Connecting the dots. from submission to decision, the fate of scholarly papers. Ian Potter Frankfurt Book Fair 2017.

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1 Connecting the dots from submission to decision, the fate of scholarly papers Ian Potter Frankfurt Book Fair October 2017

2 11 Manuscript authoring Peer Review Publication revision Submitted document Accepted manuscript Published article Decision Publication journal Peer review Rejected manuscript Measures of impact lost impact resubmission elsewhere

3 12 Some assumptions - This on an ongoing update of our Scholarly Publishing Insights data - Based on aggregated data from our submission and review platform - No publisher-level details are disclosed - Mapping to the Web of Science is to SCI-E and SSCI (for impact quartiles) - Data is based on submission year. Accept, reject rates are for manuscripts in that submission year cohort - Country is the country of the submitting author - WoS Category (of 252) and ESI Research Field (of 22) for any journal is the one in which it has the highest Impact Factor rank percentile (journals may be in more than one category)

4 A story of growth 13

5 In ~6,200 publications 6000 ScholarOne Sites Number of live ScholarOne sites % 47.3% 49.2% 50.7% 52.4% *SCI-E and SSCI only. and 52% are in the two main WoS editors S1M sites indexed in the Web of Science*

6 Manuscript submissions 15

7 16 2,000,000 In >1.9 million original submissions Number of manuscripts 1,500,000 1,000, ,000 Original submissions Re-submissions Revised submissions

8 % of final decisions Accept rate Reject rate Reject without Review rate Change decline in the overall accept rate, matched with a slow rise in the reject without review rate

9 Mapping to the Web of Science 18

10 19 72% of submissions to ScholarOne Manuscripts are to WoS indexed title indexed titles* submissions to Web of Science not indexed

11 20 >35% in top quartile journals not indexed quartile 1 quartile 4 quartile 2

12 2,000, ,800,000 1,600,000 Number of submissions 1,400,000 1,200,000 1,000, , ,000 Non-Open Access Open Access SCI-E, SSCI, AHCI, ESCI 400, , % 2.8% 3.5% 3.9% 4.4% <5% Currently in gold OA titles

13 The scope of current research 22

14 600, Number of original submissions 500, , , , ,000 Agricultural Sciences Biology & Biochemistry Chemistry Clinical Medicine Computer Science Economics & Business Engineering Environment/Ecology Geosciences Materials Science Mathematics Microbiology Molecular Biology & Genetics Multidisciplinary Neuroscience & Behavior Not indexxed Pharmacology & Toxicology Physics Plant & Animal Science Psychiatry/Psychology Social Sciences, general Space Science

15 70, ,000 Chemistry, multidisciplinary Materials Science, multidisciplinary 50,000 Annual original submissions ( 000s) 40,000 30,000 Engineering, electrical & electronic Environmental Sciences Food Science & Technology 20,000 10,000 ACOUSTICS AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY AGRONOMY ALLERGY ANATOMY & MORPHOLOGY ANDROLOGY ANESTHESIOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY AREA STUDIES ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION BIOLOGY BIOPHYSICS BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY BUSINESS BUSINESS, FINANCE CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS CELL & TISSUE ENGINEERING CELL BIOLOGY CHEMISTRY, ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, APPLIED CHEMISTRY, INORGANIC & NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY, MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL CLINICAL NEUROLOGY COMMUNICATION COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE, CYBERNETICS COMPUTER SCIENCE, HARDWARE & ARCHITECTURE COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE CRYSTALLOGRAPHY CULTURAL STUDIES DEMOGRAPHY DENTISTRY, ORAL SURGERY & MEDICINE DERMATOLOGY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY ECOLOGY ECONOMICS EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES EDUCATION, SPECIAL ELECTROCHEMISTRY EMERGENCY MEDICINE ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM ENERGY & FUELS ENGINEERING, AEROSPACE ENGINEERING, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, CIVIL ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING, MARINE ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING, OCEAN ENGINEERING, PETROLEUM ENTOMOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ERGONOMICS ETHICS ETHNIC STUDIES EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY FAMILY STUDIES FISHERIES FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FORESTRY GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY GENETICS & HEREDITY GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS GEOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL GEOLOGY GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY GERONTOLOGY GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES HEMATOLOGY HISTORY HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES HORTICULTURE HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM IMAGING SCIENCE & PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE INSTRUMENTS & INSTRUMENTATION INTEGRATIVE & COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS LAW LIMNOLOGY LINGUISTICS LOGIC MANAGEMENT MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS MATERIALS SCIENCE, CERAMICS MATERIALS SCIENCE, CHARACTERIZATION & TESTING MATERIALS SCIENCE, COATINGS & FILMS MATERIALS SCIENCE, COMPOSITES MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY MATERIALS SCIENCE, PAPER & WOOD MATERIALS SCIENCE, TEXTILES MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS, APPLIED MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS MECHANICS MEDICAL ETHICS MEDICAL INFORMATICS MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL MEDICINE, LEGAL MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL METALLURGY & METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES MICROBIOLOGY MICROSCOPY MINING & MINERAL PROCESSING MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES MYCOLOGY NANOSCIENCE & NANOTECHNOLOGY NEUROSCIENCES NUCLEAR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY NURSING NUTRITION & DIETETICS OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY OCEANOGRAPHY ONCOLOGY OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE OPHTHALMOLOGY OPTICS ORNITHOLOGY ORTHOPEDICS OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY PALEONTOLOGY PARASITOLOGY PATHOLOGY PEDIATRICS PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY PHYSICS, APPLIED PHYSICS, ATOMIC, MOLECULAR & CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, FLUIDS & PLASMAS PHYSICS, MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY PHYSICS, NUCLEAR PHYSICS, PARTICLES & FIELDS PHYSIOLOGY PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT PLANT SCIENCES POLITICAL SCIENCE POLYMER SCIENCE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PSYCHIATRY PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING REHABILITATION REMOTE SENSING REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY RESPIRATORY SYSTEM RHEUMATOLOGY ROBOTICS SOCIAL ISSUES SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS SOCIAL WORK SOCIOLOGY SOIL SCIENCE SPECTROSCOPY SPORT SCIENCES STATISTICS & PROBABILITY SUBSTANCE ABUSE SURGERY TELECOMMUNICATIONS THERMODYNAMICS TOXICOLOGY TRANSPLANTATION TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY TROPICAL MEDICINE URBAN STUDIES UROLOGY & NEPHROLOGY VETERINARY SCIENCES VIROLOGY WATER RESOURCES WOMENS STUDIES ZOOLOGY Medicine, general & internal Management

