How will SoK papers “count”?
So far as we know, there is no magic oracle that search and P&T committees use to decide what “counts” and what doesn’t, and we can’t impose any guidelines on how people might view these papers in future. That said, we hope that papers accepted as SoK papers will be viewed by the community as comparable to traditional Oakland research papers. SoK papers will undergo the same rigorous and competitive review process by the same PC as the research papers, and will be in the formal conference proceedings just like the regular research papers. We believe an SoK paper will be at least as valuable of a contribution to our research community as a typical Oakland paper, and expect these papers will be widely read and cited.
