Journals Feel Pressure To Speed The Publishing Process

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Publishers of 25 journals: Anti-Cancer Drugs
Behavioural Neurology
Behavioural Pharmacology
BioMetals
Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis
Cancer Causes and Control
Chromosome Research
Clinical Autonomic Research
Clinical and Experimental
Metastasis
European Journal of Cancer Prevention
European Journal of Neurology
Glycosylation and Disease
Imaging
Immunology and Infectious Diseases
International Clinical
Psychopharmacology
Journal of Orthopaedic
Rheumatology
Mediators of Inflammation
Melanoma Research
NeuroReport
Obesity Surgery
Pharmaceutical Science
Communications
Primary Care Psychiatry
Psychiatric Genetics
Quality of Life Research
World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

"Usually it takes about a year from the time you submit a paper until it actually comes out, especially if reviewers think something is wrong and the paper is bounced around," says Charles E. Lessman, a professor of biology at the University of Memphis. "It might take a year and a half to be published. It is frustrating. Journals should be able to do better."

Despite the prestige of publishing in large-circulation, ...

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