16 Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Critical Care Medicine % submission growth Nanoscience & Nanotechnology ACOUSTICS AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY AGRONOMY ALLERGY ANATOMY & MORPHOLOGY ANDROLOGY ANESTHESIOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY AREA STUDIES ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION BIOLOGY BIOPHYSICS BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY BUSINESS BUSINESS, FINANCE CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS CELL & TISSUE ENGINEERING CELL BIOLOGY CHEMISTRY, ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, APPLIED CHEMISTRY, INORGANIC & NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY, MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL CLINICAL NEUROLOGY COMMUNICATION COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE, CYBERNETICS COMPUTER SCIENCE, HARDWARE & ARCHITECTURE COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE CRYSTALLOGRAPHY CULTURAL STUDIES DEMOGRAPHY DENTISTRY, ORAL SURGERY & MEDICINE DERMATOLOGY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY ECOLOGY ECONOMICS EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES EDUCATION, SPECIAL ELECTROCHEMISTRY EMERGENCY MEDICINE ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM ENERGY & FUELS ENGINEERING, AEROSPACE ENGINEERING, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, CIVIL ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING, MARINE ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING, OCEAN ENGINEERING, PETROLEUM ENTOMOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ERGONOMICS ETHICS ETHNIC STUDIES EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY FAMILY STUDIES FISHERIES FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FORESTRY GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY GENETICS & HEREDITY GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS GEOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL GEOLOGY GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY GERONTOLOGY GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES HEMATOLOGY HISTORY HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES HORTICULTURE HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM IMAGING SCIENCE & PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE INSTRUMENTS & INSTRUMENTATION INTEGRATIVE & COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS LAW LIMNOLOGY LINGUISTICS LOGIC MANAGEMENT MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS MATERIALS SCIENCE, CERAMICS MATERIALS SCIENCE, CHARACTERIZATION & TESTING MATERIALS SCIENCE, COATINGS & FILMS MATERIALS SCIENCE, COMPOSITES MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY MATERIALS SCIENCE, PAPER & WOOD MATERIALS SCIENCE, TEXTILES MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS, APPLIED MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS MECHANICS MEDICAL ETHICS MEDICAL INFORMATICS MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL MEDICINE, LEGAL MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL METALLURGY & METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES MICROBIOLOGY MICROSCOPY MINING & MINERAL PROCESSING MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES MYCOLOGY NANOSCIENCE & NANOTECHNOLOGY NEUROSCIENCES NUCLEAR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY NURSING NUTRITION & DIETETICS OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY OCEANOGRAPHY ONCOLOGY OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE OPHTHALMOLOGY OPTICS ORNITHOLOGY ORTHOPEDICS OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY PALEONTOLOGY PARASITOLOGY PATHOLOGY PEDIATRICS PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY PHYSICS, APPLIED PHYSICS, ATOMIC, MOLECULAR & CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, FLUIDS & PLASMAS PHYSICS, MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY PHYSICS, NUCLEAR PHYSICS, PARTICLES & FIELDS PHYSIOLOGY PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT PLANT SCIENCES POLITICAL SCIENCE POLYMER SCIENCE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PSYCHIATRY PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING REHABILITATION REMOTE SENSING REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY RESPIRATORY SYSTEM RHEUMATOLOGY ROBOTICS SOCIAL ISSUES SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS SOCIAL WORK SOCIOLOGY SOIL SCIENCE SPECTROSCOPY SPORT SCIENCES STATISTICS & PROBABILITY SUBSTANCE ABUSE SURGERY TELECOMMUNICATIONS THERMODYNAMICS TOXICOLOGY TRANSPLANTATION TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY TROPICAL MEDICINE URBAN STUDIES UROLOGY & NEPHROLOGY VETERINARY SCIENCES VIROLOGY WATER RESOURCES WOMENS STUDIES ZOOLOGY Energy & Fuels Materials Science, biomaterials

