Acceptance rates for top quality journals now hover around the 10% mark.
For those unfamiliar with a journal or trying to place a journal in the pecking order, JIF is sometimes mistaken as a proxy for journal quality, journal prestige, article quality, and author prestige.
Publication in quality journals has long been a yardstick for measuring academic performance, although there is a divergence of opinions as to how to define and measure "journal quality".
A journal with a high impact factor is usually considered a high quality journal and high quality journals usually have high quality papers.
Although many existing journals provide coverage of research achievements in each of the many individual scientific fields that make up Earth and Planetary science, we feel that it is important for the community to have a quality journal that comprehensively covers all the these fields together.
Together, these results show that Italian journals are "smaller" and score lower for quality than UK journals.
There is, of course, a much larger body of literature on software quality assurance in the computer science field, including for example an entire journal dedicated to the subject, the Software Quality Journal (www.springerlink.com/content/0963-9314).
Asking researchers to submit studies to low-quality journals, he argues, "would be a recipe for scientific suicide".
It will be published in the highest-quality journals.
Publishing in High-Quality Journals.
