All of the journals I have published in take around 4-5 months to get the review of the paper done, and another 1-2 months to accept and publish the paper online. I was wondering if this is the norm, or are there faster publishing journals?
As a reviewer of quite a few reputed journals, I can say most of the Elsevier journals I review give us three weeks, to review, so within four weeks, you may hear from editor, RSC journals, also are pretty fast in review, You can always expedite the process by pricking the editorial office, if it gets too late. some high impact journals follow a two or three tier review process that would delay the process, at the end you get a high impact publication..most of the journals gives submission to final decision life cycle, and approximate time required.. may be have a look at it, to select journal...
It varies from subject to subject. If you take the example of Pharmaceutical journals, they take three to four weeks to review a manuscript but most of the journals take 2 to 3 months in the whole process. Few African journals are fast.
FEBS letters is very fast but I have very good experience with Plos ONE.
In my experience, Plos One is a good solution, but, others as Mol Ecol, is very slow, Planta is fast, but depence of the complex of your research.
Agree with others that PLoS ONE is the fastest in my experience and it has quite a diverse and wide range of subject specialities.
what ever may be the publishers, either RSC, Elsevier journals, etc. publication process entirely depends on the reviewer and reviewing process only, as a reviewer, to my knowldge Elsevier journals are faster
Elsevier Journals are pretty fast. If the paper is top notch, you can try prl.
It merely depends on the quality of your paper. What type of research are you trying to publish. Important is the time the reviewer takes to review your manuscript. Most of the Elsevier journals have a editorial phase screening which takes around seven days and then the paper passes on to review stage where it takes around one month... fastest is 15-20 days if the reviewers are really fast... then a decision is reached within another seven days..... and if it is not an accept decision then you should revise the paper and can add another 15 days after your next submission. Not only with Elsevier, this is the case with Wiley, Springer and other publication houses also.
If I consider my case, I have a good experience with Wiley Interscience and Elsevier. The shortest time I have got an acceptance is 19 days with a Wiley journal.
You can try and u will develop ur own views :)
For rejections, Science and Nature have incredibly fast turnarounds, sometimes within a day or two! In physics, I have had very good experience (on multiple occasions) with Optics Express and New Journal of Physics, with the time of submission to publication of about a month, including - I hasten to add - editorial correspondence with peer reviewers. These are journals with high editorial standards, run by major professional societies. Electronics Letters is also a journal of this type but I have no personal experience with it. There is a recent profusion of "open access" journals, some of which clearly have low editorial standards and could publish papers within days of receipt (and, of course, remittance of payment -see http://thatsmathematics.com/blog/archives/102 for an example) It would be a mistake to publish good work in such a journal, however fast its processes may be!
It does depend on the publication house. Generally Wiley is fairly good but does depend on the journal. MDPI (International Journal of Molecular Science) generally has a quick turn around and a reasonable IF of 2.6.
Publication time is very important but Publication fee is also a major factor while selecting a journal for submitting the paper for publication. Most of the people in this discussion have supported a journal which demands publication fee, but you should keep the publication fee in mind before submitting your article. If you are willing to pay the fee, its well and good, otherwise don't waste your valuable time in such journals which demand publication fees. For those who receive grants for publication of their research, its Ok but for self-financed researchers, these fact cannot be overlooked.
I agree with Dr. Alok Nahata... the publication fees is the major factor for publication of papers in journals for research students...
I have good experience with springer-verlag, and Elsevier. It also depends on reviewing process and quality of your manuscript (i.e research field).
Yes while deciding the journal one must be careful to select. Recently a lot of open access journals have come and they can reach to quick decision. I think if the work is very good author must try to publish it in a journal where the Editorial Policy is standard.
Although I have a mixed experience. Let me tell you the story. One of our paper we communicated to an open access journal with a very low impact factor. But after it is published it has received some good citations. Some authors who have published there work in some well established journals (like JACS etc.) have cited our that open access paper.
So the quality of the work finally decides the fate of the work. However, it is still important to choose an appropriate journal for getting a quick and moreover quality decision. Sometime even negative decision with quality review report is a very positive outcome. It may be led to more than one publication later.
Thank you all for your comments.
Biochemical Biophysical Research Communications has a turnaround to publication of about a week. No revisions are permitted, it is a simple yes/no answer.
As Syed has said, it depends on the subject. PlosONE, or any other of the group (http://www.plos.org) is the faster on my experience.
Dear sir there are so many journals in the world which published fastest your manuscript. If you are interested you can send the paper in International Journal of Higher Education and Research (www.ijher.com)
I agree with Dr. Alok Nahata, Like Nanomedicine journal (dove press-IF-4.00), reply with in one month but charge is 50,000 for indian authors. Another factor is corresponding author. If the scientist is well known person in the particular field, they will get the reply fast.
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/
This journal usually take time between 1-3 month for the first editorial decision. But you have to pay $1000 for publication.
My experience with PJPS was very good in case of Pharmaceutical research with low publication fee as well.
The current average times for the International Journal if Food Science and Technology are:-
submission to first decision - 16 days
submission to final decision - 30 days (although this depends on how quickly authors respond to reviewers questions when submissting revised manuscripts)
submission to published on line - 61 days (although again this depends on how quickly authors are to respond to comments in the proof stage of publication)
This means that on average your paper could be published on line early view between 2-3 months after submission.
