Percolator blog at Chronicle.com:
Emilie Marcus, chief executive of Cell Press, in Cambridge, Mass., which has grown from four journals in 1998 to 29 peer-reviewed journals today, explained how 11 editors at Cell, the press’s flagship journal, wade through manuscripts. Of 2,300 submissions last year, 1,500 were sent out for peer review, she said. ...
Some authors, she said, could ease the burden on peer reviewers if they would stop pitching the most prominent journals with every manuscript. Authors, she said, should be “more honest with themselves about the most appropriate home for their paper.”
