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It's also interesting to note that rejection/acceptance rate has no correlation with the Journal Impact Factor™ (but then JIF is also a rather silly and dubious calculation too, so I'm less certain about what the non-correlation really tells us. Noteable nonetheless, particularly for JIF-worshippers of which I am not one)
https://rossmounce.co.uk/2016/01/15/why-do-we-rejoice-in-rejecting-perfectly-valid-research/
#RejectionRate #AcceptanceRate
Why do we rejoice in rejecting perfectly valid research? - Ross Mounce
This has done the rounds on Twitter a lot recently, and justifiably-so but just in case you haven’t seen it yet… I thought I’d quickly blog about this excellent graph published on a FrontiersIn blog late last year (source/credit: http://blog.frontiersin.org/2015/12/21/4782/ ) With data from 570 different journals, it appears to demonstrate that rejection rate (the percentage of […]
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