Having spent all morning at a meeting discussing various academics' "outputs" and whether they are "acceptable" to the University's management for Research Assessment Exercise purposes, I heard this very argument from a computer scientist. The Pro Vice Chancellor for Research (an engineer, by the way) would have none of it. Journal articles only, please!
Fytton Rowland, Loughborough University > As a Computer Scientist, I automatically read "peer reviewed journal" > as "peer reviewed (journal/conference/workshop/symposium)", because > that's the convention of my discipline, where a > conference/workshop/symposium is a "peer review service provider".
