@article{
author = "Mrowinski, Maciej J. and Fronczak, Agata and Fronczak, Piotr and Nedić, Olgica and Dekanski, Aleksandar",
year = "2020",
abstract = "In this paper, we provide insight into the editorial process as seen from the perspective
of journal editors. We study a dataset obtained from the Journal of the Serbian Chemical
Society, which contains information about submitted and rejected manuscripts, in order to
find differences between local (Serbian) and external (non-Serbian) submissions. We show
that external submissions (mainly from India, Iran and China) constitute the majority of all
submissions, while local submissions are in the minority. Most of submissions are rejected
for technical reasons (e.g. wrong manuscript formatting or problems with images) and
many users resubmit the same paper without making necessary corrections. Manuscripts
with just one author are less likely to pass the technical check, which can be attributed to
missing metadata. Articles from local authors are better prepared and require fewer resubmissions
on average before they are accepted for peer review. The peer review process for
local submissions takes less time than for external papers and local submissions are more
likely to be accepted for publication. Also, while there are more men than women among
external users, this trend is reversed for local users. In the combined group of local and
external users, articles submitted by women are more likely to be published than articles
submitted by men.",
publisher = "Netherlands : Springer",
journal = "Scientometrics",
title = "The hurdles of academic publishing from the perspective of journal editors: a case study",
volume = "125",
number = "1",
pages = "115-133",
doi = "10.1007/s11192-020-03619-x"
}
