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1. I find conferences on https://edas.info/rssConferences.php and then use my country's national ranking lists to figure out whether it's a good one https://www.tsv.fi/julkaisufoorumi/haku.php?lang=en , here, a score of 1 or better is worth submitting to. 2. I don't think "top publications" like found in http://csrankings.org/ turn down submissions because it's from an independent author. Instead, it would be harder…
No university affiliation is required by arXiv or any other journal I know of. You should put some affiliation, but it can be your own thing like _Full Metal Jason Labs_. However, it's hard to write well for an audience in a given field without having gone to grad school in that field. Readers will sense that your paper is from an outsider. So stick to topics that people will believe an outsider about. Proofs and wor…
Make that 1 person.
I've actually been interviewed by a paper (and misquoted and misgendered in the article they published) due to my blogging, and I was homeless at the time. I also was interviewed by a college student who wrote a piece about me and was asked to write a paid piece with a byline because of my blogs.
I've actually been interviewed at least three other times without it being published because people find my story hard to believe. Years ago, I was quoted in a book.
I'm not even making any kind of effort to get that kind of attention. In fact, I actually spent a lot of years trying to figure out how to deflect attention while finding my voice.
I imagine if you were making a concerted effort to figure out how to get taken seriously, you could get a lot more legitimate media attention than I've ever gotten, assuming your work is solid and the writing is good.
I would like to share my experience on publishing my work in a top-tier conference, without any connections with academia. I have been working in industry and is considering shifting to academic research career. But the lack of publications made my chances very low. So I took up a research project, did research on it during "after the job hours". Once I was satisfied with the results, I created an account on IEEE pap…