The Review of Accounting Studies is committed to the principle of prompt turnaround on the manuscripts it receives. A new submission will generally not require more than three months with the journal. For the majority of manuscripts the journal will make an accept-reject decision on the first round. Authors will be provided the opportunity to revise accepted manuscripts in order to accommodate reviewer and editor comments; however, discretion over such manuscripts resides principally with the author(s). An editorial revise and resubmit decision is reserved for new submissions which are not acceptable in their current version, but for which the editor sees a clear path of changes which would make the manuscript publishable.
A major advantage of our decentralized editorship is that expertise can be
applied at the editor level across a broad array of research subjects.
New submissions are assigned to an editor familiar with the research topic.
This editor then selects reviewers for the manuscript and upon receiving the
reviewer's comments, the editor communicates directly with the author(s).