Publication Delay of Korean Medical Journals

Lee, Youn Suk; Kim, Kyoung Ok; Lee, Yujin

doi:10.3346/jkms.2017.32.8.1235

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“…An additional five days is necessary to make the article available in PubMed. Both, lead and indexing lags in pharmacy practice journals and in the generic comparison group were smaller than those reported by Lee et al among the Korean medical journals [8]. It seems that these post-acceptance delays are not important for authors when they ask for a more rapid editorial process, because at this point, they have already obtained a communication from the editor about the article's acceptance [26].…”

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“…The editorial process is a compilation of sequential steps with the final aim of ensuring the quality of the papers published. Fig 1 presents the different steps in the scholarly publication process and provides the names for the delays or lags following Lee et al's terminology [8]. Immediately after receiving a manuscript, editors face the responsibility of using the controversial measure of a "quick and brutal" desk rejection of potentially weak or irrelevant manuscripts [9].…”

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Publication speed in pharmacy practice journals: A comparative analysis

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Background Scholarly publishing system relies on external peer review. However, the duration of publication process is a major concern for authors and funding bodies. Objective To evaluate the duration of the publication process in pharmacy practice journals compared with other biomedical journals indexed in PubMed. Methods All the articles published from 2009 to 2018 by the 33 pharmacy practice journals identified in Mendes et al. study and indexed in PubMed were gathered as study group. A comparison group was created through a random selection of 3000 PubMed PMIDs for each year of study period. Articles with publication dates outside the study period were excluded. Metadata of both groups of articles were imported from PubMed. The duration of editorial process was calculated with three periods: acceptance lag (days between ‘submission date’ and ‘acceptance date’), lead lag (days between ‘acceptance date’ and ‘online publication date’), and indexing lag (days between ‘online publication date’ and ‘Entry date’). Null hypothesis significance tests and effect size measures were used to compare these periods between both groups. Results The 33 pharmacy practice journals published 26,256 articles between 2009 and 2018. Comparison group random selection process resulted in a pool of 23,803 articles published in 5,622 different journals. Acceptance lag was 105 days (IQR 57–173) for pharmacy practice journals and 97 days (IQR 56–155) for the comparison group with a null effect difference (Cohen’s d 0.081). Lead lag was 13 (IQR 6–35) and 23 days (IQR 9–45) for pharmacy practice and comparison journals, respectively, which resulted in a small effect. Indexing lag was 5 days (IQR 2–46) and 4 days (IQR 2–12) for pharmacy practice and control journals, which also resulted in a small effect. Slight positive time trend was found in pharmacy practice acceptance lag, while slight negative trends were found for lead and indexing lags for both groups. Conclusions Publication process duration of pharmacy practice journals is similar to a general random sample of articles from all disciplines.

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Publication speed in pharmacy practice journals: A comparative analysis

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“…Many studies evaluated the publication process times in different biomedical areas and geographic regions, reporting acceptance lag (i.e., time from submission date to acceptance date) of usually over 100 days. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14] Pharmacy Practice reported a first response time after peer review comments of 92 days (SE=5.7) in 2018. 15 We are happy to announce that Pharmacy Practice first response time for original research articles accepted decreased to 80 days (SE=3.8) in 2019, with an acceptance lag of 124 days (SE=5.0).…”

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Fernández-Llimós¹,

Salgado²,

Tonin³

2020

Pharm Pract (Granada)

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Peer review provides the foundation for the scholarly publishing system. The conventional peer review system consists of using authors of articles as reviewers for other colleagues' manuscripts in a collaborative-basis system. However, authors complain about a theoretical overwhelming number of invitations to peer review. It seems that authors feel that they are invited to review many more manuscripts than they should when taking into account their participation in the scholarly publishing system. The high number of scientific journals and the existence of predatory journals were reported as potential causes of this excessive number of reviews required. In this editorial, we demonstrate that the number of reviewers required to publish a given number of articles depends exclusively on the journals' rejection rate and the number of reviewers intended per manuscript. Several initiatives to overcome the peer review crises are suggested.

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“…In most of those studies, median intervals from submission to acceptance times were approximately 5 to 6 months. 9,[11][12][13][14][15] A larger analysis by Daniel Himmelstein suggests that intervals from submission to acceptance has been reasonably static over the last 30 years, hovering around 120-140 days, 18 with some variability between journals. The rigorous review expected from high-impact journals could plausibly lead to requests for additional experiments or studies after initial review and before final acceptance of a manuscript, thereby extending the interval from submission to acceptance; however, we did not find any such effects.…”

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“…However, perceptions exist amongst clinicians 4 , and both authors and journal editors have expressed concerns that publication speed is unreasonably slow, and have proposed potential solutions. 5 -7 Various investigators have examined publication speed of journals within biomedical and other scientific fields [8][9][10][11][12][13][14] Investigators have variously identified or excluded factors as contributing to publication speed, including impact factor, type of study, journal type (open-access vs "reader pays", society-published vs.…”

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Are veterinary clinical manuscripts published more slowly than medical or scientific counterparts? A comparative observational study

Rishniw

White

2018

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BACKGROUNDPublication speeds of clinically relevant veterinary journals have not been evaluated.METHODSWe compared 23 prominent veterinary journals to 11 comparable medical and 4 high-impact science journals and examined select factors that might affect these speeds. Submission date, acceptance date and first online publication date were recorded for 50 sequentially identified research articles from each journal that had been published immediately prior to April 26, 2018. Intervals from submission to acceptance, acceptance to publication, and submission to publication were calculated in days for each article. Data were compared visually across all journals, and statistically by field (veterinary, medical, high-impact), by impact factor and by publisher (commercial vs society) to identify trends or differences in publication intervals.RESULTSWhen assessed by field, intervals from submission to acceptance (p=0.18), acceptance to publication (p=0.75) and submission to publication (p=0.13) did not differ. Individual journals varied slightly in intervals from submission to acceptance, but varied markedly in intervals from acceptance to publication. Three journals had median intervals from acceptance to publication exceeding 135 days and two exceeding 500 days. Three journals had median intervals from submission to publication exceeding 550 days. Neither impact factor nor publication model affected any intervals. Intervals from submission to acceptance and acceptance to publication were positively associated with overall interval from submission to publication (rho=0.7, P<0.0001 for both associations).CONCLUSIONSIntervals from submission to acceptance for veterinary journals are like those for medical and high-impact journals, suggesting that the review process is similar across fields. However, several veterinary journals have intervals from acceptance to publication approaching 18 months.

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Publication Delay of Korean Medical Journals

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Publication speed in pharmacy practice journals: A comparative analysis

Publication speed in pharmacy practice journals: A comparative analysis

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Are veterinary clinical manuscripts published more slowly than medical or scientific counterparts? A comparative observational study

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