Most journals respond in around 6 - 12 months. I am looking for a journal in the field of Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition or Image Processing which have a short time response.
maybe you can try with IEEE signal processing letters. I think that they provide fast response, but it's a binary response: no chance to submit a revision.
Anyway, IMHO, I prefer Elsevier journals to IEEE. I have the impression that they are more "honest". Some IEEE journals can publish 4 or 5 times the same paper of a well-known author including the same figures and experimentation, while they reject your papers with novel ideas using weak arguments such as "We don't like the database you have used".
Ehsan - have you tried the Elsevier "journal finder" tool? This will give you Acceptance Rate, Editorial Times, Production Times and Impact Factor. Hope this helps!!!
Ehsan - the tool is specifically made for journals listed on Elsevier only. There is one available for Springer but it only gives you the Impact Factors of different journals listed on its website (See link below).
BTW - I recently published in "Expert Systems with Applications". The paper was submitted in June 2012 and got accepted by December 2012 which is a 6-month-period. The journal has an 5-year IF of 2.339 (1.854 annually) and an acceptance rate of about 16%.
maybe you can try with IEEE signal processing letters. I think that they provide fast response, but it's a binary response: no chance to submit a revision.
Anyway, IMHO, I prefer Elsevier journals to IEEE. I have the impression that they are more "honest". Some IEEE journals can publish 4 or 5 times the same paper of a well-known author including the same figures and experimentation, while they reject your papers with novel ideas using weak arguments such as "We don't like the database you have used".
Veronika, At this time I have a complete research on an Improved version of Image registration with keypoints. beside this work, i want to trace Journals to publish other papers.
Journals nowadays are competing for good papers. And so, most journals are reworking their review process and cutting down heavily on the time required for reviews. Many IEEE journals and Elsevier journals used to take more than a year (in some cases, several years!!) before take much less than that to get accepted. I advise you to look at a few journals, and check their review history (often shown on the first page). That should give you an idea of how long it takes to get your paper published. Generally, I would estimate that most major papers take about 4 to 8 month from initial submission to one cycle of revision to acceptance. Of course, you may be rejected in about 3 to 4 month, in which case you need to do a major revision and start the whole process, or resubmit to another journal, again restarting the whole review process.
Another possibility is to go with a special issue of a well-known journal. As they have dedicated (special issue) editors and reviewers it often means a faster turn-around time.
Hi Mirsadeghi, I had received very fast reply (about 3 months) from Expert Systems with Applications, Pattern Recognition and Pattern Recognition Letters (all from Elsevier). I have a submitted manuscript to TPAMI and I am waiting for more than an year for the first review.
I think that a fast reply journal is something very important in computer science.
I think that it is all about money, and even those publishers who claim quality and long time process to ensure quality, why then they take our money?
why they do not pay for the reviewers to guarantee a faster process and a higher quality?
I waited a year to get silly comments, then another year to get published, my ideas become out of date by then. who cares it is all about money.
The researchers are the customers and the commodity at the same time, they pay when they write articles, they pay when they read articles, and they never get paid when they review articles! nevertheless they suffer a lot when they try to publish.
i think universities all over the world should take the lead in this business, and dedicate a share of their budget for this goal.
their is a large amount of money paid by governments and private sector to support research, part of this money should go to nonprofit publication organizations.
every thing in this world has become for sale, let us support knowledge production and make it free for all humanity.
Dear Ehsan i believe that there are a few journals that are listed in ISI and respond to you quickly/ have fast peer review but most of them charge you.
Dear Friends thank you so much for enlightening me on such essential facts?. In that case i believe that We should start punishing those who Dupe us. Its high time. I was lucky in not responding to such journals though i received info.
I don't think you're a terrorist neither reviewers do so. I strongly believe peer reviewers do not make decision based on the country the article comes from. Unfortunately, you are probably right in some of your claims. Sometimes reviewers do not make their job properly and their comments don't make any sense. However, that could happend to anybody, independently the country you come from. You should probably try submitting your paper to well-known ISI journals in your field so you are likely to get good reviewers who will give you very useful feedback. Good luck!
