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My question pertains to article submission waiting times.

How long, your experiences, is the period of time between a journal receiving completed peer reviews back on a paper (as indicated by the online system), and a decision being issued to the authour?

My particular case: I have submitted to a large geography journal, and can see that peer reviews have been in for a month, in which time my manuscript is shown as "awaiting ed decision". Advice as to if/when to pester the editors would be useful to me.

Thanks greatly

writer1
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  • Hi, and welcome to Academia.SE! We have a canonical question for journal workflows. The "editorial decision" stage there is said to take about a week. A month seems a bit long. Are sure that all reviews are in and that the editor is not waiting for another one? – Stephan Kolassa Oct 30 '15 at 13:28
  • Canonical indeed! Yes, the ed manager said a while back that they were waiting for a final reviewer, after which it switched to "awaiting ed decision." – writer1 Oct 30 '15 at 13:30
  • so you would recommend a query after 1 month? thanks – writer1 Oct 30 '15 at 13:31
  • Editors can be swamped and may simply have a lot on their plate. Do you have a senior colleague who has published in this particular journal before, who you could ask? It appears to me that you could send off a short and polite inquiry, but then, all of us here don't know the specific journal, nor the specific editor. – Stephan Kolassa Oct 30 '15 at 13:34
  • Sadly I don't - I will do as you suggest, and send the managing ed a minor inquiry. Thanks a lot – writer1 Oct 30 '15 at 13:51

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