Factors Influencing Manuscript Development Time
Joelle Suchy, Suzanne Van de Water, Roger McCarter, Beth Burke · 2014
Objective: We aimed to determine factors affecting manuscript development time to maximize efficiency and minimize cost. Research Design and Methods: Data were collected from 27 manuscripts developed by Nucleus Global in conjunction with external clients for publication in peer-reviewed journals. Mean number of hours was calculated, and predictors were examined. 2-tailed t-tests were used to determine the relationship between key predictors and development time. For continuous predictors, a median split was performed prior to conducting the t-test. Results: Results are presented in table 1. Conclusion: Consistent with our previous findings, having a kickoff call was associated with shorter development time, as was having more internal (client) authors. Resubmitting to multiple journals resulted in longer development time, as did producing a more detailed outline. Most factors had a bigger impact on project management time vs content development.