I stand corrected!! 21 months for AER papers? Hmmm... Fabio
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Robson, Alex wrote: > 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 year 1999. (The full paper is >available for viewing at http://web.mit.edu/gellison/www/jrnem2.pdf ): > > > American Economic Review 21.1 > Econometrica 26.3 > Journal of Political Economy 20.3 > Quarterly Journal of Economics 13.0 > Review of Economic Studies 28.8 > > Canadian Journal of Economics 16.6 > Economic Inquiry 13.0 > Economic Journal 18.2 > International Economic Review 16.8 > Review of Economics and Statistics 18.8 > > Journal of Applied Econometrics 21.5 > Journal of Comparative Economics 10.1 > Journal of Development Economics 17.3 > Journal of Econometrics 25.5 > Journal of Economic Theory 16.4 > Journal of Environmental Ec. & Man. 13.1 > Journal of International Economics 16.2 > Journal of Law and Economics 14.8 > Journal of Mathematical Economics 8.5 > Journal of Monetary Economics 16.0 > Journal of Public Economics 9.9 > Journal of Urban Economics 8.8 > RAND Journal of Economics 20.9 > > Journal of Accounting and Economics 11.5 > Journal of Finance 18.6 > Journal of Financial Economics 14.8 > > > Alex > > > > Dr Alex Robson > School of Economics > Faculty of Economics and Commerce > Australian National University > Canberra ACT 0200. > AUSTRALIA > Ph +61-2-6125-4909 > > -----Original Message----- > From: fabio guillermo rojas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, 14 October 2002 8:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Journal response times > > > > >Anyone have any idea why the norm in economics allows referees so much > > time to do a report? Why its so different from other fields? Is this one > > of those "soft" vs. "hard" field things? Its my impression that the > > physical science journals all want fast turn around on their referee > > reports. Anybody know what its like with Anthropology, Sociology, or > > Political Science? < > > I'd say economics has a pretty decent turn around time. I currently work > at the American Journal of Sociology and we usually get papers back > to authors in less than 90 days, often 60 days. My experience is that top > tier journals do better than second or third tier because they often have > prestige and staff, which encourage quick reviewer response. Most > sociology journals do much worse than AJS. > > As far as discipline goes, economics and political science is best because > their is consensus on what constitutes decent research and you don't have > to master every detail of a paper to assess its quality. The worst is > mathematics because you really have to understand every symbol in every > equation. Humanities are also bad - you don't have to understand every > word, but humanities professors are very unresponsive. On another > list-serv, I saw one math professor complain that a 5 page research note > had spent *years* at one journal. You can get similar complaints from > humanities professors. > > In the middle are engineering, sociolgy, education and other fields. Most > journals get stuff back from 3 months to a year and these fields are > "in-between" fast fields like economics and slow pokes like math. > > Fabio > > > > >