In my case they do not send to reviewers, the editor reject with silly comments that have nothing to do with the article, this gives me the impression that they never read the article.
those papers have been reviewed by two key researchers on RG --friends of mine
and they have shown great interest in the ideas and the style of writing, and also they'v given me some feed back which enriched my studies. 6 months trying to publish at 3 IF journals to get the same result, that why I jumped to conclusion that my name has contributed to those rejections.
I will publish them somewhere and I will invite you to read em, and tell me if they deserve to be published in high IF journal or not?
conclusion: I do not think that quality of the paper is a priority for many IF journals.
I figure out the solution at: https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_do_you_think_about_revolutionary_steps_taken_by_all_researches_against_the_current_publication_system#5425c528d5a3f2bc168b45d1
be careful please because Wulfenia journal and Pensee journal are hijacked journals, they are not the real ones, the real ones are respectful journals but have no website. I my self almost swallowed the bate.
this link provides many hijacked journals, showing both hijacked and authentic URL:
I have a bad experience with certain journal that doesn't have a web for submission, the submission is only though email. For five months I sent messages to journal staff and chief editor asking about the statues of my paper and I receive no answer. I advice you to avoid submission to any journal that doesn't have a website for submission, because at least you can know the statues of your papers.
very good question and I look forward to hear the answer from somebody who has get publish for his work in any ISI journal within a short time and even paid journal... thanks friends
I have finished seven months waiting for a revision or statues from a journal that doesn't have a submission system but I got nothing from them and I dropped my paper after seven months requesting them to give me at least the statues of my paper. I advice to check the number of issues of such journals and their submission history and be award not to waste time with them, because some of them doesn't even give you the statutes of your paper even if you requested many times!
For me, I am interested in many journals. However, I have to ask the editor or the contactperson of each journal about, for example, edotorial time and acceptance rate. If he or she gives me good respose and positive answers, I keep that journal in my list of journals for submission.
Recently, I did a little research on Computer Science (including Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition or Image Processing) Journals List, Review Speed, Impact Factors, and Open Access Fee from Elsevier, Springer, and Hindawi. Please find them at the attached links.
Thank you for your comment. Unfortunately, electrical engineering is not my field. I am afraid for ultimately give a wrong or irrelevant list. But fortunately, some online Journal Finder services are available. We need only to enter our paper's title and abstract, the services will automatically find best matched Journals (with similarity scores)
I updated the Elsevier list with a new column: Acceptance Rate, based on Elsevier Journal Finder results. In my view, there is a correlation between the Impact Factors and Acceptance Rate. As writers, we generally want a good Impact Factors Journal with higher Acceptance Rate. Thus, I make a new column, i.e., Acceptance Rate times Average Impact Factors. Hope this would be helpful.
The updated file can be accessed at the following link:
I have just finished my little research on IEEE Transactions and Journals Impact Factors, Review Speed, and Open Access fee. I hope this would help anyone that preparing to submit a journal article to IEEE.
Nearly 3-6 months, average time is 96 days. I got information from Journal website only. One more thing, there is a publication charge of 300 EUR for each accepted article, hope it's affordable for you. website http://www.aece.ro/
http:/ /www.aece.ro/ is not accepting latex format ?? any latest update regarding this, its impossible to convert lot of latex equations in word. any one knows?
@Natarajan .K: Thank you sir. This is a very good option, but Article processing charge is very huge ($1150 USD======Rs 76538.77. ).
JoE is a pure gold open access journal with authors of accepted papers paying an article processing charge (APC) of $1150 USD. There is no fee associated with submission to this journal.
In my opinion, applied intelligence(springer), Pattern recognition letters(Elsevier) are fastest. Also you can find their speed on journal website also.
In my experience Pattern Recognition Letters is pretty fast compared to the standards, you can have the first review in maybe four months, or even faster. Good Luck!!
Applied Soft Computing is usually get back to you with the first review in 2 months but you have to keep in mind that publishing in high impact factor journal can take up from 8 to 12 months and sometimes more.