this paper presents the results of a bibliometric analysis of the medical sciences (ms) domains in iran. totally 9047 articles indexed in isi (thomson reuters database) from 1989 to 2008 in december 2008 have been extracted. histcite tm applications are used to discover the iranian publication status during this period. the publication count has grown at an approximate rate of 40.5% per year. w...

Publication lag is a determinant to journal efficiency that was not yet studied concerning Korean medical journals. To measure publication lag, we investigated the publication timestamps of 4,762 articles published by 10 Korean medical journals indexed in Scopus database, randomly selected from the KoreaMed Synapse since 2013. The total publication lag was 246.5 (Q1, Q3; 178.0, 347.0) days. The...

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) published guidance on consent for publishing medical case reports in 2016 [1]. Paragraph 26 of the Declaration of Helsinki version 7 2013 states the following [2]: ‘In medical research involving human subjects capable of giving informed consent, each potential subject must be adequately informed of the aims, methods, sources of funding, any possible co...

The value of including a research component in medical students’ training programs has been widely recognized. Nevertheless, examples of how this may be done are rarely found in the literature. The case study reported in this short paper aimed to address this gap in the literature by investigating how a group of postgraduate students attached to the Orthopedics Department of a major hospital in...

To present the basic principles and standards of Ethics in medical research and publishing, as well as the need for continuing education in the principles and ethics in science and publication in biomedicine. An analysis of relevant materials and documents, sources from the published literature. Investing in education of researches and potential researches, already in the level of medical schoo...

this evaluation was undertaken to analyse the overall merit of studies for publication in medical journals. peer review, in which peer experts evaluate the value of a manuscript submitted to a professional journal, is regarded as a crucial step in publication. it helps to ensure that published articles describe experiments that focus on important issues and that the research is well designed an...