The number of citations to previous work of an individual scientist has been considered, in part, to be an important indicator of academic performance in research. Some of these citations, of course, are to the author’s own work; the Germans call this “Eigenlob,” or self-praise. We analyzed data obtained from 340 papers (294 original articles and 46 review papers) in a sample of leading biomedi...

OBJECTIVES To compare the journal impact factor (JIF) and Eigenfactor score (ES) of Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)-indexed biomedical journals published from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) over the last 8 years. Methods: This is a retrospective study, conducted at Alfaisal University, Riyadh, KSA from January to March 2016. The Journal Citation Reports of ISI Web of Knowledge wer...

PURPOSE Complete and accurate reporting of original research in the biomedical literature is essential for healthcare professionals to translate research outcomes appropriately into clinical practice. Use of reporting guidelines has become commonplace among journals, peer reviewers, and authors. This narrative review aims 1) to inform investigators, peer reviewers, and authors of original resea...

Thompson Reuters of United States releases its Journal Citation Report (JCR) every year covering journals with Impact Factor. The JCR for the Year 2016 was released on June 13th 2016 which covered more than eleven thousand journals from eighty one countries which received their Impact Factor. This year the JCR also includes twelve journals from Pakistan including three biomedical journals. In t...

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...

An automated labeling (AL) module is developed to produce bibliographic records such as English title, vernacular title, author, affiliation, and English abstract from biomedical articles published in foreign language journals. Optical character recognition (OCR) output from scanned biomedical journals is used in this labeling process. Since frequently occurring words in a zone are important fe...

A search was made of the BRS (database vendor) System for information on digital hearing aids . First, the CROS feature of BRS indicated that most information on digital hearing aids is contained in four databases, two medical and two scientific . The four databases searched were : the National Library of Medicine's database (MESH), which covers 3,600 national and international biomedical journ...

BACKGROUND There is wide agreement in the biomedical research community that research data sharing is a primary ingredient for ensuring that science is more transparent and reproducible. Publishers could play an important role in facilitating and enforcing data sharing; however, many journals have not yet implemented data sharing policies and the requirements vary widely across journals. This s...

A lthough sound authorship of biomedical journal articles relies on personal and professional integrity and accountability, recent controversies concerning ghostwriting and guest authorship have shown that this approach has limitations. Ghostwriting and guest authorship are often linked to academic-industry collaborations. Typically, industrysponsored professional writers prepare complete artic...