Work out peer review turnaround instantly with clear inputs, formula shown and shareable results.
Time to publication is the sum of review, revision and production. Sixty-two days to first decision, thirty revising, twenty-eight to final decision and thirty-five in production is 155 days - just over five months, with 58% of the delay in peer review and 19% with the authors. Journals report median first-decision times, which is only the first component.
Total time
total = first decision + revision + final decision + production
Review share
share = (first + final decision days) / total
Reviewer recruitment is the main bottleneck - finding two or three willing experts often takes longer than the reviews themselves.
It makes the work citable immediately, which decouples dissemination from the review timeline even though formal publication is unchanged.