Subject: Re: Cost of reveiw and editing
Janet Fisher (jfisher@MIT.EDU)
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 13:38:14 -0400
Message-Id: <3.0.32.19990909133814.009ba180@po7.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 13:38:14 -0400 To: arl-ejournal@arl.org From: Janet Fisher <jfisher@MIT.EDU> Subject: Re: Cost of reveiw and editing
On 9/8/99, Paul Gherman <gherman@library.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks Janet for your advise. I do mean the cost of peer
> review, but only those direct costs a publisher would
> incure in completing the peer review. Not the portion of
> the process "donated" by faculty who read and comment on
> articles. I guess I do mean both copyediting and content
> editing. Whatever efforts go into creating the final
> product.
Dear Paul,
I can tell you the cost WE incur for peer review can be anywhere from
zero to $50,000 per year. I don't see how a number with so much
variation, and so dependent on discipline and hidden arrangements and
subsidies can have much meaning at all.
In social sciences and humanities, the rejection rate can be quite high,
while in science the rejection rates tend to be lower. Most accepted
articles are reviewed by two or three people, and most of these get are
revised and then reviewed again. If a journal received 200 articles a
year, these 200 articles could involve 200 to 300 reviews.
My guess is that for us this would range from $0 to $1000 per article.
But, again, this is just a guess.
Best wishes,
Janet Fisher
MIT Press Journals
<jfisher@mit.edu>
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