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. 1974 Apr;62(2):113–119.

Current Status of Biomedical Book Reviewing: Part II. Time Lag in Biomedical Book Reviewing

Ching-Chih Chen 1
PMCID: PMC198771  PMID: 4826480

Abstract

This part of the study explores the effectiveness of the review media in terms of speed of reviewing, comprehensiveness of review treatment, and authority. The time lags for the fifty-four journals varied widely, the mean ranging from 5.8 months to forty-two months. The time lags for all 3,347 reviews varied even more widely, ranging from less than a month to 108 months after a book was off the press. The 3,347 reviews had a mean time lag of 10.43 months and a standard deviation of 6.63 months.

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