INTRODUCTION Accessing new knowledge as the evidence base for hospice and palliative care grows has specific challenges for the discipline. This study aimed to describe conversion rates of palliative and hospice care conference abstracts to journal articles and to highlight that some palliative care literature may not be retrievable because it is not indexed on bibliographic databases. METHOD...

INTRODUCTION We performed a bibliometric search to evaluate the number of papers written by the Iranian nephrologists. MATERIALS AND METHODS We considered all peer-reviewed articles published by nephrologists in biomedical journals quoted by the Medline database and the IranMedex (an Iranian database for indexing medical articles of local journals) between 1997 and 2007. The findings were ana...

Four years after changing the journal name in order to adapt to its international development (formerly it was called the Romanian Journal of Gastroenterology) and two years after their last message to the readers, announcing the indexing of the journal by ISI/Thomson Reuters [1], the Editors believe it is time for a new message. And they have a good reason for this: the Journal of Gastrointest...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relation of medical research, with the participation of prominent plastic surgeon in Congress. METHODS We reviewed the scientific programs of the last 3 Brazilian Congress of Surgery, were selected 21 Brazilian plástic surgeons invited to serve as panelists or speakers in roundtable sessions in the last 3 congresses (Group 1). We randomly selected and paired by other...

The Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons , with over 2,000 members, is the third largest society of its kind, following those of the United States and Brazil. Based on this foundation, advances in surgical techniques have promoted the international status of Korean plastic surgery, which has led Korean plastic surgeons to actively participate in international conferences and vo...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to measure the coverage of Google Scholar for the Library and Information Science (LIS) journal literature as identified by a list of core LIS journals from a study by Schlögl and Petschnig (2005). Methods: We checked every article from 35 major LIS journals from the years 2004 to 2006 for availability in Google Scholar (GS). We also collected information o...

The article describes a two-year project (running from 2021 to 2022) that worked on getting Danish Open Access journals indexed in the Directory of Journals (DOAJ). was run partnership by Copenhagen Business School (CBS Library), Royal Library and Aalborg University Library, close collaboration with DOAJ. All participated are hosted libraries’ Journal Systems (OJS). In this authors demonstrate ...

On 31st December 2020, The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy Sciences (CAS) released a list 65 international scientific journals, all them indexed by Web Science, that were said to be potentially in conflict with academic rigour. immediately influenced publication patterns researchers. A year later, on 2021, CAS revised and reduced 35 questionable journals publishers meantime had ...

Tests are described comparing the sensitivity of the Erickson dipole feeds with the new strut-straddling Modified J-Pole (MJP) feeds using the new VLA Lowband receivers in the 54-86 MHz window. These tests show that the sensitivity of the MJP feeds for the “B” mounting position is comparable to the Erickson dipoles. For the “C” mounting position the MJP sensitivity is a factor of two worse than...

I read with interest this article which aims to evaluate productivity of radiographers and radiation therapists with regard to publications between 2004 and 2011 in four selected discipline-specific journals. The authors have provided a comprehensive analysis of author productivity and ranked the authors according to number of articles published in these journals within the given time period. W...