Statistics on paper handling

Papers submitted in last year

Summary statistics for the papers submitted in the last year for which a first decision has been made:

Average days to first decision:	53.3
Median days to first decision:	51

The following bar chart shows the complete distribution of days-to-first-decision for the papers submitted in the last year, broken down by the type of decision.

All papers submitted since initial Call for Papers, September 2005

The following bar chart shows the complete distribution of days-to-first-decision for all papers submitted since September 2005, broken down by the type of decision.