17 26 70,000 Annual original submissions ( 000s) 60,000 50,000 40,000 30,000 Polymer science Physics, atomic, molecular & chemical Spectroscopy Chemistry, analytical Chemistry, applied Chemistry, inorganic & nuclear Chemistry, medicinal 20,000 Materials science, textiles Chemistry Chemistry, multidisciplinary 10,000 ACOUSTICS AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY AGRONOMY ALLERGY ANATOMY & MORPHOLOGY ANDROLOGY ANESTHESIOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY AREA STUDIES ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION BIOLOGY BIOPHYSICS BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY BUSINESS BUSINESS, FINANCE CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS CELL & TISSUE ENGINEERING CELL BIOLOGY CHEMISTRY, ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, APPLIED CHEMISTRY, INORGANIC & NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY, MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL CLINICAL NEUROLOGY COMMUNICATION COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE, CYBERNETICS COMPUTER SCIENCE, HARDWARE & ARCHITECTURE COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE CRYSTALLOGRAPHY CULTURAL STUDIES DEMOGRAPHY DENTISTRY, ORAL SURGERY & MEDICINE DERMATOLOGY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY ECOLOGY ECONOMICS EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES EDUCATION, SPECIAL ELECTROCHEMISTRY EMERGENCY MEDICINE ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM ENERGY & FUELS ENGINEERING, AEROSPACE ENGINEERING, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, CIVIL ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING, MARINE ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING, OCEAN ENGINEERING, PETROLEUM ENTOMOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ERGONOMICS ETHICS ETHNIC STUDIES EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY FAMILY STUDIES FISHERIES FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FORESTRY GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY GENETICS & HEREDITY GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS GEOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL GEOLOGY GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY GERONTOLOGY GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES HEMATOLOGY HISTORY HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES HORTICULTURE HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM IMAGING SCIENCE & PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE INSTRUMENTS & INSTRUMENTATION INTEGRATIVE & COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS LAW LIMNOLOGY LINGUISTICS LOGIC MANAGEMENT MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS MATERIALS SCIENCE, CERAMICS MATERIALS SCIENCE, CHARACTERIZATION & TESTING MATERIALS SCIENCE, COATINGS & FILMS MATERIALS SCIENCE, COMPOSITES MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY MATERIALS SCIENCE, PAPER & WOOD MATERIALS SCIENCE, TEXTILES MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS, APPLIED MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS MECHANICS MEDICAL ETHICS MEDICAL INFORMATICS MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL MEDICINE, LEGAL MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL METALLURGY & METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES MICROBIOLOGY MICROSCOPY MINING & MINERAL PROCESSING MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES MYCOLOGY NANOSCIENCE & NANOTECHNOLOGY NEUROSCIENCES NUCLEAR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY NURSING NUTRITION & DIETETICS OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY OCEANOGRAPHY ONCOLOGY OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE OPHTHALMOLOGY OPTICS ORNITHOLOGY ORTHOPEDICS OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY PALEONTOLOGY PARASITOLOGY PATHOLOGY PEDIATRICS PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY PHYSICS, APPLIED PHYSICS, ATOMIC, MOLECULAR & CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, FLUIDS & PLASMAS PHYSICS, MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY PHYSICS, NUCLEAR PHYSICS, PARTICLES & FIELDS PHYSIOLOGY PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT PLANT SCIENCES POLITICAL SCIENCE POLYMER SCIENCE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PSYCHIATRY PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING REHABILITATION REMOTE SENSING REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY RESPIRATORY SYSTEM RHEUMATOLOGY ROBOTICS SOCIAL ISSUES SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS SOCIAL WORK SOCIOLOGY SOIL SCIENCE SPECTROSCOPY SPORT SCIENCES STATISTICS & PROBABILITY SUBSTANCE ABUSE SURGERY TELECOMMUNICATIONS THERMODYNAMICS TOXICOLOGY TRANSPLANTATION TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY TROPICAL MEDICINE URBAN STUDIES UROLOGY & NEPHROLOGY VETERINARY SCIENCES VIROLOGY WATER RESOURCES WOMENS STUDIES ZOOLOGY Engineering, chemical Electrochemistry Crystallography Chemistry, physical Chemistry, organic

