Fig 1.
Editorial process description with terms used in this study.
Table 1.
Articles selected for the study.
Table 2.
Frequencies of article processing dates reported.
Fig 2.
Violin plots of acceptance lag (time from submission to acceptance) in comparison (grey) and pharmacy practice (white) journals.
Y-axis presented in logarithmic scale; Crossbars represent median and 25% and 75% quartiles.
Fig 3.
Violin plots of lead lag (time from acceptance to online publication) in comparison (grey) and pharmacy practice (white) journals.
Y-axis presented in logarithmic scale; Crossbars represent median and 25% and 75% quartiles.
Fig 4.
Violin plots of indexing lag (time from online publication to PubMed indexing) in comparison (grey) and pharmacy practice (white) journals.
Y-axis presented in logarithmic scale; Crossbars represent median and 25% and 75% quartiles.
Table 3.
Lag times (days) calculated in the two groups.
Table 4.
Multivariate analyses for the three lag times.