Nayak A, Sahoo G, Nishank SS. Letter to the Editor: Advancing induced pluripotent stem cell-derived mesenchymal stem cells - insights from comparative differentiation protocols and emerging innovations. World J Stem Cells 2026; 18(5): 115940 [DOI: 10.4252/wjsc.v18.i5.115940]
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Author‘s Comments
Writing a Letter to Editor is very timely. Although the peer review process finished within 1 month, it took around 6 months to be published online, which is not fair in case of a Letter to Editor. Although the Full article (XML) or (HTML) is immediately available upon publication, the meta data synchronization is delayed. So even after 5 days of publication the article is not available in Google Scholar or Pubmed. Meanwhile when we submit our article to Elsevier or Springer, the article is readily available in major databases within 24 hours. So BPG publication should focus on this. I am fully satisfied with the Peer-review process but the publication process is quite dissatisfactory. Hope you will take the comment positively.
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