18 27 70,000 60,000 50,000 Automation & control systems Construction & building technology Engineering, aerospace Engineering, civil Engineering, electrical & electronic Annual original submissions ( 000s) 40,000 30,000 20,000 10,000 Operations research & management science Physics, applied Remote sensing Thermodynamics Robotics Transportation science & technology Water resources Energy & fuels Physics, fluids & plasmas Nuclear science & technology Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Mechanics Engineering ACOUSTICS AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY AGRONOMY ALLERGY ANATOMY & MORPHOLOGY ANDROLOGY ANESTHESIOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY AREA STUDIES ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION BIOLOGY BIOPHYSICS BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY BUSINESS BUSINESS, FINANCE CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS CELL & TISSUE ENGINEERING CELL BIOLOGY CHEMISTRY, ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, APPLIED CHEMISTRY, INORGANIC & NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY, MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL CLINICAL NEUROLOGY COMMUNICATION COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE, CYBERNETICS COMPUTER SCIENCE, HARDWARE & ARCHITECTURE COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE CRYSTALLOGRAPHY CULTURAL STUDIES DEMOGRAPHY DENTISTRY, ORAL SURGERY & MEDICINE DERMATOLOGY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY ECOLOGY ECONOMICS EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES EDUCATION, SPECIAL ELECTROCHEMISTRY EMERGENCY MEDICINE ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM ENERGY & FUELS ENGINEERING, AEROSPACE ENGINEERING, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, CIVIL ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING, MARINE ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING, OCEAN ENGINEERING, PETROLEUM ENTOMOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ERGONOMICS ETHICS ETHNIC STUDIES EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY FAMILY STUDIES FISHERIES FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FORESTRY GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY GENETICS & HEREDITY GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS GEOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL GEOLOGY GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY GERONTOLOGY GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES HEMATOLOGY HISTORY HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES HORTICULTURE HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM IMAGING SCIENCE & PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE INSTRUMENTS & INSTRUMENTATION INTEGRATIVE & COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS LAW LIMNOLOGY LINGUISTICS LOGIC MANAGEMENT MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS MATERIALS SCIENCE, CERAMICS MATERIALS SCIENCE, CHARACTERIZATION & TESTING MATERIALS SCIENCE, COATINGS & FILMS MATERIALS SCIENCE, COMPOSITES MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY MATERIALS SCIENCE, PAPER & WOOD MATERIALS SCIENCE, TEXTILES MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS, APPLIED MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS MECHANICS MEDICAL ETHICS MEDICAL INFORMATICS MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL MEDICINE, LEGAL MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL METALLURGY & METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES MICROBIOLOGY MICROSCOPY MINING & MINERAL PROCESSING MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES MYCOLOGY NANOSCIENCE & NANOTECHNOLOGY NEUROSCIENCES NUCLEAR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY NURSING NUTRITION & DIETETICS OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY OCEANOGRAPHY ONCOLOGY OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE OPHTHALMOLOGY OPTICS ORNITHOLOGY ORTHOPEDICS OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY PALEONTOLOGY PARASITOLOGY PATHOLOGY PEDIATRICS PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY PHYSICS, APPLIED PHYSICS, ATOMIC, MOLECULAR & CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, FLUIDS & PLASMAS PHYSICS, MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY PHYSICS, NUCLEAR PHYSICS, PARTICLES & FIELDS PHYSIOLOGY PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT PLANT SCIENCES POLITICAL SCIENCE POLYMER SCIENCE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PSYCHIATRY PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING REHABILITATION REMOTE SENSING REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY RESPIRATORY SYSTEM RHEUMATOLOGY ROBOTICS SOCIAL ISSUES SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS SOCIAL WORK SOCIOLOGY SOIL SCIENCE SPECTROSCOPY SPORT SCIENCES STATISTICS & PROBABILITY SUBSTANCE ABUSE SURGERY TELECOMMUNICATIONS THERMODYNAMICS TOXICOLOGY TRANSPLANTATION TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY TROPICAL MEDICINE URBAN STUDIES UROLOGY & NEPHROLOGY VETERINARY SCIENCES VIROLOGY WATER RESOURCES WOMENS STUDIES ZOOLOGY Mathematics, interdisciplinary applications Mathematics, applied Materials science, chraracterization & testing Instruments & instrumentation Green & sustainable science & technology Ergonomics Engineering, petroleum Engineering, geological Engineering, industrial Engineering, manufacturing Engineering, marine Engineering, mechanical Engineering, multidisciplinary Engineering, ocean

