BMJ 1998;316:1519 ( 16 May )

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Letters p 1537

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As well as giving our usual audit data on decision and publication times, we provide here data on the BMJ's impact factor since 1990, accesses to our web site (www.bmj.com), and data on submissions and acceptances for both articles and letters, over the past five years.

Time to decision and publication
We aim to make a decision on publication within eight weeks (56 days); to reject papers unsuitable for external peer review within two weeks (14 days); and to publish a paper within eight weeks of acceptance. The table below gives data on our performance in the second half of last year, together with previous years' performance since we started recording it in 1993. 

Overall our performance on decision times improved in the second half of last year, while that on publication times deteriorated---largely owing to our having accepted more articles than usual in nearly all sections. Between July and December . . . [Full text of this article]
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