How competitive are journals compared to top ai conferences? [D]

A researcher whose NeurIPS submission received scores of 2/3/3 (3/4/4) is considering submitting the paper to a journal instead, expecting rejection and anticipating a similar outcome at ICLR or CVPR. The NeurIPS results had not been released at the time of the post.

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