19 Making decisions 28

20 Accept rates vary across subjects ACOUSTICS AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY AGRONOMY ALLERGY ANATOMY & MORPHOLOGY ANDROLOGY ANESTHESIOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY AREA STUDIES ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION BIOLOGY BIOPHYSICS BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY BUSINESS BUSINESS, FINANCE CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS CELL & TISSUE ENGINEERING CELL BIOLOGY CHEMISTRY, ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, APPLIED CHEMISTRY, INORGANIC & NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY, MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL CLINICAL NEUROLOGY COMMUNICATION COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE, CYBERNETICS COMPUTER SCIENCE, HARDWARE & ARCHITECTURE COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE CRYSTALLOGRAPHY CULTURAL STUDIES DEMOGRAPHY DENTISTRY, ORAL SURGERY & MEDICINE DERMATOLOGY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY ECOLOGY ECONOMICS EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES EDUCATION, SPECIAL ELECTROCHEMISTRY EMERGENCY MEDICINE ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM ENERGY & FUELS ENGINEERING, AEROSPACE ENGINEERING, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, CIVIL ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING, MARINE ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING, OCEAN ENGINEERING, PETROLEUM ENTOMOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ERGONOMICS ETHICS ETHNIC STUDIES EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY FAMILY STUDIES FISHERIES FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FORESTRY GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY GENETICS & HEREDITY GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS GEOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL GEOLOGY GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY GERONTOLOGY GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES HEMATOLOGY HISTORY HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES HORTICULTURE HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM IMAGING SCIENCE & PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE INSTRUMENTS & INSTRUMENTATION INTEGRATIVE & COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS LAW LIMNOLOGY LINGUISTICS LOGIC MANAGEMENT MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS MATERIALS SCIENCE, CERAMICS MATERIALS SCIENCE, CHARACTERIZATION & TESTING MATERIALS SCIENCE, COATINGS & FILMS MATERIALS SCIENCE, COMPOSITES MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY MATERIALS SCIENCE, PAPER & WOOD MATERIALS SCIENCE, TEXTILES MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS, APPLIED MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS MECHANICS MEDICAL ETHICS MEDICAL INFORMATICS MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL MEDICINE, LEGAL MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL METALLURGY & METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES MICROBIOLOGY MICROSCOPY MINING & MINERAL PROCESSING MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES MYCOLOGY NANOSCIENCE & NANOTECHNOLOGY NEUROSCIENCES NUCLEAR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY NURSING NUTRITION & DIETETICS OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY OCEANOGRAPHY ONCOLOGY OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE OPHTHALMOLOGY OPTICS ORNITHOLOGY ORTHOPEDICS OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY PALEONTOLOGY PARASITOLOGY PATHOLOGY PEDIATRICS PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY PHYSICS, APPLIED PHYSICS, ATOMIC, MOLECULAR & CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, FLUIDS & PLASMAS PHYSICS, MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY PHYSICS, NUCLEAR PHYSICS, PARTICLES & FIELDS PHYSIOLOGY PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT PLANT SCIENCES POLITICAL SCIENCE POLYMER SCIENCE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PSYCHIATRY PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING REHABILITATION REMOTE SENSING REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY RESPIRATORY SYSTEM RHEUMATOLOGY ROBOTICS SOCIAL ISSUES SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS SOCIAL WORK SOCIOLOGY SOIL SCIENCE SPECTROSCOPY SPORT SCIENCES STATISTICS & PROBABILITY SUBSTANCE ABUSE SURGERY TELECOMMUNICATIONS THERMODYNAMICS TOXICOLOGY TRANSPLANTATION TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY TROPICAL MEDICINE URBAN STUDIES UROLOGY & NEPHROLOGY VETERINARY SCIENCES VIROLOGY WATER RESOURCES WOMENS STUDIES ZOOLOGY Accept rate (% final decisions)

