A study of the correlation between publication delays and measurement indicators of journal articles in the social network environment-based on online data in PLOS.

Scientometrics · 2023 · PMC9885058 · PMID 36743780

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an increasing trendno p-value reported

The results manifest that most papers' acceptance delay and overall delay demonstrate an increasing trend from 2015 to 2018 but started to decrease in 2019.

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