As far as I know, for those that do 3 small papers, most publish their research after finishing every small papers as some universities' graduation requirement includes publications (in ISI or Scopus). Editing is especially hard for those who wish to publish before finishing their paper.

However, for those who go for 1 paper, most publish partial findings or publish thesis from previous study (master level).

Besides sharing your findings, publication is important for researcher to build network and citation. These two alone are the biggest assets for a researcher, either for promotion (to professorship), awards (from low level research awards all the way to Nobel prize), or obtaining grant.

For non-ISI or non-scopus, it is relatively fast (around 3 months from the date of submission) to get answer from publisher. Usually these publishers either accept or accept with minor amendment but these publications carry little weight.

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.

This post has been edited by ru40342: Jan 30 2015, 11:30 AM

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.

This post has been edited by ru40342: Jan 30 2015, 01:43 PM

Economics. Certainly not scarce of experts but the time required is quite long, especially compared to engineering.