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

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 897-906

  Sugimoto, Cassidy R ^a   Larivière, Vincent ^b   Ni, Chaoqun ^a   Cronin, Blaise ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acceptance rates; Citation analysis; Journal measures; Open access; Scholarly communication; Scientometrics

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE RATE; CITATION ANALYSIS; JOURNAL MEASURES; OPEN ACCESS; SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION; SCIENTOMETRICS;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84884517259     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2013.08.007     Document Type: Article

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