Time to Publication in Medical Education Journals: An Analysis of Publication Timelines During COVID-19 (2019-2022).

Autor:	Maggio LA; University of Illinois Chicago, College of Medicine, Illinois, USA., Costello JA; University of Illinois Chicago, College of Medicine, Illinois, USA., Brown KR; Center for Health Professions Education, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, USA., Artino AR Jr; George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA., Durning SJ; Center for Health Professions Education at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, USA., Ma TL; Health Professions Education at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Perspectives on medical education [Perspect Med Educ] 2024 Oct 11; Vol. 13 (1), pp. 507-517. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 11 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI:	10.5334/pme.1287
Abstrakt:	Introduction: COVID-19 changed scholarly publishing. Yet, its impact on medical education publishing is unstudied. Because journal articles and their corresponding publication timelines can influence academic success, the field needs updated publication timelines to set evidence-based expectations for academic productivity. This study attempts to answer the following research questions: did publication timelines significantly change around the time of COVID-19 and, if so, how? Methods: We conducted a bibliometric study; our sample included articles published between January 2018, and December 2022, that appeared in the Medical Education Journals List-24 (MEJ-24). We clustered articles into three time-based groups (pre-COVID, COVID-overlap, and COVID-endemic), and two subject-based groups (about COVID-19 and not about COVID-19). We downloaded each article's metadata from the National Library of Medicine and analyzed data using descriptive statistics, analysis of variance, and post-hoc tests to compare mean time differences across groups. Results: Overall, time to publish averaged 300.8 days ( SD = 200.8). One-way between-groups ANOVA showed significant differences between the three time-based groups F (2, 7473) = 2150.7, p < .001. The post-hoc comparisons indicated that COVID-overlap articles took significantly longer ( n = 1470, M = 539; SD = 210.6) as compared to pre-COVID ( n = 1281; M = 302; SD = 172.5) and COVID-endemic articles ( n = 4725; M = 226; SD = 136.5). Notably, COVID-endemic articles were published in significantly less time than pre-pandemic articles, p < .001. Discussion: Longer publication time was most pronounced for COVID-overlap articles. Publication timelines for COVID-endemic articles have shortened. Future research should explore how the shift in publication timelines has shaped medical education scholarship. Competing Interests: Lauren A. Maggio is Deputy Editor in Chief for Perspectives on Medical Education. She was removed from all editorial processes relating to the handling of this submission. The authors have no additional competing interests to declare. (Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s).)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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