This report provides information and summary data for manuscripts submitted, acceptance rates and review times for 1 January 2013–31 December 2013. For 2012 data, please see http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00207160.2013.867115.
All submissions to IJCM are processed via ScholarOne Manuscripts at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gcom.
Submissions received
Table 1. Number of original submissions to IJCM 2013.
The term original refers to first submissions, and therefore submissions of revised papers are not counted in the table above.
Seven papers originally submitted in 2013 are still awaiting a first decision (as of 11 September 2014).
IJCM screens papers for originality using the CrossCheck™ software.
Review process and acceptance rate
All papers received are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-Chief assigned. This initial review is crucial in allowing us to handle the volume of submissions received and ensures a quick decision for the author(s), enabling them to submit their work elsewhere should it not be appropriate for IJCM. Papers are then assigned to an Associate Editor (who will be a member of the Editorial Board) for further review. The Associate Editor may recommend a final decision, or select independent referees to assess the paper further. The Editors-in-Chief stress a very high quality level for acceptance of an article in IJCM, as shown in . Two very positive reports are required for acceptance of a paper to be considered.
Table 2. Number of accept and reject decisions made in 2013.
For 2013, the median time from original submission to a first decision for all papers was 53 days. For papers assigned to an Editor for further review, the median time to a first decision was 68.2 days.
The acceptance rate in 2013 was 20%. For papers accepted in 2013, the median time from original submission to acceptance (including time with the author for review) was 189 days.
We are very grateful to the members of the editorial board and referees for the valuable editorial assistance they provide in the review process for IJCM. Further details of referees for 2013 have been published in:
Volume 90, Issue 12, 2013, pp. 2631–2637 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00207160.2013.867160
Abdul Khaliq, Choi-Hong Lai, George Loizou, Qin Sheng
October 2014