Submission and Turnaround Statistics

For submissions to editorial office (beginning June 1, 2003)

Submissions by Month
	Submissions	Resubmissions	Total
2003
June	68	0	68
July	100	0	100
Aug.	70	1	71
Sept.	82	1	83
Oct.	82	4	86
Nov.	75	5	80
Dec.	84	11	95
Total	561	22	583
2004
Jan.	96	9	105
Feb.	84	7	91
Mar.	79	18	97
April	71	9	80
May	90	8	98
June	88	11	99
July	83	17	100
Aug.	70	13	83
Sept.	86	26	112
Oct.	97	16	113
Nov.	79	12	91
Dec.	99	17	116
Total	1037	202	1239
2005
Jan.	69	17	86
Feb.	83	18	101
Mar.	85	18	103
Apr.	96	28	124
May	91	23	114
June	89	26	115
July	80	33	113
Aug.	79	30	109
Sept.	82	24	106
Oct.	85	22	107
Nov.	90	22	112
Dec.	91	29	120
Total	1020	290	1310
2006
Jan.	68	18	86
Feb.	71	18	89
Mar.	102	22	124
Apr.	59	14	73
May	83	27	110
June	68	19	87
July	118	15	133
Aug.	84	15	99
Sept.	97	8	105
Oct.	87	12	99
Nov.	93	13	106
Dec.	107	20	127
Total	1037	202	1239
2007
Jan.	106	20	126
Feb.	82	30	112
Mar.	105	14	119
Apr.	82	16	98
May	85	21	106
June	78	26	104
July	97	20	117
Aug.	73	22	95
Sept.	83	18	101
Oct.	95	29	124
Nov.	101	21	122
Dec.	60	12	72
Total	1047	249	1296
2008
Jan.	81	13	94
Feb.	107	14	121
Mar.	87	14	101
Apr.	75	17	92
May	77	16	93
June	92	21	113
July	100	20	120
Aug.	75	22	97
Sep.	94	25	119
Oct.	78	16	94
Nov.	76	21	97
Dec.	78	12	90
Total	1020	211	1231
2009
Jan.	96	14	110
Feb.	90	13	103
Mar.	90	8	98
Apr.	74	17	91
May	74	9	83
June	82	17	99
July	88	7	95
Aug.	73	11	84
Sep.	96	12	108
Oct.	82	8	90
Nov.	81	7	88
Dec.	94	10	104
Total	1020	138	1158
2010
Jan.	83	5	88
Feb.	90	15	105
Mar.	104	9	113
Apr.	93	7	100
May	74	1	85
June	78	11	89
July	100	11	111
Aug.	86	4	90
Sept.	95	14	109
Oct.	74	14	88
Nov.	81	11	92
Dec.	89	10	99
Total	1047	123	1170
2011
Jan.	90	8	98
Feb.	82	9	91
Mar.	90	10	100
Apr.	90	13	103
May	103	16	119
June	93	13	106
July	120	10	130
Aug.	112	5	117
Sept.	97	17	114
Oct.	95	10	105
Nov.	96	8	104
Dec.	94	17	111
Total	1162	138	1300
2012
Jan.	76	11	87

Processing Time	Number	Cumulative Percentage
Less than 20 days	2576	25.0%
20-29 days	538	30.2%
30-39 days	1163	41.5%
40-49 days	1507	56.1%
50-59 days	1061	66.4%
60-69 days	792	74.1%
70-79 days	549	79.4%
80-89 days	413	83.4%
90-99 days	377	87.1%
100 or more days	1335	100.0%
Median turnaround	45

Editorial Decisions
	Number	Percentage
Rejected	7961	77.2%
Returned for Revisions	1799	17.4%
Accepted	551	5.3%
Total	10311	100.0%

Decisions by Round
	Rejected	Revise	Accepted
Round 1	7845	978	2
Round 2	96	529	97
Round 3	19	234	232
Round 4	1	55	168
Round 5	0	3	50