diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 980ccb0..57a0437 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Publication and acceptance times for journals with a focus on PLOS -This repository investigates the delays involved with scientific journal publications. The focus is on PLOS journals and other open access bioinformatics journals. +This repository investigates the delays involved with scientific journal publications. The focus is on PLOS journals and other open access bioinformatics journals. This repository is home to the analyses for the blog post "[Publication delays at PLOS and 3,475 other journals](http://blog.dhimmel.com/plos-and-publishing-delays/)". Pubmed is the main resource where articles and their dates are retrieved from. Pubmed records are easily accessible using the [Entrez E-utilities API](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25500/). We also scraped the PLOS website as an orthogonal methodology for article date collection.