Shima (ISSN: 1834-6057) is a double blind, peer-refereed open-access journal published by Publishing (Australia). SCOPUS indexed has been registered with the Directory of Open Access Journals since 2007.

BACKGROUND Case reports (CRs) can be valuable contributions to medical knowledge and education. Objective assessments of publication potential and content recommendations for pediatric CRs are lacking. METHODS The "Instructions to Authors" provided by pediatric journals were assessed to determine journal characteristics, manuscript restrictions, and advice to writers. Pediatric journals refer...

vVe show how prefix probabilities can be computed for stochastic linear indexed grammars (SLIGs). Our results apply as weil to stochastic tree-adjoining grammars (STAGs), due to their equivalence to SLIGs.

Introduction. We estimate the total yearly volume of peerreviewed scientific journal articles published world-wide as well as the share of these articles available openly on the Web either directly or as copies in e-print repositories. Method. We rely on data from two commercial databases (ISI and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory) supplemented by sampling and Google searches. Analysis. A central ...

Thomson Reuters reports journal impact factor (JIF) 2012 thr­ ough its web database, Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (http:// apps.webofknowledge.com) for journals indexed in the Science Citation Index (SCI/SCIE). Many top journals are reported to continue their high JIF and most of others keep similar or in­ creased ones as JIF 2011. The JCR updates JIF every year and the JIF 2012 will be used ...

This article describes the methodology of preparation, writing and publishing scientific papers in biomedical journals. given is a concise overview of the concept and structure of the System of biomedical scientific and technical information and the way of biomedical literature retreival from worldwide biomedical databases. Described are the scientific and professional medical journals that are...

BACKGROUND Availability of user-friendly statistical software has increased the application of multivariable logistic regression (MLR) in the medical journal many fold. The reporting quality in terms of checking assumptions, model building strategies, proper coding, and report format need proper care and attention to communicate correct and reliable model results. OBJECTIVE The objective of t...