"Robson, Alex" wrote: "The data are average times (measured in months) between initial submission and acceptance at various economics journals in the year 1999."
It seems that the long times quoted in this article are something different than what fabio was talking about. I have not read the article but the above quote leads me to believe that this includes receiving multiple responses from the journals since most articles are not simply accepted on the first submission but instead require revisions. If we divide all those avg times by 2 or 3, for the multiple replies between referees and authors before acceptance, it doesn't look quite as bad (though still not great). Ben Powell __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
