Fw: Journal's turnaround time for first decision

[Stephen J Bensman]

The only thing I can think of is that he should take a random sample of
issues of journals he is interested in publishing in.  There is usually in
the articles some sort of information on when paper was submitted and when
accepted.  There is is also the issue date.  He should be able to figure
out from this where best to publish according to his standards.

I am afraid, though, that there may be some sort of inverse relationship
between the quality of the journals and the rapidity of publication.
Quality journals have many more submissions and tend to have greater
backlogs of articles to publish than journals of lesser repute.  JASIST is
an example of this.

SB




"Quentin L. Burrell" <quentinburrell at MANX.NET>@listserv.utk.edu> on
09/16/2006 04:32:05 PM

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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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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 sinae 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