Editors' Column Figure 4. Times for review, revision, and acceptance (287 manuscripts*)
* Does not include 14 manuscripts accepted without change and 15 manuscripts that were rejected, resubmitted, and accepted.
revision requested are only approxi mate. However, it is fair to say that major revision nearly always means that serious questions must be ad dressed by the author that might well require more experimental work or that a major rewriting is called for to make the manuscript acceptable for publication. Of the 316 manuscripts already ac cepted of this group of 500,14 were accepted without revision, and 15 were accepted after resubmission following
an original rejection. The data for re view and revision times for the re maining 267 manuscripts are shown in Figure 4. Manuscripts may be resubmitted after rejection. Sometimes the rejec tion letter indicates what is required for reconsideration. This is the basis for many of the acceptances after re jection. Of this total of 500 manu scripts, 20 were resubmitted after re jection. Of these resubmissions, 15 were accepted, and five were again re
jected. All of the manuscripts that were rejected twice were considered by referees either initially or after resub mission. Of course, after acceptance, manu scripts must go through the produc tion process from galley production and correction through pagination to the final printing. Data for the manu scripts (351) published through June of this year show that 60.4% were pub lished in less than six months, and 92.2% were published within eight months. This is the time period from date of submission to actual issue printing date. The computer-aided peer review system allows us to file information on the human aspects of author-reviewer relationships, such as the name of a reviewer who should not be used for a specific author's contributions (for whatever reason). The system is con stantly in flux as we add new review ers and remove those who retire, die, etc. No matter how useful this system, however, there is no substitute for ex perienced staff members and the ap plication of special care and judgment in considering each individual manu script. Josephine M. Petruzzi
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