Fw: Journal's turnaround time for first decision

[Quentin L. Burrell]

A colleague has requested that I post this to the list. If anyone has useful 
input, please send it direct to Pelle.

Thanks for any help.

Quentin

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Dr Quentin L Burrell
Isle of Man International Business School
The Nunnery
Old Castletown Road
Douglas
Isle of Man IM2 1QB
via United Kingdom


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pär Sjölander" <Par.Sjolander at IHH.HJ.SE>
To: <allstat at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 1:23 PM
Subject: Journal's turnaround time for first decision


>I am looking for a list over the average (or median) turnaround time to
> a first decision for different journals. This is relevant since most of
> us do not want to wait for 2 years before a first decision about our
> submitted paper is taken. Is there such a list available?
>
> I am mainly interested in statistics, economics, and econometrics
> journals.
>
> (Rejection frequency, number of issues per year is also interesting...
> but this can usually be found on the webpage of every journal... a list
> of all these statistics would be handy to have when we choose which
> journal to submit our papers to).
>
> Regards,
> Pelle