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SUBMITTER: Salinas S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4304711 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Salinas Santiago S Munch Stephan B SB
PloS one 20150123 1
How do scientists decide where to submit manuscripts? Many factors influence this decision, including prestige, acceptance probability, turnaround time, target audience, fit, and impact factor. Here, we present a framework for evaluating where to submit a manuscript based on the theory of Markov decision processes. We derive two models, one in which an author is trying to optimally maximize citations and another in which that goal is balanced by either minimizing the number of resubmissions or t ...[more]