International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM)

Acceptance Times of Bibliometric Analyses on COVID-19 Literature

Document Type : Articles

Authors

B Elango 1
Marcin Kozak 2

1 Department of Library and Information Science, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Kochi, Kerala & Rajagiri Business School, Kochi, Kerala, India.

2 Department of Media, Journalism and Social Communication, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland

https://doi.org/10.22034/ijism.2024.1982823.1003
Abstract
 
The present study aims to analyze the acceptance times of scientific papers presenting bibliometric analyses of COVID-19 literature published in the first phase of the pandemic. We collected the data from the Web of Science of Clarivate Analytics. The analysis considered various aspects of the papers and the published journals, such as document type, impact factor (IF) quartile rank of journals, and journal indexation. An initial search yielded 149 papers, 91 of which were selected for further analysis after excluding editorial materials and articles unrelated to COVID-19 and bibliometrics. We should have collected the required submission history information for fourteen of the 91 papers. The analysis revealed that acceptance times of bibliometric analyses on COVID-19 literature ranged between 1 and 238 days, with a median of 47 and a mean of 66.4 days. Most papers had shorter acceptance times than the mean, with only a few documents being accepted after a long wait. Journals without IF had lower acceptance times than those with IF, whereas journals with an IF between 2 and 2.99 had the most extended acceptance times; similarly, second- and fourth-quartile journals had a shorter acceptance time for papers than first- and third-quartile journals. Journals indexed in ESCI accepted documents in less time than journals indexed in other databases. In conclusion, scientific journals joined the rush to publish COVID-19-related research, as they shortened acceptance times for bibliometric analyses on COVID-19 literature published during the first phase of the pandemic compared to the period before the pandemic.
 

Keywords

Acceptance Time
Peer Review
Review Time
Editorial Process
Editorial Delay
Bibliometric Analyses
COVID-19 Literature

Subjects

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International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM)
Volume 22, Issue 4
Autumn 2024
Pages 79-90

  • Receive Date 14 December 2022
  • Revise Date 28 September 2024
  • Accept Date 28 September 2024

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