For example, Iran’s investments in science yielded significantly increased output but a relatively stable acceptance rate from publishers. India likewise increased submissions by nearly 450% but saw a decrease of in acceptance rate (Table 4). While increased investment has stimulated publication, has quality lagged behind, or are obstacles preventing this increase in submissions from becoming a similar increase in published articles? Accept rate may be more a measure of success than quality and there may be new approaches for publishers to help improve the changes of this new material being published and cited. This could include language editing,.
