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Authoring a PhD How to plan, draft, write and finish a doctoral thesis or dissertation Patrick ... ( PDFDrive )
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Time lags.
Journal publishing is a game of many parts. First the editors send your paper out to their required number of referees. These people then sit on it fora certain period before responding, usually taking six weeks to three months, even for an efficiently run journal. In many fields responses can dragon much longer, up to four to six months, because scrupulous editors have to collect insufficient comments to make a decision, which always takes longer than a single reference. Next the editors have to work though their in-tray of refereed submissions and decide how to respond to your paper in the light of the comments and scores, which usually takes several weeks,
adding perhaps another month. Once your article is accepted without further substantive revisions, then it goes into a publication queue. Time lags from acceptance to publication in journals are almost always at least 6 months, and probably average around 12 months. Good journals will also publish their statistics in an annual report, either on their Website or in the journal pages itself. Most reputable journals now indicate when papers were accepted, and some will give details of how long the editorial process took.
The main trouble is that journal editors and publishers are often risk-averse people who like to maintain a bank of accepted articles as a safeguard against running out of copy.
Some editors accept many more articles than they can feasibly publish, and so create a backlog problem. In some pathological
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cases the editors of highly prestigious journals can create a time lag from acceptance to publication which is up to 30 months or even three years. This approach makes a complete mockery of any journal’s role to provide swift, lively and contemporaneous feedback to their academic profession. At the other extreme there are hand-to-mouth journals which only get by through their editors constantly living on their wits, acquiring papers at conferences, and soon. Here the copy for the very next issue maybe problematic, so if your paper arrives at an opportune moment the editors may bend over backwards to accept it and publish it quickly. This might seem a good result for you, but only if the journal has a significant circulation and has maintained its quality reputation despite copy shortages.
In addition to these major influences on the long-run standing of journals, there area further four shorter-term or less important influences on how journals are seen by the profession. These factors may not matter so much for the most-cited journals. But for all other titles they are worth considering because they help to differentiate the middle mass of journals one from another.

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