Elsevier Connect (2024)

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What is the acceptance rate for Elsevier? ›

Elsevier is a leading publisher of some of the most well-respected science journals in the world. Hence publishing a research in Elsevier will be widely disseminated. Because of this, Elsevier journals are a smart choice for scientific authors.

How many reviewers are assigned to a manuscript? The number of reviewers often varies by manuscript type. Most papers receive feedback from three peer reviewers. Shorter papers, such as brief reports or current issues, may receive feedback from two peer reviewers.

When a manuscript is submitted to a high-quality scholarly journal, it goes through intense scrutiny — even before it's seen by the editor-in-chief and selected for peer review. At Elsevier, between 30 percent to 50 percent of articles don't even make it to the peer review process.

Business and Computer Science had the lowest median acceptance rates, although a higher number of outliers than the other disciplines.

One of their largest sources of income is universities, who tend to pay for bundle access to the entire catalogue of a given publisher, and big publishers such as Elsevier have such access agreements with hundreds or even thousands of universities around the world, who pay, literally, millions of dollars per year for ...

How long should I wait for this stage? Answer: Most journals normally take 4-8 weeks to review manuscripts. The 'decision in process' status implies that your manuscript has passed through peer review and the editorial board is now making a decision.

The fact that Elsevier fits the consensus definition of a “predatory publisher” so well is thus only one of many reasons why data kraken Elsevier is so reviled in the academic community, but a reminder of it seems to have triggered the “we really can be trusted, honestly, this time” wolf-in-sheep-clothing-reflex in the ...

Both Elsevier and Springer are great publishers with many good journals. Frontiers is also becoming a big giant in the field. From my personal experience, articles of the same quality in Elsevier are usually more cited than in Springer, even when they are both open access.

Is everything on Elsevier peer reviewed? ›

All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.

The journal has confirmed that you've uploaded and submitted the correct documents and that the content of your paper is relevant to your journal. The status of under review means that the paper has been sent to external expert reviewers and your paper is now being assessed by them.

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We offer a choice of journals with open access publishing charges ranging from $150 to $9,900. We will also consider requests for accommodations on a case by case basis for authors who are required to publish open access but do not have the financial means to do so.

You can find a journal's impact factor by referring to the Journal Citations Report (JCR) or Scopus. 🍋 What is an average 'good' impact factor? In general, an impact factor of 10 or higher is considered remarkable, while 3 is good, and the average score is less than 1.

IEEE ACCESS, MDPI JOURNALS, IJIMAI have fast review speed and high acceptance rate.

Even then, the acceptance rates tend to be between ~5 and 40%. So at best, we might say that journals with extremely high impact tend to have acceptance rates of 40% or below, but that statement hardly seems useful for authors considering where to submit a manuscript.

You're in safe hands with Elsevier: we've been serving the global research community and publishing first-rate scientific research for over a century. Since the year 2000, more than 99% of the Nobel Laureates in science and economics have published in Elsevier journals, according to a Scopus analysis.

Nearly all of Elsevier's 2,700 journals now enable open access publishing, including 600 journals which are fully open access journals. In the gold open access model, you pay an article publishing charge (APC), making your article immediately, permanently and freely available for anyone to access, read and build on.