Conference papers are articles documenting conference presentations.
These presentations contain research data and analysis that have NOT been published in journals and therefore have not gone through the peer review process in journal publishing . However, presenting in conferences is often an important step taken by scholars prior to publishing their research. This is because giving a presentation in a conference provides the author with the benefit of receiving immediate feedback from peers attending the conference. Because of the less rigorous filtering process of information in a conference paper compared to that in a journal article, a conference paper is regarded to be a source with less authority than a journal article. Nonetheless, conference papers often give scholars more current information than journal articles.