Figure 3
From: The 5th anniversary of “Patient Safety in Surgery” – from the Journal’s origin to its future vision
Reviewer invitation time (upper panel) and invite acceptance rate (lower panel) in 2011. The mean time to assign two individual referees to evaluate a submitted manuscript has been drastically reduced in 2011, from originally more than 40 days, to currently less than 5 days (from day of submission). Furthermore, an average of 88% of all invited reviewers accepted their assignment in 2011. This efficient recruitment of qualified referees allows for the fast-track management of submitted manuscripts, and guarantees short turn-around times until a first editorial decision is made.`