SoftwareX Acceptance Rate

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The acceptance rate is a way to ascertain the level of prestige a journal carries. An article when submitted for publishing is vehemently scrutinized and goes through very heavy testing such as peer-reviewing. Many prestigious journals such as SoftwareX make sure that their reputation is maintained by any means necessary. They try very hard to keep their acceptance rate very low and only publish extremely well-done scientific articles and manuscripts. The Acceptance rate can measure the selectivity or prestige of a journal, though, like many journal metrics, the raw number is not the whole story, there is more to it.

In simple words, the percentage of all articles submitted to a journal in a whole year over the number of articles that were accepted to be printed in the same year can be defined as the acceptance rate. Both the number of submitted articles and the number of accepted articles are shown, to aid in giving a comprehensive understanding of the size of the journal. Articles that were withdrawn are not included in this data, they fall under the rejection rate. The acceptance rate is calculated as the ratio of the number of articles submitted to the number of articles published. The exact method of calculating the acceptance varies depending on journal to journal, each has its own.

Difference between Acceptance Rate and Rejection Rate

Rates of acceptance and rejection are projected in percentages and reflect and review the relationship between the number of articles submitted to a particular journal and those that were finally accepted after choosing from them. These rates are a measurement that must be gauged and taken into account when selecting the journal in which to publish your work, especially if your contribution is of high quality and has the capacity to compete with the best studies and challenge the best research. The rejection rate is the exact opposite of the Acceptance rate. Low Acceptance rate and High Rejection rate mean a prestigious journal such as SoftwareX whereas high acceptance rate and low rejection rate means the journal doesn’t go through rigorous checks such as SoftwareX.

Calculating Acceptance Rate

Acceptance rates of journals are capable of influencing faculty tenure and promotion decisions as well as how the quality of journals is seen and the intention to submit manuscripts to a given journal. Several variations exist in how acceptance rates are calculated across journals and editors, different methods are used by everyone which in turn results in potentially misleading comparisons and different results. The different results caused by different methods used can affect how powerful and reputed a journal is. Journals such as SoftwareX have different methods than others.

Relationship between Impact factor and Acceptance rate

The impact factor plays a very important role as many researchers—together with members of institutional committees, who make decisions about funding, awards, and promotions—usually have the belief that studies published in high-impact-factor journals, which also have very high rejection rates and low acceptance rates, have a major impact in the subject area that is being researched. Also, having a paper published in a high impact factor journal like SoftwareX is considered to be a challenge, very few authors are able to accomplish this and thus those authors get more funding and collaborations.

Journal Acceptance Rate Feedback System

Journal Acceptance Rate Feedback System is a platform on which you can access relevant data and make informed decisions with the help of a qualified crowd. It helps in improving the transparency of the peer-reviewed process. Occasionally, societies or other groups will issue acceptance rates for journals within a particular field. Again, a Google search may help find these but a dedicated software or platform particularly designed for this process is much more convenient

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SoftwareX

SoftwareX aims to acknowledge the impact of software on today's research practice, and on new scientific discoveries in almost all research domains. SoftwareX also aims to stress the importance of the software developers who are, in part, responsible for this impact. To this end, SoftwareX aims to support publication of research software in such a way that: The software is given a stamp of scientific relevance, and provided with a peer-reviewed recognition of scientific impact; The software developers are given the credits they deserve; The software is citable, allowing traditional metrics of scientific excellence to apply; The academic career paths of software developers are supported rather than hindered; The software is publicly available for inspection, validation, and re-use.   Above all, SoftwareX aims to inform researchers about software applications, tools and libraries with a (proven) potential to impact the process of scientific discovery in various domains. The journal is multidisciplinary and accepts submissions from within and across subject domains such as those represented within the broad thematic areas below: Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Medical and Biological Sciences; Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Originating from these broad thematic areas, the journal also welcomes submissions of software that works in cross cutting thematic areas, such as citizen science, cybersecurity, digital economy, energy, global more...

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