Acceptance Delay Research Articles

Empirical analysis of factors influencing delay in article acceptance in accounting journals

AbstractUsing a sample of articles published in top accounting journals, we estimate a multivariate model and find empirical evidence of factors influencing delay in article acceptance. Acceptance delay is measured as the time from article submission to acceptance. We find that article length and journal workload are significantly and positively associated with acceptance delay, whereas the distance to historical aspirations in terms of journal impact factor, top corresponding authors and affiliations, as well as corresponding author affiliation with institutions in the USA or the Netherlands, are significantly and negatively associated with acceptance delay. We also find significant differences in acceptance delays related to specific journal procedures and editorial policies. Finally, we observe that acceptance delay increases over time.

Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations

Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown to exhibit racial and geographical disparities. However, the literature on this subject lacks longitudinal studies quantifying the degree to which the racial composition of editors reflects that of scientists. Other aspects that may exhibit racial disparities include the time spent between the submission and acceptance of a manuscript and the number of citations a paper receives relative to textually similar papers, but these have not been studied to date. To fill this gap, we compile a dataset of 1,000,000 papers published between 2001 and 2020 by six publishers, while identifying the handling editor of each paper. Using this dataset, we show that most countries in Asia, Africa, and South America (where the majority of the population is ethnically non-White) have fewer editors than would be expected based on their share of authorship. Focusing on US-based scientists reveals Black as the most underrepresented race. In terms of acceptance delay, we find, again, that papers from Asia, Africa, and South America spend more time compared to other papers published in the same journal and the same year. Regression analysis of US-based papers reveals that Black authors suffer from the greatest delay. Finally, by analyzing citation rates of US-based papers, we find that Black and Hispanic scientists receive significantly fewer citations compared to White ones doing similar research. Taken together, these findings highlight significant challenges facing non-White scientists.

A study of the correlation between publication delays and measurement indicators of journal articles in the social network environment-based on online data in PLOS.

The development of network technique and open access has made numerous research results freely obtained online, thereby facilitating the growth of the emerging evaluation methods of Altmetrics. However, it is unknown whether the time interval from reception to publication has an impact on the evaluation indicators of articles in the social network environment. We construct a range of time-series indexes that represent the features of the evaluation indicators and then explore the correlation of acceptance delay, technical delay, and overall delay with the relevant indicators of citations, usage, sharing and discussions, and collections that are obtained from the open access journal platform PLOS. Moreover, this research also explores the differences in the correlations of the delays for the literature in six subject areas with the corresponding indicators and the discrepancies of the correlations of delays and indexes in various metric quartiles. The results of the Mann-Whitney U test reveal that the length of delays affects the performance of the literature on some indicators. This study indicates that reducing the acceptance time and final publication time of articles can improve the efficiency of knowledge diffusion through the formal academic citation channel, but in the context of social networking communication, an appropriate interval at a particular stage in the publishing process can enhance the heat of sharing, discussion, and collection of articles to a small extent, hence boosting the influence and attention received by the literature on the internet.

Game-Based Task Offloading of Multiple Mobile Devices with QoS in Mobile Edge Computing Systems of Limited Computation Capacity

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is becoming a promising paradigm of providing computing servers, like cloud computing, to Edge node. Compared to cloud servers, MECs are deployed closer to mobile devices (MDs) and can provide high quality-of-service (QoS; including high bandwidth, low latency, etc) for MDs with computation-intensive and delay-sensitive tasks. Faced with many MDs with high QoS requirements, MEC with limited computation capacity should consider how to allocate the computing resources to MDs to maximize the number of served MDs. Besides, for each MD, he/she wants to minimize the energy consumption within an acceptance delay range. To solve these issues, we propose a Game-based Computation Offloading (GCO) algorithm including a task offloading profile of MEC and the transmission power controlling of each MD. Specifically, we propose a Greedy-Pruning algorithm to determine the MDs that can offload the tasks to MEC. Meanwhile, each MD competes the computing resources by using his/her transmission power-controlling strategy. We illustrate the problem of task offloading for multi-MD as a non-cooperative game model, in which the information of each player (MDs) is incomplete for others and each player wishes to maximize his/her own benefit. We prove the existence of the Nash equilibrium solution of our proposed game model. Then, it is proved that the transmission power solution sequence obtained from GCO algorithm converges to the Nash equilibrium solution. Extensive simulated experiments are shown and the comparison experiments with the state-of-the-art and benchmark solutions validate and show the feasibility of the proposed method.

