Sent my article in on June 6. Today is December 13th and still nothing. Really long turn-around.




Editor rejected the paper without sending it out for review. Narrow perspective on types of papers he is willing to send out.


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1.5 years and three r&rs before acceptance

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Waited 9 months for a decision and got an outright rejection with unhelpful comments, very frustrating

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waited about a month for an ouright "deflect" letter from editor(not sent for review). But it did contain a little bit of helpful feedback for future revisions.

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submitted something 4 months ago and counting...

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Submitted in August, got rejection in January. Two reviews were fairly positive, one was rather nasty.
Got the sense from the nasty reviewer that he/she was miffed I didn't cite his/her work.

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SSSP has Annual Reports on their website (as does ASA for the ASA journals). The
2006-2007 report is at: http://www.sssp1.org/File/2007CommitteeReports/2007EditorsAnnualReport.pdf.

The upshot is that about 20% of initial submissions were given either R&R's or conditional acceptance.

None were accepted outright. A little over 20% were "deflected" which I take to mean rejected by the editors prior to peer review.

Of the revised submissions, only about 18% were rejected, while about 52% were accepted. The remaining approximately 30% were given second R&R's or conditional acceptance.

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received a conditional acceptance 6 weeks after submission...sent the minor revisions in about 3 weeks later and received a formal acceptance 2.5 weeks later...overall, a very quick and timely turnaround...great feedback and comments...

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received a R&R after four months. All three reviews were pleasant, but only one was particularly useful. Revision accepted in less than a month.

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Received an email a month later after submission asking for submission fee (I forgot). Sent the check immediately, waited another month, got a letter from editor rejecting the article prior to peer review. The editor did not offer any useful comments.

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Sent paper in july. Still waiting in December....longest turnaround time Ive experienced thus far....

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The editor sent the piece to the author whose work I criticized. The other two reviewers were familiar with only one of the sub-fields in which the paper is locaed.
But no reviewers were familiar with the other sub-field. I suggest offering a list of suggested and black-listed reviewers. Editor seems too narrow and biased for my tastes.