Table 1.

Summary of survey statistics.

1. % First submissions rejected without review (Figure 1A 3)	26.1
2. % First submissions rejected/revised/accepted after review (Figure 1A 7)	54.6/41.8/3.6
3. % Papers rejected/accepted in revision loop (Figure 1A 14)	1.8/98.2
4. % Papers published in the first journal	33.6
5. Average total journals (Figure 1C)	2.1 (1–6)
6. Average total revisions (Figure 1B)	2.6 (1–6)
7. Average total reviews	6.3 (2–15)
8. Average total time under review (days)	122 (31–321)
9. Average estimated total time to prepare revisions (hours)	68 (5–300)
10. Average time from first submission to publication (days)	221 (31–533)

Each of the measures is based on a survey of 55 papers from 22 individual researchers. 1. Gives the percentage of first submissions to any journal that were rejected without review by the Editor. 2. Gives the percent of reviewed first submissions that were given a decision of reject, revise, or accept. 3. Gives the percent of papers that were accepted or rejected at a journal once they were given a revise decision. 4. Gives the percent of papers that ended up published in the first journal to which they were submitted. 5. Gives the average total number of journals to which the papers were submitted. The number in parentheses gives the range. 6. Gives the average number of revisions a paper underwent across all journals excluding first submissions. 7. Gives the average total number of reviews that were done for each paper. 8. Gives the average total amount of time in days the paper was under review across all submissions. 9. Gives the average estimated time in hours to prepare all the revisions of a paper. 10. Gives the average time in days between the first submission to an accept decision.