The Publication Time-Lag of Research Papers in Scholarly Journal of WEBOLOGY: A Study

Abstract

The present study depicts that the publication time-lag between received articles to acceptance and accepted articles for the actual publications in Webology journal. In this study, a total of 137 articles of Webology are covered for the period of 2004–2015. The time-lag of 137 between received and acceptance is on an average 85.4% days for each article. A good number of articles, which accounts 80.3% got published in the same month of articles accepted, and only 19.7% articles are having lag of time for publication after acceptance; indeed, this is a good development for the scholarly community. Finally, there is also a large amount of time-lag found between accepted articles for actual publication of each article, which accounts on an average of 90.9% days for publication after acceptance.