My original statement was not about about time to publication, but "turn around" time - ie, the time it takes to return a manuscript to author with referee comments. I opined that "turn around" time for well staffed journals was in the 3-6 month range for the faster social sciences, but much longer for other fields.
As another poster noted, if you assume that accepted papers need at least 1 revision, you should multiply that by 3 and then you get the numbers cited in an earlier post - minimum 18 months. This was my estimate for the top journals, which get money for staff. Smaller journals have less money, which translates into a tired editor with grad student assistant, resulting in longer turn around times. Your experience of 14 months for a psych journal is in fact normal, and much better than fields like history, math or literary studies. Perhaps the absolute fastest is experimental physics, where claims of first discovery matter, and stuff is rushed to print in a month or two. Once you work in journal publishing, you soon realize how friggin' hard it is to get stuff reviewed and then 14 months to publication (or even two years) starts to seem reasonable. Fabio > I wouldn't if I were you. My submission to Psych Review with a revision > took 14 months from submission till it appeared in print. I've never > made it into print in a refereed economics journal in less than 18 > months and more typical times are 2 to 3 year. Oh yes. And the editor of > Psych Review was profusely apologetic for the refereeing taking so long! > - - Bill
