I'd say 2 weeks to obtain reviewers, 1 month for them to review the paper, and 1 month for the editor to make a decision. So 2-3 months. 5 months is completely unnecessary in my experience (I'm Associate Editor for Psychology & Health). Also, if the revisions are minor it is often not necessary to send it out again to reviewers (making the second round much shorter). Marie
**************************************************** Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology Kaufman 168, Dickinson College Carlisle, PA 17013 Office: (717) 245-1562, Fax: (717) 245-1971 http://alpha.dickinson.edu/departments/psych/helwegm **************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:52 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] what is appropriate review time line? I have had an article submitted last May which was returned in January for revision; was resubmitted in less than two weeks and when my coauthor contacted the editor basically got a curt email back that it's only been since early Feb that it it was resubmitted, and, reading between the lines, suggested we were highly unreasonable to expect anything back yet. In an era where so many important decisions (tenure, promotion, salary raises) are based on pubs, in addition to the desire to see our work disseminated (before someone else does, as we have freely shared all of our prepub work and have already seen trickles without any reference to our work!--directly written by people who had asked for prepub work from conferences) we thought we were being very reasonable in waiting patiently this long. I'd rather not name the journal. It is an APA journal, but not a "biggee", like JEP. What is a proper turn around time for an editor to collect 3 reviews? Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