21 Accept rates for gold OA slightly higher % of final decisions Accept No-OA Accept OA

22 % of final decisions No-OA OA Reject rates for gold OA slightly lower

23 % of final decisions 38 Reject without review rates don t differ No-OA OA

24 33 80 Per cent of manuscript with a final decision accept rate reject without review rate Agricultural Sciences Biology & Biochemistry Chemistry Clinical Medicine Computer Science Economics & Business Engineering Environment/Ecology Geosciences Materials Science Mathematics Microbiology Molecular Biology & Genetics Multidisciplinary Neuroscience & Behavior Not indexed Pharmacology & Toxicology Physics Plant & Animal Science Psychiatry/Psychology Social Sciences, general Space Science Average

25 45 Accept rates higher for un-indexed content Accept rate (% of final decisions) Accept rates lower for top quartile content 20 Not Indexed Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

26 Reject rate (% of final decisions) Not Indexed Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

27 60 36 Reject without review rate (% of final decisions) Not Indexed Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

28 Decision times 37

29 Decision time varies considerably across subjects WOMEN'S STUDIES 50 ENGINEERING, MARINE LIMNOLOGY SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE ENGINEERING, PETROLEUM TRANSPORTATION HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL ENGINEERING, AEROSPACE AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY BUSINESS, FINANCE GEOGRAPHY SOCIAL WORK ERGONOMICS WOMEN'S STUDIES ENGINEERING, MARINE LIMNOLOGY SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE ENGINEERING, PETROLEUM TRANSPORTATION HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL ENGINEERING, AEROSPACE AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY BUSINESS, FINANCE GEOGRAPHY SOCIAL WORK ERGONOMICS PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL STATISTICS & PROBABILITY MATERIALS SCIENCE, COATINGS & FILMS AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS ANTHROPOLOGY CULTURAL STUDIES COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ECONOMICS MANAGEMENT REHABILITATION URBAN STUDIES SOCIOLOGY GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL ROBOTICS COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION GEOLOGY COMPUTER SCIENCE, CYBERNETICS METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES SOCIAL ISSUES COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING HISTORY PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS FORESTRY AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY ENGINEERING, CIVIL IMAGING SCIENCE & PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES BUSINESS ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS SCIENCE, CHARACTERIZATION & TESTING GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY WATER RESOURCES MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS, APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL FAMILY STUDIES LINGUISTICS AREA STUDIES Not Found EDUCATION, SPECIAL EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY PALEONTOLOGY CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC OCEANOGRAPHY TELECOMMUNICATIONS MATERIALS SCIENCE, COMPOSITES MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE POLITICAL SCIENCE GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR ETHNIC STUDIES ENGINEERING, OCEAN PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY ORNITHOLOGY FISHERIES PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY COMMUNICATION HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Average MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS INTEGRATIVE & COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE MATERIALS SCIENCE, TEXTILES INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL MINING & MINERAL PROCESSING SOIL SCIENCE THERMODYNAMICS VETERINARY SCIENCES SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY MECHANICS HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING MINERALOGY PSYCHOLOGY AGRONOMY ZOOLOGY REMOTE SENSING PSYCHOLOGY, MATHEMATICAL MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY DEMOGRAPHY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS PRIMARY HEALTH CARE ETHICS EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE MEDICINE, LEGAL REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY METALLURGY & METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING SUBSTANCE ABUSE ENERGY & FUELS LOGIC NURSING SPORT SCIENCES BIOLOGY LAW ENGINEERING, BIOMEDICAL GERONTOLOGY ENTOMOLOGY EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY ENGINEERING, CHEMICAL MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY NUCLEAR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PHYSICS, FLUIDS & PLASMAS PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH ECOLOGY PSYCHIATRY PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL ACOUSTICS FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL PLANT SCIENCES OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY CELL & TISSUE ENGINEERING BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES PHYSICS, PARTICLES & FIELDS PHYSICS, MATHEMATICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE, HARDWARE & ARCHITECTURE MEDICAL ETHICS PHYSICS, CONDENSED MATTER RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING ORTHOPEDICS VIROLOGY NEUROSCIENCES OPHTHALMOLOGY PHYSIOLOGY ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS SCIENCE, CERAMICS BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS INSTRUMENTS & INSTRUMENTATION PARASITOLOGY MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES NUTRITION & DIETETICS MICROBIOLOGY AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY SURGERY MICROSCOPY MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY, APPLIED CLINICAL NEUROLOGY PHYSICS, APPLIED PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY CHEMISTRY, INORGANIC & NUCLEAR RHEUMATOLOGY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY MEDICAL INFORMATICS RESPIRATORY SYSTEM GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY SPECTROSCOPY PHYSICS, NUCLEAR CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE PEDIATRICS BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY TROPICAL MEDICINE CELL BIOLOGY BIOPHYSICS INFECTIOUS DISEASES HEMATOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY ANATOMY & MORPHOLOGY OPTICS MATERIALS SCIENCE, PAPER & WOOD ANDROLOGY PATHOLOGY ALLERGY CHEMISTRY, ANALYTICAL MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL ONCOLOGY TRANSPLANTATION CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY GENETICS & HEREDITY ANESTHESIOLOGY POLYMER SCIENCE ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM DERMATOLOGY DENTISTRY, ORAL SURGERY & MEDICINE EMERGENCY MEDICINE GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY MYCOLOGY CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC UROLOGY & NEPHROLOGY PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE TOXICOLOGY CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL PHYSICS, ATOMIC, MOLECULAR & CHEMICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY CHEMISTRY, MEDICINAL MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS NANOSCIENCE & NANOTECHNOLOGY HORTICULTURE EMERGENCY MEDICINE GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY MYCOLOGY CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC UROLOGY & NEPHROLOGY PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE TOXICOLOGY CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL PHYSICS, ATOMIC, MOLECULAR & CHEMICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY CHEMISTRY, MEDICINAL MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS NANOSCIENCE & NANOTECHNOLOGY HORTICULTURE

