--- title: Hold On Hope: publication lag times at cell biology journals description: An R-based analysis of publication lag times at 20 cell biology journals from 2006 to 2026, using the PubMedLagR package and the rentrez library to retrieve... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/hold-on-hope-publication-lag-times-at-cell-biology-journals-bembpxtw7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Hold On Hope: publication lag times at cell biology journals | daily.dev og:description: An R-based analysis of publication lag times at 20 cell biology journals from 2006 to 2026, using the PubMedLagR package and the rentrez library to retrieve... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/hold-on-hope-publication-lag-times-at-cell-biology-journals-bembpxtw7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BembPxtw7.png og:image:alt: Hold On Hope: publication lag times at cell biology journals og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Hold On Hope: publication lag times at cell biology journals **[R-bloggers](https://daily.dev/sources/rbloggers)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An R-based analysis of publication lag times at 20 cell biology journals from 2006 to 2026, using the PubMedLagR package and the rentrez library to retrieve PubMed data. Key findings include Nature Cell Biology having a median lag time exceeding one year for the past five years, while journals like Cells and FASEB J show much shorter times. The analysis also reveals that Nature Communications had nine of the ten longest individual paper lag times, with one paper taking nearly nine years to publish. Trends show lag times creeping up at some journals, with possible transfer-in effects explaining some unusually fast publications at Dev Cell, Mol Cell, and EMBO J. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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