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We analyzed their dates of submission and of final decision to accept and investigated whether the difference between these two dates (the so-called \u201ctime to accept\u201d) is smaller for the articles authored by the corresponding journal\u2019s editorial board members and whether longer times to accept yield higher citation counts. 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