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      Publication Delay of Korean Medical Journals

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          Publication lag is a determinant to journal efficiency that was not yet studied concerning Korean medical journals. To measure publication lag, we investigated the publication timestamps of 4,762 articles published by 10 Korean medical journals indexed in Scopus database, randomly selected from the KoreaMed Synapse since 2013. The total publication lag was 246.5 (Q1, Q3; 178.0, 347.0) days. The overall acceptance lag was 102.0 (65.0, 149.0) days. The overall lead lag was 123.0 (63.0, 236.0) days. The year of publication did not significantly affect the acceptance lag ( P = 0.640), supposedly shortening it by about 1.4 (97.5% confidence interval [CI], −5.2 to 8.0) days/year, while the date affected the lead lag ( P = 0.028), shortening it by about 12.9 (1.3 to 24.5) days/year. The Korean medical journals have reduced the total publication delay entirely by means of reducing the lead lag, not by reducing the acceptance lag.

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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Korean Med Sci
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J. Korean Med. Sci
                Journal ID (publisher-id): JKMS
                Title: Journal of Korean Medical Science
                Publisher: The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences
                ISSN (Print): 1011-8934
                ISSN (Electronic): 1598-6357
                Publication date (Print): August 2017
                Publication date (Electronic): 27 June 2017
                Volume: 32
                Issue: 8
                Pages: 1235-1242
                Affiliations
                Department of Anesthesiology, Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, Korea.
                Author notes
                Address for Correspondence: Younsuk Lee, MD, PhD. Department of Anesthesiology, Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital, 27 Dongguk-ro, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang 10326, Republic of Korea. ylee@ 123456dongguk.edu
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2488-5926
                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7509-3668
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1043-6214
                Article
                DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2017.32.8.1235
                PMC ID: 5494320
                PubMed ID: 28665057
                SO-VID: 35dc34f6-2131-4972-983f-03448c416f04
                Copyright © © 2017 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences.
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                This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

                History
                Date received : 31 January 2017
                Date accepted : 07 May 2017
                Funding
                Funded by: Dongguk University, CrossRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002471;
                Categories
                Subject: Original Article
                Subject: Editing, Writing & Publishing

                ScienceOpen disciplines: Medicine
                Keywords: bibliometrics,peer review,publication delay
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Medicine
                Keywords: bibliometrics, peer review, publication delay

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