>Any theories to explain this linear increase in publication times? The linked post shows that the articles are getting longer. Money stuff becomes more and mo

>Any theories to explain this linear increase in publication times? The linked post shows that the articles are getting longer. Money stuff becomes more and more relevant and publishes longer and longer articles, requiring linearly more time to read-through pre-publishing. Assuming that the authors workload scales linearly with the length of his publications, you can derive the respective posting-times scaling along.