LINGUIST List 17.3700
Thu Dec 14 2006
Sum: Journal Acceptance Rates: Responses
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Journal Acceptance Rates: Responses
Message 1: Journal Acceptance Rates: Responses
Date: 11-Dec-2006
From: Ash Asudeh <ash_asudehcarleton.ca>
Subject: Journal Acceptance Rates: Responses
Query for this summary posted in LINGUIST Issue:
17.3534
Regarding Query: http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-3534.html
A short while ago, I posted a query asking about sources for informationabout journal acceptance rates.
I received the following suggestions:
1. The MLA Directory of Periodicals (often bundled with the MLAInternational Bibliography) lists relevant information for most language andlinguistics journals. (They list number of articles submitted and numberpublished.) I followed this suggestion up and it works reasonably well. Aword of caution, though: the numbers listed on the MLA site for articlessubmitted are quite rough. However, where I have precise information frompublishers the MLA results are reasonably close.
2. I also received a suggestion for Cabell's directory (education version), butmy institution doesn't hold that, so I couldn't follow it up.
3. In various cases, I contacted the editors or publishers. Responses werevaried. In only once case did I receive quite precise statistics.
4. Some journals (at least occasionally) release the information in an annualeditor's report (e.g. Language, IJAL).
5. ISI's Journal Citation Reports (many prominent language and linguisticsjournals are unfortunately excluded, since there is only a category for'Applied Linguistics').
In general, I think it would be a good policy for journals to put thisinformation up front in their information for authors section.
Many thanks to the following people for suggestions and comments: LauraCallahan, Mary Jane Curry, Timothy Face, Ewa Jaworska, Douglas Lightfoot,Regina Morin, and Ingo Plag.
Ash Asudeh
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