Chawla Sahil, Shelly Sandeep, Phord-Toy Rachel, Khosa Faisal
Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Emory Voice Center, Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga.
Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2021 Oct 4;9(10):e3838. doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000003838. eCollection 2021 Oct.
Prolonged publishing time in scientific journals can be discouraging for researchers because earlier publication can mean a higher h-index and more academic opportunities. In this study, we evaluated the publication time for articles in plastic surgery journals compared with journals in surgery and medicine. We also assessed correlations between publication speed and journal impact factors (IFs).
The overall indexes of all plastic surgery journals were compared with journals in the discipline of surgery and medicine. In addition, we evaluated original articles published in all plastic surgical journals and the highest-ranking journals from various surgical subspecialties listed in the 2018 Journal Citation Report, assessing the time intervals from submission to publication, submission to acceptance, and acceptance to publication. Correlation between time interval and journal IF were analyzed.
A total of 18 plastic surgery journals were compared with 210 surgical journals. Our study found that the IFs of journals significantly affect submission-to-acceptance times of the articles ( < 0.05, Wilcoxon test). The median submission-to-publication time for all plastic surgery and all surgical journals was 29.7 weeks (IQR, 12.1 and 35.8) and 22.1 days (IQR,18.8 and 36.8), respectively.
There is a significant submission to publication time lag in plastic surgery journals when compared with other nonplastic-surgery journals. There was a positive correlation between submission-to publication time and IF for plastic surgery journals but a negative correlation for surgery journals (Spearman Correlation). In the last 14 years, plastic surgery journals have remained slow in publishing articles.
科学期刊较长的发表时间可能会让研究人员感到沮丧，因为更早发表可能意味着更高的h指数和更多学术机会。在本研究中，我们评估了整形外科期刊与外科和医学期刊相比的文章发表时间。我们还评估了发表速度与期刊影响因子（IFs）之间的相关性。
将所有整形外科期刊的总体指标与外科和医学学科的期刊进行比较。此外，我们评估了所有整形外科期刊以及2018年《期刊引证报告》中列出的各外科亚专业排名最高的期刊上发表的原创文章，评估从投稿到发表、投稿到录用以及录用至发表的时间间隔。分析时间间隔与期刊IF之间的相关性。
共将18种整形外科期刊与210种外科期刊进行了比较。我们的研究发现，期刊的IFs显著影响文章的投稿到录用时间（<0.05，Wilcoxon检验）。所有整形外科期刊和所有外科期刊的投稿到发表的中位时间分别为29.7周（IQR，12.1和35.8）和22.1天（IQR，18.8和36.8）。
与其他非整形外科期刊相比，整形外科期刊的投稿到发表时间存在显著滞后。整形外科期刊的投稿到发表时间与IF呈正相关，而外科期刊呈负相关（Spearman相关性）。在过去14年中，整形外科期刊发表文章的速度一直较慢。
