Figure 1.

The number of papers submitted to, reviewed by, rejected from, and published in Functional Ecology between 2004 and 2013. “Total submissions” and “Total papers published” include all papers (invited papers, reviews, perspectives, and other paper types), whereas “Standard submissions” and “Standard papers published” include just research papers (those used for most of the statistical analyses presented in this paper, as described in the Methods). Papers reviewed and rejected is a subset of standard papers, not total papers. Papers published in a particular year are primarily papers submitted the previous year and thus overlap but are not the same as papers accepted in that particular year.