A new journal has been launched: IJC - Heart and Vessels [1]. It builds upon the success of the main journal International Journal of Cardiology. As an introduction to the new journal we will be publishing a series of summaries of the topics to be covered, highlighting the most important papers in the field that have been published recently in the main journal, International Journal of Cardiolo...

introduction: in the current study, we compared h5-index provided by google scholar (gs), impact factor (if) provided by web of sciences (wos), and scimago journal rank indicator (sjr) provided by scopus for quality assessment of nuclear medicine journals. methods: 2013 h5-index, 2012 if, and 2011 sjr of nuclear medicine journals were extracted from their publishers namely gs, wos, and scopus....

since increasing the number of indexing and abstracting services covering a journal would increase the total citations received by the journal, this study tried to investigate the reasons why iranian journals are not indexed by foreign databases including isi web of science and scopus. this was a descriptive and interpretative study resulting in guidelines for iranian editors and authors. it al...

Leslie (AER, 2005) shows that both submission fees and time delays at top-tier journals can maximize journal quality by discouraging long-shot submissions. He concludes that delays in academic publishing are not necessary, and argues that journals should increase submission fees in an effort to minimize delays. We show that his conclusions depend crucially on the assumption that submission cost...

three nearly simultaneous events around the end of the 19th century, i.e., the discovery of x‐rays by roentgen in 1895, natural radioactivity by antoine‐henri becquerel in 1896 and isolation of radium by the curies' in 1898 opened the nuclear era which has changed broadly the worlds of physics, biology and medicine. at the close of the 20th century, fundamental discoveries in biology at mo...

A majority of manuscripts submitted to peer-reviewed journals are either rejected or require revision which may be minor or major in nature. Acceptance or rejection rates vary from journal to journal, and are dependent on a variety of factors, such as inventory of articles waiting publication, number of new submissions and constraints imposed by the size of the journal, particularly the printed...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the quality of press releases issued by medical journals can influence the quality of associated newspaper stories. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study of medical journal press releases and associated news stories. SETTING We reviewed consecutive issues (going backwards from January 2009) of five major medical journals (Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ, Journal ...