OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical radiology research productivity in Pakistan by type of publication, sources of funding and name of journals. METHODS A systematic search strategy using key words related to techniques and type of clinical radiology was carried out to identify various studies published in Indexed (Medline) and non-indexed (Pakmedinet) medical journals. RESULTS Total of 397 st...

INTRODUCTION Bibliometric analysis of publications is necessary to enable clinicians to make evidence based sound clinical decisions. It will also help policy makers & institutions to frame their decisions and policies so as to improve the quality of dental research in India. AIM The purpose of this study is to identify publication output as well as descriptively and quantitatively characteri...

introduction: to determine efficacy of low level laser therapy for clicking temporomandibular joint (tmj) with a diode laser following orthodontic treatment. methods:  performance of lllt with a diode laser for temporomandibular clicking and postoperative findings were evaluated in a case of an orthodontic patient following the termination of treatment. patient had a history of severe clicking ...

Abstracts of the 5th InaPrevent in Conjunction with 1st InTension Summit, 25-27 June 2021

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CONTEXT Little is known about qualitative and quantitative characteristics of indexed health sciences electronic journals (e-journals). METHODS To determine peer-review practices and qualitative and quantitative characteristics of different types of indexed health sciences e-journals, 3 types of e-journals indexed in MEDLINE were compared (type 1, completely electronic with no print counterpa...

We were disappointed to read the Journal of Clinical Microbiology (JCM) editor in chief’s recent editorial “An Obituary for the Case Report in Journal of Clinical Microbiology” (1). Despite the steady increase in the number of case reports published, the editorial board reportedly decided that case reports seldom add truly significant information to the medical literature, often lack true novel...

OBJECTIVES To analyze the concept of "case series" in the medical literature compared with case reports. METHODS A PubMed search for articles published during 2009 which had "case series" in their title was performed. A total number of 621 articles were retrieved. 586 papers were included in the analysis and 35 were excluded (18 were commentary letters, 5 were not in English, and twelve could...

You are looking at the very first issue of the European Journal of Pediatric Surgery Reports. This journal is devoted to case reports in all fields of pediatric surgery. It was chipped off from the mother journal to enable efficient editing and publication of the growing number of case report submissions, and it appears as both an online and a printed version. Case reports are in many ways the ...