Submission Growth
| Quarter
|
Standing Reviewers
|
| 2024 Q1
|
62
|
| 2025 Q1
|
89
|
| Quarter
|
Standing Reviewers
|
| 2024 Q2
|
84
|
| 2025 Q2
|
120
|
The number of submissions has increased by over 40% compared to last year.
Review Capacity
| Year
|
Standing Reviewers
|
| 2024 (as of 1 July 24)
|
113
|
| 2025 (as of 1 July 25)
|
186
|
To support the growth in submissions, we expanded our standing reviewer pool by 65%. We would like to thank the ARR Editors-in-Chief for their support with this expansion.
Review Timeline Improvement
| Year
|
With desk rejection
|
Without desk rejection
|
| 2024
|
25.9
|
51.3
|
| 2025
|
16.5
|
55.0
|
While the time to first decision for fully reviewed papers increased slightly by 7%, partly because we have additional quality controls for the reviewing process, we’ve made desk rejections much faster. The average time dropped by 36%.