30 Mean time from original submission to final decision (days) Non-open access Open access 39 Agricultural Sciences Biology & Biochemistry Chemistry Clinical Medicine Computer Science Economics & Business Engineering Environment/Ecology Geosciences Materials Science Mathematics Microbiology Molecular Biology & Genetics Multidisciplinary Neuroscience & Behavior Not Found Pharmacology & Toxicology Physics Plant & Animal Science Psychiatry/Psychology Social Sciences, general Space Science Decision time Generally longer for non-oa

31 Mean time from original submission to final decision (days) Non-open access Open access

32 Mean time from original submission to final decision (days) not indexed quartile 4 quartile 2 quartile 3 quartile 1 Decision times improve overall quicker in upper impact quartiles

33 Submissions by geography 42

34 0 G 012 ( 000s) 100% G Country rank Brazil6 Brazil6 % 6.0 % 6.0 Brazil6 % 6.0 Italy12 19 ItalyEgypt 4% 4% Egypt % Turkey11 India Iran Iran Egypt19 3% 3 45% India 3% Iran5 India3 China % 5% South Korea18 3 1% Taiwan 16 China2 India3 Australia % Germany % % 9% Turkey11 5% -4. Egypt Germany % % 5% 39. Turkey Iran 3% Taiwan % Sweden % 0% 6% % 91. 6% 38.5 Turkey Sweden20Germany9 Germany % % % % % UK Italy % 31.7 UK Italy12 Netherlands 2 3% % 91. France14 UK 47. UK Sweden Sweden20 Netherlands % Netherlands % Spain % Brazil6 13 Spain % France % % 37.8 % 4% Spain Netherlands Spain France Canada 25. 2% % 2% 2% 15. 2% 9.1 G France % % % USA % 28.7 USA1 25. Canada USA USA % 28.7 Canada % % 3% % % subs ( 000s) subs ( 000s) % rowth 100% ( 000s) 40.5 anada 10 rowth rowth 00s) 4. 2% 43 5% Sou China2 Japan7 China2 5% 5% Taiw

35 % Submission parity Between US and China in % % % % % USA 1 China 2 India 3 UK 4 Iran 5 Brazil 6

36 45 Decline in proportion of global submissions Increase in proportion of global submissions 6.3% 5.3% 20.5% 17.6% UK 4 2.9% 3.7% 13.7% 17.6% USA 1 Iran 5 China 2 2.1% 3.5% Japan 7 2.1% 3.5% 5.5% 6.4% share share Brazil 6 India 3 rank Country

37 Decision rates by country 46

38 UK 4 Germany Canada China 2 Iran 5 USA Japan per cent of final decisions 100 India 3 0 per cent of final decisions 100 accept accept reject reject Brazil rank Country reject with review Australia 8 rank Country reject with review

39 USA China India UK Iran Brazil 6

40 Decision time by country 49

41 Canada Germany UK China Iran Japan USA 1 USA India first decision first decision rank Country rank Country 1 week 1 week 8.5 weeks average for average for 12.6 weeks final decision 8.5 weeks 12.6 weeks final decision Brazil Australia 9

42 USA 1 China Decision times Quicker in emerging regions the effect of immediate rejections India UK Iran Brazil 6

43 Canada 10 Germany UK China Iran Japan USA India Brazil time to reject average for 24.4 Australia rank Country time to accept average for 20.4

