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Health, Human Function, and Rehabilitation Sciences Faculty Publications

2020

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When Will I Get My Paper Back? A Replication Study Of Publication Timelines For Health Professions Education Research., Lauren A Maggio, William E Bynum, Deanna N Schreiber-Gregory, Steven J Durning, Anthony R. Artino Jun 2020

When Will I Get My Paper Back? A Replication Study Of Publication Timelines For Health Professions Education Research., Lauren A Maggio, William E Bynum, Deanna N Schreiber-Gregory, Steven J Durning, Anthony R. Artino

Health, Human Function, and Rehabilitation Sciences Faculty Publications

INTRODUCTION: Biomedical researchers have lamented the lengthy timelines from manuscript submission to publication and highlighted potential detrimental effects on scientific progress and scientists' careers. In 2015, Himmelstein identified the mean time from manuscript submission to acceptance in biomedicine as approximately 100 days. The length of publication timelines in health professions education (HPE) is currently unknown.

METHODS: This study replicates Himmelstein's work with a sample of 14 HPE journals published between 2008-2018. Using PubMed, 19,182 article citations were retrieved. Open metadata for each were downloaded, including the date the article was received by the journal, date the authors resubmitted revisions, date …


The Positivism Paradigm Of Research., Yoon Soo Park, Lars Konge, Anthony R. Artino May 2020

The Positivism Paradigm Of Research., Yoon Soo Park, Lars Konge, Anthony R. Artino

Health, Human Function, and Rehabilitation Sciences Faculty Publications

Research paradigms guide scientific discoveries through their assumptions and principles. Understanding paradigm-specific assumptions helps illuminate the quality of findings that support scientific studies and identify gaps in generating sound evidence. This article focuses on the research paradigm of positivism, examining its definition, history, and assumptions (ontology, epistemology, axiology, methodology, and rigor). Positivism is aligned with the hypothetico-deductive model of science that builds on verifying a priori hypotheses and experimentation by operationalizing variables and measures; results from hypothesis testing are used to inform and advance science. Studies aligned with positivism generally focus on identifying explanatory associations or causal relationships through quantitative …