Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education (Dec 2016)

Publishing, Objectivity, and Prestige

  • Khaled Moustafa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v17i3.1155
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 3
pp. 331 – 332

Abstract

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Some journals reject up to 80-90 % of the received manuscripts as they claim in their information to authors. Here, I propose a piece of tongue-in-cheek Instructions for Authors that would reflect some unspoken policies behind such high rejection rates in some 'snobbish' journals.