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From: Saving time and money in biomedical publishing: the case for free-format submissions with minimal requirements

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The cost of reformatting manuscripts after editorial rejections. We estimated the cost of reformatting one original research article to be approximately 130 USD. The number of entries published in PubMed was extracted for each year between 2000 and 2021. We assumed that each manuscript needs to be reformatted once (on average) before submission to another journal. Between years 2022 and 2030, we predicted the lost research funds using a quadratic model with calendar year as predictor. The error bound was calculated using a previously reported minimum estimate of one hour and a maximum estimate of 14 h per article

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