Researchers spend 52 hours a year formatting papers

Study claims to show hidden cost of formatting work for publication for first time

Many researchers complain about the time they spend tediously formatting papers for publication; now a team claims to have come up with the first ever estimate of this hidden cost.

According to Allana LeBlanc, a health researcher at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, the average researcher loses 52 hours of every year to formatting.