A Review of Abstracting and Indexing Services for Biomedical Journals

a bibliometric study of indexing and abstracting, 1876-1979

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a contrastive study of rhetorical functions of citation in iranian and international elt scopus journals

writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...

Do Indexing and Abstracting Have a Future?*

The World Wide Web presents information access problems orders of magnitude greater than any encountered before. These problems are identified and discussed. Although the intellectual indexing of the entire Web is impossible and, in any case, not worthwhile, selective indexing of high value resources (e.g., by means of specialized portals) is essential. The summarization of Web resources (i.e.,...

Shortcomings of peer review in biomedical journals

Biomedical Journals and Preprint Services: Friends or Foes?

As authors know, the current path for recognition and “scorekeeping” of contributions to biomedical science is publication in journals following the peer-review process. Many believe that the peer-review process is as old as scientific publishing itself. In reality, the peer-review process, as we know it today, is relatively recent. When the first scientific journal, the Royal Society’s Philoso...