Journal acceptance rates: A cross-disciplinary analysis of variability and relationships with journal measures

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Highlights：

• Acceptance rates vary statistically significantly by discipline of journal, country affiliation of the editor, and number of reviewers per article.

• There is a negative relationship between acceptance rates and citation-based indicators.

• There is a positive relationship between acceptance rates and journal age.

• Open access journals have significantly higher mean acceptance rates than non-open access journals.

摘要

•Acceptance rates vary statistically significantly by discipline of journal, country affiliation of the editor, and number of reviewers per article.•There is a negative relationship between acceptance rates and citation-based indicators.•There is a positive relationship between acceptance rates and journal age.•Open access journals have significantly higher mean acceptance rates than non-open access journals.

论文关键词：Acceptance rates,Open access,Journal measures,Citation analysis,Scientometrics,Scholarly communication

论文评审过程：Received 27 May 2013, Revised 20 August 2013, Accepted 21 August 2013, Available online 23 September 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2013.08.007