peopel are always in a desperate rush to publish in conferences - but
journals are just as good (or sometimes better) for your career (and
the RAE:) and may have a slightly easier acceptance rate (mainly
because you get to do rounds of revision, not necessarily because they
have lower standards) - so why not look at the computer journal?
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Information concerning The Computer Journal in 2008
The 52 year "old" The Computer Journal (TCJ) is published by ITEXT, a joint
company run by Oxford University Press and the British Computer Society,
and its contents are managed by an editor-in-chief and an editorial board
which were renewed at the end of 2007 and in early 2008. During 2008 it
published as many issues as in 2007, i.e. six, but an expansion of TCJ to 8
issues a year is planned for 2009 in view of the results of 2008, with two
sub-series: Computer Science, and Computer Systems and Networks.
The submission of papers to the journal has increased by roughly 50% in
2008 over 2007, reaching approximately 300 papers, and the acceptance rate
is approximately 25%. The turn-around time is quite reasonable because (a)
the authors receive a response after a first round of evaluation and
refereeing (which largely determines the outcome of a paper) within 85 days
on average, and (b) once a paper is definitely accepted, it is posted on
the web for downloading. Note that in 2008 roughly 7% of all papers were
submitted by authors based in the UK, with the rest coming from all the
continents, so that TCJ is truly an international journal with appeal
across the world.
Worldwide subscriptions to the journal in 2008 have slightly increased,
resulting in a 10% increase in income to ITEXT. We estimate that, including
the bundled subscriptions to academic and other libraries, the journal has
roughly 6000 subscribers.
Most importantly, the number of full paper downloads in 2008 has increased
in excess of 20%, over 2007, totalling slightly under 50,000 downloads,
which is a very impressive number for the 60 papers that we publish per
year, or an annual rate of roughly 800 downloads per paper on average. This
should reassure colleagues who may think that archival journals are just
"write-only" media!
forwarded for Erol Gelenbe
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