xpected Publication Date

You can roughly guess the expected publication date of your paper if it is accepted. The first digit of the manuscript number indicates the year of submission. For instance, the submission year of MS#4123 is 2004 and that of MS#3089 is 2003. It takes a year and a half for a manuscript to go through the entire editorial process in the case of an eventually accepted paper. Initial submission, acknowledgement, refereeing, initial editorial decisions, revisions, acceptance letters, submission of final version, queueing and printing all take time. There are some papers which were in the que before yours, and it takes about one more year for your paper to be published. The editorial office recognizes the fact that it takes more time for some papers than others to be finally accepted for a number of reasons, such as more revisions and difficulty of finding suitable referees.

Accepted papers are ordered by the manuscript number, and regardless of the time it takes for editorial decisions to be made, papers submitted in the same year are likely to be published in the same year, normally three years after the submission date. Thus, the expected publication year is 3 plus the submission year. If accepted, papers MS#4xxx and MS#3xxx are most likely to be published in 2007 and 2006, respectively. If publication date, rather than acceptance decision, is crucial, please contact the editorial office.

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