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However, the duration of publication process is a major concern for authors and funding bodies.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec id=\"sec002\">\n<jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>To evaluate the duration of the publication process in pharmacy practice journals compared with other biomedical journals indexed in PubMed.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec id=\"sec003\">\n<jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>All the articles published from 2009 to 2018 by the 33 pharmacy practice journals identified in Mendes et al. study and indexed in PubMed were gathered as study group. A comparison group was created through a random selection of 3000 PubMed PMIDs for each year of study period. Articles with publication dates outside the study period were excluded. Metadata of both groups of articles were imported from PubMed. The duration of editorial process was calculated with three periods: acceptance lag (days between \u2018submission date\u2019 and \u2018acceptance date\u2019), lead lag (days between \u2018acceptance date\u2019 and \u2018online publication date\u2019), and indexing lag (days between \u2018online publication date\u2019 and \u2018Entry date\u2019). Null hypothesis significance tests and effect size measures were used to compare these periods between both groups.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec id=\"sec004\">\n<jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The 33 pharmacy practice journals published 26,256 articles between 2009 and 2018. Comparison group random selection process resulted in a pool of 23,803 articles published in 5,622 different journals. Acceptance lag was 105 days (IQR 57\u2013173) for pharmacy practice journals and 97 days (IQR 56\u2013155) for the comparison group with a null effect difference (Cohen\u2019s d 0.081). Lead lag was 13 (IQR 6\u201335) and 23 days (IQR 9\u201345) for pharmacy practice and comparison journals, respectively, which resulted in a small effect. Indexing lag was 5 days (IQR 2\u201346) and 4 days (IQR 2\u201312) for pharmacy practice and control journals, which also resulted in a small effect. Slight positive time trend was found in pharmacy practice acceptance lag, while slight negative trends were found for lead and indexing lags for both groups.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec id=\"sec005\">\n<jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Publication process duration of pharmacy practice journals is similar to a general random sample of articles from all disciplines.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0253713","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,29]],"date-time":"2021-06-29T17:38:19Z","timestamp":1624988299000},"page":"e0253713","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.corrections_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Publication speed in pharmacy practice journals: A comparative analysis"],"prefix":"10.1371","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5752-349X","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Antonio M.","family":"Mendes","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Fernanda S.","family":"Tonin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8464-3286","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Felipe F.","family":"Mainka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7049-4363","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Roberto","family":"Pontarolo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8529-9595","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Fernando","family":"Fernandez-Llimos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"340","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"pone.0253713.ref001","first-page":"109","article-title":"Publish or perish","volume":"51","author":"AN Brandon","year":"1963","journal-title":"Bull Med Libr Assoc"},{"key":"pone.0253713.ref002","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"148","DOI":"10.1038\/530148a","article-title":"Does it take too long to publish research?","volume":"530","author":"K. 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