APSR 2023 Peer Review Metrics

Submission to First Decision: Manuscripts are reviewed by the editorial team, assessed for quality by peer reviewers, and the editorial team sends the first decision back to the authors so that they can improve the quality according to suggestions (if any), including formatting as required by the journal. This takes approximately 28.5 days.

First Decision to Acceptance: The authors have improved the quality of the manuscript according to the recommendations of reviewers, and formatted it as specified by the journal until it is complete and accurate according to the journal's standards, including being accepted for publication in approximately 119.8 days.

Acceptance to Publication: The production process after the manuscript has been accepted and published takes approximately 51.5 days.

Although the operational efficiency of APSR's editorial team in 2023 is considered to have improved somewhat from the previous year, from the previous 246.50 days it took for the entire process from submission to publication, it decreased to 199.8 days. But it still doesn't meet the goal. The editorial team has therefore set a goal to reduce the time in the second step, from first decision to acceptance, to within 30 days only.