hmm, alright. I was thinking the same too. Do you know how long the process of submission to a journal till the review/acceptance/rejection normally takes?

wow. that's fast!   

Wouldn't it be more important to publish your work in a journal with high impact factor?

For ISI and/or scopus, you need to wait upward of 1 year or even more for reviews and the rate of rejection is quite high, especially for quarterly journal.

"upward" of 1 year does include less than 1 year fyi. I have a paper sent on late March 2014 and until now I am still awaiting review.

Nah, no problem. I did send few emails but they replied it is their common standard for multiple cross-review. It is a quarterly and sub-100 ISI journal after all.

sub-100 basically means top 100 journals in related fields (ranked annually). It is not an official classification category but the term is commonly used and widely recognized as the "best" journals around. They carry extra weight in deciding, for example, university ranking and achievement of researcher.

It is ranked based on their citation impact factors by T-R under their annual Journal Citation Reports.

You're welcome. BTW I might need some advice on publishing on these sub-100 journals. Have you done so before?

Not sure about engineering but 3.171 is pretty high. How long for your paper to be accepted (after all cross-review)?

Wow that is rather quick. I rarely see such fast acceptance in my field, especially for ISI indexed journals.

wow, im a newbie here, sorry but not to be rude just curious what's your topic about?

IMO, publication is controversial when you go for outside publishers. I mean you work so hard and you are handing over the copyright to someone doing nothing else but managing the database and profiteering. The authors suppose to receive royalty for each purchase but this doesn't happen. This is unfair and ridiculous.

Not to forget, the grants you received are tax-payers' money and basically most of you deliver nothing back to them which is embarrassing and non-productive acts. This is however, has become the disease of academicians in Malaysia. They become delusional and jokes since what actually they are doing in research is just a wasteful consumption, unlike professionals on the real fields which really move things.

This also surfaces the term called self-plagiarism when you publish before thesis submission. My suggestion is to publish local and forget the impact factor which is just a number purposely created for rat race and they are happy when you become obsess with it. Just put a number and they are richer. If your work really has value, don't be afraid, it will talk itself whenever it is published. If it doesn't, I can understand why you do want to share.

Another aspect is, if you have found a mountain of gold (breakthrough), are you even going to publish and let the outsiders have their hands into the pool and claim rights? or are you going to reserve it for your community or future business that will benefit the local. This is why commercial study never publish their works.

inb4: I did publish few papers. Impact factor >4 but no way after this.

What say you?

Sorry, I just read this thread with interest and was wondering, how could you submit your paper for publication before completion of your paper?

And also, why would you do that because if you submit your paper before completion. Another person could make a bigger breakthrough before you finish your paper for submission of PhD.

Forgive me for this noob question. Just started application for my PhD and am curious about such matters.

Also guys, is publication of paper a requirement for PhD Graduation?