Dates of Receipt and Acceptance of Articles

Document Type

Letter

Publication Date

4-28-1983

Description

To the Editor: There has been a lot of discussion concerning the Journal's policies about publishing articles.1 Also, the general trend toward lengthy time lags involved in submission, receipt, review, revision, acceptance, and publication of articles has been pointed out.2,3 Concerning this, I have a small complaint about the Journal. The articles published in it are not accompanied by the dates of their receipt and acceptance. Such information is provided in a majority of medical journals. This could be of utmost concern to authors interested in being the “first,” especially when an article written by another group on similar.

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