How quickly some journals give offers

[Scott Gerber]

Eugene:

You've opened up a can of worms here.  Do you really think the fast
turnaround is because the particular piece is so "good" or because it was
submitted by a well known professor and/or on letterhead from an elite
institution?

Scott


At 04:09 PM 11/2/2005 -0800, Volokh, Eugene wrote:
>	A while ago I asked on-list about how quickly some journals give
>offers; some listmembers were kind enough to respond.  It turns out that
>quite a few journals have given offers within three days of getting an
>article, and more still within a week; a few examples:
>
>	Washington & Lee Law Review -- 24 hours.
>	Virginia Law Review -- less than 2 days.
>	Cornell Law Review -- less than 3 days.
>	William & Mary Law Review -- less than 3 days.
>	Wisconsin Law Review -- less than 3 days.
>	Florida State University Law Review -- 8 hours.
>	NYU Law Review -- under a week.
>	California Law Review -- about 3 days.
>	Various specialty journals -- less than 3 days.
>
>	The takeaway for student-run journals is that things move
>quickly, and that journals that are slower may end up losing some of the
>good pieces to faster peer journals (assuming that people shop up offers
>to substantially higher-ranked journals, but generally not to peer
>journals, at least unless the original offer has a very short fuse).
>
>	Eugene
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