How not to get a paper into Computer-Aided Design
✍ Scribed by John Woodwork
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 168 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0010-4485
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✦ Synopsis
The modern world is unaccountably full of things that get bigger and bigger, until you wonder what will happen to them in the end. One topical example is the Internet; the CAD literature is another. In 1990, this journal published 680 pages in 10 issues. Last year, subscribers received 12 issues containing 944 pages. This growth may be modest compared with that of the Internet but, unlike the Internet, we turn people down.
In 1991, almost as many submissions to Computer-Aided Design were accepted as were rejected. Last year, of the papers I dealt with, fewer than one in three were accepted after emerging from the refereeing process. In addition, several dozen papers never got as far as the referees.
Under what circumstances are manuscripts rejected without refereeing ? I have been checking back over two years' worth of early rejections.
Firstly, there is the traditional editorial preoccupation with the scope of the journal. Despite the Change