Write when hot - submit when not: seasonal bias in peer review or acceptance?
Write when hot - submit when not: seasonal bias in peer review or acceptance?
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DOI：
10.1087/20100206
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发表时间：
2010-04-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
De Dreu, Carsten K. W.
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作者：
Shalvi, Shaul;Baas, Matthijs;De Dreu, Carsten K. W.
顶级心理学期刊《心理科学》(PS) 的投稿量在夏季达到高峰。我们测试了这种季节性提交偏差是否会降低论文在该时期被接受的可能性。获取了 2003 年至 2006 年期间所有 575 篇 PS 出版物的提交月份数据。虽然夏季向 PS 的提交量较高，但没有证据表明大多数被接受的出版物最初是在夏季提交的。因此，贡献者在接受的可能性最低时向 PS 提交，从而创造了自己的进入障碍。另一份顶级心理学期刊《人格与社会心理学通报》也没有发现类似的季节性模式。使用 Web of Knowledge 数据库，我们进一步评估了克服季节性进入障碍是否会影响论文在随后几年获得的引用次数。我们讨论了两种期刊中不同的拒绝政策（无论是否采用案头拒绝）可能解释这种差异的可能性，并探讨了一系列替代假设。
At a top psychology journal, Psychological Science (PS), submissions peak during the summer months. We tested whether this seasonal submission bias decreases the likelihood of a paper being accepted in that period. Month of submission data was obtained for all 575 publications in PS for the period 2003-2006. Whereas submissions to PS were higher in the summer, there was no evidence that most accepted publications were originally submitted in the summer Thus, contributors submit to PS when the likelihood of acceptance is the lowest - creating their own entrance barrier. A similar seasonal pattern was not identified for Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, another top psychology journal. Using the Web of Knowledge database, we further assessed whether overcoming the seasonal entrance barrier influences the number of citations a paper receives in subsequent years. We discuss the possibility that the different rejections policies in the two journals, employing desk rejections or not, may explain this discrepancy, and explore a range of alternative hypotheses.