{"id":12657,"date":"2021-08-28T11:19:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T11:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/q_and_a\/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-paper-to-receive-a-decision-post-review\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T13:54:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T13:54:51","slug":"how-long-does-it-take-for-a-paper-to-receive-a-decision-post-review","status":"publish","type":"q_and_a","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-paper-to-receive-a-decision-post-review","title":{"rendered":"How long does it take for a paper to receive a decision post-review?"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2569,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[2424],"new_categories":[],"new_tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-12657","q_and_a","type-q_and_a","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manuscript-status"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How long does it take for a paper to receive a decision post-review? | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I\u00a0submitted a paper on 9th Feb, 2021. 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