Is there any correlation between the impact factor of scientific journals and the average rate and time for rejection. Many high impact journals reject submissions even before peer review.
Quality of a submitted paper is playing an important role in such cases...
This has been examined for OA journals indexed in DOAJ for two subject domains. However, no any strong correlation was observed either between IF and acceptance rate or IF and publication time. You can find this research following the link:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.1113
Usually, acceptance/rejection rate depends on the publication policy and available resources of a journal. For example, average number of articles per issue, average number of issues per volume, capacity of editorial staff, they all cause to decide the acceptance rate in addition to the quality of submissions. Compared to the influence of these factors, the influence of IF may hardly associate with the acceptance/rejection rate.
Yes. High notch journals would definitely, take less interest in low quality work.
Quality of a submitted paper is playing an important role in such cases...
Quality of resesch may play a major part in rejection/acceptance rate of scientific journals.
Yes, i have seen Journals for which i peer review that increased IF and rejection rate at the same time
The value of the impact factor for a particular journal should reveal the quality of the papers that it has published and this should be reflected on the probability for a future manuscript to be rejected. The higher the impact factor the higher probability of rejection.
Yes! Journals with high impact factor would usually take a considerable longer time to decide whether to accept or reject a manuscript. Acceptance could be really hard.
The best way to know about journals is to take out time to study their publication process.
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