More Multi-Study Articles Wanted

Wanted: More Race Realism, Less Moralistic Fallacy

Despite repeated claims to the contrary, there has been no narrowing of the 15to 18-point average IQ difference between Blacks and Whites (1.1 standard deviations); the differences are as large today as they were when first measured nearly 100 years ago. They, and the concomitant difference in standard of living, level of education, and related phenomena, lie in factors that are largely heritab...

Medical Journals and Social Media: More Alike Than Wanted?

The information age is a blessing and a curse at the same time. All of the world’s knowledge is now accessible on a smartphone but with that comes information overload and the inability to prioritize digestion of information. While social media broadcasts the private lives of billions around the globe, professional lives are affected likewise. Social media offers a platform to spread knowledge ...

Are Journal Articles Accessed More Times Also Cited More?

CrossRef reports what is called resolutions every month. This document reports statistics complied monthly on the papers of each journal accessed through the digital object identifier (DOI) proxy server (http://dx.doi.org/). The Archives of Plastic Surgery (APS) also receives the report about which papers are accessed frequently through the DOI system. However, the report only includes papers t...

Diagnosis Wanted

Do First-Articles in a Journal Issue Get More Cited?

Introduction As the advice of peers on the quality of a submitted paper prior to publication, peer review can be regarded as the pre-publication evaluation. Bibliographic citations of scientific papers used as indicators of the visibility, impact, and quality of scientific publications, could be regarded as the post-publication evaluation. Intentionally or not, journal editors often put the acc...