Time to Publication in Medical Education Journals: An Analysis of Publication Timelines During COVID-19 (2019-2022).

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

COVID-19 changed scholarly publishing. Yet, its impact on medical education publishing is unstudied. Because journal articles and their corresponding publication timelines can influence academic success, the field needs updated publication timelines to set evidence-based expectations for academic productivity. This study attempts to answer the following research questions: did publication timelines significantly change around the time of COVID-19 and, if so, how?

Methods

We conducted a bibliometric study; our sample included articles published between January 2018, and December 2022, that appeared in the Medical Education Journals List-24 (MEJ-24). We clustered articles into three time-based groups (pre-COVID, COVID-overlap, and COVID-endemic), and two subject-b

SUBMITTER: Maggio LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11468245 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature