Concerning Indexes of Medical Journals.

STATISTICS IN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNALS OF IRAN

Medical journals are dead. Long live medical journals.

© 2000 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors The year is 2003. The world’s leading medical journal has gone bankrupt. Three leading Englishlanguage cardiology journals are merging. Some general medical journals are thriving; others have begun to founder. Dr. Harold Varmus has received the Nobel Peace Prize. The tidal wave that led to these events is PubMed Central, a central, entirely e...

Accuracy of subject and author indexes in five anaesthesia journals.

To determine the accuracy of subject and author indexes in five anaesthesia journals we examined all 1989 and 1991 volumes of Anesthesia and Analgesia, Anesthesiology, British Journal of Anaesthesia, Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia and European Journal of Anaesthesiology, and counted the number of entries and the number of errors in both indexes. The number of errors was expressed as a percenta...

Advertisements in Medical Journals

Sir,?I am tired of advertisements. To pick up genuine things from heaps of rubbish has become very difficult. I find advertisements of new medicine from new mushroom firms daily. Naturally all cannot be relied upon. So be pleased to inform the public whether the advertisements regarding medicines that are found in the Indian Medical Gazette or in other journals are genuine, reliable and can be ...

Three New Medical Journals

lie three iNew Medical Journals, whose promoters appear to believe that a future lies before them. The first of these is the British Journal of Children's Diseases, which appeared in January of this year. It appears that an Anglo-American journal of children's diseases was born in 1896, but the Anglican twin appears to have died of marasmus in early infancy while the American continues to flour...