W live in a world of information technology and obtaining information has never been easier. Journals and books have been the original source of information and research in science. Internet is a gateway to a world where information is abundant and many a times free, but, is it always authentic? Fortunately, in health care, we still rely heavily on scientific journals. Over the last decade and ...

A compulsory postgraduate clinical training program was established in April 2006 in Japan, and an applicants-only postgraduate training program 9 years ago at Tokyo Dental College. In addition, a training program was also established in the Department of General Dentistry at Tokyo Dental College Chiba Hospital in April 2002. The curriculum consists of training in the outpatient clinic and the ...

PURPOSE This overview presents a description of organofunctional trialkoxysilane coupling agents (silanes), their chemistry, properties, use, and some of the main clinical experiences in dentistry. MATERIALS AND METHODS The main emphasis was on major dental journals that have been reviewed from 1958 up to the latest research news from 2002. A MEDLINE search with the key words "dental silanes"...

The scientific presentations at the annual meetings of the Argentine Division of the I.A.D.R. (S.A.I.O.) are proof of the scientific production of this country in dental research. Our annual meetings provide a forum for the rapid communication and discussion of research. However, only peer-reviewed articles, published in journals indexed in worldwide-accepted databases such as MEDLINE are perma...

Due to difficulties with objectively evaluating the quality of MIS research, attitudes about journals in which this research is published play an important role in determining the allocation of research resources. To provide a more objective basis for these attitudes, we examine journal influence in communicating MIS research over a 9-year period using citation analyses, researcher perceptions,...

the object of this study is to survey and compare the citing behavior of chemical doctoral students in tehran and tarbiat modarres universities. this study clarifies the characteristics of cited resources and determines their differences and similarities. the methodology of this study is citation analysis and 6382 citations from 60 dissertations have been analyzed. findings suggest that the mos...

OBJECTIVE Individuals with dental crowding are the most frequent patients in the orthodontic practice.The purpose of this article is to find out if the lower third molars are the main reason of crowding in the lower dental arch. As well to find out other factors which can influence the lower incisors crowding. METHODS The aim was to identify studies and reviews related to the effect of the lo...

Member countries of SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) and ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) have long history of LIS (Library and Information Science) education and research. This study compares LIS research output in member countries of these two associations, using LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts) data. The study focuses on the pattern of l...

Bradford’s law is about scattering of literature in different information sources on a narrow subject. The present study serves as a test of the two formulations of Bradford’s law, verbal and graphical, using 137120 articles published on Human-computer interaction (HCI) research in the journals index in Science Citation Index-Expanded during 1987-2011. The data is divided into five five-year sp...