The publishing delay in scholarly peer-reviewed journals
The publishing delay in scholarly peer-reviewed journals
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DOI：
10.1016/j.joi.2013.09.001
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发表时间：
2013-01-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Solomon, David
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作者：
Bjork, Bo-Christer;Solomon, David
在学术同行评议的期刊上发表文章，从提交到发表通常会有很长的延迟。这一部分是由于同行审查过程的时间太长，另一部分是因为以问题出版为主的传统，早些时候是纸质出版的必要性，这造成了积压的手稿排队等待。论文采用分层随机抽样的方法，从Scope引文索引中抽取了135种期刊上发表的2700篇论文，研究了论文的平均发表延迟。总体延误时间最短的是科学、技术和医疗(STM)领域，最长的是社会科学、艺术/人文和商业/经济领域。商业/经济课程延迟18个月的时间是化学课程的两倍，平均延迟9个月。对差异的分析表明，迄今为止，与期刊、学科或期刊的大小相比，提交和接受之间的时间差异最大的是期刊内的文章。在接受和发表之间的时间上，延迟的大部分变化可以由具体期刊之间的差异来解释。(C)2013爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
Publishing in scholarly peer reviewed journals usually entails long delays from submission to publication. In part this is due to the length of the peer review process and in part because of the dominating tradition of publication in issues, earlier a necessity of paper-based publishing, which creates backlogs of manuscripts waiting in line. The delays slow the dissemination of scholarship and can provide a significant burden on the academic careers of authors.Using a stratified random sample we studied average publishing delays in 2700 papers published in 135 journals sampled from the Scopus citation index. The shortest overall delays occur in science technology and medical (STM) fields and the longest in social science, arts/humanities and business/economics. Business/economics with a delay of 18 months took twice as long as chemistry with a 9 month average delay. Analysis of the variance indicated that by far the largest amount of variance in the time between submission and acceptance was among articles within a journal as compared with journals, disciplines or the size of the journal. For the time between acceptance and publication most of the variation in delay can be accounted for by differences between specific journals. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.