Revisiting the time to publication in medical education: An analysis of publication timelines between 2019-2022

We conducted a bibliometric study that replicated and expanded upon a prior study on publication timelines in medical education, which had heavily drawn upon an earlier study that had investigated this topic broadly across scientific disciplines. To collect our data, we referenced The History of Publication Delays by Himmelstein ( https://blog.dhimmel.com/history-of-delays/.) - an analysis of publication delays up to 2015 utilizing the entire PubMed database. We used the original code that is deposited on Himmelstein's Github account with only minor modifications. The modifications included an update for a depreciated function within a Python package and minor adjustments to account for a smaller dataset. On October 10, 2023 JC queried the eSearch e-utility, an API interface, using the updated code to download summary metadata from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) for all included articles. This dataset represents the results of articles meeting our initial inclusion criteria: published in PubMed on or between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2022.