Thoughts and experience on ML journals [D]

Reddit r/MachineLearning / 4/15/2026

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Key Points

  • The author is considering shifting publication strategy from ML conferences to ML journals after several negative experiences with conference review processes.
  • They note limited personal experience with journals and are hesitant to submit to venues like JMLR due to long waiting times and mismatch with typically short papers.
  • They mention TMLR as a potentially good option, but ask for community input on alternatives and journal selectivity/quality (e.g., Neurocomputing, Neural Networks, Machine Learning).
  • The discussion highlights confusion about how “Q1” journal status translates in the conference-oriented ML research culture and publication pipeline.

Recently I’ve been thinking about shifting from conferences to journals due to a few bad experiences with ML conferences reviewing process. The truth is I don’t really have much experience with journals, and I rarely read papers from them.

I don’t really want to submit to something like JMLR because of the extremely long waiting times, and also because my papers tend to be shorter.

From what I understand, TMLR seems like a great choice, but I’m really curious about alternatives. Do you guys have any experience or thoughts on journals like Neurocomputing, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, etc., in terms of how selective they are and overall quality?

They’re all considered Q1, but I’m not really sure what that means in the conference-oriented ML world.

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