BMJ  2005;330 (5 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7490.0-g

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Individual performance data: revelation and revolution

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What information about your performance are you prepared to reveal? In the spirit of freedom of information I present my own performance data. Authors and voyeurs will be interested. In 2005 my average decision time for reading a submitted paper (from the moment it lands in my electronic queue to the moment I pass judgment) is 13.8 days. Of course, that doesn't mean I spend two weeks reading a research paper, I know I usually take anything between one and 30 minutes to reach a decision, depending on its complexity (apologies to authors who think we spend hours poring over their life's work). Many of my colleagues hold on to papers for less than two days—remember editors don't only read research papers. Giselle Jones and Christopher Martyn take half a day, and Domnhall MacAuley is greased lightning: electronic timing calculates, surely miscalculates, 0.0 days.

You might take this to mean . . . [Full text of this article]

Kamran Abbasi, acting editor

(kabbasi@bmj.com)


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