Analysis of the interval between submission and publication in genetics journals.

ABSTRACT: One of the main factors that attracts authors to choose a journal is the time interval between submission and publication, which varies between journals and subject matter. Here, we evaluated the time intervals between submission and publication according to journal impact factor and continent of author's affiliation, considering articles with authors from single or multiple continents. Altogether, 72 journals indexed in the Web of Science database within the subject matter "Genetics and Heredity", divided by impact factor into four quartiles and randomly selected were analyzed for time intervals from article submission to publication. Data from a total of 46,349 articles published from 2016 to 2020 were collected and analyzed considering the following time intervals: submission to accepta

SUBMITTER: Zimmer RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10191348 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature