RE: Journal response times

2002-10-15 Thread William Dickens
OK, but I've never had a paper turned around in less than 6 months (and often it has taken up to a year) at any journal except the QJE. Also, you can't divide time to publish by 3 since most of the time there is only 1 revise and resubmit and in my experience more papers are accepted on the first

RE: Journal response times

2002-10-15 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
friend had a paper go three rounds at AER and that took 3 years. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of bad papers get rejected quickly and that would bring down the average turn around time a lot. That is indeed the case. Journals get many papers of low quality, and it's easy to reject the bad

Re: Journal response times

2002-10-15 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 10/15/02 11:54:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While there is a lot of nutty stuff in academia Does that mean there are many nutty professors? I thought there were only two--Jerry Lewis and Eddie Murphy. :) If there are many, how could we model the market for them?

Re: Journal response times

2002-10-14 Thread William Sjostrom
of advice. Bill Sjostrom - Original Message - From: Robson, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 2:07 AM Subject: RE: Journal response times Fabio Rojas wrote: I'd say economics has a pretty decent turn around time. The following are data from

RE: Journal response times

2002-10-14 Thread Ben Powell
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

RE: Journal response times

2002-10-14 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
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

RE: Journal response times

2002-10-13 Thread Robson, Alex
Fabio Rojas wrote: I'd say economics has a pretty decent turn around time. The following are data from a recent paper by Glenn Ellison of MIT (JPE, October 2002). The data are average times (measured in months) between initial submission and acceptance at various economics journals in the