Tip of the Week #99

By Bernard Appiah | 16 October 2012

When deciding which journal to submit your article to, one factor to consider is the speed of publication. Some journals provide that information by indicating when the article was received, accepted, and published. Looking at those dates can help you make an informed decision.

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Posted by Muhammad Salman Haider Qureshi at 17 October 2012 10:18 AM

thanks for sharing.

Times to publication - more information, and a note of caution

Posted by Matt Hodgkinson at 17 October 2012 10:47 AM

A researcher called Pierre Lindebaum has done an analysis of times from submission to acceptance for journals on PubMed. See http://plindenbaum.blogspot[…]me-from-submission-to.html. It is quite technical, but he has made a spreadsheet of the time to acceptance for each journal available at http://figshare.com/media/download/96485/100634

Some journals do not correctly report these dates. Some journals will "reject" a paper when it only needs minor revisions, and treat the revision as a brand new submission for their statistics. This artificially increases their rejection rate, and artificially decreases their acceptance time. See http://svpow.com/[…]/

Times to publication - more information, and a note of caution

Posted by Bernard Appiah at 19 October 2012 06:11 PM

Thank you, Matt, for sharing this useful information.

Bernard Appiah
AuthorAID Graduate Assistant