I know for a fact that Clauset, Shalizi, and Newman first submitted their article to Reviews of Modern Physics. It was rejected there and then submitted to SIAM

I know for a fact that Clauset, Shalizi, and Newman first submitted their article to Reviews of Modern Physics. It was rejected there and then submitted to SIAM Review, which published it at one round of revision. SIAM Review back then was not known for being a "speedy" journal.