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Assessing Peer Review by Gauging the Fate of Rejected Manuscripts: the case of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2017 Ireland, Italy Technological University Dublin

Authors: Niccolò Casnici; Francisco Grimaldo; Nigel Gilbert; Pierpaolo Dondio; Flaminio Squazzoni;

doi: 10.1007/s11192-017-2241-1

pmc: PMC5629228

pmid: 29056789

Assessing Peer Review by Gauging the Fate of Rejected Manuscripts: the case of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation

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Abstract

This paper investigates the fate of manuscripts that were rejected from JASSS-The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, the flagship journal of social simulation. We tracked 456 manuscripts that were rejected from 1997 to 2011 and traced their subsequent publication as journal articles, conference papers or working papers. We compared the impact factor of the publishing journal and the citations of those manuscripts that were eventually published against the yearly impact factor of JASSS and the number of citations achieved by the JASSS mean and top cited articles. Only 10% of the rejected manuscripts were eventually published in a journal that was indexed in the Web of Science, although most of the rejected manuscripts were published elsewhere. Being exposed to more than one round of reviews before rejection, having received a more detailed reviewer report and being subjected to higher inter-reviewer disagreement were all associated with the number of citations received when the manuscript was eventually published. This indicates that peer review could contribute to increasing the quality even of rejected manuscripts.

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Microsoft Academic Graph classification: History media_common.quotation_subject Library science World Wide Web Quality (business) Social simulation media_common Impact factor business.industry Publishing business

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Citations, Social Sciences(all), Library and Information Sciences, Article, Social Sciences (all), Peer review, rejected manuscripts, Systems and Communications, Impact factor, the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Citations; Impact factor; JASSS; Peer review; Rejected manuscripts; Social Sciences (all); Computer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Library and Information Sciences; Law, General Social Sciences, Computer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, JASSS, Computer Science Applications, Rejected manuscripts, Law

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	citations This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).	20
	popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network.	Top 10%
	influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).	Average
	impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network.	Top 10%

	citations This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).	20
	popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network.	Top 10%
	influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).	Average
	impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network.	Top 10%