جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "فاصله زمانی صدور تاییدیه تا انتشار" در نشریات گروه "پزشکی"

Long delays in getting a paper published in a medical journal may affect motivation for research. The aim of this study was to evaluate the duration of the research, and the average interval between the completion of a research project and the publication of the research article in dental research journals.

In this cross sectional study, all eligible articles were collected and adjusted based on the reported intervals according to the month of publication. In this study, delay was defined as the interval between receipt of the paper and final modification >6 months, final modification and final approval >3 months and the time between final approval and publication >3 months. Name of the journal, authors, type of design, quality of materials (type and time of source, number of sources in English, Farsi, whether books or articles) and the project sponsor, were assessed to determine if any of these factors were associated with delay.

In this study, 7 journals and 509 articles were evaluated. 14.6% of the papers were delayed. Delay between receipt and final modification was noted in 31.2%, between final modification and final approval was observed in 3.3% and between final approval and publication in 11.2%. In 54.3 percent of papers, this data was not available. At all stages, type of journal had a significant role especially in the time between approval and publication.

Significant delays have been observed between receipt of papers and their publication in dental journals.

One of the most harmful factors which demolishes the quality of research is the prolong time intervals between study completion and article preparation, submission, acceptance and publication. The present study was conducted to determine the elapsed time between conducting the research and preparing the article, submission, acceptance and publication in a group of Dentistry Scientific and Research journals. For this cross sectional study, all eligible articles were surveyed according to their claimed times for carrying out the research, and the time intervals between article preparation and submission, acceptance and publication in month. According to Delphi Analysis, a research's delay will occur in either of the following situations: 1) the time consumed for conducting the research until its submission or the time interval between submission and acceptance takes more than 6 months, 2) the time interval between acceptance and publication takes more than 3 months. Finally, the association between research's delay and the following variables was determined: publisher, field of specialty, number of authors, references status (date, type, number of Persian references), and financial supporting organization. Totally, 5 journals and 474 articles were surveyed among which 39.5% were subjected for research's delay. A research's delay was noted for the time consumed for conducting the research until its submission (85%), the time interval between submission and acceptance (57.4%), and the time interval between acceptance and publication (19.4%). A research's delay was associated with publisher, number of Persian references, and older dated references. A research's delay is a serious concern among the aforementioned journals, hence, considering the recognized consequences of such delays, the required actions for shortening the intervals are requested.