RT Journal
T1 TRibute to frances macneil
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 2009
FD May 1
VO 66
IS 5
SP 486
OP 486
DO 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.53
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.53
AB 
The transition in that first year was extremely taxing. Learning the system and cleaning up the inevitable backlog of manuscripts while new manuscripts were being submitted at a steady pace were daunting. The office was awash with paper, but Fran managed to make order out of what seemed to be chaos. My goal was to bring down the time from submission to the first decision and the time from acceptance to publication, which was nearly a year then, so that the Archives could compete for the best science. Within 2 years, we were able to make a decision within 4 weeks in more than 90% of the submissions, and the time from acceptance to publication fell to slightly over 6 months. Fran's organizational skills and determination made these gains possible.