Why EM

The competition in the global academic journal market is increasing. Many new journals come up every year. So you as author ask rightly why you should submit to a specific journal. To help you answering this question we would like to mention some key benefits you derive when submitting to Electronic Markets.

• Electronic Markets was the first journal to report on developments and the latest trends related to the exciting and rapidly evolving research field of electronic markets and related issues. 
   
• Electronic Markets is well ranked as a "A" journal in various rankings and listed in the Social Science Citation Index. 
   
• We are committed to quality. We do not accept positive reviewer lists and we will not accept articles for review which has been published.
   
• The quality of the review process is assured by our Senior and Associate Editors who themselves are well-recognized researchers in their field.
   
• The feedback you receive is usually very comprehensive. Our reviewers are advised to write about half an A4 page of comments or more.
   
• On average it takes 6-8 months from submission to online first publication.
   
• We use an online submission system (Editorial Manger) and you can conveniently submit your manuscripts and track their progress in the review process.
    
• All our articles are published online first after final acceptance. This reduces the delay in availability commonly seen in journals which do not implement online first publishing.
   
• Our publisher Springer allows self-archiving of finally accepted articles. You can upload the author version to your homepage and potential readers can benefit from instant availability.