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I’ve had a few requests to do a follow up to the journals survey with a survey/investigation into the turnraround times at various journals. I’m not entirely sure how we’d go about doing that. Relying on feedback from readers could be risky. For one thing, people exaggerate. For another, we tend to remember the worst experiences, not the best ones, so a self-reported selection could be misleadingly bad.

What would be best is if journals made this kind of information publicly available. It might be best just to write to journal editors directly and see if they already post or will make public data on how long it takes on average for papers they receive to get a decision. Any suggestions on better methods of data collection would be appreciated.