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 All published papers in Economics are out of date.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 2000-10-05 to 2001-01-06: Institute for Economic Research / Hitotsubashi University 2-1 Naka / Kunitachi / Tokyo 186-8603 / Japan / +81(0)42 580 8349 [email protected]
