Why are reviews always coming back in batches? Send out (say) three papers spread out nicely over a couple of months, and you’ll get the reviews almost at the same time… Well, surely the always bit wouldn’t hold up any empirical test, but it’s striking how randomness plays from time to time (or is it striking that it still feels striking even if we actually know what randomness can look like?).
And yes, someone did already program the agent-based model… albeit with buses rather than reviews.
Didier Ruedin 