Sunday, May 17, 2026

My journal, preprint server, and conference yes-no list

NO

PLOS One- once reasonable but never again

Scientific Reports- editorial office incompetence

Royal Society Open Science- contradictory and opaque decision making

Quantitative Science Studies- once an excellent journal but seems to have drifted into insular directions 

Heliyon- simply no

Research Square- a bureaucratic preprint server 

JASSS- plaintive and pedantic in the face of perceived inconformity. 


YES

MetaRoR- our single experience has been outstanding. Critical but fair reviews

Complex Networks and their Applications (CNA)- open to submissions from different subfields

PLOS Complex Networks- has some very good papers

Applied Network Science- can be very good but it all depends on the assigned editor

Scientometrics- a storied journal. No complaints so far.

Social Network Analysis and Mining- promising from what I've seen

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications- promising

Zenodo- my preprint server of choice because of ease of submission and ability to link to Github repos

arXiv- no complaints but appears to be getting overwhelmed

BioRxiv- not bad


Under Exploration

CSSSA conference- stay tuned for feedback