• Contradicting expectations, a non-medical journal received increasing submissions during the pandemic, even though laboratories remained closed.
• Peer reviewers and handling editors were both more responsive and provided faster turnaround times during 2020.
• The reasons for increased submission to the journal may have been due to reanalysis of older data or extracting more findings from research done pre-pandemic.

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在大流行期间，人类更年期是否导致研究暂停？非医学期刊的经验

• 与预期相反，尽管实验室仍然关闭，但在大流行期间，一份非医学期刊收到的投稿越来越多。
• 在 2020 年，同行评审员和负责编辑的响应速度更快，周转时间也更快。
• 增加向该期刊投稿的原因可能是对旧数据的重新分析或从大流行前的研究中提取更多发现。