>Received 12 October 2013 Accepted 05 March 2014 Published 01 April 2014
Am I the only one who finds this crazy? It takes 6 months from submission date till publication!
The peer review process should move faster and become modernized. I undrestand, you want to be published on prestigious journals, but Nature and others can modernize to publish more. You can argue, we lost 6 months or half a year of progress because of the pace of antiquated publication process.
The counterargument should be obvious -- peer reviewers are often unpaid experts who review pending articles in whatever spare time they happen to have, between delivering lectures, research, and applying for grants. To speed up the process woulds be to increase its cost, possibly very much, or to degrade the peer review process.
The defects of another alternative should also be obvious -- paid peer reviewers. If this change took place, people would line up for positions they aren't qualified for on the simple ground that they can get paid to appear to be what they aren't. Also, for many cutting-edge fields, there simply aren't more than a handful of qualified reviewers at any price.
Done correctly, reviewing papers is a tedious, time consuming & utterly thankless job that takes time away from your own research. Papers also often go through 2 or three rounds of reviewing/revision. Each one of these cycles can take 1-2 months so it's not surprising it's a slow process.
You misspelled "understand" in a comment criticizing the review process. If this was irony, I must say your trolling is sublime. However if this was an error I think you might want to rethink your position. I have no problem waiting 6 months or a year for peer reviewed publications.
Am I the only one who finds this crazy? It takes 6 months from submission date till publication!
The peer review process should move faster and become modernized. I undrestand, you want to be published on prestigious journals, but Nature and others can modernize to publish more. You can argue, we lost 6 months or half a year of progress because of the pace of antiquated publication process.