South Africa's academic publishing history has been profoundly influenced by its colonial heritage. This is reflected in the publication of Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society (later, the Royal Society of South Africa) from 1878. Although the Society and journal sought to promote original research about South Africa, it was modelled after the Royal Society in London and form...

Are most journals published in Africa too weak to be useful to local practitioners, researchers, and policy makers? Might a new method for scholarly communication on the African continent improve the utility of these journals? According to a provocative article published in Learned Publishing (Smart 2007), the answer to both questions is yes. Smart argued that the African research and education...

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the number of scientific papers is a conventional metric to measure a country's research performance in a particular area. the aim of this survey was to demonstrate statistical information about orthodontic research published in international and national journals.pubmed as an international and iranmedex and sid as national databases were searched between1997 and 2012. the keyword searching met...

to state-of-the-art environmental health studies, public health research, and clinical medical practices is a major problem in developing countries. To compound the problem, the information found in international journals is often not relevant to the developing world (Richards 2004). National and regional journals attempt to fill the void by publishing robust and relevant information. However, ...

BACKGROUND Research is important for the development of family medicine as a professional field in primary care. The aim of this study was to suggest directions for the development of family medicine research by analyzing research trends in original papers published in the Korean Journal of Family Medicine (KJFM) and international journals. METHODS We investigated original research papers pub...

the open access (oa) to scholarly articles published in journals, magazines and other literature sources is extremely useful to pharmacy students, teachers, research scholars, scientists and pharmacists to update their knowledge with recent changes in their fields of specialization. open access (oa) to scholarly articles is provided either directly from journal homepages by the publishers or fr...