Background: Running standard journal clubs is one of the important goals of postgraduate education. Students should update their knowledge and learn critical appraisal skill. This study aimed to compare quality of journal clubs in Mashhad Dental School in order to improve educational and appraisal structure of journal clubs. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on journal clubs ...

An innovativemodel tomeasure the influence among scientific journals is developed in this study. This model is based on the path analysis of a journal citation network, and its output is a journal influence matrix that describes the directed influence among all journals. Based on this model, an index of journals’ overall influence, the quality-structure index (QSI), is derived. Journal ranking ...

Dear colleagues, It is my pleasure to welcome you in the third issue of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine and I hope you find it interesting. In this issue, beside the valuable original articles and an interesting case report, a useful review article have been published concerning the role of nuclear medicine in the management of solitary pulmonary nodule.I am proud to announce you that Journ...

Dear Colleagues and students As Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine, I would like to dedicate my especial respect and appreciation for your kind regards and consideration to our journal. Fortunately, it is our pleasure to announce that Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine is now indexed in DOAJ and Magiran. Additionally we are expecting to index Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medi...

the research methodology and research orientation of the studies published in the realm of teaching persian to the speakers of other languages (hereafter tpsol) have seldom been reported. that said, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the research methodology and research orientation of the papers published between 2012 and 2015 in tpsol journal. moreover, the study aimed to inv...

Since the Global Spine Journal launched in 2011, the journal has continued to grow. As the number of submissions continues to increase, wemore than ever rely on the efforts of our reviewers to provide authors with informed, timely peer reviews. As youmay know, in 2015 the journal has undergone a number of changes, not least the merger with EvidenceBased Spine-Care Journal and the move to Open A...

Author(s): Mouratidis, Haralambos., Philip, Ian., Manson, Gordon. Article Title: A Novel Agent-Based System to Support the Single Assessment Process of Older People Year of publication: 2003 Citation: Mouratidis, H., Philp, I., Manson, G. (2003) ‘A Novel Agent-Based System to Support the Single Assessment Process of Older People’ Health Informatics Journal 9 (3) 149-162 Link to published versio...

It is our pleasure to introduce this special issue of the Journal Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology on assessment adult ADHD. We present a mix empirical review articles cov...