Editorial: To accept or not to accept: that is the question

Brian J. Thompson

doi:10.1117/1.601040

1 November 1996 Editorial: To accept or not to accept: that is the question

Brian J. Thompson

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 35, Issue 11, (November 1996). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601040

The final outcome of the review and editorial process is a decision to either ‘‘accept’’ the manuscript or ‘‘not to accept’’ the manuscript. I use those two terms on purpose rather than the more common pair of outcome terms of ‘‘accept’’ and ‘‘reject.’’ When editors get together the question is usually asked: ‘‘What is your rejection rate?’’ as if that is somehow a measure of the quality of the journal—the more papers you reject the more stringent the selection process and hence the inferred higher quality of those that are accepted.

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Brian J. Thompson "Editorial: To accept or not to accept: that is the question," Optical Engineering 35(11), (1 November 1996). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.601040

Published: 1 November 1996

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