Connecting the dots from submission to decision, the fate of scholarly papers Ian Potter Frankfurt Book Fair 2017 11 October 2017
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
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)
A story of growth 13
7000 14 In ~6,200 publications 6000 ScholarOne Sites Number of live ScholarOne sites 5000 4000 3000 2000 46.4% 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* 1000 2013 2014 2015
Manuscript submissions 15
16 2,000,000 In >1.9 million original submissions Number of manuscripts 1,500,000 1,000,000 500,000 Original submissions Re-submissions Revised submissions 2013 2014 2015
80 17 70 60 % of final decisions 50 40 30 Accept rate Reject rate Reject without Review rate 20 10 Change decline in the overall accept rate, matched with a slow rise in the reject without review rate 0 2013 2014 2015
Mapping to the Web of Science 18
19 72% of submissions to ScholarOne Manuscripts are to WoS indexed title indexed titles* submissions to Web of Science not indexed
20 >35% in top quartile journals not indexed quartile 1 quartile 4 quartile 2
2,000,000 21 1,800,000 1,600,000 Number of submissions 1,400,000 1,200,000 1,000,000 800,000 600,000 Non-Open Access Open Access SCI-E, SSCI, AHCI, ESCI 400,000 200,000 2.1% 2.8% 3.5% 3.9% 4.4% <5% Currently in gold OA titles 2013 2014 2015
The scope of current research 22
600,000 23 Number of original submissions 500,000 400,000 300,000 200,000 100,000 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
70,000 24 60,000 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
3000 2500 Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 25 2000 Critical Care Medicine % submission growth 1500 1000 Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 500 0 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
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
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
Making decisions 28
90 29 80 Accept rates vary across subjects 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 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)
30 39 38 Accept rates for gold OA slightly higher 37 36 % of final decisions 35 34 33 Accept No-OA Accept OA 32 31 30 29 2013 2014 2015
31 69 68 67 66 % of final decisions 65 64 63 No-OA OA 62 61 Reject rates for gold OA slightly lower 60 59 2013 2014 2015
32 44 42 40 % of final decisions 38 Reject without review rates don t differ No-OA OA 36 34 32 2013 2014 2015
33 80 Per cent of manuscript with a final decision 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 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
45 Accept rates higher for un-indexed content 34 40 Accept rate (% of final decisions) 35 30 2013 2014 2015 25 Accept rates lower for top quartile content 20 Not Indexed Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
35 75 70 Reject rate (% of final decisions) 65 60 2013 2014 2015 55 50 Not Indexed Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
60 36 Reject without review rate (% of final decisions) 50 40 30 20 10 2013 2014 2015 0 Not Indexed Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Decision times 37
38 200 Decision time varies considerably across subjects 150 100 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
Mean time from original submission to final decision (days) 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 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
Mean time from original submission to final decision (days) 40 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 Non-open access Open access 2013 2014 2015
