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Editorial process and activity of EMERGENCIAS
Miró O, Burillo-Putze G, Tomás Vecina S, Pacheco Rodríguez A, Sánchez Sánchez M
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EMERGENCIAS EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
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Miró O, Burillo-Putze G, Tomás Vecina S, Pacheco Rodríguez A, Sánchez Sánchez M. Editorial process and activity of EMERGENCIAS. Emergencias. 2007;19:136-43
Summary
The present review examines the main editorial steps in a
scientific journal generally and in EMERGENCIAS more particularly.
A number of parameters of EMERGENCIAS’ editorial
activity over the last four years (2003-2006) are analysed. Over that
period 466 submissions were received, but only 20% of them were
originally submitted for the “Originals” category. The overall acceptance
index over those four years was 73%, the reviewer assignation
time 26 days, the reviewer response time 42 days, the time to a final
decision 55 days and the time to publication of the accepted submissions
102 days. The trends of all these parameters over the four-year
period have been analysed. The main conclusion is that areas for
improvement can be detected in the editorial process of EMERGENCIAS,
and particularly so in the areas relating to editorial times and
delays.