Does “Decision Fatigue” Impact Manuscript Acceptance? An Analysis of Editorial Decisions by the American Journal of Gastroenterology

Kwan, James; Stein, Libby; Delshad, Sean; Johl, Sunny; Park, Hannah; Martínez, Bibiana; Topp, Lindsey; Spiegel, Brennan

doi:10.1038/ajg.2016.452

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“…Notably, three sources accounted for 43 percent of the instances in which decision fatigue was mentioned (Olsen et al, 2017; Polman and Vohs, 2016; Tierney, 2011). Eight of the original sources were periodicals, news articles, or editorials; the remaining nine sources were peer-reviewed and published in academic journals, of which four were related to healthcare (Kwan et al, 2016; Oto, 2012; Palinkas et al, 2017; Riedel and Colao, 2014). However, despite the high prevalence in which decision fatigue was mentioned, little effort was made in the process of providing a concise definition; instead, authors commonly relied on attributional qualities to describe the experience of decision fatigue (Table 1).…”

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Decision fatigue: A conceptual analysis

2018

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Decision fatigue is an applicable concept to healthcare psychology. Due to a lack of conceptual clarity, we present a concept analysis of decision fatigue. A search of the term "decision fatigue" was conducted across seven research databases, which yielded 17 relevant articles. The authors identified three antecedent themes (decisional, self-regulatory, and situational) and three attributional themes (behavioral, cognitive, and physiological) of decision fatigue. However, the extant literature failed to adequately describe consequences of decision fatigue. This concept analysis provides needed conceptual clarity for decision fatigue, a concept possessing relevance to nursing and allied health sciences.

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Decision fatigue: A conceptual analysis

2018

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“…By analysing almost 650 submissions and their detailed characteristics, Kwan et al (2016) reassuringly find that the presentation order did not have an effect on the final editorial decisions about accepting a manuscript. However, Kwan et al (2016) considered only manuscripts that passed peer review, and which were then discussed in a group setting. This contrasts with the focus of the present paper on decisions by a single individual, the editor, about desk rejecting a manuscript.…”

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“…Prior research examined the potential impact of extraneous factors on the peer review and editorial decisions. A recent study by Kwan et al (2016) examines whether presentation order of submitted manuscripts affects editorial decisions at an academic journal. By analysing almost 650 submissions and their detailed characteristics, Kwan et al (2016) reassuringly find that the presentation order did not have an effect on the final editorial decisions about accepting a manuscript.…”

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“…A recent study by Kwan et al (2016) examines whether presentation order of submitted manuscripts affects editorial decisions at an academic journal. By analysing almost 650 submissions and their detailed characteristics, Kwan et al (2016) reassuringly find that the presentation order did not have an effect on the final editorial decisions about accepting a manuscript. However, Kwan et al (2016) considered only manuscripts that passed peer review, and which were then discussed in a group setting.…”

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Sequential order as an extraneous factor in editorial decision

Orazbayev

2017

Scientometrics

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Academic journal editors reject a significant portion of first submissions without sending them out for peer review. This decision, desk rejection, is made to reduce the workload on associate editors and referees, to give the submitting author a head start on revision or pursuit of an alternative venue, as well as to achieve quicker turnaround time for the journal. Desk rejection is a judgement based on the manuscript's perceived quality, impact and fit with the journal's scope. Could extraneous factors, which are unrelated to the content of a manuscript, affect the editorial decision? This paper examines whether the sequential order in which manuscripts are submitted to a large academic journal affects the editorial decision. Becoming the first submission on the editor's list of manuscripts to review increases the probability of a desk rejection by up to 7% without any effect on the likelihood of a rejection after peer review.

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“…Our finding that prior decisions affect current ones is consistent with predictions and evidence from the related "ego depletion" literature: the quality of decisions deteriorates with the number of decisions made (Baumeister et al 1998). There are numerous studies on decision fatigue from healthcare (Linder et al, 2014;Philpot et al 2018;Chan et al 2009;Kim et al 2015), 9 financial forecasting (Hirshleifer et al, 2019), voting behavior (Augenblick and Nicholson, 2016), consumer science (Bruyneel et al, 2006)), manuscript evaluation (Kwan et al, 2016) and air traffic control (Orasunu et al, 2012). However, our study goes beyond this by not only showing fatigue arising as a function of the cumulative number of decisions made, but by explicitly analyzing the importance of the decision, which we have already established impacts the effort exerted, as contributing to fatigue.…”

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The Dynamics of Inattention in the (Baseball) Field

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Does “Decision Fatigue” Impact Manuscript Acceptance? An Analysis of Editorial Decisions by the American Journal of Gastroenterology

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Decision fatigue: A conceptual analysis

Decision fatigue: A conceptual analysis

Sequential order as an extraneous factor in editorial decision

The Dynamics of Inattention in the (Baseball) Field

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