The high resource impact of reformatting requirements for scientific papers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most research manuscripts are not accepted for publication on first submission. A major part of the resubmission process is reformatting to another journal's specific requirements, a process separate from revising the scientific content. There has been little research to understand the magnitude of the burden imposed by the current resubmission process.

Methods

We analyzed original research article submission requirements from twelve randomly selected journals in each of eight scientific and clinical focus areas from the InCites Journal Citation Reports database. From the 96 journals selected, we randomly identified three recently published manuscripts and sent surveys to those first and/or corresponding authors (288 total) to solicit information on time spent ref

SUBMITTER: Jiang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6821399 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature