Saving time and money in biomedical publishing: the case for free-format submissions with minimal requirements.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Manuscript preparation and the (re)submission of articles can create a significant workload in academic jobs. In this exploratory analysis, we estimate the time and costs needed to meet the diverse formatting requirements for manuscript submissions in biomedical publishing.

Methods

We reviewed 302 leading biomedical journals' submission guidelines and extracted information on the components that tend to vary the most among submission guidelines (the length of the title, the running title, the abstract, and the manuscript; the structure of the abstract and the manuscript, number of items and references allowed, whether the journal has a template). We estimated annual research funding lost due to manuscript formatting by calculating hourly academic salaries, the tim

SUBMITTER: Clotworthy A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10170849 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature