On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Jim Till wrote: > Have the results for this question been cross-tabulated, to see whether or > not rejection rates are consistently higher for journals in some fields, > in comparison with journals in other fields?
No doubt there will be rejection-rate differences between fields (and some of it will be a function of sheer volume of research). But of at least as much interest are differences in rejection-rate within fields. For, the Gaussian Distribution of human endeavor being what it is, it seems to be a foregone conclusion that the more rigorous a journal is in accepting only the very best work, the higher its content quality is bound to be. How closely this correlates with other measures, such as impact, will also be of interest. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stevan Harnad [email protected] Professor of Cognitive Science [email protected] Department of Electronics and phone: +44 23-80 592-582 Computer Science fax: +44 23-80 592-865 University of Southampton http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ Highfield, Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
