talk with organizers on phone. Talking with organizer directly will give you a clear idea about the conference and every detail of it. A call is always preferred over emails as honest and open communication takes place. Besides phone calls also saves you time.

Ø  Digging onto old Hashtags: Do a quick screening of the earlier Hashtags that will help you to find the value and all the key indicators of the conference, as most of the conferences make slight changes in the Hashtags variation with changes venue and date. From the Hashtags, you will come to know about the nature and size of the networking events, attendees’ profiles, etc. 

Ø  Do not visit inaugural conferences: You are likely to visit a good conference in order to gain something valuable from it. There are many inaugural event shows that don’t turn out well. A good conference show takes the time to flourish. Obviously, you do not want to waste your money and time visiting any such event show that will serve no good. Therefore avoid visiting inaugural conferences. This will increase your chance of visiting conference shows that are worth it.

These are some of the ways that you may find helpful in order to find a good academic conference show. All you require is a little bit of research investment of your time to find a good academic conference related to your sphere of work.