Jim Till writes
> From Dec 1999 through Apr 2000, 16 preprints were posted at the
> ClinMed NetPrints website. If it's assumed that it takes a
> minimum of about seven months for an article to be submitted,
> peer-reviewed, and published, then the publication rate for
> these preprints is, so far, at least 25%.
>
> This percentage could increase,
Sure, in particular if you allow for long publication delays.
I am not familiar with clinical medicine. In Economics it
takes about 3 years on average for a paper to be published. All
published papers in Economics are out of date.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel
http://openlib.org/home/krichel
RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
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Institute for Economic Research / Hitotsubashi University
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Received on Mon Jan 24 2000 - 19:17:43 GMT