{"id":359,"date":"2010-04-22T10:04:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T17:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glencora.org\/?p=359"},"modified":"2010-04-22T10:04:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T17:04:15","slug":"journals-ranked-by-turnover-times-now-with-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/2010\/04\/22\/journals-ranked-by-turnover-times-now-with-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"Journals ranked by turnover times: now with colour!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on David’s link to the AMS data on journal backlogs<\/a> in my last post<\/a> (thanks Dave!) and the ISI Web of Knowledge citation report<\/a>, 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 backlog times)<\/span>, etc. If you have this data, I would be happy to add them.<\/p>\n

Right now, the plot shows time from submit to accept against the impact factor (IF) with journal’s coloured by publisher and size indicating their volume by number of articles. All data is for 2008. It’s interactive! Switch to the 5-year impact factor! Fun!<\/p>\n

So, now, I know that impact factors have little meaning in our field. I’d be happy to switch to some other more meaningful ranking. Feel free to comment your suggestions.<\/p>\n

But what do you think: would you actually not submit to the SIAM Journal on Discrete Math based on this?<\/p>\n

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(The above works for me on Safari; I’m not sure how the gadget will work under other browsers. If you can’t see the embedded gadget, try this published spreadsheet<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Update: <\/strong>I forgot to “give props” to Hans Rosling and GapMinder.org<\/a> for popularizing these graphs. \u00a0The graph was created in Google Spreadsheets using the “motion graph” gadget.<\/p>\n

Update: <\/strong>JACM added thanks to Dave pointing me to JACM’s self-reported backlog<\/a>. It is also nicely consistent with the impact factor\/wait time correlation. \u00a0I’d like to comment more on this in a later post: I don’t think this happens in other fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[106183,106190],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-publishing","tag-tcs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}