41 160.0 Mean time from original submission to final decision (days) 150.0 140.0 130.0 120.0 110.0 100.0 90.0 not indexed quartile 4 quartile 2 quartile 3 quartile 1 Decision times improve overall quicker in upper impact quartiles 80.0 2013 2014 2015
Submissions by geography 42
0 G 012 ( 000s) 100% G Country rank Brazil6 Brazil6 % 6.0 % 6.0 Brazil6 % 6.0 Italy12 19 ItalyEgypt 4% 4% Egypt19 65. 74.3 46.8 0% Turkey11 India Iran5 70.1 74.3 31.7 82. 70.1 Iran Egypt19 3% 3 45% India 3% Iran5 India3 China2 65. -4. 3% 5% 122.8 67.4 16. 183.2 183.2 South Korea18 3 1% Taiwan 16 China2 India3 Australia8 83. 23.9 37.4 183.2 37.4 183.2 0% 29.2 30.6 70.1 Germany 74.3 122.8 57.6 0% 38.5 82. 65. 122.8 65. 122.8 47. 9-36 83. 83. 83. 52.7 42.7.1% 9% -4. 29.2 Turkey11 5% -4. Egypt19 70.1 Germany9 336.2 336.2 336.2 23. 17.1 5% 30.6 11 5 3% 5% 39. Turkey Iran 3% Taiwan16 30.6 12 52.7 23. 17.123. 24.4 23. 52.7 52.7 13.7 2 4. 42.7 17.1 42.7 3% Sweden20 74.3 4% 0% 6% 17.3 0% 91. 6% 38.5 Turkey11 82. 82. 24.4 24. 15. 124.4 5. 21.1 13.7 213.7 24. 100.5 4. 17.1 21.1 Sweden20Germany9 Germany9 46.8 38.5 6% 38.5 6% 17.3 2% 46.8 42.7 24.4 18. 13.7 336.5 336.5 21.1 3% 17 9.1 0% 47. 46.8 47. UK4 91. 17.3 Italy 31.7 91. 24% 31.7 UK4 2 56.2 Italy12 Netherlands 2 3% 45.7 12 9.1 0% 91. France14 UK 47. UK4 31.7 84.9 100.5 21.1 20 Sweden Sweden20 Netherlands17 4 17 9.1 21. 0% 45.7 21. 100.5 18. Netherlands % 2 17.3 Spain 13 37.8 4% 2 40.4 Brazil6 13 Spain 35.5 4% 21. 45.7 France14 84.9 18. 100.5 4% 41.8 35.5 84.9 4% 37.8 % 4% 6.0 21. 13 Spain 37.8 22. 22. 18. 15. 336.5 22. 22. 22. Netherlands 17 45.7 Spain France14 41.829.1 29.1 Canada 25. 2% 25. 84.9 275.2 275.2 336.5 22. 4% 2% 2% 15. 2% 9.1 G 33.3 14 35.5 235.5 2. 10 33.3 France 29.1 2% 22. 50.3 24. 275.2 2% 37.8 13 41.8 2141.8 35. 4% 67.8 33.3 29.1 USA1 67.8 13 100% 28.7 USA1 25. Canada10 28.7 0 67.8 USA1 33.3 USA 13 67.8 1 3% 28.7 Canada10 13 2% 40.5 2% 3% 28.7 24. 2% 50.3 40.5 275.2 3% subs ( 000s) subs ( 000s) 50.3 24. 50.3 3% rowth 100% ( 000s) 40.5 anada 10 rowth rowth 00s) 4. 2% 43 5% Sou China2 Japan7 China2 5% 5% Taiw
44 22.3% 336.5 336.2 Submission parity Between US and China in 2017 275.2 83.5% 74.3 122.8 183.2 65.3% 84.9 18.4% 100.5 82.0% 70.1 136.0% 38.5 28.7 67.8 USA 1 China 2 India 3 UK 4 Iran 5 Brazil 6
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
Decision rates by country 46
0 100 0 100 0 100 UK 4 Germany 9 0 100 Canada 10 0 100 0 100 China 2 Iran 5 USA 1 0 100 Japan 7 0 100 0 100 0 per cent of final decisions 100 India 3 0 per cent of final decisions 100 accept accept reject reject Brazil 6 0 100 rank Country reject with review Australia 8 rank Country reject with review
0 100 48 USA 1 0 100 201 6 China 2 0 100 India 3 0 100 UK 4 0 100 Iran 5 0 100 Brazil 6
Decision time by country 49
50 16.6 Canada 10 12.9 15.0 Germany 9 12.8 15.5 10.9 UK 4 11.8 11.5 China 2 9.7 Iran 5 6.5 12.5 11.9 1 Japan 7 12.9 USA 1 USA 1 12.9 15.4 11.6 India 3 7.8 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 6 9.7 11.9 15.6 11.8 Australia 9
51 15.4 12.9 USA 1 China 2 9.7 10.9 Decision times Quicker in emerging regions the effect of immediate rejections 11.6 7.8 India 3 15.5 11.8 UK 4 11.5 6.5 Iran 5 11.9 9.7 Brazil 6
21.0 52 18.1 18.9 Canada 10 Germany 9 19.4 21.7 17.5 UK 4 22.8 19.5 China 2 25.9 17.5 19.8 Iran 5 19.6 Japan 7 18.5 19.4 USA 1 26.8 19.9 India 3 21.8 19.8 Brazil 6 21.2 time to reject average for 24.4 Australia 9 18.0 rank Country time to accept average for 20.4
53 19.8 17.5 USA 1 22.8 19.5 China 2 26.8 19.9 India 3 21.7 17.5 UK 4 19.4 18.5 Japan 7 21.8 19.8 Brazil 6
Inter-journal transfer 54
