Journal Accountability Reports

Journals Accountability Report 2007


Journal	BJCP	BJDP	BJEP	BJHP	BJMSP	BJP	BJSP	JNP	JOOP	LCP	PPTRP
No. MS received	164	118	178	162	60	153	177	75	284	53	86
No. MS accepted	31	38	33	59	29	28	41	37	36	20	20
Estimated % MS accepted^a	19	32	19	36.4	48	18	23	49	13	38	23
No. MS published^b	40	46	49	41	21	40	46	16	38	22	43
Total pages published^c	504	663	934	662	432	694	914	294	751	353	615
Average days from submission to first decision^d	65	78	61	59.6	83	42	59	68	64	46	102
Average publication lag (months)	7	11	11	11	12	10	11	8	11	12	7
Impact factor	1.879	1.205	1.024	1.337	0.512	1.538	1.987	-	1.629	0.400	0.603
Ingenta Connect ranking	28^th	32^nd	11^th	51^st	-	52^nd	21^st	-	43^rd	83^rd	88^th

^a Percentage of manuscripts accepted is an estimate based on the number of papers submitted and the number accepted during 2007. When reading this figure, bear in mind that: (a) some of the papers submitted during 2007 are still under review and have not yet been given a final disposition of either accept or reject, and (b) some of the papers accepted in 2007 will have been submitted in previous years.

^b Includes commentaries, brief reports and invited papers, but not book reviews or editorials.

^c Includes editorials, commentaries, brief reports, book reviews and acknowledgements, but not contents pages, indexes or adverts.

^d Includes papers rejected without review.

^e Full text downloads from Ingenta Connect, averaged across monthly rankings for 2007. Data is only available for journals in the top 100. Ingenta Connect hosts over 10,000 journals.

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