Open AccessCOVID-19 pandemic and its impact on peer review speed of anesthesiology journals: An observational study
Author(s) -
Bikram Kishore Behera,
Rakesh Vadakkethil Radhakrishnan,
Chitta Ranjan Mohanty,
Snigdha Bellapukonda
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of anaesthesiology-clinical pharmacology/journal of anaesthesiology clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2231-2730
pISSN - 0970-9185
DOI - 10.4103/joacp.joacp_652_20
Subject(s) - covid-19 , medicine , observational study , peer review , anesthesiology , pandemic , enthusiasm , medline , bibliometrics , family medicine , library science , psychology , psychiatry , computer science , pathology , social psychology , disease , outbreak , political science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
Publication of a scientific article in a reputed journal is an uphill task that demands a significant amount of time and effort from the author and editorial team. It is a matter of great enthusiasm for all prospective researchers to know whether this daily evolving publication load of articles during this pandemic had changed the journal's inherent peer review or publication process. We aimed to compare the peer review speed of anesthesiology journal articles published during pandemic (2020) to the previous year and to analyze various factors affecting peer review speed.