# How competitive are journals compared to top ai conferences? [D] > Source: > Published: 2026-09-18 13:01:02+00:00 Hi everyone, The NeurIPS results aren’t out yet, but I’m expecting my paper to be rejected, so I’m considering submitting it to a journal instead. My scores were 2/3/3 (3/4/4). I feel like I would probably get a similar outcome if I submitted the paper to ICLR or CVPR, so at this point I’m leaning t