Background and Objective: Co-authorship on writing articles is one of the indicators of reliability in scientific articles. Due to the lack of information regarding to the rate of participation of the authors of articles in the ” Iranian Journal of Pathology” this research with the aim of the survey of collaborative coefficients of article authors in this Journal  from 2006 to 2012 was performe...

objective(s): citation tracking is an important method to analyze the scientific impact of journal articles and can be done through scopus (sc), google scholar (gs), or isi web of knowledge (wos). in the current study, we analyzed the citations to 2011-2012 articles of iranian journal of basic medical sciences (ijbms) in these three resources.   material and methods: the relevant data from sc, ...

OBJECTIVES Respiratory disease remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in China. However, little is known about the research status of respirology in three major regions of China-Mainland (ML), Hong Kong (HK) and Taiwan (TW). A 10-year survey of literature was conducted to compare the three regions' outputs in the research of respirology. DESIGN A bibliometric study. SE...

|Full Text: PDF (444 KB) 19. A survey on sensor networks Akyildiz, I.F.; Weilian Su; Sankarasubramaniam, Y.; Cayirci, E. Communications Magazine, IEEE Volume 40, Issue 8, Date: Aug 2002, Pages: 102114 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCOM.2002.1024422 Abstract |Full Text: PDF (990 KB) 20. Mobile WiMAX systems: performance and evolution Fan Wang; Ghosh, A.; Sankaran, C.; Fleming, P.; Hsieh, F.;...

DISCUSSION ARTICLES Kawabata et al. Eosinophilia in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and architectural destruction are features of desquamative interstitial pneumonia. Histopathology 2008;52:194-202. Prasse et al. Phenotyping sarcoidosis from a pulmonary perspective. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2008;177:330-6 Sumikawa et al. Computed Tomography Findings in Pathological Usual Interstitial Pneumonia. ...

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conclusions the majority of the trauma-related articles from the aaos patient education website have readability levels that may make comprehension difficult for a substantial portion of the patient population. results the mean (sd) grade level readability for all patient education articles was 8.8 (1.1). all but three of the articles had a readability score above the sixth-grade level. the rea...

PRACTITIONERS, MANUFACTURERS, AND REGULATORY AGENCIES have long regarded central venous catheters (CVCs) as relatively dangerous, problem-prone devices. Recent attention has been focused primarily on reduction of infectious complications of CVCs. Application of strict aseptic precautions (the so-called ‘‘central-line bundle’’) when placing CVCs effectively has reduced the incidence of catheter-...

Page 721 IgG4-related disease (RD) is a newly recognized systemic disease characterized by high serum IgG4 levels that affects multiple organs including salivary glands and the nasal and paranasal sinuses. Accordingly, many IgG4-RD patients complain about olfactory dysfunction. Yagi-Nakanishi et al have now investigated olfactory function in these patients. More than 50% of the patients suffere...