Scientific conferences, such as the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK) annual meeting, provide an important channel for the exchange of information between researchers. However, the ultimate means of disseminating research information is publication in a relevant peer-reviewed journal. The goal of this study was to follow up published abstracts in the Journal of Bone and Joint S...

OBJECTIVE To characterize the structured abstracts in biomedical journals indexed in MEDLINE over a three-year period as an initial step in exploring their utility in enhancing bibliographic retrieval. DESIGN The study examined the occurrence of structured abstracts in MEDLINE from March 1989 to December 1991, characteristics of MEDLINE records for articles with structured abstracts, editoria...

In April 2003, Critical Care made two important changes: firstly, only the abstracts of research articles now appear in print while the full text is open access (freely and universally accessible online); and secondly, all articles over two years old are free to access online – including commentaries, reviews and reports. All this is part of the journal's ongoing quest to be a good scientific c...

Abstract The article introduces and discusses a computer-assisted study that seeks to shed light on the frequency use of central modal verbs ( can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would ) in research (further: RA) abstracts applied linguistics published Inner Outer Circles English, respectively. is informed by construal English are comprised Circle, where spoken as mother tongue (...

background: despite more than a decade experience of annual student congresses in iran, major scientific writing weakness still exists in students’ abstracts submitted to the annual research congress of iran’s medical sciences students (arcimss). assessment of these abstracts can provide information on common scientific writing errors and subsequent development of abstract quality for the futur...

his issue marks the beginning of Cellular and TMolecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology volume 3. In the 2 years of publication thus far, the journal has made great progress and increasingly is recognized as a rigorous forum that presents groundbreaking research in cell biology, immunology, physiology, microbiology, genetics, and neurobiology of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, and pancreas....