Acceptance Rates
This section provides the acceptance rates of the Survey sent to engineering journal editors.
- A paper's acceptance rate (including subsequent revisions) ranges from less than 10% to greater than 40%, depending upon the journal.
- A relatively small portion of papers are accepted without a major revision. Approximately 3 in 20 papers will be accepted without a major revision.
- Editors may agree or disagree with a reviewer's recommendation. Quite surprisingly, editors agree with their reviewers only about 75% of the time. In other words, an editor will disagree with a reviewer's decision every 1 in 4 papers.
- Only one third or less of authors receive mildly favorable reports.
- With two referees, there is about a 10% chance of getting favorable recommendations from both referees.
Journal Acceptance Rates
The second column under each topic below lists the percent range of that topic occurring while the first column under each topic lists the percent of editor's responses falling in that corresponding percent range.
|
Overall
|
Acceptance
Rate |
Editor |
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|
Acceptance
Rate |
without
Major Revision |
Concurrence |
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|
3% |
< 10% |
38% |
< 5% |
5% |
< 60% |
|
15% |
10 - 20% |
20% |
5 - 10% |
23% |
60 - 70% |
|
28% |
20 - 30% |
13% |
10 - 15% |
26% |
70 - 80% |
|
15% |
30 - 40% |
8% |
15 - 20% |
23% |
80 - 90% |
|
28% |
> 40% |
5% |
> 20% |
10% |
90 - 100% |
|
13% |
NA |
18% |
NA |
13% |
NA |