The American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (AJSLP) publishes summary statistics of acceptance/rejection rates and manuscript processing times each year. These summary statistics provide data on acceptance/rejection rates that may be used by tenure/promotion committees and average manuscript processing times for authors who are considering submitting a manuscript. Occasionally, decisions concerning the quality of a journal also take circulation into account. As of June 2005, the circulation for AJSLP was 36,728.

Table 1 shows the rates for acceptance and rejection for manuscripts that received a final decision in 2004, regardless of the year the manuscript was submitted originally. Accepted manuscripts are those for which a final decision to accept, with no provisions, has been made. Rejected manuscripts are those that have been judged unsuitable for publication and for which no revision or resubmission has been requested.