I have now one paper submitted on March 19th, 2019, revised ("Accept with minor revisions") on October 18th, 2019), finally accepted on the 24th of February together with all signed copyright forms at the same day and is still not experiencing any further movement. Many of us have experienced long shutdowns between particular editorial steps. There is also a "ghetto" of Early CIte, the paper may be in this stage up to two years or even longer. Besides the lower citation chances of papers in Early CIte, many universities do not recognize Early CIte as really published papers with all negative consequences for promotion etc.

The problem indeed is acute a many journals prohibit (under pretext of anonymity of reviewing and other pretexts) to deposit working papers in RG or ssrn.

Moreover, I receive everyday the proposal of special issues scheduled to be published in 2022 (usually there is a one year delay between the announced date of the real year of publication).

The results are clear --

1) young P.D.students are losing the chances to publish fresh results before completion of their Ph.D. studies, while many universities require a few papers to be published before the final thesis defence;

2) there is a parallel stream of exchange of fresh papers via RG or even though direct sending of work--not-in-print anong interested colleagues

3) so-called "top journals" are losing the connection to the present moving from "passe immediat" to "plus-que-parfait" (if we use the French). The results are obvious -- top journals are concentrating on reviews of the literature using the number of citations (which correlates stronger with the age of an article) as the major indicator of paper influence or publish in 2020 the papers stressing "for the empirical proof of our model we used the data on industry X for 1980-2005".

Form the technical point of view, there is no obstacles to publish papers quickly. I remember that on the May 4th, 2014 I met a chief editor of one journal proposing an idea of a special issue on a hot topics. The papers appeared in early August (the number of submissions was three times higher than one issue could accommodate, many submission were published in the net issues), the submissions were reviewed by dedicated reviewers within 2-3 weeks, published online on December 1th and appeared in the last issue of 2014. This is a speed that Taylor & Francis journals may sustain.

See some valuable hints/tips in this post:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_long_do_you_wait_to_hear_from_a_journal_after_you_have_submitted_your_manuscript

I experienced such before it was because they were moving to a new publisher so the set up of the website took long. Besides that not sure if the review process in other journals may be the cause of delay.

This is why many journals today publish online first, and then eventually in the printed editions. I once waited a year after approval to get my paper published in a top SSCI journal, but they had published online as soon as the paper was approved, with doi, so it was citable immediately.

It took me almost a year to publish an article recently. Everything was delayed, communication with editor, review process, final decision...I will never again consider publishing with them!

I have now one paper submitted on March 19th, 2019, revised ("Accept with minor revisions") on October 18th, 2019), finally accepted on the 24th of February together with all signed copyright forms at the same day and is still not experiencing any further movement. Many of us have experienced long shutdowns between particular editorial steps. There is also a "ghetto" of Early CIte, the paper may be in this stage up to two years or even longer. Besides the lower citation chances of papers in Early CIte, many universities do not recognize Early CIte as really published papers with all negative consequences for promotion etc.

The problem indeed is acute a many journals prohibit (under pretext of anonymity of reviewing and other pretexts) to deposit working papers in RG or ssrn.

Moreover, I receive everyday the proposal of special issues scheduled to be published in 2022 (usually there is a one year delay between the announced date of the real year of publication).

The results are clear --

1) young P.D.students are losing the chances to publish fresh results before completion of their Ph.D. studies, while many universities require a few papers to be published before the final thesis defence;

2) there is a parallel stream of exchange of fresh papers via RG or even though direct sending of work--not-in-print anong interested colleagues

3) so-called "top journals" are losing the connection to the present moving from "passe immediat" to "plus-que-parfait" (if we use the French). The results are obvious -- top journals are concentrating on reviews of the literature using the number of citations (which correlates stronger with the age of an article) as the major indicator of paper influence or publish in 2020 the papers stressing "for the empirical proof of our model we used the data on industry X for 1980-2005".

Form the technical point of view, there is no obstacles to publish papers quickly. I remember that on the May 4th, 2014 I met a chief editor of one journal proposing an idea of a special issue on a hot topics. The papers appeared in early August (the number of submissions was three times higher than one issue could accommodate, many submission were published in the net issues), the submissions were reviewed by dedicated reviewers within 2-3 weeks, published online on December 1th and appeared in the last issue of 2014. This is a speed that Taylor & Francis journals may sustain.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_long_does_it_take_to_get_your_paper_accepted_Some_of_my_papers_are_there_for_the_last_8_months_Is_it_normal_or_am_I_sending_to_the_wrong_journals

Dear Stephen Leon Joseph Leon, this is certainly a rather unfortunate situation if it takes more than a year until a paper is published. I assume that almost every researcher has already experienced something like that. We had a very rare occasion where it took about 21 months between submission and publication (see attached)! All you can do is avoid that journal in the future.

Paul: It should not take that long for a journal to publish a research manuscript. In my experience, it usually takes 3 to 4 months for the review process.

After submitting the journal paper, if no reply comes for two month, what we should do? Kindly suggest

Dear Anita Indu, normally you should be able to follow the review and publication process online. I would not worry too much at this point. Two months is not overly long, and during the current corona pandemic the reviewing can be further slowed down. If you don't hear anything after 1-2 months, you can of course contact the Editor directly.