TY - JOUR T1 - Paper acceptance time in respiratory research: room for improvement? JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J DO - 10.1183/13993003.01951-2016 VL - 49 IS - 2 SP - 1601951 AU - Andreas Ronit AU - Jørgen Vestbo Y1 - 2017/02/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/49/2/1601951.abstract N2 - We recently submitted a paper to a top five respiratory journal in terms of average citations per article. The paper was swiftly sent for peer review. A month later, the review was in, and the paper was now “awaiting associate editor decision”. After another 6 weeks, and at the time of writing this letter, the paper is still with the handling editor. Like us, many authors have probably at this stage speculated when it would be reasonable to contact the editorial office and enquire about the status.This letter analyses paper acceptance time in respiratory journals and discusses novel ways to disseminate research http://ow.ly/b9uX306esnAWe would like to acknowledge D.S. Himmelstein (bioinformationist; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA) for allowing us to analyse data. ER -