How long should I wait for my paper to come back from peer review?

Don't sit and wait: Communicate!

Don’t just sit and wait for peer reviews to come back: Write to editors and get involved

In my emails this morning was a message from a Chinese colleague who had submitted a paper to the journal I edit: ‘Dear Dr Gareth Dyke: I am sorry to disturb you. It has been three months since the submission of manuscript, and I began to wonder what is going on with…