Publishing Record
I submitted a paper on 2 September 2020. It was accepted this week, on 17 February 2024.
I'm continuing to include more of the tiny evaluations I do all the time with my computing environments. These may be easy manual calculations — but I've been known to make simple mistakes.
from datetime import date
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
submitted = date(2020, 9, 2)
accepted = date(2024, 2, 17)
print(accepted - submitted)
# >> datetime.timedelta(days=1263)
print(relativedelta(accepted, submitted))
# >> relativedelta(years=+3, months=+5, days=+15)
That was 1263 days, or 3 years, 5 months, and 15 days. It wasn't quite long enough to include a leapday — it missed by two weeks.
This beats my previous record (of 2 years and 3 months). I too am guilty: during the same time, I took a year to review a paper.
This is an annoying aspect of academia and publishing.1 1At least this isn't one of those stoires where years pass and then the paper is rejected. I haven't had that happen, and I haven't done this as a reviewer. But it does happen too.
I don't think I kept enough records to track my average time from submission to publication. Perhaps I should keep better track and report this on my Research page too.
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