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

2002-10-15 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 b

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

2002-10-14 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
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 long

RE: Journal response times

2002-10-14 Thread William Dickens
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

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 bu

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 ar

Re: Journal response times

2002-10-14 Thread William Sjostrom
source 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 pre

Re: Journal response times

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Macrae
Unfortunately every journal is a walking disaster area because of one fundamental disease. Which in our era of great change could just about wipe human beings off the planet CURE Papers should be in two sections requiring totally different refereeing procedures: -this is purely trying to go dee

RE: Journal response times

2002-10-13 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
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 a

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 th