Number of manuscripts ( ) 55 0 20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 manuscripts transferred transfers accepted for publication transfers rejected for publication transfers still pending 6.1% accepted 0 100 23.5% accept rate
The fate of rejected manuscripts 56
57 cohort of rejections 2014 37% published elsewhere as of April 2017 80 70 60 Citations 50 40 30 20 10 0 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 48 50 Number of documents
Reviewer demographics 58
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) 200,000 100,000 50,000 25,000 Number of reviews completed in (S1M Prod1) New Zealand 14,860 (25)
How many reviewers are needed? 60
75 55.8% in 2011 50 47.3% in
75 53.6% 50 in 2011 44.4% in 25
63 For every 10 reviewers selected... 8.5 were invited 4.4 agreed to review 4.2 completed their review
Space Science Engineering Biology & Biochemistry 64 5.5 4.4 3.8 Economics & Business Social Sciences, general Chemistry 5.1 4.3 3.8 Mathematics Plant & Animal Science Pharmacology & Toxicology 4.7 4.2 3.7 Computer Science Microbiology Agricultural Sciences 4.5 4.7 4.1 3.6 No Research Field Psychiatry/Psychology Multidisciplinary 4.5 4.1 3.5 Neuroscience & Behavior Clinical Medicine Environment/Ecology 4.4 4.1 3.4 Geosciences Molecular Biology & Genetics All 4.4 4.0 4.2 Physics Materials Science 4.4 3.9
25 Slower review in non Impact Factor journals 65 Time from reviewer agree to completion (days) 24 23 22 21 20 2013 2014 2015 19 Not categorized Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
How quickly do they review? 66
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 0.0 5.0 10.0 15.0 20.0 25.0 30.0 35.0 40.0 45.0 50.0 67
Which demographics contribute? 68
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 4.5 4 3.5 3 2.5 2 1.5 1 0.5 0 0 0.5 1 1.5
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submissiongrowth Canada 10 24.2% United Kingdom 4 18.4% Germany 9 23.3% Iran 5 82.0% China 2 83.5% 336.2 50.3 40.5 44.7% 100.5 84.9 47.3% 52.7 42.7 47.8% 70.1 38.5 12.9% 183.2 24.8% Submissions Decision rates Submissions Decision rates Submissions Decision rates Submissions Decision rates Submissions Decision rates 12.9 11.8 12.8 6.5 9.7 18.1 17.5 19.4 19.6 19.5 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 1 22.3% Brazil 6 136.0% India 3 65.3% Japan 7 16.9% Australia 8 39.1% 336.5 275.2 46.5% 67.8 28.7 25.8% 122.8 74.3 16.5% 67.4 57.6 45.2% 56.2 40.4 43.6% Submissions Decision rates Submissions Decision rates Submissions Decision rates Submissions Decision rates Submissions Decision rates 12.9 9.7 7.8 11.9 11.8 17.5 19.8 19.9 18.5 18.0 Decision times Decision times Decision times Decision times Decision times
40.8% -7.1% Not categorized 21.5 29.0 Quartile 1 15.6 29.1 29.0% -11.2% 18.5% 21% 17.7 25.6 13.4 28.1 weeks to review weeks to final decision weeks to accept Acceptrate change change 34.5% -12.2% Quartile 4 18.7 28.2 reject without review rate 17.5% 31.8% -11.7% Quartile 3 16.3 27.6 17.3 28.3 Quartile 2 17.3 29.2 33.8% -4.5% 22.9% 15.6% 14.9 27.8 15.2 28.3 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) 150 140 130 120 110 100 90 2013 2014 2015 Time from submission to acceptance (days) 205 200 195 190 185 180 175 170 2013 2014 2015 Time from reviewer agree to completion (days) 24 23 22 21 20 2013 2014 2015 80 Not categorized Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 165 Not categorized Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 19 Not categorized Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
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
Ian Potter, Global Business Development Manager, Publishing & Associations ian.potter@clarivate.com clarivate.com