[GOAL] Re: Insistence by researchers that we do not make metadata available prior to publication for Nature, NEJM and Cell journals

[Andrew A. Adams]

Richard Poynder wrote:
> As a matter of interest, what is the average time span between
> acceptance and publication? 

I'm not sure an average number is really useful here. More useful but still 
aggregate data would perhaps be something like each decile of delay, to pull 
some random numbers out to llustrate only:

10% of papers are published with no significant delay;
20% of papers are published with up to three months delay;
30% of papers are published with up to six months delay;
40 % of papers are published with up to eight months delay;
50 % of papers are published with up to a one year delay
etc.

I would also find it useful to know about the difference between advanced 
online release and final publication with volume and age numbers. I find it 
very frustrating that a paper of mine which was accepted for publication in 
January 2013 wasn't given a volume and pages until July 2015, a delay of two 
and a half years! I was also not informed when it actually appeared.

-- 
Professor Andrew A. Adams     アダムス アンドリュー 
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
aaa at meiji.ac.jp