(19 Mar 2024) Christos Petrou, founder and Chief Analyst at Scholarly Intelligence, explored two research categories, a fast one (Biochemistry) and a slow one (Economics & Econometrics), showing the wild variation in performance among journals that have similar profiles. He also discussed how publishers have become more concerned about speed these days, but they are facing an uphill battle. Finally, he discussed the lack of informational transparency about speed (contrary to other metrics) when researchers assess journals, and to address the informational gap by collaborating with journal-finding tools.
Read the article at Scholarly Kitchen here.
