Leading citation databases have made concerted efforts to reflect academic conference contributions in the form of proceedings papers in their databases. We studied global trends and a regional case study to determine the relative representation of conference proceedings in the global scholarly literature using the Web of Science, Scopus, and Dimensions. We designed our case study of ten Southeast Asian countries to uncover conspicuous publishing patterns obscured by global average figures. As a result, we discovered that Indonesia alone has made a recent and remarkable shift towards conference proceedings publishing. This trend was not the result of expanding database coverage but may be linked to a rapid increase in conferences locally hosted in Indonesia. The conclusion suggests that conference proceedings are increasingly indexed by major databases, and that scholars might have found advantage in publishing conference papers that were quicker and easier to publish than journal articles or book chapters. Our study is relevant to policy makers in the area of research evaluation because it highlights potential changes in academic publishing behaviour by those being assessed.

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书目数据库中的会议论文集出版物：东南亚国家的案例研究

领先的引文数据库齐心协力，在其数据库中以会议录论文的形式反映学术会议的贡献。我们研究了全球趋势和区域案例研究，以确定会议论文集在全球学术文献中的相对代表性，使用 Web of Science、Scopus 和 Dimensions。我们设计了十个东南亚国家的案例研究，以揭示被全球平均数字掩盖的显着出版模式。结果，我们发现仅印度尼西亚就在最近的会议论文集出版方面发生了显着的转变。这种趋势不是数据库覆盖范围扩大的结果，而是可能与在印度尼西亚当地举办的会议迅速增加有关。结论表明，会议论文集越来越多地被主要数据库索引，而且学者们可能已经发现发表会议论文比期刊文章或书籍章节更快、更容易发表的优势。我们的研究与研究评估领域的政策制定者相关，因为它突出了被评估者学术出版行为的潜在变化。