Journal Statistics

Statistics of the Journal as of 1 April 2024.

Paper status

Status	2021	2022	2023
Number of submissions	7	52	42
Number of accepted submissions by year of acceptance (but might have been submitted in an earlier year)	0	7	9
Number of accepted submissions by year of submission (but might have been accepted in a later year)	1	22	7
Number of submissions awaiting decision by year of submission	0	1	11

Numbers by year of submission subject to change as further decisions are made. All submissions awaiting decision from 2022 and 2023 are in Phase 2, so are expected to be accepted eventually (see our review process).

Processing times

Period (times reported in days)	2021	2022	2023
Average time between submission and Phase 1 decision	19	68	90
Average time between submission and final decision (averaged over all papers)	8	95	161
Average time between submission and final decision for accepted papers		237	375
Average time between submission and publication		356	363

Times are averaged over papers that reached the milestone in the given year, so the set of papers used in each calculation is not the same for each category. Note that, final decisions for rejected papers usually occur at the end of Phase 1, whereas final decisions for accepted papers occur only at the end of Phase 2.

Reviews

Category	2021	2022	2023
Number of review requests sent	11	199	186
Number of completed reviews received	2	117	119

Year refers to the time of request / time of receiving the review. Review statistics are approximate; the data contains a small number of repetitions caused by sometimes issuing multiple requests to the same person (typically due to requests expiring or initially using the wrong email).