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Usual interaction with authors and reviewers was impacted by a lockdown in April – May 2020. Following the lockdown, e-article flow increased three-fold (up to 18 %), and four out of five articles received in 2021 are in the electronic form. Our editorial office routine had to be improved in line with our priority, i.e. decreasing time spent for article review. On average, the editorial office has been working faster than our authors for a second year in a row (refer to Figure). About 27 days are required for review, editing and © Bolshakov D. Yu., 2021 making up in 2021, and the authors need 37 days to address comments.
However, starting 2019, our authors have been also striving to decrease the average time for their articles improvement to be published in the Journal of “Almaz – Antey” Air and Space Defence Corporation (by 17 % on average every year).
Introduction of a new work form and forced increase in the number of reviewers per article had no impact either on the time for ensuring reviews for the authors or on the time for accepting an article for publishing. There is low and very low correlation dependence revealed between the number of reviewers and the time (0.31 and 0.17, respectively).
A simulation model given in the beginning of this article shows the analysis of 100 Poisson article flows, and the result analysis proves the work speed hypothesis. At year-end, the authors have a couple of articles to be improved, and the same scope is for review. But the reviewers’ work load is half as much as that of the authors. At this, the numbers of the reviewers and authors are equal for each Journal issue.
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The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest present.