http://semantics-online.org/sp/2007/08/stalking-the-perfect-journal/ Launching an open access journal Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:01:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://semantics-online.org/sp/2007/08/stalking-the-perfect-journal/#comment-101 kvf Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:56:55 +0000 http://semantics-online.org/sp/2007/08/stalking-the-perfect-journal/#comment-101 <p>That's a very good point, Martin. Of course, we were going to track that kind of statistics internally, but you're right: we should publish all relevant dates: submitted, first decision, revision received, accepted, published.</p> That’s a very good point, Martin. Of course, we were going to track that kind of statistics internally, but you’re right: we should publish all relevant dates: submitted, first decision, revision received, accepted, published.

]]> http://semantics-online.org/sp/2007/08/stalking-the-perfect-journal/#comment-100 Martin Haspelmath Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:13:22 +0000 http://semantics-online.org/sp/2007/08/stalking-the-perfect-journal/#comment-100 <p>Pullum's first desideratum is "Dates of receipt and revision printed along with each article published", but journals should actually be more ambitious: They should publish the date when the first decision was taken. If the time lag between the receipt date and the revision date is 18 months, one can conclude nothing from this: The journal reviewers/editors could have been very quick, but it took the author very long to do the revisions; or the journal editors/reviewers needed over a year (as has happened to me with a renowned journal), and the author was very quick. To assess a journal's performance, one crucially needs the "first decision" date.</p> Pullum’s first desideratum is “Dates of receipt and revision printed along with each article published”, but journals should actually be more ambitious: They should publish the date when the first decision was taken. If the time lag between the receipt date and the revision date is 18 months, one can conclude nothing from this: The journal reviewers/editors could have been very quick, but it took the author very long to do the revisions; or the journal editors/reviewers needed over a year (as has happened to me with a renowned journal), and the author was very quick. To assess a journal’s performance, one crucially needs the “first decision” date.

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