Please feel free to submit to IJFST as there is no publication charge so long as you keep within the author guidelines.
Frontiers articles are published on average within 3 months after submission.
http://www.frontiersin.org/AboutFrontiers.aspx?stage=journalseries
I would suggest Journals from RSC or ACS for faster publications. Their review time is less compared to other Journals.
Maybe this list can help
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Weekly_journals
Dove journals are quick but have large fees if you are from a high income country
Helpful topic! I saw many recommendations for PCCP but my experience is bad because I wait two months for review. I have never waited so long for review, except ones in Plose one.
Can anyone share any computer science (web, data mining) journals having IF which have fast review process (even paid one)?. I mean, which decide in 3month or less.
pakistan journal of pharmaaceutical sciences take too much time. i have submitted 6 month earlier but yet did not recieved any update, just serial number is given.
arshives of biological science is fast one with no publication charges
This is my guestion too. I'm waiting to hear from 2 journal that I submitted my manuscript.
Dear Maneet Lal,
Recently, I did a little research on Computer Science (including IT Researches) Journals List, Review Speed, Impact Factors, and Open Access Fee from Elsevier, Springer, and Hindawi. Please find them at the attached links.
Hope this would help.
Cheers.
https://www.academia.edu/16582895/Elsevier_Computer_Science_Journals_List_Review_Speed_Impact_Factors_and_Open_Access_Fee
https://www.academia.edu/16583166/Springer_Computer_Science_Journals_List_Review_Speed_Impact_Factors_and_Open_Access_Fee
https://www.academia.edu/16583258/Hindawi_Computer_Science_Journals_List_Review_Speed_Impact_Factors_and_Open_Access_Fee
Dear All,
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:
https://www.academia.edu/16582895/Elsevier_Computer_Science_Journals_List_Review_Speed_Impact_Factors_Open_Access_Fee_and_Acceptance_Rate
Dear All,
Although I still bear a grudge against Sensors due to recent rejection of my paper, I can recommend them as they process papers in an efficient way. I managed to publish a paper with them some time ago and I took around 3 or 4 weeks (the decision was after 2 weeks)
Dear Friends,
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.
https://www.academia.edu/18717832/IEEE_Transactions_and_Journals_List_Review_Speed_Impact_Factors_and_Open_Access_Fee
https://www.academia.edu/18716160/IEEE_Transactions_and_Journals_Review_Time_Analysis
I had a good experience with Springer. It took around 2 months to reply back with Minor revisions and just 3 working days for the acceptance after sending the revised manuscript.
Just type ' elsevier fast journals ' in google and you can find any journals of elsevier for any subject you choose
IEEE access ask for 1750 $ of fees which is not convenient
Informatics in medicine unlocked - elsiver Journal ( 1 Month review time)
above journal is scopus indexed and fast publishing journal
Hello every one. I am looking for a fast publishing journal in immune system of fish. Can anyone be of help?
Most of the Indian journals give acceptances to be published in less than a month
Iraqi journals give acceptance to publish within two months
Free journals need a very long time to give acceptances may be more than a year
Use elsevier journal finder where after adding your abstract, system will show you suitable journals list with processing time and it is also free.
MDPI journals are very fast in acceptance and publishing, but they are paid journals and their fee is high. Non paid journals need a long time. Before submitting your manuscript check how many Issues the journal has and how long the processing time (from published papers). Special Issues also accelerate the acceptance and the publication time.
I am assuming you are talking about recognized, indexed international journals that are from well-established publishers and societies. There may be some national or single-university journals that are very fast.
Generally, it takes 1-2 weeks for the handing editor to review it and invite reviewers (suggesting good reviewers in your cover letter will shorten this), at least 1 week to get the 2-4 acceptances from reviewers, 1-2 weeks for the reviewers to comment on the paper, and maybe 1 week for the handling editor to decide what to do next (90% of the time, first decision is reject or major revision in engineering journals in my area). All this before you get first decision. So if you got a paper through faster, that is something to be happy about.
It also depends on the kind of paper you are submitting. I had a technical note paper (13 pages) accepted to an IF = 3 Elsevier journal in just 8 days. Generally Elsevier seems to vary wildly - I have seen 3 days and I have seen 2+ years for papers to go through their system.
The MDPI journals are fast but you also have to keep in mind that the rejection rate is high for their upper-end journals. I have done many reviews for them and the rejection rate is more than 50%, more in some journals. They never accept without revision either - one of my MDPI papers got four revisions and grew by about 8 pages during the peer review process because the reviewers had so many good ideas and comments (even the EIC gave us a round of comments).
In general, the journals published by technical societies (ASME, IEEE) and university departments have the slowest processing times. Some of the really famous and old publishers take 1 year or more to process papers.
In my experience, 3-4 weeks (submit, revise, proof, online) is about as good as you can get with indexed international journals for research papers. For communications and technical notes, 2-3 weeks is good. For review papers, I would expect 6-8 weeks minimum since you'll almost certainly have to do 2+ rounds of revision because reviewers are always so picky and want so many things.
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