Evaluation of publication delays in the orthopedic surgery manuscript review process from 2010 to 2015

A continued growth in the volume of scientific literature may strain the practice of peer review possibly leading to delays in publication. While this appears true anecdotally, exact statistics are lacking. The study goal was to quantify delays in publication in the field of orthopaedic surgery. Eight orthopedic surgery journals with available publication dates between January 2010 and December 2015 were included. Main outcomes were (1) acceptance delay (time from submission to acceptance) and (2) publication delay (time from acceptance to publication). Temporal trends for both outcomes were assessed graphically while simple linear regression was applied to assess statistical significance. 12,811 manuscripts were included that released both acceptance and publication delays. From 2010 to 2015, the median overall acceptance delay decreased from 168 (interquartile range [IQR] 115–225) to 113 (IQR 62–176) days. Similarly, there was a decrease in publication delay from 55 (IQR 26–83) days in 2010 to 16 (IQR 9–54) days in 2015; both trends p < 0.0001. Per unit increase in impact factor, there was a 19.1% (95% CI 16.1, 22.2%) increase in acceptance delay and a 15.8% (95% CI 13.5, 17.9%) decrease in publication delay. In contrast to the hypothesis, there was a decrease in delays of the peer review process in the orthopaedic surgery literature. These data are encouraging in light of the timely availability of evidence to a wide audience.

Analysis of ten years of publishing in Pharmacy Practice.

Objective:The aim of this study is to characterize the patterns and trends in the editorial process and features of the first decade of Pharmacy Practice, with the final goal of initiating a benchmarking process to enhance the quality of the journal.Methods:Metadata of all of the articles published from 2006 issue #3 to 2016 issue #2 were extracted from PubMed and complemented by a manual data extraction process on the full-text articles. Citations of these articles were retrieved from Web of Science (WOS), Scopus, and Google Scholar on August 15, 2016. The references from all of the articles published by Pharmacy Practice in 2015 were also extracted. International collaboration was explored with a network analysis.Results:A total of 40 issues were published in this timespan, including 349 articles, 91.1% of which were original research articles. The number of citations received by these articles varies from 809, as reported by the WOS, to the 1162 reported by Scopus and the 2610 reported by Google Scholar. The journals cited by Pharmacy Practice are mainly pharmacy journals, including Pharm Pract (Granada), Int J Clin Pharm, Am J Health-Syst Pharm, Am J Pharm Educ, and Ann Pharmacother. Only 17.3% of the articles involved international collaboration. Delays in the editorial process increased in 2013, mainly due to an increase in acceptance delay (mean=138 days).Conclusion:Pharmacy Practice has improved its visibility and impact over the past decade, especially after 2014, when the journal became indexed in PubMed Central. The editorial process duration is one of the weaknesses that should be tackled. Further studies should investigate if the low international collaboration rate is common across other pharmacy journals.

Efficient congestion control mechanism for flow‐aware networks

SummaryTransmission based on flows becomes more and more popular in teleinformatics networks. To guarantee proper quality of service, to enable multipath transmissions, or just to increase transmission effectiveness in a network, traffic should be sent as flows. Flow‐aware networking architecture is one of the possible concepts to realize flow‐based transmissions. In this paper, the efficient congestion control mechanism (ECCM) is proposed to improve transmission in flow‐aware networks (FAN). The mechanism makes it possible to minimize acceptance delay of streaming flows (served with high priority) without deteriorating other transmissions in the network. It is confirmed by simulation experiments that the implementation of FAN with the ECCM mechanism is a promising solution for the Future Internet. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.

Integrated multicast routing algorithms considering traffic engineering for broadband IPTV services

Abstract With the rapid growth of broadband network deployment and multimedia streaming development, Internet protocol (IP) multicast networks have become a delivery mechanism for Internet protocol television (IPTV). IPTV provides a two-way interactive service to the viewers, which generates the path request for IP multicast network. Thus, it is essential to evaluate the path rejection probability accurately and further to reduce it. In this paper, we propose a new dynamic multicast routing algorithm for broadband IPTV services and apply it to three legacy algorithms. These integrated multicast routing algorithms support the minimum cost and the traffic engineering features, in order to maximize the acceptance rate for bandwidth constraint path request under IPTV service environments. Furthermore, we compare their network performances in terms of the acceptance rate and delay by experimental simulations. The simulation result gives us that the nearest node first Dijkstra algorithm can be the optimal solution of multicast connection for IPTV service delivery.

Performance of collaborative codes in CSMA/CD environment

AbstractA new medium access control scheme is proposed for implementing collaborative codes in a system using carrier sense multiple access with collision detection protocol (CC‐CSMA/CD). We also propose a new backoff algorithm which is simple to implement and to analyse. A discrete‐time Markov chain analytical model is developed for CC‐CSMA/CD. The resulting model describes the regular CSMA/CD as a special case. Protocol performance measures were studied such as throughput, packet acceptance probability, average packet delay and channel utilisation. It is found that CC‐CSMA/CD offers improvements over a system that uses CSMA/CD in terms of throughput, packet acceptance probability, delay and channel utilisation. Copyright © 2006 AEIT.