As the fall submission season (I assume) is coming to a close, I thought I'd muse on the number 15. For some reason, I've always found that when trying to trade articles up within the top 30 or 40 general law reviews, if there's still more than 15 journals in that group that I haven't heard from yet, there's a better than 50% chance I'll still trade up and get another offer. Once I hit the point of only 15 journals being left, usually that means I've received my final offer. Has anyone else noticed any statistical (or superstitious) trends along these lines?
The Magic No. 15
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I've noticed that when I refer to the UCC in the title, at least fifteen journals will reject the article. In fact, the number of rejections is often a multiple of fifteen. A large multiple, indeed.
You could always limit the size of the multiple of 15 by sending to less journals! Re words in the title, there was certainly a phase in the 1990s in Australia when an article was definitely more likely to be accepted for publication if it contained the words "in the digital information age" in the title. Perhaps you could try "___ UCC ___ in the Digital Information Age"!