Fw: Journal's turnaround time for first decision

[Pikas, Christina K.]

I don't know that field, but I would assume there are "letters" type journals -- or sections of journals.  These should be publishing much more quickly and will skew the results.

The example I've given in the past is in the JCR, Optics for 2005 you have (sorted by impact factor)
1 	ADV ATOM MOL OPT PHY 	0065-2199 	813 		5.833 	2.400 	5 	7.7
2 	OPT EXPRESS 		1094-4087 	7564 		3.764 	0.604 	1231 	2.2
3 	OPT LETT 			0146-9592 	25963 	3.599 	0.621 	985 	6.3
4 	J BIOMED OPT 		1083-3668 	2266 		3.557 	0.274 	226 	3.6
5 	PHYS REV A			1050-2947 	61693 	2.997 	0.696 	2039 	8.3

So #2 and #3 are letters and #1 is a monographic series.  IOW, I agree that it's probably a good idea to sample the same types of journals, then for each platform work out a way to extract the submitted and published dates (and if there's an "available online" date separate from published date as for JASIST).  Of course, as our contributors here would note, there are e-print servers that could fill the gap while the article is in press.  In economics, the author should be certain that his institutional repository is part of RePEc for greatest visibility.

Christina K. Pikas, MLS 
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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




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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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>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