1Deputy Librarian, Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi, Aland Road, Kadaganchi-585367, Karnataka, India
2LIS Professional, Central Library, Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi, Aland Road, Kadaganchi-585367, Karnataka, India
*Corresponding author e-mail id: amojids@gmail.com
Online published on 19 October, 2016.
The present study depicts that the publication time-lag between received articles to acceptance and accepted articles for the actual publications in Webology journal. In this study, a total of 137 articles of Webology are covered for the period of 2004–2015. The time-lag of 137 between received and acceptance is on an average 85.4% days for each article. A good number of articles, which accounts 80.3% got published in the same month of articles accepted, and only 19.7% articles are having lag of time for publication after acceptance; indeed, this is a good development for the scholarly community. Finally, there is also a large amount of time-lag found between accepted articles for actual publication of each article, which accounts on an average of 90.9% days for publication after acceptance.
Webology, Scholarly community, Manuscripts, Journals, Publication time-lag, Life cycles stages, Methods and benefits
