UNLABELLED MiSearch is an adaptive biomedical literature search tool that ranks citations based on a statistical model for the likelihood that a user will choose to view them. Citation selections are automatically acquired during browsing and used to dynamically update a likelihood model that includes authorship, journal and PubMed indexing information. The user can optionally elect to include ...

A CMAJ news item recently reported that the journal’s impact factor for 1999 is 2.4, placing CMAJ fifth among the world’s medical journals. Although the impact factor was correctly cited, the Institute for Scientific Information ranks CMAJ 14th among medical journals. The journal in fifth position is in fact the Annual Review of Medicine. How did the editors of CMAJ determine the new ranking fo...

The paper addresses concerns of preparing the research article for publication in a high-ranking international journal. argues how to develop competence which is required successful manuscript submission peer-review analysis reasons rejecting submitted journals suggests considering through dialogue between author and discourse community journal selected publication. considered as author’s abili...

Researchers’ fame in most scientific fields is closely linked to their publishing capacity, both in terms of quantity and quality. In GIScience, as in other fields, this situation demands that the researcher evaluate and to be very familiar with the scientific journals in which they could publish. Some specialized journals (e.g. Journal of Citation Reports or JCR) are devoted to ranking these r...

OBJECTIVE Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine (CERM) converted its language to English only beginning with the first issue of 2011. From that point in time, one of the goals of the journal has been to become a truly international journal. This paper aims to identify the position of CERM in its scholarly journal network based on the journal's metrics. METHODS The journal's metrics,...

BACKGROUND The rise of electronic publishing, preprint archives, blogs, and wikis is raising concerns among publishers, editors, and scientists about the present day relevance of academic journals and traditional peer review. These concerns are especially fuelled by the ability of search engines to automatically identify and sort information. It appears that academic journals can only remain re...

After 6 months of Open Access/On-line Only publication of the Journal, it is timely to report on our experience and a number of changes to some of the Journal’s publication practices. The move to Open Access/On-line Only has resulted in a marked increase in electronic readership of the Journal. Full-text downloads increased 59% Jan–Apr 2015 compared to the same period in 2014 (214,815 to 342,14...

the iranian journal of radiation research (ijrr) is now in the eighth year of publication. this journal is the mouth piece of shared idea of dr shahram akhlaghpoor and me, which was established way back in 2002. at that time the main emphasis of the founder members was to make the subject of radiation research attractive and interesting especially for combating cancer and risk assessment. the d...

1 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‑Non Commercial‑Share Alike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non‑commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. Welcome to the 13th year of successful publishing of Pharmacognosy magazine and the f...