Monday, November 06, 2006

Still waiting....

I heard back from the journal about my first paper when I was vacationing in California. I was sort of hoping that the same thing would happen this time since I was planning on being in San Diego 4 weeks after sending in my manuscript. The journal claims a 3 week turn around time, so I thought that it would probably come back right around the 4 week mark.

Well, we're now at 6 weeks. My advisor gave me permission to pester the journal about the status and I was told that the reviewers have been taking their time getting the manuscript reviewed. I'm not sure what that means. My advisor says that they're probably just simply busy. This is a better answer than I had predicted (that they had to send it out to an additional reviewer because the original ones were split).

So, I'll have to find some ways to distract myself for a few more days so that I don't break the F5 key on my keyboard as I refresh the "Review Status" page on the journal's website. Maybe I should find a job...