One of my New Year's Resolutions was to avoid refereeing so many dang papers. On day 13 I'm up to 3 papers in my review pile. Ugh. I've changed my resolution to avoiding papers totally outside my comfort zone (no more hedonics!).
Upon acceptance of a review task today I noticed the days until completed review data. I can't resist a good exploration of data.
My average review time on 34 papers in JEEM (5), ERE (14), REE (6) and EcolEcon (9) is 47 days with a range of 6 to 190. Trimming two outliers at the low and high end lowers the mean to 44 days. The standard deviation is 17 with a range of 13 to 77.
There seems to be no pattern to the trimmed data:
