Perspectives on E-Print Servers and Traditional Publishing [Publication Activities]

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) publishing has seen enormous changes over the last two decades. Although manuscripts are now circulated electronically for peer review, most journals that cover fields related to automatic control and optimization continue to have review times that require six months or longer to complete a review cycle. If the time required for revisions and rereview are accounted for, the data suggests that getting an article published takes longer than a year in most highly ranked journals.