Paper Submitted vs. Paper Accepted: When Time Becomes a Complicating Factor

• **Paper Submitted vs. Paper Accepted: When time is a complicating variable beyond the Reviewer's control 😂**

When we submitted the paper, we were still young researchers, full of hope, dreams, and confidence in the peer review process.

When the article was accepted, we learned that **the Time-to-Acceptance might be even longer than the Follow-up Period of the research.** 🤣

What changes is not just the status of the manuscript, but also the age of the researcher, their mental health, their workload, and possibly even their employment status.

Interestingly, the reviewer asked for additions.Long-term Outcomes. But while waiting for the results, we ourselves became a Long-term Outcome.

• **Internal Validity:** Still fairly reliable
• **External Validity:** The researcher has changed so much that they are almost unrecognizable.
• **Survival Analysis:** Survived until Acceptance
• **Primary Endpoint:** Receiving acceptance before retirement
• **Secondary Endpoint:** Still remember what I was researching.

Ultimately, good research must undergo rigorous scrutiny, but the publication process should also be efficient, transparent, and take a reasonable amount of time.**Because the quality of research should improve over time, not just with the age of the researcher.**

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