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Nutrition: Acceptance Rates

What are Journal Acceptance Rates?

The Journal Acceptance Rate is the percentage of the manuscripts accepted for publication by a particular scholarly journal.

Cabell's Metrics: An Introduction

Cabell's Updates

Cabell's has released a new upgraded interface to their product.  The site now incorporates both Journal Citation Reports (impact Factor)  and Altmetric Reports (online metrics).

How to Find Acceptance Rate

There are three ways to find the Journal Acceptance Rate:  If your journal of interest is not included in Cabell's then you can try the other options.  To find the contact information for a publication you can use Ulrich's Global Series Directory

  1. Use Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
  2. Searching the journal's website to see if they list the acceptance rate
  3. Contacting the journal's editor directly

Acceptance Rates by Selected Subjects

Business

  • Cabell's directories of publishing opportunities - Assists in selection of academic journals that are most likely to publish your manuscript. The index in Education Directory helps to match the characteristics of the manuscript to the topic areas the journal emphasizes. The directory also includes information on the journals' acceptance rates, publication guidelines, number of copies required, types of review process, the number of internal and external reviewers, time required for review and availability of reviewers' comments.

Education

  • Cabell's directories of publishing opportunitiesAssists in selection of academic journals that are most likely to publish your manuscript. The index in Education Directory helps to match the characteristics of the manuscript to the topic areas the journal emphasizes. The directory also includes information on the journals' acceptance rates, publication guidelines, number of copies required, types of review process, the number of internal and external reviewers, time required for review and availability of reviewers' comments.

Humanities

Psychology