Working 9 to 5, not the way to make an academic living: observational analysis of manuscript and peer review submissions over time.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether researchers are submitting manuscripts and peer reviews to BMJ journals out of hours and whether this has changed over time.

Design

Observational study of research manuscripts and peer reviews submitted between 2012 and 2019 for which an author's address could be geocoded.

Setting

Online BMJ submission systems for two large general medical journals.

Main outcome measures

Manuscript and peer review submissions on weekends, on national holidays, and by hour of day (to determine early mornings and late nights). Logistic regression was used to estimate the probability of manuscript and peer review submissions on weekends or holidays.

Results

The analyses included more than 49 000 manuscript submissions and 76 000 peer reviews.

SUBMITTER: Barnett A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7222960 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature