Researchers reveal hidden patterns in flow of manuscript submissions
Friday, October 12, 2012 - 08:30
in Psychology & Sociology
(Phys.org)—A research team made up of members from France, Canada and the US has been studying the manuscript submission and rejection process for biologically based papers submitted to journals for publication. They have found, as they describe in their paper published in the journal Science, that papers resubmitted and accepted by one journal after being rejected by another, receive more citations than other papers.