44 USA China India UK Japan Brazil 6

45 Inter-journal transfer 54

46 Number of manuscripts ( ) ,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 manuscripts transferred transfers accepted for publication transfers rejected for publication transfers still pending 6.1% accepted % accept rate

47 The fate of rejected manuscripts 56

48 57 cohort of rejections % published elsewhere as of April Citations Number of documents

49 Reviewer demographics 58

50 Netherlands 35,884 (13) Denmark 16,749 (21) Germany 87,207 (7) Sweden 26,396 (17) Canada 84,476 (8) UK 223,567 (3) Belgium 16,403 (22) Poland 15,082 (24) Turkey 27,868 (16) China 191,190 (4) South Korea 33,504 (14) USA 776,558 (1) France 50,630 (11) Portugal 14,710 (26) Spain 50,511 (12) Switzerland 22,173 (18) Italy 73,886 (9) Iran 18,919 (19) Japan 132,266 (5) Hong Kong 15,502 (23) Singapore 17,425 (20) Brazil 30,559 (15) India 54,961 (10) No Country 295,037 (2) Australia 88,365 (6) 200, ,000 50,000 25,000 Number of reviews completed in (S1M Prod1) New Zealand 14,860 (25)

51 How many reviewers are needed? 60

52 % in % in

53 % 50 in % in 25

54 63 For every 10 reviewers selected were invited 4.4 agreed to review 4.2 completed their review

55 Space Science Engineering Biology & Biochemistry Economics & Business Social Sciences, general Chemistry Mathematics Plant & Animal Science Pharmacology & Toxicology Computer Science Microbiology Agricultural Sciences No Research Field Psychiatry/Psychology Multidisciplinary Neuroscience & Behavior Clinical Medicine Environment/Ecology Geosciences Molecular Biology & Genetics All Physics Materials Science

56 25 Slower review in non Impact Factor journals 65 Time from reviewer agree to completion (days) Not categorized Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

57 How quickly do they review? 66

58 Mathematics Economics & Business Computer Science Engineering Social Sciences, general Geosciences Psychiatry/Psychology Not Categorized Environment/Ecology Multidisciplinary Agricultural Sciences Plant & Animal Science Space Science Physics Neuroscience & Behavior Materials Science Microbiology Clinical Medicine Chemistry Biology & Biochemistry Molecular Biology & Genetics Pharmacology & Toxicology

59 Which demographics contribute? 68

60 69 Selected reviewers/submission (including revisions) Completed reviews/submission United States United Kingdom China Japan Canada Germany Australia Italy India France Spain Netherlands South Korea Brazil Sweden Turkey Switzerland Iran Belgium Denmark Singapore Portugal New Zealand Poland Norway Hong Kong

61 The story so far 70

62 submissiongrowth Canada % United Kingdom % Germany % Iran % China % % % % % % Submissions Decision rates Submissions Decision rates Submissions Decision rates Submissions Decision rates Submissions Decision rates Decision times Decision times Decision times Decision times Decision times submission rank Country acceptrate reject without review rate Submissions ( 000s) Decision rates (%) first decision to reject weeks to final decision to accept Decision times USA % Brazil % India % Japan % Australia % % % % % % Submissions Decision rates Submissions Decision rates Submissions Decision rates Submissions Decision rates Submissions Decision rates Decision times Decision times Decision times Decision times Decision times

63 40.8% -7.1% Not categorized Quartile % -11.2% 18.5% 21% weeks to review weeks to final decision weeks to accept Acceptrate change change 34.5% -12.2% Quartile reject without review rate 17.5% 31.8% -11.7% Quartile Quartile % -4.5% 22.9% 15.6% Number of days from submission to any final decision 160 Number of days from submission to acceptance 210 Number of days for reviewers to complete their reviews 25 Time from submission to final decision (days) Time from submission to acceptance (days) Time from reviewer agree to completion (days) Not categorized Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 165 Not categorized Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 19 Not categorized Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

64 73 Submission growth across the board concentrated in emerging regions and subjects but they don t contribute reviewers Decision Manuscript authoring Submitted document Peer Review revision Accept rates higher for gold OA and content not in SCI-E/SSCI downward trend Accepted manuscript Published article Publication Impact time to final decision quicker in higher quartiles times vary by subject and faster in upper impact quartiles Peer review Decision Rejected manuscript Measures of impact Publication journal Accept rates lower in higher quartiles reject without review rates higher Time to accept consistent lost impact review quicker in higher quartiles resubmission elsewhere Rejects ~37% appeared in another title Reject rates lower for gold OA and content not in SCI-E/SSCI upward trend

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