How long does the review process take?
Typically the manuscript will be reviewed within four months, but review time may be longer or shorter in individual cases

- a quote from Peer review policy page of one of the Elsevier computer science journals.

 

When the journals in Computer Science field as well as in other scientific fields find normal to review papers for 4 months it is obvious that the science is moving forward with the speed of a turtle.

The situation is following:

  • you have to demonstrate an innovative research in your paper
  • you have to submit the manuscript to one journal at a time, double submission is prohibited
  • you have to wait for months until the editorial board decides if your paper is accepted or not. If it’s not accepted, you have to try with other journal and wait again.

Within this time nobody knows about your innovation, it is supposed that you don’t publish it anywhere etc. Years may pass. Researchers have to learn the turtle’s pace , they don’t have other choice. Science is moving slowly.

I think this is not right. There should be a possibility to publish drafts of the paper at some place for discussion and further collaborative development.  Some wiki-style interface could be implemented for that so that one author adds his innovative ideas and others can access them instantly and propose improvements.

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