What does it mean to post a paper to arXiv? More specifically, a paper that has not been accepted to a peer-reviewed venue; less specifically, to any easily-searchable, time-stamped, respected depository. Scenario A: You have a result, but there is no decent deadline for another few months. Maybe you know that a ‘competing’ team is [...]
April 22, 2010
Journals ranked by turnover times: now with colour!
Based on David’s link to the AMS data on journal backlogs in my last post (thanks Dave!) and the ISI Web of Knowledge citation report, I’ve wasted some time making the following fancy graph. There are some obvious missing journals that I didn’t have the data for: Theory of Computing (no impact factor), JACM (no [...]
April 20, 2010
Journals ranked by turnover times?
I had a search of the blogs and web at large to see if there was any evidence (anecdotal or otherwise) about the turnover rates for TCS (and friendly) journals. Short answer: I couldn’t find much. I would (and I am sure many other people would) appreciate any help in deciding what journal to submit [...]