title: Current status of biomedical book reviewing. II. Time lag in biomedical book reviewing.
abstract: This part of the study explores the effectiveness of the review media in terms of speed of reviewing, comprehensiveness of review treatment, and authority. The time lags for the fifty-four journals varied widely, the mean ranging from 5.8 months to forty-two months. The time lags for all 3,347 reviews varied even more widely, ranging from less than a month to 108 months after a book was off the press. The 3,347 reviews had a mean time lag of 10.43 months and a standard deviation of 6.63 months.
mesh_terms: D001873:Book Reviews as Topic; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D008404:Massachusetts; D008511:Medicine; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D013997:Time Factors