Journal Editors and Altmetrics

Editorial from Journal Editors

Patient care is the primary focus of the orthopaedic profession. The enhancement of patient care has required and will continue to require orthopaedic surgeons to collaborate productively with industry to develop new medical technology and techniques that improve patient care. The relationship between orthopaedic surgeons and industry is of critical importance to the shared ultimate goal of imp...

Happy New Year 2019, and welcome to Conference of Iranian Medical Journal Editors

Introducing altmetrics to the Journal of the Medical Library Association

Most readers of the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) are well aware of the inappropriateness of evaluating individual journal articles by their journals’ impact factors. This is because, among other reasons, a journal’s citations are not evenly distributed across its articles. Rather, a small proportion (20%) of articles often accounts for most (80%) of a journal’s citations [1...

The Editors of the Ulster Medical Journal

There is a long shelf of bound volumes of the Ulster Medical Journal, about four feet long, in the Council Chamber of the Society, in the Whitla Medical Building. I don't suppose anyone else has a personal set from Volume 1, but it makes interesting reading as an introduction to medicine and medical education in Northern Ireland since 1932. There is also a slim minute book recording in neat han...

International journal editors and East Asian authors: two surveys

Countries in East Asia—specifically China, Japan, and South Korea—are rapidly emerging as major contributors to global research output. However, owing to barriers in language and culture, it is possible that authors from these countries face unique challenges in getting published. Moreover, as submissions from these countries increase, journal editors may be able to spot some trends in the prob...