See message below from Robert Welham, Royal Society of Chemistry Sally Morris, Secretary-General Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
Phone: 01903 871686 Fax: 01903 871457 E-mail: [email protected] ALPSP Website http://www.alpsp.org Learned Publishing is now online, free of charge, at www.learned-publishing.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "PUBDIR (shared)" <[email protected]> To: "Sally Morris (E-mail)" <[email protected]> Sent: 08 February 2001 15:13 Subject: Rejection Rates > Sally, I refer to your email on these. For most journals rejection rates > cluster around 50%. I believe that that is because the majority of authors > want to send their work to the most prestigious journal possible. On the > other hand they know that not everything they do is good enough for Nature. > So they use a number of journals and, unconsciously perhaps, send a > particular manuscript to the journal highest on their pecking order for > which it has an evens chance of being accepted. Rejection rates thus tend > to be around 50%. It's a sort of self-assessment exercise which the old > hands can get quite good at. > > The theory probably does not work for journals which get a lot of > contributions from "unprofessional" authors and I guess that is why it > begins to break down at the medical end where rejection rates go higher. > > Robert > Robert Welham, Director of Publishing > Royal Society of Chemistry, > Thomas Graham House, Science Park > Cambridge, CB4 0WF, UK > Tel: +44 (0) 1223 432323, Fax: +44 (0) 1223 423429 > email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Http://www.rsc.org <Http://www.rsc.org> and http://www.chemsoc.org > <http://www.chemsoc.org>
