Table 1.
Mean intervals between different stages of the publication process in life sciences.
Table 2.
Main characteristics of the articles included and classified by JIF quartile.
Fig 1.
Histogram of the time intervals between submission, acceptance, and publication by quartile1.
1Note the difference in the Y-axis scale for AP interval.
Table 3.
Time intervals (days) from submission to publication according to JIF quartile.
Table 4.
Time from submission to publication journals by continent*.
Fig 2.
Distribution of articles by continent (authors from a single continent).
Fig 3.
Schematic representation of study design and data/results obtained in the different phases of the study.