稿件在线提交能提高效率吗？

Does online submission of manuscripts improve efficiency?

作者信息

Govender P, Buckley O, McAuley G, O'Brien J, Torreggiani W C

机构信息

Adelaide and Meath Incorporating the National Children's Hospital, Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland.

出版信息

JBR-BTR. 2008 Nov-Dec;91(6):231-4.

PMID:19202995

Abstract

AIMS

The purpose of this study online is to evaluate whether online submission of papers to a peer reviewed journal is more efficient than hard copy submission.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

A retrospective study covering a 12-month period was performed. With the help of the editorial office of a selected radiologic journal: Clinical Radiology, we retrospectively audited the Clinical Radiology issues of accepted papers from July 2003 to July 2004 to compare articles that were submitted and evaluated on line against those that were submitted and evaluated by hard copy. Some manuscripts were submitted on line and evaluated by hard copy and were therefore included as a third data set. Manuscripts were sub-divided under the headings: review articles, pictorial reviews, original papers, technical reports and case reports. Data was tabulated in relation to the length of time between submission and acceptance. Both total, as well as average times under each individual heading were calculated. Data sets were then compared to assess if there was any time efficiency benefit between online and hard copy submission.

RESULTS

Data on 155 papers submitted and accepted to Clinical Radiology was obtained. The average number of days that it took an article that was submitted and reviewed online was 108.9 days. An article submitted online with paper review took on average 147.2 days and those submitted solely by paper took on average 149.8. When this data was further subdivided, for the online submission and review group, the average number of days for a review article to be submitted and reviewed took 91.9 days, for a pictorial review article, it took 69.6 days and it took 123.6 days for an original paper. With respect to online submission with paper review, a review article took 84 days, a pictorial review article took 120 days and an original paper took 145.4 days. With respect to paper submission and review, it took for 165.1 days for a review article, 147.8 days for a pictorial review article and 143.1 days for an original paper.

CONCLUSION

Online manuscripts submission is more efficient than hard copy submission for all manuscript types.

摘要

目的

本在线研究旨在评估向同行评审期刊在线提交论文是否比纸质提交更高效。

材料与方法

进行了一项为期12个月的回顾性研究。在选定的放射学杂志《临床放射学》编辑部的帮助下，我们回顾性审核了2003年7月至2004年7月被接受论文的《临床放射学》各期，以比较在线提交并评估的文章与纸质提交并评估的文章。一些稿件是在线提交但纸质评估，因此被纳入作为第三个数据集。稿件按以下类别细分：综述文章、图片综述、原创论文、技术报告和病例报告。数据按照提交到接受之间的时间长度列表。计算了每个类别下的总时间以及平均时间。然后比较数据集以评估在线提交和纸质提交之间是否存在时间效率优势。

结果

获得了155篇提交并被《临床放射学》接受的论文数据。在线提交并评审的文章平均花费108.9天。在线提交并纸质评审的文章平均花费147.2天，仅纸质提交的文章平均花费149.8天。当进一步细分这些数据时，对于在线提交和评审组，综述文章提交并评审的平均天数为91.9天，图片综述文章为69.6天，原创论文为123.6天。对于在线提交并纸质评审，综述文章花费84天，图片综述文章花费120天，原创论文花费145.4天。对于纸质提交和评审，综述文章花费165.1天，图片综述文章花费147.8天，原创论文花费143.1天。