This paper explores a new indicator of journal citation impact, denoted as source normalized impact per paper (SNIP). It measures a journal’s contextual citation impact, taking into account characteristics of its properly defined subject field, especially the frequency at which authors cite other papers in their reference lists, the rapidity of maturing of citation impact, and the extent to whi...

Thanks to you, our readership, our combined Global Spine Journal/Evidence-Based Spine-Care Journal has enjoyed substantial popularity in terms of submissions. In response to this demand, the AOSpine International Board has given us permission to increase our number of annual issues from 6 to 8. This increase in annual issues has come with a number of stipulations, of which one of the leading on...

Hartley, Trueman and Meadows [3] contribute useful evidence on whether scientists can gain prestige by writing in a manner that is difficult to read. This has been called the bafflegab theory by some. They concluded that the evidence was not strong. This comment examines some of the conclusions from Hartley, Trueman, and Meadows (HTM) and recommends directions for further research. Comments Pos...

This study aims to show how the concept of openness has been manifested and amplified in the universe of open access scholarly journals, pointing out emerging characteristics and practices linked to processes of submission, evaluation, revision, editing, publishing, editing, distribution, access and use of texts for publication. We proceeded to an overview and discussion of the pertinent litera...

Happy New Year and welcome to the twenty-third issue of HIV This Week! Topics include men who have sex with men (it’s the context, baby), HIV prevention trial conduct (the importance of good participatory practice in HIV vaccine trials); stigma (the double jeopardy whammy of ageism and HIV stigma; stigma in health care settings in China; stigma and secondary stigma among Chinese villagers), neu...

Nos últimos meses, comentários publicados em revistas científicas e divulgados pela imprensa mostraram duas modalidades de fraude na publicação de revistas científicas. Esses episódios mostram a fragilidade da análise de trabalhos científicos e, mais especificamente, da verificação da autoria. Ambos os episódios resultaram de iniciativas de investigadores e jornalistas. No primeiro deles, um tr...

conclusions iranian nursing journals should publish special issues in the neglected subject areas. these journals should encourage authors to publish research evidence with higher quality. background little is known about the features of iranian nursing journals, specifically the subject areas used in articles, study designs, sampling methods, international collaboration of iranian nursing scho...

Current methods for evaluating research are based on counting the number of citations received for publications. Thus, the more an article is cited and the more its impact is considered as important. In this article, we propose a new method for assessing the reputation of scientific journals, based on a Web application in which are gathered the votes of expert researchers. The voting results in...