Calculating time from submission to publication / Degree of burden in submitting a paper

Inspied by this post on biostar: biostars.org/post/show/54473/calculating-time-from-submission-to-publication-degree-of-burden-in-submitting-a-paper/ initialy asked by Ryan Delahanty the script 'pubmed.sh" downloads the the journals from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK3827/table/pubmedhelp.pubmedhelptable45/ , the 'eignefactors' from eigenfactor.org for each journal , It scans pubmed (starting from year=2000) and get the difference between the date(submitted) and the date(accepted).

The code for the java program used to download pubmed is available here: github.com/lindenb/jsandbox/blob/master/src/sandbox/PubmedDump.java Note: pubmed contains some errors: e.g. submitted > accepted (eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=20591334&retmode=xml) or some dates in the future: ( eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=12921703&retmode=xml )