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Time to publish? Turnaround times, acceptance rates, and impact factors of journals in fisheries science
Selecting a target journal is a universal decision faced by authors of scientific papers. Components of the decision, including expected turnaround time, journal acceptance rate, and journal impact factor, vary in terms of accessibility. In this study, I collated recent turnaround times and impact f...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8459974/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34555116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257841 |
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description | Selecting a target journal is a universal decision faced by authors of scientific papers. Components of the decision, including expected turnaround time, journal acceptance rate, and journal impact factor, vary in terms of accessibility. In this study, I collated recent turnaround times and impact factors for 82 journals that publish papers in the field of fisheries sciences. In addition, I gathered acceptance rates for the same journals when possible. Findings indicated clear among-journal differences in turnaround time, with median times-to-publication ranging from 79 to 323 days. There was no clear correlation between turnaround time and acceptance rate nor between turnaround time and impact factor; however, acceptance rate and impact factor were negatively correlated. I found no field-wide differences in turnaround time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, though some individual journals took significantly longer or significantly shorter to publish during the pandemic. Depending on their priorities, authors choosing a target journal should use the results of this study as guidance toward a more informed decision. |
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spelling | pubmed-84599742021-09-24 Time to publish? Turnaround times, acceptance rates, and impact factors of journals in fisheries science Runde, Brendan J. PLoS One Research Article Selecting a target journal is a universal decision faced by authors of scientific papers. Components of the decision, including expected turnaround time, journal acceptance rate, and journal impact factor, vary in terms of accessibility. In this study, I collated recent turnaround times and impact factors for 82 journals that publish papers in the field of fisheries sciences. In addition, I gathered acceptance rates for the same journals when possible. Findings indicated clear among-journal differences in turnaround time, with median times-to-publication ranging from 79 to 323 days. There was no clear correlation between turnaround time and acceptance rate nor between turnaround time and impact factor; however, acceptance rate and impact factor were negatively correlated. I found no field-wide differences in turnaround time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, though some individual journals took significantly longer or significantly shorter to publish during the pandemic. Depending on their priorities, authors choosing a target journal should use the results of this study as guidance toward a more informed decision. Public Library of Science 2021-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8459974/ /pubmed/34555116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257841 Text en © 2021 Brendan J. Runde https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Runde, Brendan J. Time to publish? Turnaround times, acceptance rates, and impact factors of journals in fisheries science |
title | Time to publish? Turnaround times, acceptance rates, and impact factors of journals in fisheries science |
title_full | Time to publish? Turnaround times, acceptance rates, and impact factors of journals in fisheries science |
title_fullStr | Time to publish? Turnaround times, acceptance rates, and impact factors of journals in fisheries science |
title_full_unstemmed | Time to publish? Turnaround times, acceptance rates, and impact factors of journals in fisheries science |
title_short | Time to publish? Turnaround times, acceptance rates, and impact factors of journals in fisheries science |
title_sort | time to publish? turnaround times, acceptance rates, and impact factors of journals in fisheries science |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8459974/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34555116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257841 |
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