Unable to decide whether to submit the work to conference or journal. Possible mood switches before deadline and how to deal with it? One of my manuscripts was prepared for submission to a CORE-A conference in Computer Science. There are only 2 days due for submission of the paper. As usual, I usually get my paper reviewed by one of my colleagues. However, I was surprised by his remark that the manuscript looks like a complete paper and should be submitted to a journal instead.

This is creating a mood switch in me as I am highly confused whether should I submit to the conference or a journal suggested by him. I already have one paper submitted to the conference along with my students which should not influence this submission (as per answer here). Moreover, I am not interested in working on the extension of the presently prepared work (so this question does not come into the situation). So, I just want to get my work published somewhere in a good venue.

Is it common in research dissemination? How should I decide on the possible venue given such a short deadline of 2 days?
If your paper is ready to go and in good shape for a high-impact conference, I would recommend sticking with the conference.

The reasons that I would suggest doing so are:


In many subfields of Computer Science, a highly competitive conference publication is often effectively worth more than a journal publication.
The conference deadline is now. If it doesn't get into the conference, you can always choose to send it to a journal later.
If it's well received and/or you get interesting feedback from the reviewers or audience, you might end up changing your mind about whether to submit an extended version to a journal. You can't change your mind in the other direction.